• Lifestyle

    Director's Thoughts #5

    As I’ve mentioned in the past, we’re spending this year working on a 3-year strategic plan for our library. We’re starting from the ground up with a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis, PEST (Political, Economic, Socio-cultural, Technological) analysis and identifying our stakeholders. This project is being done not only…

  • Lifestyle

    Director’s Thoughts 10/19/16

    Where do I even begin?  This past month has flown by and I finally have fewer meetings and more time to actually start working on plans for next year.  Coming from a children’s librarian position, we would plan a few months out for upcoming programs and as the days would…

  • Activities

    Storytime Planning

    Our storytime schedule runs in 6-week sessions, 4 times a year, which allows me time to make changes, adapt, renovate, and change things that aren’t working.  Our winter session begins at the end of January which means I decided to start thinking about themes, no themes, books, activities, songs and…

  • Activities

    Storytime Planning, so much more than just books!

    Our fall session for storytime begins at the end of September, but with Labor Day weekend coming up and fall programming beginning soon after, I know I have to get in gear and started planning for my storytimes.  This fall I’ll be offering a toddler storytime for children ages 2…