GreenBeanTeenQueen

One of the things I love about the library world is that there is so much collaboration and sharing in the profession. I owe a HUGE thank you to two of my fellow librarians and bloggers: Amy at Show Me Librarian   and Marge at Tiny Tips of Library Fun . Because of these two lovely ladies, I got some great ideas for our storytime break. I work at the main branch of a large library district and my branch is very much a destination branch. Even though other branches have opened since my branch opened, it's the main branch, the largest, and it's a big draw for our community. Add in the fact that the business area around my library has really built up and we have a lot of traffic. A lot of our traffic is toddler and preschool and we get large crowds for our storytimes, especially in the summer. We do six storytimes a week and average around 12-25 kids per storytime. Sometimes it's a lot more, sometimes it's a lot less. So storytime breaks are something we value very much a...