Tag: programs

• I Can’t Even: Ages and Adult Programs

  

  Library programmers, for the love of Ranganathan, DON’T DO THIS. Here’s why: It is exclusionary as hell. I’m almost forty. I don’t see my interest in graphic novels and horror disappearing on my fortieth birthday. But apparently the library thinks I shouldn’t want to attend programs like this if I’m forty, which, delicate flower as…

  Miss Julie

  March 19, 2018

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• See You Later, Alligator

  I’ve just started a new “stop the summer slide” session of Beginning Reader Storytime, the first time I’ve presented this program at my new library (it’s still new to me, really, even after almost two years here). For this community, I made this program drop-in, and the ages are entering K to entering 2nd grade…

  Miss Julie

  June 25, 2014

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• Programming for Preschoolers: Take a Tip from Preschool Centers

  When I was still teaching preschool (oh how I love to talk about when I taught preschool) one of the early literacy tactics we employed was to integrate literature and literacy skills into every center. This meant having books with building themes in the block center, books about nature in the science center, having pads…

  Miss Julie

  January 19, 2014

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• Beginning Reader Storytime Survey

  Miss Julie

  December 6, 2013

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• Storytime Opera

  Singing is one of those things that every human can do, but many avoid doing because they think they’re not good at it or that they have bad voices. There is no such thing as a bad voice. There are voices that people prefer to hear, but breaking things down in to good and bad–especially…

  Miss Julie

  March 5, 2013

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