Lunch at the Library
Lunch at the Library

Author: Charlotte Lewis

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2024-04-18

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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Many Seniors attend the lunch offered at the libraries for the socializing. A great proportion of them are in their eighties. Several may go to lunch at the library because their budgets are tight and the lunches are free. And then there are the few that go for what else they might gain. Tony Josef, at 83, isn't looking for love or a little action. But he is definitely interested in socializing with friends during lunch at the local library. When he met Rachel Boswick, he was smitten. But as time passed, Tony questioned her actions. Something wasn't right. He decided to cool the situation. She had loaned him a book and asked for its return. He said he would. Tony found her door ajar and Rachel dead – murdered. The following weeks prove Rachel was interested in more than lunch at the library.

Healthy Living at the Library
Healthy Living at the Library

Author: Noah Lenstra

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2020-06-18

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13:

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This broad-ranging resource is for librarians who want to begin a new program or incorporate healthy living into an existing one. From garden plots to cooking classes to StoryWalks to free yoga, more and more libraries are developing innovative programs and partnerships to encourage healthy living. Libraries increasingly provide health and wellness programs for all ages and abilities, and Healthy Living at the Library is intended for library staff of all types who want to offer programs and services that foster healthy living, particularly in the domains of food and physical activity. Author Noah Lenstra, who has extensive experience directing and advising on healthy living programs, first outlines steps librarians should take when starting programs, highlighting the critical role of community partnerships. The second section of the book offers detailed instructions for running different types of programs for different ages and abilities. A third section includes advice on keeping the momentum of a program going and assessing program impacts. Lenstra offers tips on how to overcome challenges or roadblocks that may arise. An appendix contains resources you can adapt to get these programs off the ground, including waivers of liability, memoranda of understanding, and examples of strategic plans and assessment tools.

Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Author: Mark I. West

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2024-03-12

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1666938882

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Scholars in the field of children’s literature studies began taking an interest in the concept of “liminal spaces” around the turn of the 21st century. For the first time, Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together in one volume a collection of original essays on this topic by leading children’s literature scholars. The contributors in this collection take a wide variety of approaches to their explorations of liminal spaces in children’s and young adult literature. Some discuss how children’s books portray the liminal nature of physical spaces, such as the children’s room in a library. Others deal with more abstract portrayals, such as the imaginary space where Max goes to escape the reality of his bedroom in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. All of the contributors, however, provide keen insights into how liminal spaces figure in children’s and young adult literature.

Five Steps of Outcome-Based Planning & Evaluation for Youth Services
Five Steps of Outcome-Based Planning & Evaluation for Youth Services

Author: Melissa Gross

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2022-07-22

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0838938329

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Outcome-based planning and evaluation (OBPE), with its straightforward approach built on a flexible framework, is the perfect model to enable youth services professionals to deliver effective services regardless of uncertainties. An outcome-based approach can help youth services stay grounded in producing desired outcomes with and for youth through responsive programs, services, and processes that can adapt to changing conditions. Clarifying the relationship between planning, program development, and evaluation, the five simple steps outlined in this book will help youth services staff conduct solid community assessments and integrate OBPE into their work. Inside its pages you will learn a short history of OBPE and its evolution; why it is crucially important to involve youth in all stages of program development, with guidance on navigating challenges; how to think about planning as the need to react quickly, whether due to natural or human-made disasters, changing demographics, or economic swings; the five steps of OBPE, from gathering information about your community and determining the outcomes that will serve your community to crafting accurate outcome statements, developing an evaluation plan, and maximizing the results of successful outcome-based programs; how to visualize the steps needed to successfully plan, implement, and evaluate an outcome-based program, using the template included in the book; ways to share your data to let people know the library’s important role in the community; and additional useful tools to bolster your work, including environmental scan forms and ideas for creating relevant family storytimes.

The Library Association Record
The Library Association Record

Author: Library Association

Publisher:

Published: 1920

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13:

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Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in v. 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to v. 13-23, new ser. v. 3-ser. 4, v. 1.

What Stars Are Made Of
What Stars Are Made Of

Author: Sarah Allen

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0374313245

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A Mighty Girl Best Book of 2020! From debut author Sarah Allen comes a pitch-perfect, heartwarming middle grade novel about growing up, finding yourself, and loving people with everything you’re made of. Twelve-year-old Libby Monroe is great at science, being optimistic, and talking to her famous, accomplished friends (okay, maybe that last one is only in her head). She’s not great at playing piano, sitting still, or figuring out how to say the right thing at the right time in real life. Libby was born with Turner Syndrome, and that makes some things hard. But she has lots of people who love her, and that makes her pretty lucky. When her big sister Nonny tells her she’s pregnant, Libby is thrilled—but worried. Nonny and her husband are in a financial black hole, and Libby knows that babies aren’t always born healthy. So she strikes a deal with the universe: She’ll enter a contest with a project about Cecilia Payne, the first person to discover what stars are made of. If she wins the grand prize and gives all that money to Nonny’s family, then the baby will be perfect. Does she have what it takes to care for the sister that has always cared for her? And what will it take for the universe to notice?

Books Change Lives
Books Change Lives

Author: Michael Thompson

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1997-07

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780788144738

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"Books Change Lives" was the Library of Congress's national reading promotion theme for 1993-1994. This report provides details about how this reading promotion campaign developed and what happened around the country that made this campaign so popular; it also makes available the ideas that have proven so effective in the promotion of reading; it shares some of the best and most inspirational statements, ideas, and graphics generated by the campaign; and stimulates thinking on how to make future campaigns even more effective. Includes contributions from students who participated in the essay contests. Illustrated.

Harry's Legacy
Harry's Legacy

Author: Paul Krebill

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2001-12-03

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1462814239

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While cross-country skiing in the mountains of Montana Tom Harris and Heather Scott come upon the century old ruins of the Ohio Queen Mine. Their curiosity leads them on a quest for the true story of the mine and the partners who owned it. They discover that In the 1880 ́s two miners, one from Ohio, the other from New Zealand, worked this productive mining claim in Montana Territory. The New Zealander, who had secretly married the daughter of one of the "town fathers," was forced to drop out of sight when his father in law became enraged over his daughter ́s pregnancy. The Ohio partner was accused of murdering his partner, the missing New Zealander. He was forced to flee from a posse bent on immediate "justice." The enraged "town father" discovered a rich cache of gold which had been hidden by the partners before they fled. He secretly took the gold and claimed that he had mined it himself. This story of the Ohio Queen Mine remained hidden for over a hundred years until Tom and Heather uncover the true story of the disappearance of the two owners of the Ohio Queen and set about to help make restitution for the injustice done to the original partners. In the course of this effort Scott and Heather become deeply committed to each other, while a love begins to grow between them . The unraveling of this story takes the reader from present day western Montana to the gold rush in Montana Territory in the 1880 ́s, then to the gold seekers of the Klondike in the Yukon, and from there to Arrowtown on the South Island of New Zealand.