Help Today, Help Tomorrow
Help today, help tomorrow… For the next week, I am organizing a fundraising drive for EveryLibrary in collaboration with Kate over at the most excellent Lifeguard Librarian Tumblr. It’s a bit of a...
View ArticleHelp Caity get to Costa Rica!
Me and Caity. She is an awesome person. Help her get to Costa Rica if you can! Caity is a really awesome lady that comes into my teen library quite a bit. Last week, she was in my library reading Locke...
View ArticleThank You
Five minutes ago, a boy (age 7-10) and his Mom walked through the Teen Library. I wished them both good morning and in return they handed the following card to me and smiled: Filed under: Libraries,...
View Article564 Days (or, the story of THE 2ND FLOOR thus far…)
The 2nd Floor of the Downtown Chattanooga Public Library has been in its current state, a place for ages 0-18 and their caregivers, for 564 days, or 1 year, 6 months, and 16 days as of today. If...
View ArticleFood Stamps, the Feeling of Failure, Student Loans, and Life as a Library
Last week, Haley and I applied for food stamps. Our family, which has been going on strong for 11 years and now includes 2 awesome kids, Haley’s mom, our dog Sonic, 3 chickens, and 2 rabbits, have hit...
View ArticleHelp my Library win $1000
My library, the Benson Memorial Library in Titusville, PA, was chosen earlier this year to be part of the Greater Titusville Development Foundation Grant Facade Project. We were very honored to be...
View ArticleSomething To Think About
Quote by Judd Apatow from this NYT article I read this quote in a NYT article yesterday and felt like I had to share it. I think it nicely sums up something that I’ve been trying to articulate for...
View ArticleHelp an Interior Designer Help Libraries
Hello everyone! Today’s post comes from Danielle Lewis, an interior designer in NY and a friend of my co-worker Becky Stahl. She’s doing some research to help out libraries and I’m sharing her survey...
View ArticleFood For Fines at Benson Memorial Library
Here’s a library land hot take for you: I’m just not sold on the fine free library concept. I’ve done a lot of research into idea behind the movement and I totally get the pros of going this route,...
View Article“Librarians facing new tasks say crisis isn’t in the catalog” by Ali Swenson
Read the full article here: https://www.apnews.com/ae0e76071cbc49bd844163bf7617cc8a If you have a moment today give Ali Swenson’s article Librarians facing new tasks say crisis isn’t in the catalog a...
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