Month: May 2012

• Read, Eat, and Be Snobby

  I have a post up at the BEA Librarian blog all about summer reading, literacy, and snobbery. Go read it!

  Miss Julie

  May 25, 2012

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, OPINIONS!

  books, literature, research, science

• May the Fourth Be With You: 2013

  May 4th is on a Saturday next year and so help me, I’ll be planning and implementing a large scale, fun for the whole family “May the Fourth Be With You” Star Wars nerdamondium party that will be so awesome I may just explode. Other libraries have done it with much success. You can get…

  Miss Julie

  May 24, 2012

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, events, fathers, kids, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, library spaces, mothers, OPINIONS!, participation, programming, scifi, technology, teens, toddlers, video games, weirdnesss for the sake of weirdness

  community, star wars, technology, yoda

• Stifled: or, the exact wrong way to think about storytime

  Oh, dear sweet baby Picard Jebus, there’s a rage making thread on pub-yac about a children’s department being forced to do all of their storytimes the same. Here’s a quote: […A]ll the storytimes for one age group should be the same because: Patrons get disappointed when they can’t get into a certain storytime because its…

  Miss Julie

  May 17, 2012

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, early childhood, ethics, kids, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, library school vs. real libraries, OPINIONS!, participation, professional development, programming, stories, storytime

  community, creativity, culture, education, literature, politics

• Boundtracks: Pete the Cat and “New Shoes”

  Oh, Pete the Cat! I can practically recite you from memory, and there isn’t a group of kids and adults in existence who aren’t magically swept up in your bouncy tale of sloppy shoes. (Although some more savvy color mixers insist that first your shoes should turn pink then purple but I call it a…

  Miss Julie

  May 17, 2012

  authors, awesomeness, be the best you can be, books, boundtracks, different ways to read, early childhood, early literacy, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, OPINIONS!, participation, picture books, preschool, programming, reading, stories, storytime, toddlers

• Muffins with Mom

  Years ago, at one of my first library jobs, I had a weekend morning program that I called “Doughnuts with Dad.” I believe it was around father’s day, but it might not have been. All I did was brew some coffee, buy some doughnuts and juice, gussy up the tables with some table cloths, throw…

  Miss Julie

  May 13, 2012

  artsncrafts, awesomeness, be the best you can be, events, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, mothers, OPINIONS!, participation, personal experience, professional development, programming

  community, food, gadgets, librarian, love, mothers

• Beginning Reader Storytime, Art Adventure: The Final Countdown

  So now the kids have their backgrounds and their characters. Then they just had to glue them down and voila! Their very own Eric Carle-esque creations! Has anyone else managed to do a long term author/illustrator based program like this one? Ours went off pretty well; for those with attendance concerns, this is a registered…

  Miss Julie

  May 8, 2012

  artsncrafts, authors, awesomeness, be the best you can be, beginningreaderstorytime, books, classic picture books, early childhood, early literacy, kids, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, picture books, programming, storytime

• Beginning Reader Storytime: The Write Stuff

  During this session of beginning reader storytime, we’ve been focusing on writing. We wrote on dry erase boards, created an alphabet book where we wrote words, made letters out of pretzel twists, and this week we wrote in shaving cream, which was, frankly, just a whole lot of fun in addition to being a great…

  Miss Julie

  May 7, 2012

  artsncrafts, awesomeness, beginningreaderstorytime, early childhood, early literacy, kids, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, preschool, storytime

  literacy activity, writing

• Listen, I’m Telling You Stories

  Funerals are not for the dead, they are for the living. They are for those left behind, to act as a comforting play in which we know all the roles and there is no twist in the second act. My mother would have hated her own funeral. It was a maudlin, religious, church bound affair,…

  Miss Julie

  May 3, 2012

  be the best you can be, bibliotherapy, largely unsubstantiated, mothers, OPINIONS!, personal experience, stories

  love, mama cass, mothers, music, songs