Total Hours: 76
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| "Contando Cuentos" Bilingual Storytime Crafts and dancing after reading Un beso en mi mano (The Kissing Hand) |
Today was quite the busy one. I started off by working on creating and organizing the Facebook google docs folder I will be leaving for the person who takes over social media at Goodman when I am gone, collecting posting ideas etc. (who knew that July 1st-4th is celebrated each year as "Tom Sawyer Days"?). Then I helped out with the second of our four session bilingual pre-literacy storytime. We were pleased to have a great turnout this time, with multiple Spanish-speaking families wandering in because they heard Spanish being spoken. One woman stayed after, thanking us profusely and commenting how frustrating it has been for her to always bring her children to library programming, but that none of it is in Spanish. Judging by attendance at this storyhour, there is huge Spanish-language children's programming gap that Goodman could fill, which I will heartily recommend through both statistics and anecdotes in my upcoming analysis of Goodman's Spanish-language services.
In the afternoon I met with Michael to catch up in the moment he was back in the office between the conference he just went to and his upcoming vacation. It was cool to hear about the conference, Next Library, which is all about library innovation and is usually held in Europe. He said it was the best networking opportunity he had ever had; he was having dinner with the directors of storied library systems like San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland, not to mention getting to benefit from all the forward-thinking initiatives brought to the table by the European libraries.
In the evening I helped out with the first program in the four part Created Equal film series that the branch in running. Tana Elias and Chris had written an National Endowment of the Humanities grant for the series, and MPL was was one 473 institutions across the country awarded funding for the program and showing rights for the films. Local community members, including multiple UW professors are lecturing along with the films and facilitating the discussion afterwards. Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara, a professor in the Afro-American studies department ran this program, and she made a point of thanking the library for inviting her, saying that she loves to get out into Madison and make those connections between community and academia. It was great to see how well such a partnership can work, promoting connections between local institutions and providing valuable continuing education opportunities for community members who wouldn't necessarily get access to university resources. After all, as we discussed at length in 450, and again in Public Libraries, a huge part of the mission of public libraries is the idea of continuing adult education and enrichment, and this program was a perfect example of that! I also got to meet Tana and chat a bit about social media, a conversation that we will continue next week when I go downtown to Central to meet with her, which I already now will be a valuable opportunity!
Thursday update: Today I finally was able to get in touch with Ben from BadgerBOTS to talk about the possibility of a Bubbler program in August. It sounds like things will work out if he can find enough of their high school students who would be able to run a mechanical large-scale robot presentation and hands on Lego robot activity. It was also good to make the connection for future programming ideas: they have an established 6 week "Robot Club" that they have started running at different locations around the community. Ben said he'd be happy to collaborate again in the future for such a club during the school year if the Bubbler program proves popular enough this time!
In the afternoon I met with Michael to catch up in the moment he was back in the office between the conference he just went to and his upcoming vacation. It was cool to hear about the conference, Next Library, which is all about library innovation and is usually held in Europe. He said it was the best networking opportunity he had ever had; he was having dinner with the directors of storied library systems like San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland, not to mention getting to benefit from all the forward-thinking initiatives brought to the table by the European libraries.
In the evening I helped out with the first program in the four part Created Equal film series that the branch in running. Tana Elias and Chris had written an National Endowment of the Humanities grant for the series, and MPL was was one 473 institutions across the country awarded funding for the program and showing rights for the films. Local community members, including multiple UW professors are lecturing along with the films and facilitating the discussion afterwards. Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara, a professor in the Afro-American studies department ran this program, and she made a point of thanking the library for inviting her, saying that she loves to get out into Madison and make those connections between community and academia. It was great to see how well such a partnership can work, promoting connections between local institutions and providing valuable continuing education opportunities for community members who wouldn't necessarily get access to university resources. After all, as we discussed at length in 450, and again in Public Libraries, a huge part of the mission of public libraries is the idea of continuing adult education and enrichment, and this program was a perfect example of that! I also got to meet Tana and chat a bit about social media, a conversation that we will continue next week when I go downtown to Central to meet with her, which I already now will be a valuable opportunity!
Thursday update: Today I finally was able to get in touch with Ben from BadgerBOTS to talk about the possibility of a Bubbler program in August. It sounds like things will work out if he can find enough of their high school students who would be able to run a mechanical large-scale robot presentation and hands on Lego robot activity. It was also good to make the connection for future programming ideas: they have an established 6 week "Robot Club" that they have started running at different locations around the community. Ben said he'd be happy to collaborate again in the future for such a club during the school year if the Bubbler program proves popular enough this time!
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