Immediately upon starting the first book today, I knew this Storytime was in trouble. LOTS of squirrely kids, a few criers—This group ...

 One of my mother's favorite stories is from when I was two or three, and she called to me from a different room, "Anna, what are ...

October has been a whirlwind of presenting and traveling. It was great, but I'm excited for life to settle back down. This past week, I...

One of the things I have learned about myself and programming is that if I don't write it down, I stress about it. The longer I wait ...

I'm so thankful for other bloggers who inspire me to complete and actually share things I've been sitting on forever. Sometimes...

Artwork by John LeMasney, lemasney.com . As part of the fantastic " 30 Days of Self Promotion " blog tour going on this mon...

My husband and I have a very strict gift tradition for the eighth birthday of our nieces and nephews. We fill a mailing tube with candy an...

For the two year anniversary of Flannel Friday , Sharon at Rain Makes Applesauce is doing a special roundup of posts where community membe...

Hi Miss Julie posted a great piece on singing in storytime today, and it's motivated me to finally, FINALLY write down my experience w...

My favorite Valentine was a letter from a Storytimer at my old library I am feeling the library love today! It's so wonderful to ...

Creative Commons photo by Ozyman I love love love reading other people's posts on how they put storytime together. In the spirit o...

Book Bin from The Library Store, Inc. I'm not out to convert anybody, but to share the story of my conversion. Let's talk a...

I've expressed my frustration with SLP school visits before --they stress me out BIG TIME, take a huge toll on my workload, and my...

Part 1 Part 2 So, here we are. Since I started at my library, every year I offered a lock-in during National Library Week, and last summ...

Read Part One I've been trying to get teen programming off the ground for three years now, and I'm hoping that I'm finally rea...

Youth Services: Programming for one age group, Collection Development, Working only 40 hours per week After three years, I may have ju...

Have I whined mentioned my commute before? I live 42 miles from work. Yeah, that's an oil change per month. On the plus side, lots of ...