Using Pinterest in the Library

I enjoy using Pinterest :). I peruse it regularly to steal ideas for our story time program. I look for theme ideas in general, as well as related games, rhymes, songs, crafts and books. It is a lifesaver. For the past two months, everything our library has done, read, played or sung has been influenced by Pinterest if not borrowed from directly.

So, for this assignment I wanted to step outside of the box. I found a couple of boards that could be very useful in the future:

 

Homeschool. Book lists

http://www.pinterest.com/linzyallen/homeschool-book-lists/

In our community, approximately 370 are enrolled in public school, while approximately 150 are enrolled in homeschool. For our story time program, the enrollment is 50 to 75 percent homeschooled families. I could use this list to create book displays targeting homeschoolers. I could also use the lists to create a book of thematic book lists of titles we have at the library for homeschool parents interested in supplementing their curriculum.

 

Gorgeous Public Libraries

http://www.pinterest.com/reading4pleasur/gorgeous-public-libraries/

OK so public libraries, especially ours, might be on a limited budget, but that doesn't mean a librarian can't dream, does it? This board is a librarian's dream, filled with images of libraries around the world that are absolutely gorgeous. Then, just by some miracle, if I'm ever at a position in which a major donor drops of a few million bucks for a new library, at least I will have stock piled some inspiration for the design. The image below is of a library in Switzerland, and it's one of the world's oldest and most important monastery libraries.