Storytime. The continual call of the Children’s librarian. You finish one and another is looming on the horizon. You can never escape them.
This summer my fellow librarian and I have tried something a little different. We moved out of the library for some Storytimes. That’s right! We left our tiny little library and ventured forth into the big world outside!
We have a splashpad in our town and we decided to head there for Storytime one Monday afternoon. Armed with Dinosaur books, a parachute, frisbees, and a puppet we headed out. I went around informing all the people there about the Storytime we were getting ready to do and 8 kids came over to join us! Sporadic! Unplanned by the parents! 8 new kids for Storytime! THEN 8 more kids came whose parents had seen advertisements for this Storytime and came specifically for it! YAY! More kids! 16 kids!
Many of the kids at this Storytime probably would never come into the library for Storytime, but they would come over when we went to them. There aren’t many places in my small town that kids congregate but we found one and we went to them. We tried another one during our yearly festival. It went so well! We did stories about Bears and I dressed up to match the festival!
But I encourage my fellow librarians to be creative. To move beyond their same-old-same-old routine. Find a new place. Give it a try! See what fun and adventures might happen!
Keep Sparkling,
B
The Sparkling Librarian 