What ELSE Can You Do With a Library Card?
It’s Library Card Sign-Up Month, so take advantage of it by checking out some of the services your library provides BESIDES books and movies (like TOYS!).
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Tag: libraries
Hogwarts Party at the Library!
All the details of the Back-to-Hogwarts party Amy hosted at her public library this past weekend.
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Love Letter to My Local Library
Where GeekMom Patricia realizes that not all local libraries are the same and she has a pretty good thing in her community, thanks to the Pikes Peak Library District Library 21c in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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7 Ways to Celebrate National Library Week
As a fan and frequent user of my local branch, I wonder: How do we instill appreciation for libraries in our kids this National Library Week?
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Bristol Banter #2: Libraries
Episode number 2 of Bristol Banter brings lengthy discussion by GeekDad Rory and GeekMom Jenny on libraries, including the Library of Congress, the Library of Alexandria, Andrew Carnegie, and a tangent about ‘Doctor Who.’ Find out the answer to last episode’s trivia question, and take a guess at the one in this episode!
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A Cheat Sheet for Using the Dewey Decimal System
Our resident school librarian shares a handy list of the Dewey Decimal numbers for kids’ favorite subjects.
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My Favorite Picture Books Right Now: March 2015
This month’s favorites taught us about perspective, facing things with the right attitude, and a few Chinese characters.
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Calling All Book Nerds! 7 Reasons You’d Love Volunteering at the School Library
Here are 7 reasons why volunteering at the school library is a fun, fantastic way to give your time.
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Book It to These Summer Reading Programs
It’s summertime, and you know what that means: It’s time to read!
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Between the Bookends at GeekMom
Once again, the GeekMoms have been reading an incredible variety of books this month. Hear about a drug-filled near-future dystopia, a mouse detective, the “lost journal” of Assassin’s Creed’s Blackbeard, and an academic introduction to the work of Joss Whedon.
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Why Librarians Matter
If you think librarians are all prim women, shushing loud children, you need to visit your local library and update your thinking. Librarians are the gateway to knowledge, defenders of freedom, and more!
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Scholarly Freebies at Oxford University Press During National Library Week
A massive treasure trove of scholarly gems, normally locked up tight behind fully operational internet security, will be available April 13-19 in honor of National Library Week.
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Disney Trip: Visiting the Disney Animation Research Library
As part of his visit to Disney Studios last month, Matt Forbeck visited the Disney Animation Research Library to see how they catalog and archive their treasure trove of original artwork from their animated films.
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Make It @ Your Library
I love this idea. A new site, Make It @ Your Library, is working with Instructables and the American Library Association to assist librarians in implementing makerspace projects at their libraries. It makes a lot of sense, and gives libraries another way to engage with their community. I’ll be sharing this with a few local librarians I know and see if we can’t put something locally soon.
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It's Official: Take a Course In Pirate
In honor of Talk Like A Pirate Day, Mango Languages has a free course in talking like a pirate. Get started to be ready for the big day!
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Between the Bookends at GeekMom
This month, the GeekMoms are reading about zombies, Shakespeare, art, gardening, and peculiar children. What’s on your bookshelf?
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Geek the Library Asks “What Do You Geek?”
Geek the Library is a growing national program to get people excited about making connections between their personal passions and libraries, plus the synergy that brews when enthusiastic geeks and treasure troves of knowledge intersect.
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Justin Time: The Big Pet Story
Take a look at the imaginative world of Justin Time and his flights of fancy.
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Summer Reading with StarWalk Kids
Check out the StarWalk Kids ebook library, free for the month of July.
Continue ReadingWorld's Longest Book Domino Chain
Books as dominoes. Literally excellent results.
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2013 Caldecott Books
The Randolph Caldecott Medal, named after the 19th century illustrator, is given out each year to the best American picture book (which is interesting in and of itself since Caldecott was British). The award is selected by the American Library Association, and it is given to the book’s illustrator. The Caldecott committee also selects Honor books—the silver medalists—and the number selected varies from year to year. This year was the 75th anniversary of the Caldecott, which was announced in January at the Youth Media Awards.
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Seven Books British Kids Love (and American Kids Will Too)
In many ways British and American culture is very similar, we watch the same TV shows, see the same movies, and read the same books; but in some areas the differences are as wide as the ocean that separates our two countries. Children’s literature is one of those areas. While we might all be sharing our passion for the newest installment of A Song of Ice and Fire or impatiently awaiting Neil Gaiman’s latest offering, the books we’re reading to our children are often worlds apart. So here are seven books that British preschoolers are reading every day and that yours will probably love too.
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Review: Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library is a bit like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: a bunch of kids thrown into a crazy, magical world presided over by a wacky billionaire.
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GeekMom in Grad School
Yes, I think it may be proof of my insanity. This summer, I officially started a PhD program in Library and Information Science (LIS).
Continue ReadingHug Your Librarian
This may or may not be International Hug a Librarian Day. There’s some confusion online but then, librarians are too busy to keep up with fan clubs. These human search engines don’t just find information, they also review, organize, assess, explain, figure out, calm small children, put up displays, run programs, read aloud, expand collections, […]
Continue ReadingEbook Piracy and the Libraries of the Future
My husband has been lucky since acquiring his iPhone. He was looking for a book to read to test out the reader function, saw a commercial for A Game of Thrones, decided to read the book and it was being …
Continue ReadingCreating Tiny Libraries Everywhere
You can’t have too much of a good thing, unless you’re averse to bliss. One of life’s Very Good Things, in my book (pun!) is the library. There’s a movement afoot to augment our public libraries with other ways of …
Continue ReadingJudy’s Library Corner – The Little Bit Scary People.
One of the things I miss the most about working in a library is the picture books. I loved shelving picture books, because it meant I could flip through those colorful stacks of gems. I was thrilled when my fifth grader’s teacher recently added “2 picture books” to the list of his assigned reading. It […]
Continue ReadingBanned Books Week: Growing Up With Tess Of The D’urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles or Tess of the D’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, was one of the first books that introduced me to literature at the tender age of 14. A life long reader, I had always read age appropriate fiction, Sweet Valley High, The Baby-Sitters Club, and anything by Enid Blyton or Roald […]
Continue ReadingHelp a Small-Town Library Rebuild Its Children’s Collection After Irene
Ironically, Hurricane Irene caused most of its damage after it wasn’t even a Tropical Storm any more. It’s one thing to get long, hard rains when you live in a coastal area, but it’s quite another when you live far …
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