{"id":7089,"date":"2013-08-14T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T04:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=7089"},"modified":"2013-08-12T14:02:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T18:02:56","slug":"abc-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/abc-day\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

My summer reading program is grinding to a halt. I\u2019ve given out countless sticky lizards, (two are hanging over my computer monitor right now), monster eyeballs and rubber ducks. Ah, the professional rigors of youth services. I\u2019ve signed off on dozens of reading logs and congratulated kids \u2014 and parents \u2014 on the great strides they\u2019ve made during the summer. The excitement is over and my raging dynamo of energy that enables me to jump from planning one event to figuring out the next wrinkle in library tectonics is ebbing away to nothing. I\u2019m ready to reorder, redecorate, and recuperate. But Halloween is still months away. Where will my next rush come from?<\/p>\n

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P is for Pig craft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019ve picked something verrrry easy for myself. In August I display Back to School. In September, my theme is as simple as the ABCs. September 8 is International Literacy Day. I\u2019ll pull all my ABC books, already labeled with a big DEMCO label on the spine. I\u2019ll bring in my grandson\u2019s cute ABC poster, get out those big ABC rubber floor mats someone gave me, and voila, my library will be decorated.<\/p>\n

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Plastic Alphabet Stampers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll celebrate just September 8 \u2014 which falls on a Saturday this year, so I would choose the Friday before \u2014 or whether I\u2019ll be singing the ABCs all month long. I feel this is a theme with sure parent and kid appeal, lying at the very base of physical library structure. (Reading words on a page? Shelving books by authors\u2019 last name?) Yet letters are profoundly personal to us all. We\u2019ve all heard a young child say something like, \u201cM. That stands for Max,\u201d\u009d as if M were in fact symbolic of Max in some magical way. Which is why I\u2019ll probably make monograms in duck tape with the tweens.<\/p>\n

It would be so cool if other libraries were doing International Literacy Day too.<\/p>\n

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