Library Games Facebook Page. Thanks all you awesome FUNbrarians for making school libraries fun! A Funbrarian’s Life; About; Blog; Books; Books and Games. Great Library Stuff for Your Students; Library Contests. Tiny Tips for Library Fun. I saw a change recently at the library I used to work and I got happily excited. It had nothing to do with my time working there and the change was wholly delightful. It got me thinking.. The best part of librarianship for me is the way we are always pushing forward. While change is anathema for many people, I find it refreshing. Some people see change in confrontational terms and so fear it. Programs for Kids @ NYPL. Programs for Saturday, September 17; Day Time Program. Family Fun Time : Tremont Library: Sat: 2:00 pm. Programming can be fun and a very. Fun and educational activities for kids at the library. Search books, movies, branches. Programs, classes & exhibits. Book related activities The following fun and engaging activities were designed to help you promote your library and engage youngsters at the same time! Fun activities @ your library. Poetry Programs @ your library. Rather than looking at change as expanding our knowledge, it becomes easier to feel threatened, think in terms of . We've all seen discussions like this - fear of using apps with kids; fear of re- configuing a children's area or collection; fear of having diverse award winners; fear of creating breaks in programming. It may be only a voice or two but that fear of change is front and center. If we didn't make changes, evolve our service and experiment to find better models, we wouldn't see the transformations that libraries of all types have been going through. And we wouldn't be serving the ever- changing demographics and needs of our community. We would simply stand still. Our professional growth, our service to our community would be frozen in a drop of fossilized resin. I think often about change. As a career- long change- agent, I like to see work flow from a place of discovery, to a place of experimentation, to a place of knowledge that leads us inevitably to a place of discovery that starts the cycle all over again .
Co- workers and peers around the country may lead us or may follow our lead. We discover in a million big and small ways - through journals, social media, CE opportunities, partnerships or information outside of librarianship that awaken us to new possibilities - how we can tweak, and finangle, and build and tear down. Change is done with reflection, planning, big sky visioning and preparation. It is also accomplished through patience, attention to detail, training of staff (and patrons!) and research. Combining the big and small helps to bring staff and patrons on board for success. And most importantly, change never belongs to just one person. It is an accumulation of many threads woven together from many sources by many hands. Successful changes almost always owe a long line of people profound thanks for their efforts and foundational thinking. I take great pleasure in watching sea changes happen at my former libraries after I leave any job. I am a huge believer in no one - and nothing that they have done or created - being irreplaceable or unchangable. Seeing how approaches, thinking, methods and models are grown differently, mightily and through new vision and ideas delights me. While not all change is earth- shattering, all change is transforming. And that transformation is what pushes us from the past to meeting the future. Oh, and what transformed that got me this excited at the library?
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