The zoo program actually went really well today. The room was packed, but I think we controlled the crowd pretty well. The zoo people were wonderful and we'll be happy to have them back in the future ( Read more... )

Me (to staff): Eat your Wheaties tomorrow! The Zoo is coming ( Read more... )

1. Today is the first day of our Summer Reading Club! I just checked and we signed up 168 kids today (which is 22 more than last year on the first day). If the numbers continue to go up, I will be ohsohappy. :D It was kinda crazy busy today. I kinda forgot how crazy busy it gets around Summer Reading Club time. Oy. (In a good way ( Read more... )

Today's my one-year anniversary at my job ( Read more... )

Floyd County Schools have been on Spring Break this week. And lordy, the (public) librarians are tired!
It's been busy every day this week - lots of families coming in to the library, which we love! But that makes for lots of work for us.
Tuesday morning we had our storytimes and then we had a Diary of a Wimpy Kid party in the afternoon. Over 50 ( Read more... )

Technically today was my day off, but I went into work to set up for our big event tomorrow.

Tomorrow my library is hosting the kickoff event for the Imagination Library program, brought to Floyd County by generous grants from the Horseshoe Foundation and the Floyd County Community Alliance to Promote Education. We'll have storytelling, crafts, ( Read more... )

Today is the first day of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.

Shark Week is awesome because, well, sharks are cool. And also because I remember when I was in school, Shark Week would come at the very end of the summer. When it's so hot and gross in Kentucky that all you want to do is lay on the couch with the AC on and watch documentaries about ( Read more... )

I have this thing where I'm tired all evening until it's actually time to go to bed. And then I am magically wide awake. Like right now. WTF?

Today was a busy day at work. I did two outreach storytimes. And it was COLD. But whenever I start to complain about doing outreach in bad weather, I remember the Pack Horse Librarians and stop whining. So ( Read more... )

I went to a local Montessori school to do booktalks today and one of the books I brought was The Egypt Game.

Me: The Egypt Game was one of my favorite books when I was your age.

Student: Oh, so it's old.

Hehehe.

In other news, I had a crazy day of running between outreach programs. My shift started at 1. I went to the Montessori school from 1:30 to ( Read more... )

Guess I should not forget to set my clocks back, eh? But maaaybe I will wait and set them back when I wake up tomorrow morning... that way it's kind of like a pleasant surprise. :)

ANYhoo. Daylight Savings Time is O-V-E-R. So don't forget to set your clocks back.

In other news, in case you don't follow my Twitter or read my blog (don't you LOVE ME ( Read more... )