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Fictional Band at Your Library?
This summer, I’m helping put together a book/music traveling roadshow with Kirsten Cappy of Curious City to promote the new book Reunited by Hilary Weisman Graham (out June 2012) What it all boils down...
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Playing with Digital Signs in the Library
I’ve always been very interested in how libraries advertise their programs. Before I worked in libraries, I spent my time at Media Play (one of those giant music/movies/books/video games stores) as...
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Elvis in the Library
Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of summer reading programs and their yearly themes, but I do really love it when libraries take these themes and do something really interesting. Jill Godlewski,...
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Excellence in Library Services to Young Adults 2012
I’m very honored to be part of this years President’s Program Planning Task Force for YALSA. As part of this program, we’re announcing this years Excellence in Library Services to Young Adults...
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The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services
I am honored to be a part of the upcoming ALA publication The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services, which was edited by Heather Booth and Karen Jensen and features a lot of great pieces written by...
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Catch Up
I haven’t had the chance to give a lot of the great events/happenings/moments going on in the world around me a proper post so I’m gonna play catch up with one great giant post full of beautiful,...
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Library Stuff That I Am Proud Of
I don’t blog much about what I’ve been up to at the Benson Memorial Library because every time I sit down to do it everything ends up sounding so boring that what I was up to in libraries in the past....
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Library To-Do List: 2017
EXPAND OUR LOCAL HISTORY/GENEALOGY OFFERINGS Titusville, PA has a wonderful and rich history (for a glimpse of it, just read this). As our local public library, I believe that we should be doing as...
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“The Importance of Connecting” over at the State Library of Queensland Blog
A panoramic view of the first level of the State Library of Queensland. This is probably my all time favorite entrance to a library. It perfectly blends the outside world with the inside world of the...
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When The Circulation Has Gone: Helping Your Community Understand the Worth of...
What’s this that you see above? I call this the Benson Memorial Library circulation scorecard. What this circulation scorecard is doing is keeping track of our overall circulation from January...
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Take It To The Limit
SUMMER READING time is here for every public library in the United States. We’ve talked about summer reading many times before here and we’re going to talk about it once again. Why? Because summer...
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Relevant at Any Size: Do A Good Job and Be Kind
I’ve long been a believer in giving a lot of focus to the little things in life. This post is once again brought to you by the little things in life. In this case, a simple Facebook post where our...
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Storytime on a Train
About a month ago, the Benson Memorial Library held a special event: Storytime on the Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad. This event was made possible by the kindness of the Oil Creek &...
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Pennsylvania Libraries Are For Everyone
Libraries are for every single person that comes through the doors of their public library. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you are in life, or what path you’re on, the public library is there...
View ArticleThe Decade of Events & Programs
As we head towards the end of the decade, I think it is safe to say that one of the major themes that surrounded public libraries over the past 10 years was their shift towards being a place in the...
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LOL: Lunch On The Lawn Local Music Series
For the past few years we’ve been hosting a spring/summer local music series at our library that has come to be called LOL: Lunch on the Lawn. The name for the program came was created by another...
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Do You Want To Work In A Public Library?
This is the 700th post that will appear on justinthelibrarian.com. Here’s the first. That post had nothing to do with libraries but this one will. Sometimes this website hits the library topic pretty...
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Library Currency (Part 2)
Benson Memorial Library Summer Reading Tokens (Finn Hoenke as a snake in the background) Back in August 2018 I thought about the possibility of library currency as I wondered aloud about some library...
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Idea Share: The Library Mashup
Via @NoahLenstra: Fleming County Public Library opens up a permanent mini golf course (this is awesome. I love seeing how libraries are expanding to be more than just stuff & their building)...
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Benson Memorial Library Story Time Room Renovation
Started in late 2018 and completed in 2019, the Story Time Room renovation at the Benson Memorial Library was funded by the Fleming Family Foundation and all work was done by Sampson Plumbing and...
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