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January 21, 2010
REAL Suggestions from the Children’s Room
“have more Canada books”
“You could Make a sports secton”
“get more People in the Block Station Mary”
“make it Louder. more Books.”
“Maybe if you got Lego Indiana Jones 2 The Adventure continues it would attract more Kids”
“Dear Dumb diary books way more Wii games. Diary of a wimpy kid. Nintendo DS and DSI games.”
“Please Put all the Dear America books in one place!”
“I was wondering if you could get any capital Mysteries books by ron roy. I know he’s not writing anymore, but could you get some?”
“In this libary there is something mising and that is cranyons if there is papers and we need cranyons.”
Posted by adrienne at January 21, 2010 11:13 AM
Comments
While you're at it, I need crayons, too. And way more Wii games.
I love that your library is such a center of activity! People read, people play, and relate the two as one good thing that goes together.
Posted by: tanita at January 21, 2010 02:09 PM
I enjoy it an awful lot.
I really want "cranyons" to be a word.
Posted by: adrienne at January 21, 2010 03:30 PM
Oh wow,
“Please Put all the Dear America books in one place!” -- I love this one so much. So, true, so true. I always did despite the different authors. I made the call no. uniform, as if the series title, Dear America, were the main entry. I tell other librarians, "It is a LOCAL call number." Clean up the record, make it correct and shiny and make the call no. in the 852h tag what your patrons need it to be. Easier to do in a school library.
Posted by: BookMoot at January 22, 2010 03:51 AM
Adienne, you must have big influence if you can get ron roy to write more!
Posted by: Heidi at January 22, 2010 08:18 AM
Poor, overlooked Canada.
Posted by: Jules at January 22, 2010 09:37 AM
Camille, Since there was already a significant collection of these when I came here, I've been resisting the idea of reclassing them, but we just did this with the American Girl series back in, say, the spring, and the results have been really positive. I think this may be an idea whose time has come.
Heidi, Oh, yeah. I'll just call him. ;)
Jules, Our collection on Canada is a bit shameful considering we're just a couple hours from the border.
Posted by: adrienne at January 22, 2010 09:42 AM
Are these ever not just filled with brilliance?
Posted by: Jeffrey Lee at January 24, 2010 03:43 PM
Sometimes grown-ups put things in the Idea Box. Those can be a bummer.
Posted by: adrienne at January 24, 2010 04:33 PM
What I think is great, is that kids feel they can ask for anything, and Miss. A will try to do it. If it can't be done (or is already being done as with the cranyons)they get letter so they know someone is listening.
Posted by: Xandi at January 25, 2010 09:21 AM
@Adrienne...then it's your culling/editing that makes them much better. But I prefer to think it's a box that is simply stuffed with magical phrases by the under 12 crowd. Maybe you can make a separate box for adults to place the boring ones in (and then never open the box, or make it siphon directly to a shredder).
Posted by: Jeffrey Lee at January 25, 2010 12:56 PM
Xandi, Shana's been writing them lately, bless her. I started getting behind.
Jeffrey, The shredder idea is creative. Five points.
Posted by: adrienne at January 26, 2010 01:52 PM