Category: video games

• 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

• we don’t need you, either.

  The Summer Reading program. It is the event  that youth librarians spend almost their entire year either preparing for or recovering from. Children and parents descend, en masse, worked up into a froth of excitement from the promotional tour–books were booktalked, prizes were displayed and demonstrated, and the joy and pleasure of the program were…

  Miss Julie

  July 3, 2010

  be the best you can be, censorship, different ways to read, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, OPINIONS!, personal experience, politics, professional development, reading, summer reading, video games, ya lit

• be our guest.

  I have a guest post up today over at 8bitlibrary. Have a looky-loo if you’re so inclined. I wrote about how my library circulates Nintendo DS players in our youth department.

  Miss Julie

  June 3, 2010

  awesomeness, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, video games

• Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box Game Review

  Does anyone still deny that video games belong in libraries? Well, yes, yes they do, but I hope no librarians do. Video games in the library can promote social interaction, which is an excellent thing to encourage when you consider that libraries can also be seen as community centers. But have you thought about all…

  Miss Julie

  September 6, 2009

  different ways to read, literacy, reader's advisory, stories, video games