Book Review Blooper Reel

This is the footage you weren't supposed to see! All the bloopers from our one minute book reviews this week. I had to limit the number of times I used myself, because I messed up A LOT. Enjoy.

EDIT: I posted the wrong video. Talk about a blooper reel! Here's the real thing.

Joyce's One Minute Book Review

This is the first in our series of One Minute Book reviews. We're going to be featuring one each day this week to celebrate National Library Week, and then continue featuring them from time to time in the future. Our PR expert Joyce is up first with a review of Robin Brande's Young Adult novel "Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature."

Librarians on Parade

This weekend was a busy one. Not only did we have a party, we also represented the library at the annual Parade of Lights parade. None of us really know what we were doing, but we got lots of cheers and heard, "I love the library!" more times than I could count.

We gave away two full bags of magnets, candy canes and temporary tattoos. I had no idea marching in a parade was such fun, I guess that's why Missoula has parades all the time. I know we'll participate in parades in the future after this one.

Special thanks to Joyce's husband who took some great pictures of us marching. See more of his work at edoylephotography.com.

Lib"Scare"ians

This year the library is filled with Halloween spirit. I'm pretty sure that in the close to 4 years I've worked here this is the most dressed up we've been. I took the easy road by just bringing in my Ronald Reagan mask. But that still counts, right?

Then I ran into Heather, who dressed up like Eddy from Eddy's coffee shop in our lower lobby!

And our staff room is filled with treats, my favorites? These awesome witch fingers that Kathy from tech services brought in. They're almost too creepy looking to eat, but they taste delicious.

Books, Sometimes They Work.

And in other news, please help us in welcoming our public relations specialist and newly minted blogger Joyce to the MPL blog world! She'll be weighing in from time to time to promote library programs, or weigh in on general Missoula Public Library doings. Please be kind to her, and feel free to heap comments, good or bad, on her posts.

I suppose you could also leave comments on the existing MPL bloggers, but don't feel like there's any presure.