Escape From Dr. Frankenstein’s Library

I LOVE designing Escape Rooms. If I didn’t also love helping kids find books that will spark their love of reading AND reading stories out loud AND doing fun crafts/activities I might consider a career change. But I DO love all those things, so I think I’ll just keep designing escape rooms as library programs. Best of all the worlds!

So we leaned heavy into the “One State/One Story” program that Indiana Humanities sponsored and put on this year in my state. They did a ton of Frankenstein programs and events because this year (2018) is the 200 year anniversary of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”! So we decided to design our 2018 summer reading program around Frankenstein to follow suit. I learned very quickly that it was hard to get ahold of Frankenstein things (decor, reading prizes, etc) in the middle of May, so it quickly turned into Frankenstein/Monsters with the title “Frank-ly, Reading is Fun!”. Overall it was cool and different and we did a ton of awesome monster programs.

For that SRP, I decided that I wanted to do an escape room for families with children that are the age we serve (under 12). So I set to work on my research (mostly Pinterest) and got one all figured out! It was a smash! I had 20 groups go through in June, on two different days. I actually had to turn people away because we didn’t have enough time slots available. 😦

Because of this, I decided to run the same program again in October during fall break so that people could participate and it would be close to Halloween and kind of spooky! But apparently now that fall break is so long, people actually go on vacation, SO I ended up with 8 groups who were able to participate this fall.

I don’t think I am going to run this program again, so I am going to post pictures of the room and of the clues with a little explanation in case anyone wants to do a similar one or recreate it at home/another library!

*All paper props/clues were made by me using my Cricut crafting machine, with the exception of the crazy letter sheet, which I made on the computer*

The Hallway: 

We had them enter into the hallway outside the library to wait, then go do the escape room, and then leave the library out a side entrance so that groups did not cross paths. That eliminated any spoilers!! In the hallway, I had one other staff member working. It would have been VERY hard to do this alone, and I recommend having at least 1 other person, depending on what kind of setup you have.

There were tables in the hallway, and while they were waiting, they were asked to read the rules and the scenario sheet.

The Room:

So there were a few different little places we had things set up in the library.

We had Dr. Frankenstein’s Desk:

We also had a couple of tables with decorations, a coat rack with lab coats, and a fake pet tarantula in the story pit!

Last but not least, we had what I called “The Clue Table” with all of the clues they were given at the beginning to start them off. My intention was also for them to have a place to put materials when they found clues, so things weren’t just scattered everywhere.

So they started with this. I’m going to go down each clue path and work my way through the room for you all to read/see!

*All of the decorations were borrowed from Sycamore Friends Church, and they were AWESOME. I had so many people ask me where I got all the stuff, and I was so grateful to the church for helping me create such a cool lab!*

Basic Breakdown:

In the end, they needed to find the briefcase and put in the code to unlock it and get the secret monster plans. To get them there, they started with 4 clues, all of which lead to a puzzle piece. When the puzzle pieces were all found and put on the puzzle sheet, the code was clearly visible and the briefcase could be opened! They were allowed to solve the following puzzles in any order, they just had to do them all to get the code!

Puzzle Sheet:

The puzzle sheet (bottom middle, looks like the base of a puzzle) was really a guide to make sure they got the pieces in the right place. Each other clue on the table lead them eventually to a puzzle piece, and the pieces spelled out the clue to open the briefcase at the very end.

“Read Between the Lines” Sheet:

So in theory this clue led them to the pencil cup on Dr. Frankenstein’s desk, where there was a UV light invisible pen in the cup with many other types of pens. The pens I bought are here. There are quite a few in this pack but some of them were $$$ for only 1 pen and I was worried it would get broken or walk out so I bought the pack. They do have one of those tabs to pull so they should last awhile!

When they figured that out, and shined the light on the page, it did this:

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If you don’t want to wait for the slideshow, it says “find the next clue under the rug”.

So that leads them to the rug under the rocking chair in the photo way above. They find the puzzle piece and put it on the puzzle sheet and voila! That clue is finished!

Backwards clue: 

This clue is above in the photo, right behind the skull, so it is difficult to see. This is a better photo of this clue!

Okay! So some of my kiddos were old/intelligent enough to read the top part backwards on their own! Eventually I started telling them to read the bottom part first. Once they did that and remembered that a scientists coat would be a lab coat, they went to the coat rack pictured earlier and started rummaging through the pockets. Eventually they found a mirror, which would help them to read the backwards part (once they figured out how to hold it correctly; that part required a lot of parents help!)

Once they did, they could see the writing says “your chance of escaping swims with the fishes!”. Setting up a fish tank in the library was one of the first things I did when I started this job, so its still new-ish and exciting for most of them. A few tried to tell me we didn’t have any fish in the library, but most of them got it right away. When they got there they found a puzzle piece taped to the side of the tank!

Two down, two to go!

Code clue: 

This clue (very middle, below the skull) was by far the hardest and most time consuming. Better photo below:

So, to know how to find the book “Frankenstein” in a library, you have to know the author. A good handful of people (some kids, some adults) knew who wrote the book! So they moved straight to finding it on the shelf.

Others who didn’t know were given the clue “If you don’t know who wrote the book, there’s a clue on Dr. Frankenstein’s Desk”. If you remember from above (or need to scroll back) there is a framed photo on the desk (of the author), and a little note slipped in behind it. The note looks like this:

So, if you don’t know, now you know!

Once they found the “Frankenstein” book on the shelf in the S section, they opened it up and found the symbol code sheet:

Using scrap paper and pencils provided, they got to work decoding the symbols that were on the original sheet they were given. I will say, I messed up here. The solved code reads “Im hidden in a ‘prize’d place”, emphasis on the PRIZE because this puzzle piece was hidden in the bucket of summer reading prizes in the summer, and in the prize box treasure chest in the fall. But because it’s all symbols already, adding the “” to my original code was very confusing. Almost everyone spent time looking for the quotation marks on the code sheet, and they weren’t there. Eventually I started telling people to ignore the quotation marks until they solved the clue!

SO like I said, the clue was in a different place in the summer than in the fall, but both places were where prizes are kept!

Crazy Letter Sheet:

This one was my favorite clue. There are lots of Pins on Pinterest about how to make this clue, but essentially I did it myself. Firs thing I did was type the clue 3 times in a medium blue on the page in Microsoft Publisher (Publisher is important because you can turn text boxes so things are going sideways)  and print it out. Deleted that blue text, then typed up a ton of random letters and printed them out on top of the blue, in yellow. Then I erased everything again and did something similar (not identical text!) with orange, and then with red. The trickiest part was making sure the paper was fed the right way into the printer to print on the correct side. Every printer is different so you may have to just test it and see!

There’s a little paper that goes with this one that says “To solve this clue, look for the decoder in a very electric place.” This one tripped a lot of people up!

I somehow didn’t get a photo of it, but as decoration for SRP (and for the Escape Room in the fall) I had one of these lights at the checkout desk:

So that was the very electric place!! And underneath the light were a few of these spy decoders! When you hold the decoders over the crazy sheet, the red acetate blocks the red, yellow and orange ink and the blue is all that’s left!

So the next clue was under the biggest wooden chair! And that was the final puzzle piece, so at this point the puzzle sheet looked like this!

There really is no significance to “378” but that was the code to open the briefcase! It was one of those with the dials where you have to turn it to the right numbers to open it. The case needed the code twice, so two kiddos could spin the dials at once!

Once they got the briefcase open, they found the secret monster making plans!

And that’s it! I wrote up a funny blurb about monster making to go inside the envelope but really that was the end! And like any good escape room, I had props to hold to prove they had escaped! Here are a few of my favorites from this fall!

If anyone is interested in knowing more about library escape rooms in general or this one specifically, please feel free to email me @ megan.williams@eastern.k12.in.us

Cupcake Wars

I really try to go all out when we do our after school programs during the PTO meetings, because most of the time kids are *there* at the school anyway, so if I do a really cool program, they’re already around to come for it. SO I figured decorating cupcakes and voting on the best ones would be a really good way to get a lot of kids to attend.  I ended up with 35! A few of them were middle schoolers who had siblings also attending, but overall I was really happy with the numbers!

So in my preparation for this program, things did not exactly go as planned. First of all, I had about a dozen people sign up in the last 2 days before the program. It’s really hard to plan in a timely manner when that happens, but I’ve sort of learned to work around it, because I *never* tell anyone they are’t welcome.

I am a procrastinator by nature, but I procrastinated intentionally this time on getting cupcakes so that I knew I would have enough and wouldn’t have to rush around and make up the difference the night before. So my plan was to buy cupcakes from a grocery store bakery, plain with no icing, and then buy icing in containers and let the kids decorate them on their own. I approached two grocery stores about doing this, and they both told me that the un-iced cupcakes would cost the same as the iced ones… So $13 for 24 cupcakes.

I needed a lot of cupcakes. I knew I was going to have about 35 kids, and I wanted them to each decorate 2 cupcakes, so in the end I decided to make cupcakes instead of buying them. And since I needed several dozen, I divided labor by asking a few people who work for the library to take a mix and bake some for me!

In the end, we had around 85 cupcakes. And we only needed about 70, so I had some leftover. Even so, I am SO glad I over prepared and would recommend doing that for a program like this.

I had two other librarians helping me with this program, and luckily a few grown-ups who didn’t go to the PTO meeting were around to help too.

I forgot to get a picture of the table before we started, but we had white and chocolate cupcakes, and white icing with their choice of food coloring. For decorations we had chocolate chips, gummy bears, gummy worms, marshmallows, animal crackers, crushed Oreos and M&Ms. They were told to only take what they knew they were going to use, since everyone was going to decorate 2 cupcakes.

To get them to the cupcake tables, I asked random questions and let them line up that way. So for example I said, “If you birthday is in March you can line up”, “If you’re wearing colored socks, you can line up”. It was a fun way to do it, and it ensured that my employees helping with the food coloring at the tables didn’t get totally bombarded.

Once they were dismissed to decorate, it was all craziness. It was awesome! Below are a few photos of what it looked like.

Once everyone had been up to the tables to get their first cupcake and decorations, they were allowed to get materials for a second one. After they finished both cupcakes, I had some cupcakes coloring pages for them to color in the meantime.

When everyone’s two cupcakes were finished, we voted on the best ones. Originally I had planned to do categories: “scariest”, “most colorful”, etc, but there were SO MANY cupcakes I decided in the interest of time we would just vote on the best ones. So they all had a plastic container in front of their cupcakes, and were given two Cheerios to vote with. I told them they could only vote for themselves ONCE which means the other Cheerio HAD to go to someone else. I think they did okay with it!!

I didn’t get photos with the winners because they were so excited to eat their cupcakes but I did get some photos of cupcakes by themselves!

Overall this program was a huge success! It’s the most I’ve had an an after school program so far this school year, and the kids had a great time. I had to mop the cafeteria floor after because there was icing EVERYWHERE, but it was totally worth it to see all the smiling, cupcake covered, icing stained faces. 🙂

 

Oversized Game Day!

When I started this blog, I made a deal with myself. I was going to write about everything I did, even if it was a crazy mess or it wasn’t my best idea ever. This program falls into the former category! Since this program, when I’ve discussed it with people this is what I say, “This program was a good *idea* and that’s about all that was good about it”. I don’t really mean to be pessimistic here. It’s a true fact of library life that not all programs are going to be great. Sometimes things are a lot better on paper or in my crazy librarian brain than they are in real life. The trick is figuring out *why* it didn’t work and making it better the next time!

Last Spring, we started putting programs on during the PTO meetings so that students could have some kind of structured activity to do and parents would maybe be encouraged to come to the meetings if they knew their children had something to do!

So this program was my first PTO meeting program of the school year. They run on a day I usually work by myself from 3-4, so I asked one of our subs to come in and help me run the program. We had 24 kids, and not enough things for them to do!

The idea was simple (and honestly- I still think a good one); we were going to have *big* versions of popular games and they could play them while they were here. Below is a list of the games we chose, and links if I used someone else’s ideas(some of them are links like “30 Outdoor Games for Summer” or what-have-you so you may have to scroll to find the one we did):

Real Life Angry Birds

Big Foot Race

Library Jenga (with cardboard boxes)

Frisbee Tic Tac Toe

Giant Twister (double the circles on a king sized sheet)

Giant Memory (cards were a whole 8.5×11 sheet of paper)

Pool Noodle Javelin Throw

Jumbo Bowling

I thought for sure that all that would be enough to occupy my students for an hour, but that was before logistics. My plan was to have a few things (Angry Birds, Jenga, Pool Noodle Javelin Throw and the Big Foot Race) to be outside. BUT when we started stacking boxes up, the wind just kept blowing them down. And also, I bought the wrong sized boxes for Jenga (In my defense, they were the only ones Walmart had enough on in stock, BUT I should have paid better attention to the dimensions). So almost immediately two of my games were problematic.

Real Life Angry Birds

We moved Angry Birds to the only place it could be moved: inside the library, down between two rows of shelves. It looked like this:

I decided to forgo the whole idea of a slingshot originally because we were going to be outside near cars and windows and was planning to use the pillowcases that came with the king sized sheet I bought for Twister as a sort of launcher, but when I had to move it inside, that all went out the window. They were throwing (low) or rolling the balls into the boxes and green balls (pigs). Overall it was a fun game but because of the wind it wasn’t nearly as cool as it could have been!!

Big Foot Race

The big feet were destroyed almost immediately, but they looked like this:

There was a small obstacle course in front of them, and they were supposed to see who could get done the fastest while wearing the big feet. It was hilarious, but quickly not viable anymore because they were broken after the 2nd or 3rd race.

Library Jenga

Like I said, the boxes weren’t the right size and immediately did not work for normal Jenga. I left the boxes outside (it wasn’t windy enough for them to *blow away*, just too windy to stack in a Jenga fashion), but I had several kids who spent the majority of the hour out there building whatever they wanted. They also enjoyed building something and then running into it full speed and knocking it over. Jenga or no Jenga, the boxes were a hit!

Frisbee Tic Tac Toe

I apparently didn’t get any photos of this game at this program. BUT it was a square sheet with duct tape on it to make the tic tac toe board. Then with two different colors of Frisbees (to represent Xs and Os) kids played tic tac toe! Pretty simple but honestly didn’t get a lot of traffic, hence the no photos.

Giant Twister

I made this Twister board the day before from a king sized sheet and spray paint. I cut a circle into a piece of cardboard to use as a stencil. I intentionally made two rows of each color instead of one (like on a normal Twister Board) so that it would not only be a bigger board but have more spaces! Then I used my Cricut crafting machine to make a spinner to go with it!

Overall this one was pretty popular and nothing got torn up so I can use it again in the future! Yay!

Giant Memory

One of my coworkers did this game for the program, using whole 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of paper for each card. She printed out a photo of a cartoon/book character (Spongebob, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Captain Underpants, etc) and then mounted them on red card stock so the kids couldn’t see through the cards. This one was popular! The only downside though was that the cards are SO big, the game had to be played on the floor.

Pool Noodle Javelin Throw

This one is leftover from a summer game program, and it got a little warped in the basement.  I had to tape it to chairs to get it to stand up right, but then the object was to stand as far away as you could and still toss the pool noodle through the rings. (The tic tac toe board is in the background of this photo….lonely)

Jumbo Bowling

This is a set I bought from Walmart over the summer and so far it has been great! Its big enough that kids laugh and think its funny and it obviously works like normal bowling so they immediately know how to play. This one was also down one of the aisles and I was a little nervous we would make a mess with the books but it was actually really great! It was a hit also!

Aside form the aforementioned logistic issues I had with the box games, the issue was that kids blew through every one of these games almost immediately, and then were bored and didn’t have anything to do. After about 25 minutes, the computers were full and they were fighting over them, all the coloring pages I had laying on a table were claimed, and a few girls were actually cleaning up my toy area(presumably out of boredom but I didn’t ask them). I did get chalk out and take it to the sidewalk and a few of them went out there, but really I didn’t have another plan.

I felt really bad afterwards. It was probably the most disappointed I’ve been with myself after a program since I started programming. It wasn’t a good feeling at all and I’m sure I will never forget it! I was upset too because a lot of planning went into this. If I do a bad program and it’s my fault for procrastinating that’s one thing, but this one took a lot of work and I was sad it wasn’t more successful. It was just one of those things though I think.

Looking back I’m not totally sure how I would remedy this. Have more activities? Maybe! Get the right sized boxes for Jenga? Duh. Have a more structured multi-player game for many of them to do at once? Probably!

Either way, there are things I could improve on for next time and I am keeping that in mind!!

T-Shirt Decorating Day!

For one of our September after school programs, we thought it would be fun and cool for the students to have different ways to decorate t-shirts and let them be creative!

I had 20 children attend, and 3 total librarians working the program. There were a few moms/grandmas that also came out to help and that was *awesome*!

I asked that parents/guardians register their children in advance so that I knew how much dye to make and markers and stuff to purchase, but the library did not provide the t-shirts. It was made clear in the flier that students were expected to bring their own, and I called everyone on my sign up list the day before to remind them. That part went over really well! I always get a little nervous when we require things like that, but making sure I had all the right t-shirt sizes would have been a lot, and I would have felt terrible if someone ended up without a shirt and it was my fault. It was way easier to have them bring their own!

They had three options for decorating:

1. Tie dye
2. Fabric marker/paint freehand
3. Iron on design and color with fabric markers/paint

For the Tie Dye:

Tie dye was the *only* thing they could do if they chose this option. Since the dye would still be wet, it wasn’t possible to do an iron on design or to paint/draw after the tie dying was done. Some of them had a hard time with this, and it meant they were done really early.

But we had a whole table for the rubber banding process, and a table outside to do the tie dye. They were told they MUST put gloves on as soon as they were finished with the rubber bands, before they even stepped outside to the tie dye table.

Tie dye kits are expensive, so I followed this how-to on how to tie dye for cheap! It uses the following ingredients:

Rit dye

Water (hot- I ran water through the Keurig to heat it and it was HOT)

Salt

Applicator bottles/spray bottles

**Personal recommendation!!** If you take a cookie sheet and put a cooling rack on top of it, the extra dye drips down onto the cookie sheet and you won’t accidentally set your t-shirt into a puddle of dye! It worked great!

Once the tie dyeing was complete, T-shirts were placed into a gallon sized bag and their name was written on it to take home!

For the iron on designs:

I have one of those Cricut crafting machines and it makes my job a zillion times easier. For this particular program, it was a HUGE hit. I purchased iron on vinyl sort of in bulk from Amazon, and using the machine, I was able to cut out tons of designs that would iron right onto the shirts!

I will say, the unicorns and LEGO guys went the quickest but most all of them got used!

A regular iron would work to transfer this, but I have a heat press, so I brought that to use. It made it a little easier, and that way I could guarantee that I got the whole design at once (some were larger than iron-sized) and that I could press it for ~30 seconds and it would be good to go! I kept the heat press in the back room and had them line up (a few in the room and a few outside) so that I could get their designs ironed on.

Once I got that done, they were free to decorate however they chose! We had fabric paint and markers available, so most of them essentially turned theirs into a t-shirt coloring page!

There were a few who chose to freehand draw on their shirts with markers/paint but for the most part it was a pretty even split between the tie dye and the iron on. It was the perfect number of students for this involved of a program!

I’ve gotten a few messages/notes from parents about how much their child loves their shirt and it makes my heart grow three sizes each time. I am SO thrilled that they had such a good time and I hope to see them wearing their t-shirts to school!

 

The Epic LEGO Wall!!! (GCL version)

I wanted to make a post about the Epic LEGO Wall that I implemented to the library at the end of summer 2017. Idea courtesy of Diana Redina, from Renovated Learning. If you would like to see the original post (with comprehensive instructions) for how this project is completed, click here.

I have a *very* limited space in my library, so I did not have a large wall space available for the LEGO base plates. After much deliberation, I decided I was going to put them on the (then blank and empty) end caps of 4 of my shelves.

Below is the finished product!

So really there are 4 small LEGO walls! I think this makes it a little easier when several kids are using it, because they don’t have to be right on top of each other to reach.

This project took a fair amount of work, but I really think it was worth it. Below I will list the things I purchased/used for this project (also via Renovated Learning and the above link).

LEGO (or good off brand) base plates (the ones I used are no longer available)

Liquid Nails

Calk gun

Wood screws

Dry-erase board coated wood (the white sections on three sides of each LEGO wall)

**I asked around for LEGO donations for this project. You need a lot of LEGO on hand to set the plates, and even more for your kids to really enjoy this project. Some LEGO I had to buy (certain colors, like orange and pink) but MOST were donated. Don’t be afraid to put the idea out to your community!**

This project was completed during the week the library is closed for cleaning (school custodians clean the library and we are so busy with summer reading that we close for a week when it is over so they can clean before school starts). Because of this, I had a lot of help from my parents, in-laws and my husband.

My dad got the dry-erase backdrops screwed into the end caps.

In order to make sure the base plates got put together as closely as they needed to be to snap LEGOs across them, we first set them out on the floor and snapped LEGO on all the seams to keep them close together. That ensured that they would fit as tight as possible when they went up on the end caps.

My mom and mom-in-law getting the base plates all snapped together.

After that, we used the calk gun to squeeze liquid nails all over the back side of the LEGO base plates. We got them lined up and pressed them against the dry erase board backdrop. In order to prevent sliding, we used tape to hold the plates in place by taping them to the wood part of the shelves.

I let the liquid nails dry for two days before I took the tape and seam LEGO off. That was a little longer than recommended in the original LEGO wall post, but I was very nervous!

After that we were good to go! I sent the photo below to my dad to show him that all his hard work paid off. 🙂

The cart in the above photo is from Amazon and it is PERFECT for this type of project. I ended up getting so many LEGO donations, that I had to buy a second one!

Later, I made/printed labels using LEGO clipart and ran them through a sticker making machine so they would stick to the drawers. One of the rules is they have to put the LEGO back in the right drawer, so they don’t get all mixed up. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t but it saves me from having to re-sort all the time.

I made up a couple of fliers with rules, one to sit on top of each LEGO cart. Generally they are good about following them. I do lock the brakes on the carts though so they can’t roll them!

Rules!!

Below I will post a few of my students’ creations and photos of them using the LEGO wall! Its a hit for after school time!

After School Program Overview

Usually 2-3 times per month, the library has an after school program. They are usually on Thursdays because that’s best for our schedule. Since January of 2018, we have also added a program for kids during the PTO meetings, in hopes that more parents will attend if their children are being supervised and doing something fun and productive. Those programs are usually on another day of the week, decided on by the PTO officers/board.

The programs always run from 3-4, and students usually come down when they are dismissed from school. In the past, another librarian and I have run the programs just the two of us, but this fall so far the programs have been big enough that I need a third person to help! Its a fantastic problem to have!

The programs vary in content and reception, but usually they involve crafts/games/science projects. We try to do things that are hands on to maximize their experience!

Here are some quick snippets about programs we have done in the past:

Library Lab: several science projects were offered. Some were demonstrated by librarians and others the kids got to do themselves!

Maker-Days: stationed maker lab. We had our LEGO walls open, perler beads, keva planks to build with,  play dough circuits and more. Kids were able to drift from station to station and make with whatever they wanted!

Slime-time: We made slime in the library! We did this twice last spring and both times it was a crazy hit.

Silent Library: A play on the show from MTV, the kids were put on teams and assigned crazy challenges. If they laughed or talked, their team lost a point. Whoever had the most points at the end got a prize!

From now on, I will try to do actual posts for current programs with photos!

Sign up is usually a struggle with these programs. I send home a paper at the beginning of each semester with all the dates and programs and descriptions and ask that parents/guardians call me to sign their child up.  Sometimes that happens and sometimes it doesn’t. For example, the first Slime Time program we had last spring had 25 kids on the sign up list. I ended up with 58. Again, what an awesome challenge!!! But I was lucky I had enough materials for those kids since I wasn’t really planning on them. On the other hand, our T-Shirt Decorating Day last night had 20 kids on the sign up list, and those exact 20 kids came out for it, no more, no less. It all just depends! But by now I have learned to over buy a little in case I have extras. 🙂

After school program days are usually a whirlwind of prep and decisions but the kids usually have a great time and we love getting them into the library for such fun activities!

Welcome!

Hello! I wanted to publish sort of an intro post to the top of the blog so that everyone knows how this is going to work! I will be (theoretically) posting about all of the programs I am responsible for at my library: two preschool story time programs, after school programs, and any additional programs. I also will be posting book reviews that will also be synced to my Goodreads and to my Twitter. I hope to sometimes post links to interesting articles about libraries also!

I am going to use a tagging system in order to keep things organized. Any post about story hour will be tagged #storyhour, any post about babes in storyland will be tagged #babesinstoryland, any after school program post will be tagged #afterschoolprogram, and any additional program will be tagged #additionalprogram, but the latter two will also have a tag for the specific name of the program. Once summer reading rolls around again I will use #summerreadingprogram for those posts. Book reviews will be tagged #bookreview with tags for the authors name, title, and gene if applicable. Any interesting articles/facts about libraries will be tagged #librarysnippet. Clicking the three dots in the top right corner will open a search bar! Hopefully this will keep everything organized!

I’m going to try to be as comprehensive as possible when talking about programs and hopefully anyone looking for ideas can use this blog as a resource. Feel free to contact me via the contact page if you have any questions or concerns!