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March 5, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Self Directed Programming: Book Fight!

Self Directed (or Passive) programming can be anything you want it to be. They can be as intimate as filling up a jar full of Legos or Skittles and having patrons guess the number in the jar, or printing out a variety of cubee creatures and setting out tape and kid scissors for an hour, […]

October 3, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Dirty Little Library Secrets: We forgot to tell the staff not to ban the books

I never liked it when Technical Services called down to my office because it usually meant I had done something wrong: ordered a duplicate, maybe ordered book 2 when we didn’t have book 1, or a book came in covered in green astro turf (that really happened once).  But no, this time it was a staff […]

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