I had the honor of making another video for the Washington County Cooperative Library System youth service team this summer. A tiny bit of background on this project: the awesome Bryce from S. Bryce Kozla puts out an annual call to all library workers for fun/inspiring videos to help brighten the day of librarians who…
Every-once-in-a-while my team gets stumped on décor for a theme. We throw out ideas and then we throw out those ideas. And nothing goes “ding” like you hope it will. It was like that for this past summer’s CSLP theme: On Your Mark, Get Set…Read! We talked about book characters, giant foam hands, and lots…
For Bryce’s Summer Reading Hype Videos I ended up doing two videos. I did this mainly because I had two ideas that I loved, and I couldn’t decide between them. The first idea was my TRIP Tips video, but the second was much more ambitious. It took learning some new ukulele, animation, and sound mixing…
Back in April a group of amazing librarians and I received an unexpected invitation from Bryce of Bryce Kozla Blog. She was wanting to know if we’d be willing to put together short videos for her team members out in the Washington County Collaborative Library System (WCCLS for short – be sure to check out…
I thought that you all might enjoy seeing what our Young Adult Librarian came up with for his FIRST SUMMER READING PROGRAM EVER!!!!! I’m incredibly proud of his creation, and just had to brag about him with y’all. You can learn much more about this super-cool program Teen Services Underground where he’s an agent (brag)….
I think that it would be safe to say that for most nerdy youth services librarians, the announcement of 2015’s CSLP theme sent shivers down our spines: Every Hero Has a Story.™ I also think that it’d be safe to say that it was a bit of a letdown when the official artwork arrived. Ummmm…I…
What do you do when there’s a misprint on 50 booklet covers for the Summer Reading Program? In other words, you create a simple scavenger hunt that works with the summer’s science theme: We cut out the images of our mad scientist dragon, whipped up a sign/tally sheet. and then sticky tacked the dragons all…
Finally the last of the paper lanterns arrived and we were able to finish the “centerpiece” of our decor! Several different team members had helped remove the book pages that made up both the Picture Find and the “tree bark.” Mary and I then used painter’s tape and did a “shingling” technique that I learned…
On Saturday, Mary and I went nuts getting lots of our Summer Reading Program displays up since it’s a new month and this Friday is the kick-off for summer programming. Before we opened, I laid out the large picture find on the floor once more to re-attach any fallen images, as well as add all…
