If You Love to Read

I first saw this yesterday when Mermaid Vision Books posted it on Facebook and I had to share. I love the new lyrics, and this Librarian has an amazing voice!!!

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Isn't it fabulous!?!!?

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!

Saw this on Twitter and had to share -thank you http://hcclibrarylove.tumblr.com/

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Library Land

It's September and right now at work I'm busy working on planning and prepping my fall library programs. My head is buzzing with story times and songs and rhymes, craft and science activities and now in the middle of it all I need to plan out and outline my programs for winter! AHHH! 

I'd really like to offer a Lego program for school-agers but I'm not sure where to begin (aside from getting the blocks) If your library has offered a Lego program, or you're in the process of planning one, I'd love to know what your including, how many blocks you need to run it successfully, what group size you have, and if you store the creations week to week or the kids start fresh every week?

Thanks!

TGIF- Book Associations & Reading Style

TGIF- is hosted by the wonderful Ginger at GREADs. Each week, a different book related question is posted for us to answer. *Congrats to Ginger on having TGIF  nominated for a Book Blogger Award*

This week's question:

Book Associations:

Which genre, authors, or particular books do you think people associate with your reading style?

At work (the library)I'm the go-to gal for middle grade and YA fiction. As for specific genre's I tend to lean toward Dystopian, Paranormal, Sci-fi and Fantasy. Contemporary or historical fiction has to be extremely good for me to be drawn in.

Reading Style:

I recently attended a Readers Advisory workshop and was introduced to the idea of:

 "Appeal Factors" "The aspects of a book that engage readers"

  These are the reasons readers choose the books they do (even if it is subconsciously) and why a book that I may have loved might not appeal to everyone. It was fascinating to recognize the similarities in the books I have read and loved across several different genres and age groups.

And I love the idea of my "reading style" being my very own.

The factors were things like Story, Writing Style(Pace), Characterization, Frame (background) . I generally love the books that are driven by the story, or who have characters I can easily relate to. When it comes to books that have complex back stories, or jump back and forth too much I tend to lose interest quickly. I also tend to avoid books with too much description- you know the ones that take 20 pages to describe a tree...but I know many people who relish in the language in books like that.

If you would like to read more about appeal factors you can check out these links

http://raforall.blogspot.com/2010/02/working-with-specific-appeal-factors.html

http://www.sjrlc.org/RAhandouts/appealfactors.html

http://nslappealfactors.blogspot.com/

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