• Lifestyle

    Summer Reading is coming…

    Whether I’m ready or not, summer reading is indeed, coming.  I’ve got WAY too much to do before it gets here, but it’ll be here before I know it.  I am always more than jealous as friends begin making plans for 1/2 day Fridays, summer vacations, and relaxing when all…

  • Activities

    Summer Camp Outreach – Week #3

    This week and next week are my last camp outreach programs for the summer.  I think overall, they’ve gone really well this year.  I’ve picked out some really great read alouds that have gotten some great response from the kids and the kids and counselors have really enjoyed our projects…

  • Lifestyle

    Is It Fall Yet? Or Summer Reading Is Draining Me!

    I’m in week 5 of 11 official weeks of summer reading…. and I’m at the point in the summer where I don’t know if I’ll make it.  It’s been a very busy summer already with our circulation through the roof (almost 2,000 more books that last June), reference questions that…

  • Lifestyle

    90 degree heat + a broken air conditioner = Madness!

    Our air conditioner has been broken for a little while now and because we have to follow procedure, it may still be awhile before it can be repaired.  Meanwhile, it’s been over 90 degrees for the past two days and our summer reading program officially begins on Monday.  Luckily, we…

  • Lifestyle

    The Last School Visits and Summer Reading

    We had a group of 100 third graders visit this past week for a library tour and a quick highlight of upcoming library programs for summer reading.  We had already seen them at school a few weeks ago, but they got the chance to come into the library, which for…

  • Lifestyle

    Summer is Comin'… (insert Jaws theme song here!)

    It’s getting to that point in the year where I have to seriously start thinking about summer reading, not that it hasn’t been happening for months now already.  We had our first school visit yesterday – at the middle school, after the kids have spent the last week and a…

  • Lifestyle

    Summer Reading Commercial

    Tonight’s the big night – we’re filming our Summer Reading Commercial!  We are so lucky to have a great working relationship with our government access channel, who is willing to help us film (and edit!) our summer reading commercial!  This year we’re even more excited because they are also creating…

  • Activities

    Summer Reading School Assemblies

    As I type this it’s 31 degrees outside and feels like a heat wave after the temperatures we’ve been getting over the past week.  But, as they say in the theatre, “The show must go on.” (The summer reading show, that is)  We’ve got most of our entertainment shows booked,…

  • Reviews

    Rosie Revere, Engineer

    Another amazing option for this year’s summer reading program – Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts.  Rosie like to creates quiet and shy in class, but at night loves to create “gadgets and gizmos.”  But when Rosie’s Uncle Zookeeper Fred laughs at one of her inventions, Rosie…

  • Activities

    Good-Bye Summer Reading, Hello Fall Programming

    Summer reading is officially over! YAY!!!!  And we are now in the midst of cleaning, organizing, and trying to wrap our heads around everything that’s coming up in the next few months.  Overall, our summer was very busy, programming went really well and even though we had fewer registrants than…