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Another year, another costume

Tiny Little Librarian — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:00:00 GMT

So, it's time to visit the schools to promote Summer Reading Club again. Some of you may recall that last year I was a crab for our interactive story. I thought it couldn't get any worse, but it has. This year I am a . . . cockroach. Cassie h

More school visit tales

Tiny Little Librarian — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:18:00 GMT

Of course, things weren't all cute at our SRC school visits. The first day we accidentally went to the wrong school - Cassie had cut and paste the school info from the district web site and got them backwards. And could we get away with it? Nop

2 Things From Yesterday

Tiny Little Librarian — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:27:00 GMT

A new little girl (about 5) and her dad attended the first story-snacktime of the year yesterday. While she was eating her snack afterwards, her dad said "Are you going to tell the lady what you told me?" No amount of coaxing could get her

Tis the season to be sick

Tiny Little Librarian — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:12:00 GMT

Hack, sniff... I'm sick again. This has been a bad year for colds for me. And wouldn't you know, this is the one week I actually wanted to go to work! Storytimes are over, the library is pretty quiet, at least some of the patrons are cheerful, and we

Another wasted Saturday

Tiny Little Librarian — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:38:00 GMT

Remember the event where the woman thought I was a babysitter? Well, it was on Saturday and it was horrifyingly boring. As I'd suspected, it was basically a church fundraising bazaar, probably the same one the church has been doing for decades - craf

Library school courses I could have used (Carnival of Infosciences #15)

Tiny Little Librarian — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 01:25:00 GMT

Nettie Day asked me to post for the Carnival of Infosciences #15, but I must confess I'm not very info science-y. The "tool" I use most is Google (though we do have quite a few databases available in my library system) and most of my desk t

My insanely messy office comes in handy

Tiny Little Librarian — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:13:00 GMT

When I was tromping out to the farthest of the drop-in centres yesterday, it was pouring rain (remember, no driving for TLL, so I have to bus). By the time I walked the block and a half to the centre, I was drenched and the waterproof guarantee on my

About that babysitting thing?

Tiny Little Librarian — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:11:00 GMT

Apparently The Place Where No-One Listens thinks it's a good job for me. Just when they'd gotten so much better about my monthly storytimes, they take about 5 giant steps backwards. Apparently they'd forgotten I was coming yesterday and were in the m

I'm so snotty

Tiny Little Librarian — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:07:00 GMT

I have to give up yet another Saturday for a community event next week. I do get to take a day in lieu, but it always has to be a day they don't need to cover me on the desk, so it usually ends up being a Wednesday, woo.Anyway, that just shows why I'

That's why I don't dress up...

Tiny Little Librarian — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:06:00 GMT

Every once in a while, I feel like I should dress more "professionally" for work. We had our teen writing ceremony the other night and Fawn commented that I was looking "dapper" because I was actually wearing a nice shirt and slac

I am the prize queen

Tiny Little Librarian — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:00:00 GMT

I feel like I need an extra lock on my office door. I currently have tons of prizes in my desk for various teen contests. I have:over $1000 in cheques (for the teen writing contest)$120 in gift certificates from 2 local bookstores (also for the teen

Phil, a god among guards

Tiny Little Librarian — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:09:00 GMT

Today Phil the guard was suddenly overcome by a spell of dizziness and feeling horrible. Cassie made him lie down in the staff room with a cold compress and he called the security company for a replacement. She'd tried to convince him to leave and wh

Razor-sharp wit, yes. Razor-sharp books, no.

Tiny Little Librarian — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:26:00 GMT

Yesterday Julie

This week just keeps on getting worse

Tiny Little Librarian — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:37:00 GMT

Last night Circ Chief, Husband (who picks me up for night shifts) and I had to stay until 10:00 last night because we couldn't lock the front door. We recently got a new electronic entry system, but you still need a key to actually latch the door. Or

Festival Part II

Tiny Little Librarian — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:11:00 GMT

And that wasn't all! Since grumpy organizer woman told us to come back at noon, that's what I did, only to discover that the RCMP had stolen the library's tent! Not walked off with it, but comandeered it for their kids' ID station (where they take ph

Ugh...festivals

Tiny Little Librarian — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 17:50:00 GMT

I'm here at work on my day off (last Saturday was my day to work, so I've now had 2 short weekend in a row and worked 6 days this week) to do the annual community festival where the library always has an info table, signs kids up for SRC, usually ha

Not a good week for outreach

Tiny Little Librarian — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:18:00 GMT

This was my week to visit all 3 family drop-in centres, which means I get my 2 evening shifts switched to days. It turned out that on Thursday I could've worked the evening shift because half an hour before I was due to go to the centre, one of the e

It's gonna be a long month...

Tiny Little Librarian — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 22:29:00 GMT

The 2005 Summer Reading Club Promo Tour has begun! Cassie and I will be coming to a school most likely not near you very soon. We had our first one yesterday, at one of our smaller schools, which was a nice way to start out. This morning we had 2 sto

Not much to report

Tiny Little Librarian — Tue, 17 May 2005 21:57:00 GMT

Yesterday was my Monday off, so not much to report. Just super-duper busy with:scheduling school visits for Summer Reading Clubtons and tons of new books coming in (which is great, I just wish they weren't all coming in at once)YA ordering (so many b

5 year-olds shouldn't sing about gin

Tiny Little Librarian — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:04:00 GMT

Every once in a while, I go through the kids' CDs to troll for new song/rhyme ideas. I'm currently listening to Rock-a-Bye Baby put out by Mommy and Me. Now, as far as I can tell, none of these songs are either rock songs and there are only a couple