Adventures In Storytime (and Beyond)

  I began working at this library last year after summer reading had started and most of my first two months was spent doing a plethora of t...

  Now that summer reading is officially over, it's time for my annual reflection on how things went, what worked, what didn't, and w...

The Inconvenient Truth of Incentivized Reading Programs, Part 2 Image by freepik at Freepik.com In Part 1 of this series I discussed how su...

So, I've been working on that deeper dive into incentivized reading I kept saying I was going to do, and I have found that there is a pl...

Image by freepik This summer was the tenth of my career (not counting 2020, The Summer That Wasn't ), and my second as youth services ma...

  This will be the 10th summer reading of my career, but only the second I've been completely responsible for planning and executing, an...

  In my last post I reflected on the reading challenge portion of our summer program, and in this one I'll focus on the programming. Ov...

  When I started this job in December of 2021, I knew that the summer was going to be hard and stressful, with getting a late start planning...

  Since I had booked the local herpetarium for this last week of summer programming, I decided to use aquatic reptiles as the theme for this...

I've been doing "Shark Week" with my storytimes for several years now, since long before it was cool and everyone was doing it...

Last week was all about boats and buoyancy! Even though we are nowhere near the ocean, we still have plenty of lakes, rivers, and streams fo...

This week had a general ocean/fish theme, with some fun books and activities.

I had mixed feelings about doing a pirate theme, but I knew the kids would have fun with it, and an idea for a program came to me that I rea...