Conversation with a student this week:

Me: ...so, if you want to put a reserve on a book, you just write the title and your name here, and we'll let you know when the book is ready for you to pick up.
Student:  *writes*
Student, looks up at me, eyebrow raised: You can read cursive, can't you ( Read more... )

Did y'all watch Glee this week--the part where the AV Club president girl sneezes on Principal Figgins, and you see the sneeze in slo-mo?

Well, that sort of happened to me today.

Twice.

First, I had just bent over to point to something in a student's book, and he went " ( Read more... )

"It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding."- Neil Gaiman

Played a fun game with a couple of classes on Friday ( Read more... )

I want to play a game with my book club, and I need the names of really well-known characters from children's fantasy and sci fi books.   Ones that most of the kids will have heard of ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago a small 6th grader came to the library because he couldn't get his computer login to work.  I looked up his login info and told him what he was doing wrong, then we had this conversation:

Me:  Here's the correct login information.  Why don't you go ahead and try it now?
6th grader:  Ok.  *types in login and password info*

*waits*
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I haven't mentioned enough times this year how much I love my book club kids.

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The display (including the darling duckies).

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I just weeded a couple hundred fiction books.  Guess how that makes me feel?

SAD.

But it has to be done.

Ack!  The polka dots on my new journal style are not showing up.  They are housed on photobucket.  Curse you, work filter!  Must upload the dots to LJ, I guess.

I bought a copy of Cygnet by Patricia McKillip at the used bookstore.  How is it?  ( Read more... )

We finally had our school author visit this week!

I am being super-cautious, I know, but the insidious nature of the Internet scares me, so you can click here if you want to know which author came to visit.  I'm going to call her S.

Awesome Coworker went and picked S. up at her hotel in the morning and brought her to school in time to chat for a ( Read more... )