Category Archives: In The Field

SBPL Coffee Break (Episode 3)

Summer Reading Program 2018 – https://www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/lib/events/summerreading.asp makeSB – https://www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/lib/getinvolved/sbplsystem/details.asp?NewsID=1466&TargetID=31 Dead Wake – http://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&cn=800518 Boys in the Boat – http://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&cn=800759 Boys in the Boat (Young Reader’s Edition) – http://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&cn=806889 Toms River – http://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&cn=680578 Soft Sounds From Another Planet – https://michellezauner.bandcamp.com/album/soft-sounds-from-another-planet Santa Barbara Spot Prawns – http://www.latimes.com/style/la-fo-prawn04-2008jun04-story.html Barnes & Barnes – Fish Heads (NOT Tiny Tim! MyContinue reading “SBPL Coffee Break (Episode 3)”

SBPL Coffee Break (Episode 2)

(Apologies for the audio quality) Mentioned In This Episode: Poetry at the Library: http://santabarbaraca.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=6549&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2018/05/06 Trail Talk: http://santabarbaraca.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=13106&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2018/05/17 Black Panther: http://santabarbaraca.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=11939&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2018/05/17 Italy Travel: https://www.hoopladigital.com/search?page=1&q=italy+travel&scope=Everything Ecco Guide to Italian WIne: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11918229 My Italian Bulldozer: https://blackgold.overdrive.com/media/2989427 Basque Restaurants Bakersfield: https://www.visitbakersfield.com/visitors/restaurants/bakersfield-basque/ Last Gentleman & Second Coming (Hoopla): https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11560220 Second Coming: http://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&cn=258493 Lucy Knisley: http://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&type=Keyword&term=knisley,%20lucy&by=AU&sort=MP&limit=TOM=bks&query=&page=0&searchid=10 French Milk: http://www.blackgold.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&cn=969122 You CanContinue reading “SBPL Coffee Break (Episode 2)”

My New Employer Requested a Few Introductory Sentences to Distribute to the Staff – So this is what I wrote:

“Hello! I was born and raised in the New Jersey and am now trading in the Atlantic Ocean for the Pacific. I have worked in a variety of libraries for the last 10 years in a variety of capacities across Pennsylvania and New Jersey – one of which made a cameo in a movie. IContinue reading “My New Employer Requested a Few Introductory Sentences to Distribute to the Staff – So this is what I wrote:”

TBT – Banned Books Week

One of my least successful displays (from a circulation perspective). Readers were less inclined to check-out the books, but their interest was piqued (and surprised in some cases) as they turned this display into a bit of a game (the title were written on the back).

TBT – To Walk Or Not To Walk

This is an old post I found in my drafts – a blast from the past. Spoiler alert: I walked in my graduate commencement and I am happy that I did. Lately, I have been going back and forth about walking at my graduate school’s commencement. Since I graduated in December (or January 2014 saysContinue reading “TBT – To Walk Or Not To Walk”

Questions of eternal significance: do you re-read books you’ve already finished?

Questions of eternal significance: do you re-read books you’ve already finished? There are very few books that I am inclined to read more than once. Every July, I have get the itch to read Harry Potter, as I read the first four (and back then, only) books while I was at summer camp. But thenContinue reading “Questions of eternal significance: do you re-read books you’ve already finished?”