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Here are some great websites to help you narrow down their search.
Reader’s Advisory Online Database - read-a-likes
Novelist – by grade/reading level
Lexiles - by grade/reading level
What Do I Read Next – navigation guide
Fiction Connection - search by tags
Overbooked - booklists
Reader’s Advisory – For Librarians
Best Seller Lists
Amazon Movers & [...]
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Reader’s Advisory Help Links
Posted in Libraries, books, tagged databases, Libraries, reader's advisory on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Budget Living – Programs for a bad economy
Posted in Libraries, tagged Budget, Budget Living, cost-cutting, Libraries, library programs on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My library system is going on a major marketing and programming bliitz to highlight all the good libraries do in regards to helping people look for work.
My branch has two weekly programs right now, a resume review that I run, and an online job searching class that my co-worker teaches. I work one-on-one with people [...]
Valentine’s Day story time craft
Posted in Libraries, tagged Libraries, valentine's day on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m doing a very, very simple storytime craft tomorrow morning, but I think it will be really successful with the age group that I get Friday mornings. I printed a couple of cute images on a Word document, landscape style. Each page will be folded in half and becomes a Valentine’s Day card! So easy, [...]
Excess books + book clubs at the library
Posted in Libraries, books, tagged book clubs on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have a question for all the librarians out there. How o you incorporate multiple copies of books into book clubs? In a large system, we naturally produce numerous volumes of a single title when we buy it for multiple branches. After a while, these books are sent to the main library for one reason [...]
Library Career
Posted in Libraries, tagged career, Librarian, Libraries, Reference on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a part time librarian, and as a professional librarian for only 6 months, I’m still trying to figure out my niche in the library world. Its hard to figure out when for the most part, I am a “fill-in-the-gap” librarian at my branch, at the library I work on-call for.
Since my part time schedule [...]
Children’s books banned across america?
Posted in Libraries, books, tagged Book ban, Children's books, Libraries, toxic lead and plastic testing on January 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Have the higher powerse that be up in Capitol Hall absolutely lost their minds?
I just read this article from the San Jose Mercury news about a new federal law that takes effect February 10th to test all children’s toys, and apparently books for toxic lead and plastic. This means that libraries will have to close [...]
Teen programs – call for ideas
Posted in Libraries, tagged crafts, teen on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the library where I work, our teens are…troubled. I guess that would be a nice way of putting it. Its not a bad neighborhood, but its not necessarily a very good one either. As an attempt to try to spruce some optimism into the library and the teens room, the librarians I work with [...]
Marathon runner visits 11 libraries in Seattle
Posted in Libraries on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a realy cool program designed by the Seattle Public Library System. They came up with a library passport to promote their 28 library branches. One man decided to run to visit all the branches in one day.
The Article:
For a guy who once ran 51 marathons in 50 days in 50 states, Thursday’s [...]
10 reasons libraries are better than the Internet
Posted in Libraries, Websites, tagged American Libraries, Internet, Libraries on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is one question I hear over and over and over again when people find out that I am a librarian.
“If everything is online, why do people still use the library?” Well, there the one obvious answer — Not everyone has a home computer, or has Internet access at home. But Mark Herring of American [...]
Librarian first steps
Posted in Libraries, tagged Life on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wonder if there exists a checklist for first time librarians. I’m sure it would consist of different functions depending on the type of library and age level of the chosen age group. As a part time librarian, I’m sort of a generalist librarian. I dabble in Children’s story time, Teen reader’s advisory, and adult [...]
