professional troublemaker

Professional Troublemaker Last week I was at the 2022 PLA Conference in Portland, Oregon.  Portland is so pretty from the air, with bloomed out cherry blossoms that provide splashes of pink to contrast the evergreens. But, as the plane lowers, you start to notice...

Book boxes, sharks and squids

Book boxes, sharks and squids Last week I discussed plans for the future.  This week let’s talk about the very near future and all the things we have been doing that are not even included in the strategic plan I mentioned last week.  We started an emailing...

pie

Pie On March 12th the Library Board and myself met for a work day, a day to plan for the future of our library.  Since the spring of 2018 we have been working toward creating a strategic plan for the library.  A strategic plan is a document that establishes the...

the library book

The Library Book I have been reading The Library Book by Susan Orlean.  I was gifted this book by the special guy I mentioned in last week’s bookworm.  I have had it for a few years now and had yet to read it, the time seemed right, so I cracked it...

library boyfriend

Library Boyfriend Remember when I said that last week was 2 much?  Little did I know, how true that was.  I had not yet read Bryan’s Nickels and Sense column.  My heart broke when I read about the passing of my “library boyfriend”, Don Smith.  He never knew about my...

more like 2 much

More like 2 Much This morning I woke up to the news that Russia had invaded Ukraine.  Yesterday I found out a pretty cool member of our community passed away. Tuesday morning, I found an injured deer in the ditch on my way to work, I had my husband call a...