The Sunnyvale Library Make-HER blog offers fantastic inspiration. From: Conversation Starter: From Maker to Make-HER: Leveling the STEM Playing Field for Girls. Look at your existing resources people, meeting rooms, digital, etc. Are you using them to their greatest potential? From Session: So You Didn’t Get the Awesome Teen DigiTechnoSuperLab: Now What? Joslyn Jones was funny, smart and offered valuable information. Change is inevitable. When the work environment is in transition, most everyone experiences anxiety. You can control your situation in the long-term. Transform yourself. Make yourself more valuable to your library and community. From: No Sugarcoating Allowed: Four Honest Perspectives on Change Management. Social media is a powerful tool that can be used to connect not only with our customer base, but also with authors. Virtual author visits anyone? From: riding the shuttle bus with the energetic and cool School Librarian and ALSC Live Blogger Stacey Rattner. Moving outside…
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Circulating Science Kits
My manager and I toss around What Ifs all the time. What if we tried this? Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could do that? What if it’s finally time to try that crazy idea out? The Fizz Boom Read summer reading theme seemed like the perfect time to try one of our most beloved What Ifs: circulating science kits. This was a challenge firmly outside our wheelhouse. We’ve done some science programming in the past, generally for preschoolers, but it’s no one’s passion. I browsed Lakeshore Learning and Amazon for ideas and divided my favorites by age, preschool, elementary and tween (4th to 6th grade), while keeping some practical guidelines in mind: we wanted to include a related, high-quality nonfiction book in each kit, everything had to fit the backpacks I had already selected, and we needed to avoid consumable items. I split most of my orders between Lakeshore…