Ok, so when I say “magical” I really mean SUPER BUSY. It’s great because I swear all of our books get checked out over the summer, I see so many more teens reading and so many more just in the library in general, and it’s . . . summer. Winter isn’t crushing our souls and in New England, we’ve got to take advantage of the warmth while we can. We get like 4 months. Then misery.
But summer reading this year is extra busy because my coworker Rebecca is leaving to take an assistant director job (sad!) and because I got engaged (happy!). Between solo teen room-ing and potential wedding planning, my professional and personal life just got a bit more crazy. It’s ok! I will make it!
If you want to see what my library is doing for summer reading this year, take a look! We’re not going with the sports theme but doing “magic” instead as per teens’ requests and we’re doing a BINGO board for prizes instead of a more traditional prize program. Teens get a prize for every row and entry to the grand prize drawing – some Kindle Fires – if they complete the whole thing!
We’re also doing really fun programs like more D&D – spoiler alert: the kids love it and middle school boys are murderous monsters – craft programs, using our BreakoutEDU box to create a Harry Potter adventure* and more!
What else is happening? Lots of new staff, Doug and I visited Montreal for a few days, Pokemon Go has taken over the library, and I’m still writing at WWAC. Here’s some recent articles about learning to try new things aka gaming and how much I hate summer reading lists.
This summer is going to be crazy what with being short staffed and planning a wedding so I’m not even going to try to lie and say I’ll be better about posting. There’s a lot happening. So I guess I’ll just see you when I see you?
Don’t walk into traffic trying to catch any Pokemon, friends. It’s a dangerous world.
*I should really start writing that….
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