{"id":1392,"date":"2012-08-05T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T19:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2012-08-05T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T19:43:14","slug":"winding-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/winding-down-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Winding down"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just bought nine bags of popcorn<\/a>, which should be enough to get us through the last two movie nights of the summer (Winnie the Pooh <\/em>and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang<\/em>), and it really hit home as I bought\u00a0that popcorn\u00a0that summer is almost over.\u00a0 Sure, it’s\u00a0ninety degrees and wicked humid out, but the summer reading program only has eleven more days to go, and kids in the town where I work will be heading back to school soon after that.<\/p>\n

It’s been an interesting summer at the library.\u00a0 The first several weeks of the summer reading program were intensely, crazily, ridiculously busy, with tons of kids coming in for prizes each day and waitlists for programs.\u00a0 In those several weeks, I wasn’t able to do anything<\/em> that wasn’t summer reading related, and I went home absolutely pooped each evening.\u00a0 But a week\u00a0or so\u00a0ago, things got somewhat calmer, and I suspect that a lot of people have now gone on vacation, and that the remaining kids have moved past the prize-receiving threshold and are now working on their bookplate numbers.\u00a0 Which is not to say that it’s been quiet <\/em>at the library, because it hasn’t been, but I have been able to accomplish some other “action items,” like getting that order of new books completely sorted and shuttled down to tech services for processing.\u00a0 And, as I think about it, some of the relative calmness in the last week at the library can easily be attributed to the road construction on the state highway that runs in front of the library (the state closed the road and sent motorists on unmarked detours, which is a whole ‘nother story).<\/p>\n

So, with eleven days to go, here is the current summer reading hours total for the kids participating in the summer reading program: 3,498<\/a> hours read.\u00a0 That’s very impressive, especially since I know that not everyone has gotten their hours entered into the online reading program.\u00a0 And I’m impressed with my own summer reading hours, which currently stands at 35 hours – a personal best.<\/p>\n

As for programs, there are still some great programs coming up at the library.\u00a0 Tomorrow afternoon is the last summer meeting of the Lego club; Wednesday is a program for ages 6 and up on Wetlands and Watersheds, presented by a teacher naturalist from Audubon Ark; Thursday night is the Winnie the Pooh <\/em>movie night;\u00a0Wednesday the 15th is the Finale Picnic; and the day after that is the final movie night for the summer, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang<\/em>.\u00a0 Not to mention the six remaining storytimes of the summer.\u00a0 There’s still space left in all the programs (except for the Storytime for 2’s & 3’s), so call tomorrow if you’d like to sign up.<\/p>\n

And now I’m going to do a little more work on my own summer reading hours, to finish up the excellent book Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan<\/a> <\/em>by Richard Bowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just bought nine bags of popcorn, which should be enough to get us through the last two movie nights of the summer (Winnie the Pooh and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), and it really hit home as I bought\u00a0that popcorn\u00a0that summer is almost over.\u00a0 Sure, it’s\u00a0ninety degrees and wicked humid out, but the summer reading … Continue reading Winding down<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-events","category-summer-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}