Lovey Dovey Library – February Events Around the State
As you all know, February is Love Your Library month, as well as the month you stock up on orange conversation hearts so you can make it through the rest of the year.
What? Is that just me? Oh.
Regardless, we’ve have really had a great time stalking our members to find out what they are doing to celebrate this month. Here are some highlights:
- Love Your Library Lobby! SCLS is collecting patron valentines to bring to the Capitol on Library Legislative Day. Click to see photos of Madison’s contribution.
- The Kraemer Library and Community Center in Plain is posting a bulletin board full of patron valentines to the library.
- But love is also about forgiveness. The Weiss Library in Hayward is forgiving fines on Valentine’s Day: http://www.haywardwi.com/news/article_5b75f1ac-51b1-11e1-92aa-0019bb2963f4.html?TNNoMobile
- And it’s a hard lesson to learn that love is a double edged sword that can sometimes cut your heart out and stomp on it with baseball cleats. So the Middleton Public Library is hosting the Heart Burns Anti-Valentine’s Day event for those who “prefer black & gothy to pink & lacy” to eat broken heart cookies and make anti-valentines.
- Have a blind date with a book or get “kissed at the library” at the Calhoun Memorial Library in Chetek, and get Hershey Kisses when you check out a book. I’ll be checking mine out one at a time, thank you very much. I hope the Calhoun Memorial Library has a large Hershey Kiss budget.
- On February 13th, Silver Lake College’s Zigmunt Library hosted a “Share the Love” event for patrons to gather and discuss their favorite books and films with one another over coffee.
- UW-Madison Memorial Library also had a “Blind Date with a Book.” Waaay better than OkCupid.
http://library.wisc.edu/news/2013/02/14/blind-date-with-a-bo ok-at-memorial-library/ - The Seeley G. Mudd Library at Lawrence University in Appleton asked patrons what they love about the library. Responses ranged from temperature of the building and the yumminess of the water from the fountains (bubblers, for the Wisconsin natives), as well as some love for our collections and the workers. Take a look!
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