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12 Books for Kids Who Love to Collect
Do you have a kiddo who can’t help but collect a little bit of everything anywhere? My niece is a BIG collector, any walk we take ends up with a pocketful of treasures – pinecones, flowers, pebbles, a little bit of everything! Typically she forgets all about it as soon…
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Resource: Diverse BookFinder
Check out this great new resource for getting diverse picture books into the hands of readers. The Diverse BookFinder “is linked with a circulating collection of picture books published since 2002, housed at Ladd Library on the Bates College campus.” And although not as extensive as maybe this diverse list from…
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You Get to Read All Day, Right?
I wish! I absolutely love when people assume that as a librarian, I just get to sit around all day and read! It’s one of those days that is decidedly busy with a ton of projects that I’m juggling all at the same time! One of our elementary school 4th…
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Focused Collections & Weeding
A co-worker and I are slowly working through some weeding projects in the library. Our first project of the new year consists of a collection that our library titled “Bridging Collection.” As in, bridging from easy readers to chapter books or picture books for elementary-age students. Mainly focused on picture…
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Flexibility and Librarians
I literally just posted yesterday how it’s been relatively quiet in the library and I’ve been getting a lot of work done at my desk – revamping the library website, booklists for a new librarian and patrons, and I came in today with a pretty decent to-do list and this…
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To Dewey or Not to Dewey…
There have been a few articles and blog posts written in the past few years about disbanding the children’s collection of materials and rather than using the Dewey Decimal Classification and instead going for a more “bookstore” feel with books separated by subject matter. I’ve been intrigued with this idea, but…
