Green Branch will be a bookmobile!

The board of directors has formally announced the next step for Green Branch Library.

"We are plotting and planning our next phase, a mobile book unit. We are excited to collaborate with Bay Area schools, after-school programs, and community activism groups to make our book collection super accessible. We will also be able to offer workshops for youth at our partner sites, and hope to launch the lending library component to our collection."

I'm excited to see Green Branch grow! If you're in town for the end of August, drop by the last two farmers' market reading rooms on the 18th and the 25th. You can also browse our wishlist on Amazon to see what kinds of titles are high on the social justice program -- and consider donating one of your favorites!

Storytime at the Farmers' Market

All through the summer, Green Branch will be hosting an open-air reading room at the Saturday farmers' market in Berkeley. The growing children's collection is too massive to display in the reading room, so each week two or three themes are selected. Yesterday's were Strong Girls and Diverse Families; there are always some classics, pre-K board books, tales from around the world, and just-for-fun titles, too.

Learning Outcomes APPROVED

For an internship (LIBR 294) at SLIS, a student must provide in his/her application several Learning Outcomes by which performance in the internship will be evaluated. Because my summer internship was being created at the last minute, my application went in just before the semester ended, and I had to revise my Learning Outcomes. They've now been approved -- and we begin the term today -- so here's what I will be focusing on at Green Branch: