As a small library, we are sometimes offered opportunities to participate in seminars or other events specially geared for small libraries. Or sometimes we'll do Google searches for topics involving small libraries.
While reading or talking with others, we'll often come across lines like, "Our library is so small we only have one children's librarian."
Quips like those, while well-intended by their speakers, leave us chuckling.
We're a small library, though, admittedly, not the smallest one around. How small are we, you ask?
We are located in a village of 1000 residents in upstate New York (near the Vermont border). Our local K-12 school district has an enrollment between 550 and 600.
Our library is open 25 hours per week.
There are four people employed by our library, none of them full-time:
It's happened more than once that the only children to show up for a scheduled program are my own.
So, we're small.
Small isn't bad - it provides its own benefits in addition to its challenges.
We do the bulk of our own programming - much of it done by myself.
So many of my ideas, for the library and for myself, have come from what others have shared online. I hope to use this blog to share programming ideas that have worked for us (and some of the ones that haven't), so others can benefit from our experiences.
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