Category: Librarian

Ask the Librarian – Book Formats

This summer we are making more time to play with our books and spending less time in the editing chair. But, we didn’t want you not to have an episode… so here is a short episode on how we choose which book formats we prefer when trying to be good stewards of our resources.

Librarian Notices: Written Treasures Library

I wasn’t always a book hoarder, but l’ve always loved to read. I was born and raised in the Philippines in a family of readers, and my siblings and I grew up reading Enid Blyton, the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and the Hardy Boys. But we also read children’s classics — I have fond memories of my Ate (older sis) and I taking an hour-long bus ride, backpacks in tow, to this dome-shaped building dwarfed by skyscrapers, right in the very heart of the financial district. It was a church founded over a century ago for American expatriates, and inside was a little library — a regular library to everyone else, but THE Secret Garden to me. We filled our backpacks with Black Beauty and the like, and devoured them at home before our next trip to this magical place.

What is another way to organize and shelve picture books?

I gave most of my picture books away over the years. I kept the best ones for the future, but as my children aged out of them, I shared the rest with friends to make room for my growing collection of chapter and middle grade books. Because of that, when I set up my library, I decided to organize my picture books really differently than most of the other librarians I was following. And, so far, it’s been working really, really well for us.