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Jumping Off the Cliff
Yikes!! I did it!And by I, I mean we, my fabulous co-workers and I. We took the first steps toward reorganizing our picture book section from alphabetical into (what I believe to be) a more user...
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I have always organized my children's books by subject. I did it with my own home collection and I did it for two of the different childcare centers I have worked at. My categories were VERY specific,...
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The Categories
I'm still tossing the subcategories around, but have decided on my main categories. I combined ideas from METIS, Storytime Katie, Gretchen Caserotti at the Darien Library, and Amy The Show Me Librarian...
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Monstrous March Madness
I know that a March Madness Tournament at the library is not an original idea, but I don't know where I first heard of it, so I'm sorry I can't give the credit that is due. Nevertheless, I wanted to...
View ArticleReorganization Project Snare
This is how they stand today: We have sorted and re-catalogued over 1000 books, so we are at least one third of the way there! I'm still struggling with animals and farm. I have some un-recatalogued...
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Where to Start?
I started with pretty close to 2000 picture books in the "Easy Fiction" section. I would just like to make it known that I do not like the term "easy books" for picture books because some of them are...
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Did I Say Finalized Categories?
Remember this post?Well, things are a changin'.Here they are one more time:Favorites, Tales, Traditions, Community, Ourselves, Transportation, Nature, Animals, Concepts and Stories. What's that you...
View ArticleStill Chugging Away at My Newbery Marathon
Caddie Woodlawn (1936) I needed to keep reminding myself that this was written in the 30's and was probably considered ahead of its time. A very Little House feeling to it, Caddie was a fun character,...
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Eggstravaganza
Easter is almost here and I didn't do an Easter storytime, but I did do an eggcellent version of one!Question of the day: Did you have eggs for breakfast? Verdict 5 no, 4 yes (2 came in late and didn't...
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April Fools!
There was no school today, so not many kids were in the library to see my April Fools Day display. I like it so much, I might leave it this way all month.
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Dreaming of Spring
That's what you get when you wait and plan your storytime at the last minute... all the spring books that haven't been checked out yet. They weren't horrible, but they weren't as fabulous as some of...
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Picture Book Place!
Okay, so this post is coming a little late. We finished up the bulk of the books last Friday. They have been slowly trickling in all week, but I'm pretty sure we are within a handful of books of being...
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Picture Book Place - Favorites
Favorites is the first main category in our new picture book area. There is only one subcategory in Favorites:CALDECOTT: All of the Caldecott Medal Winners go here. They are arranged by the year that...
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It was Juusst Riiight!
I love the Three Bears! I get to use my GREAT BIG PAPA BEAR VOICE, My Sarcastic Mama Bear Voice, and my squeaky, high-pitched baby bear voice.The question of the day was "Have you Heard the Story of...
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Picture Book Place- Tales
Major Category Number Two: Tales.There are no official subcategories in this area. This area contains all of the books that would be found in the Dewey section 398.2s along with their counterparts....
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April Displays. . . or Cats & Dogs and Poets in the Air
It's a poet tree! Prelutsky, Silverstein and others who have written books that are in our library are all stuck in a tree! This display has been moving some books this month. Yeah for poetry!My...
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"Be Ruthless in Weeding Juvenile Fiction"
Re-reading the CREWing Children's Materials really got me geared up to seriously look at my Juvenile Fiction Collection.There are about 1500 books in our Juvenile Fiction section. I ran a list of books...
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Picture Book Place- Traditions
Major Category: TRADITIONSSubcategories:Each holiday is its own subcategory. EARTH for Earth Day, MOTHER for Mother's DayBIRTHDAYSRELIGION- In one of the other libraires that I was looking at, they had...
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Drive in Storytime
I've seen a few "drive in" ideas floating around on Pinterest using cardboard boxes. We having been getting quite the stack of boxes in our community room, and with Earth Day on Monday I thought it...
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Fish! Fish! Fish!
The question of the day was: Have you ever been fishing? Only one said no they had not, which is not surprising because we live in Northern Wisconsin where you can't turn around without running into a...
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