Category: babies

• Outreach in a Time of Uprising

  My first job out of college was working as a preschool teaching assistant in a state funded preschool program. Children in this program were “at-risk”, meaning they were growing up in poverty, or with only one parent, or with parents who didn’t speak English. An essential part of our work were home visits, where my…

  Miss Julie

  August 16, 2017

  babies, families, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, libraries…of the PAST!, library spaces, library workers, OPINIONS!, outreach, personal experience, politics, professional development, programming, reader's advisory, schools

  community, libraries, library, outreach

• The Librarian Dating Game

  

  I started writing this post in October 2015; finally published August 2016. Once upon a time some librarian colleagues and I presented a program at our state conference talking about how public, school, and academic libraries can and should work together. We formatted it as a game show–The Dating Game, obviously–and had different librarians ask…

  Miss Julie

  October 12, 2015

  babies, be the best you can be, conferences, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, marketing, OPINIONS!, outreach, participation, personal experience, professional development, school libraries, schools, storytime, teens

• welcome, Illinois Library Association/Wee Be Jammin’ friends!

  Wow, this year’s ILA conference knocked it out of the park. I’ll be exploring some of the things I learned in more detail later on, but I did want to say hello to anyone who finds my blog post-conference. In the mean time, the ILA Youth Forum blog has a pretty nice recap of all…

  Miss Julie

  October 15, 2012

  awesomeness, babies, be the best you can be, conferences, early literacy, kids, Librarians, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, marketing, minimovers, music, participation

  youth forum, youth librarians

• The Cockroach Approach: Outreach

  Part One of a four part series. Read the introduction here. Children’s librarians have cornered the market on outreach. We go out to schools, preschools, daycares and present book talks, storytimes and other programs that promote our services, materials and meet a developmental need for our users. Some librarians go even further and perform at…

  Miss Julie

  June 8, 2012

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  advocacy, books, community, librarian, libraries, literacy, literature, oak park public library, outreach, outreach librarian

• top 11 posts of 2011

  When I first started this blog, I had no grand aspirations. I am passionate about the library field, child development, and children’s literature, and I wanted to have a place to express my thoughts, and I hoped that I would garner at least a dedicated, engaged readership. Fairly early on, I experienced the Elizabeth Bird…

  Miss Julie

  December 31, 2011

  authors, awesomeness, babies, backlistbeauties, be the best you can be, bibliotherapy, books, early childhood, early literacy, ethics, kidlit, kids, largely unsubstantiated, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, library school vs. real libraries, literacy, marketing, OPINIONS!, participation, personal experience, picture books, politics, preschool, professional development, programming, reading, reading programs, reviews, storytime, summer reading, teens, toddlers, weeding

• how to become the best, most versatile baby & toddler programmer ever

  1. Buy all of John M. Feierabend‘s* books. Pay special attention to The Book of Tapping & Clapping, The Book of Bounces, and The Book of Wiggles & Tickles.Read them. Find the taps, bounces and wiggles that you like and can perform without feeling too self-conscious. Memorize them. 2. Buy all of Hugh Hanley’s Circle…

  Miss Julie

  November 1, 2011

  babies, be the best you can be, early childhood, music, professional development, programming, rhymes, storytime, toddlers

• Summer Reading, pain in my…*

  Summer Reading. We spend all year working on it. We can’t escape it. I hate it. I hate summer reading. But…but…it helps kids retain their reading skills over summer vacation! You know why we even have a summer vacation? So kids could spend the summer months helping out on the farm. Wait…your kids don’t live…

  Miss Julie

  June 8, 2011

  babies, be the best you can be, different ways to read, early childhood, early literacy, largely unsubstantiated, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, libraries…of the PAST!, library school vs. real libraries, literacy, OPINIONS!, participation, personal experience, politics, programming, reading, reading programs, schools, summer reading

• Baby Rhymes!

  These are some of the new (to me) rhymes that I will be using during this spring’s baby storytimes. I adapted most of these from  Baby Goose by Kate McMullan, adding the actions in parentheses. Dance to your daddy (have baby dance) Dance to your daddy, my little baby; Dance to your daddy, my little lamb;…

  Miss Julie

  May 9, 2011

  babies, programming, rhymes, storytime