Library Outreach

 

📚 Happy Friday📚

I’m doing #libraryoutreach today! I’m repping the #library at a senior expo hosted by our local state representative. I have books, bookmarks, and info about the library and it’s resources to hand out. 

QOTD: what are your plans for the weekend? 

I’ll be watching some college football and playing some golf this weekend. 

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Library Life

 

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This is my librarian win for the week. This is a Polish language edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I was chatting with a lovely resident of one out the senior living apartment buildings while I was dropping off books recently. She said would love to read a book in her native language. Even though she’s very proficient in English, she missed reading the Polish language.

When I got back to the library, I asked my colleague who’s our inter library loan specialist if it would be possible to request a foreign language book from another library. She jumped right on the task to see if any libraries in our state had Polish language books in their collections.  She found several and with Google Translate’s help, we were able to figure out some titles. She submitted the request for Pride and Prejudice and it arrived at our library a few days later. I’m so excited to deliver this book tomorrow and surprise our patron. 😀 I hope she enjoys it! 

QOTD: do you know any languages besides your native language? 

Sadly I don’t. I had a few years of Spanish back in high school but I don’t remember much anymore. Use it or lose it. I also took Latin in high school. It was mandatory. And I took a year of Greek in high school because that got me out of taking physics. I never would’ve been able to pass a physics class. 

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Mini Book Haul

 

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Happy Saturday! 

Here’s a small stack of books that I recently got from the library’s used book sales shelves. 

The Colorado Kid- I’ve been on the look out for this for awhile since reading Stephen King’s Joyland and Later. 

B Is for Burglar - Sue Grafton’s alphabet series is one of my all time favorites. Happy to find this early edition hardback. 

The Inheritance Games- this series a bookstagram darling. So I guess I should give it a try. 

Killing Floor - l love the Jack Reacher series and was thrilled to find this hardback edition. 

Always shop your local public library’s book sale. You’ll find some gems! 

I was all set to post this pic yesterday afternoon, but I was rudely interrupted by a bat flying around my living room. It was the second bat in our house within 12 hours. Definitely not cool. My husband took care of the first bat. But yesterday’s bat found a good hiding spot after I ran screaming from the room. Had to call a pest control company to come. The pest control guy found it hiding under the radiator in a corner of the living room, captured it, and set it free outside. He also checked for other bats especially in the attic. Needless to say, we’re going to have our house bat-proofed. 

QOTD: Ever had a bat or some other uninvited critter in your house? 

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Library Outreach

 

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#libraryoutreach is more than delivering #librarybooks. Today I’m manning an table at an informational event for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. There are many county, state, and community agencies here to provide information and resources. I have information on the library’s programs, resources, and getting a library card. I also have some books and bubble wands to give away. Should be a fun day! 

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Sunday Shelfie

 

Happy Sunday! 

Here’s a #sundayshelfie from my library’s outreach collection. Let me explain a bit about what I do as an outreach librarian. My library maintains small self lending library stations throughout our county. These stations provide community members who may not be able to visit the main library with books. We have outreach stations in nursing homes, senior housing complexes & senior centers throughout the county. One of our most used stations is in a hardware store! We also share books with four small community-run libraries in the county. We help the county’s early education agency by providing children’s books for the preschool program. We also bring books to the county jail. 

The books in the outreach collection rotate through each outreach station. For example, I’ll take 30 new books to the hardware store. I’ll pull out 30 books that have been at that station the longest. Then I rearrange the books placing the new books on the top shelf. I take the books I pulled back to the library for check in & then check them out to & delivery them the next outreach stop. We use traditional library cards in pockets for community members to “check out” a book from the outreach station. Each book has a pocket & 2 cards in it. One card keeps track of stations the books goes to. The other is for the patron to sign or initial. This helps me know how many books & what genres circulate at each station. I pull children’s books from the main library collection for the preschool. I’ll also pull from the main collection to fulfill any specific requests. One of the small libraries we serve asked for some CoHo books, so I pulled a few titles for them to borrow. We also supply books on cd and any dvd requests. A goal this year is to implement a books my mail system to provide books to any home bound community members. 

Outreach programs at other library systems are different than what I do. But the goal is the same- provide access to books and library materials to those who can’t always visit the library. I’d love to hear from other outreach librarians about your programs! 

QOTD: any library related questions you’ve always wanted to ask but were too afraid to? I’ll try to answer them! 

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Christmas Books

 

I’m the outreach librarian for my local public library. I’m pretty new to the job, but I’m really enjoying. The library has numerous self-lending stations throughout the county to give community members, especially those who have difficulty getting to the library, access to books. I’m starting to add Christmas books to my deliveries to the library’s outreach stations. Maybe I should have been like all the stores and started with Christmas back in August.

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