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The Big Time
It's National Library Week! Lots of things are going on, but I thought I'd highlight the fact that LEGO, yes that LEGO, now offers a genuine Librarian minifigure. I'm not entirely sure how I feel...
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Freshmen Boys, Poets All
In honor of National Poetry Month, Kerry put up a "Push Pin Poetry" bulletin board. To make this happen, she painstakingly cut words out of recycled magazines, starting back in December. So we were...
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Cats and dogs and library humor
Cats rule the Internet. I mean they rule. Even librarians have jumped on the bandwagon. Tumblr seems to be where it all comes together. Here's one from Books and Other Geekery:Librarians Classified...
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World's Strongest Librarian
This story is too inspirational not to share. Salt Lake City librarian Josh Hanagarne has just published his memoir about how both books and weight lifting have helped him deal with a severe case of...
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Take the library home with you this summer!
Tomorrow is the seniors' last day. Of high school. Forever. Though the rest of us will be around through next week, it is time to send out our annual announcement about using the library during the...
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Every nook and cranny
Yesterday was the last Uni Period of the year. Even without the seniors, every nook and cranny of the library was filled.Indeed, we were over capacity.And no one, but no one, looked up to see that the...
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Study break
I decided to bring in some of my (now old) kids' old legos for some study break relief. I think it was a good idea.Say, are you wondering what happened with the old, back-to-2004 library blog entries?...
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Welcome back!
After a summer of changes to the library space, it's great to see it filled up with students again. Here are a couple of shots from the second day of school.Catch that flat screen monitor in the back?...
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Um, oops...
One of my favorite sites on the Web is the Awful Library Books blog ("Hoarding is not collection development"), where folks post blurbs about truly awful books they find on some hapless library's...
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Batman returns ...
... his library books.Found taped to our door yesterday. Happy Friday, everyone!
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21st Century cometh
No, really, I wasn't pointing at nothing. Honest. It's the camera, the shot, the pale screen we happened to be looking at. Really.Second full day of using the flat screen. #happylibrarian
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P.E., 1856 style
One of my favorite bookish spots on the Internet is Ask the Past: Advice From Old Books. Here's one for Sally, Doug, and Merf:"Throw the body and stretch the right arm and right leg as far as possible...
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Amy's first bulletin board
With a little help from Quinn.(Cue sultry voice) "Fall fashion: A good book makes the best accessory..."Can you find the "accessories"?
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Yet ANOTHER reason we love the Internet
Tumblr. Oh yeah. One of my favorites, Librarian Problems, isn't always school library appropriate (oh no, inappropriate content on the Internet???), but I think I can share a couple recent ones I...
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The final touches
This is it. We're in the final stages of our library makeover! Beneath the watchful eye (er, tail) of the Art Club dragon, and above the heads of the studious students, the new...
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To the rescue
Today we had six (count 'em, six!) grad students from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the Uni High Library to get some hands-on weeding experience. "Weeding," for you...
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An ode to Uni Period
Okay, I'll admit it. Uni Period generally drives us crazy. Far too many people with (seemingly) far too little to do. But I couldn't help but be amused by last Friday's antics. One photo op after...
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Happy (early) Halloween!
I couldn't wait until Halloween to post my annual offering from JibJab:Can you guess who the scary people are? Good sports, all. And hey, comments work (though you do have to register).
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Sometimes letting go is hard
Don't you just hate it when you try to put something into a cabinet and discover a whole gigantic pile of STUFF that needs to be cleared out before you can get one more thing in? Here's a tip of the...
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More old stuff
And this time it's pretty cool. Before there was the Online Gargoyle, there was the Gargoyle (yes, in print form). Before there was the Gargoyle, there was Just Us. And before there was Just Us, there...
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