Fast Times at Library High

It's an exciting day at the library! Where to start?

  1. Tonight is our literary magazine reception. The magazines turned out beautiful! If you're curious how they turned out, you can download my group's magazine as a PDF (2.7 MB), or visit my department's scrapbook page. (The image quality isn't fantastic because, uncompressed, the file clocked in at 10 megs. But it'll give you a good idea, anyway.) If you're going to read just one story, make it "Night of the Living Food," about the ingenious inventor Doctor Bob, his equally clever son Billy, and a town full of evil, mutant food. If this kid (who was incredibly prolific this summer) doesn't continue in the footsteps of Dav Pilkey, I will be very sad.
  2. In November I get to work the day there's an OSTRICH at the library! A live ostrich! They're going to keep him in the storage closet beforehand so he doesn't get overstimulated! I can't wait!!!
  3. We got our latest shipment from the ALA Store, including Babymouse and Wimpy Kid posters and bookmarks, a Danica Patrick poster (one of my coworkers loves race cars), and a Cesar Millan poster (which that same coworker sweetly ordered with me in mind)! So now I'll have the Dog Whisperer and Daddy (Millan's tried and true rock of a pit bull) staring out from my office window. Did you know there's a Twilight READ poster, too? There is, truly, no escape.

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A livejournaler and I deduced that the best way to turn teen girls off of Twilight is to give them the truth:

"Do you know why we can't keep it on the shelves? Moms love reading it! Yep, we get tons of moms checking it out and telling us how much they like Breaking Dawn. You could even read it with your mom! It'll be just like the time she checked out Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret for you..."

"..."

"Here's Sunshine. Sunny bakes interesting pastry and hunts demons. You'll like her, I promise."

Hee hee! So mean! :-D

But you know, I'm hearing stories about kids *telling* their moms to read Twilight! So it might actually backfire.

Not to mention that they'll never listen to us old biddies when all their friends are going gaga over Bella and Jakeward!