We were just told we'll be closing to the public as of 6pm today. I am taking my laptop home and am supposed to report to work on Monday, but only because I'm a manager. It seems like public service staff are going to be staying home, but getting paid.

We were just told we'll be closing to the public as of 6pm today.

Shit, I'd better go pick up the book that's on hold for me.

Ha, one of my colleagues just called her 85 year old mother and I could hear her saying, "Go get your books, go get your DVDs, because we might be closed for three weeks."

Our weekend plans have been cancelled. I'm going to pick up my library book, go to the bakery, pick up ltc from school and then hide.

Ha, one of my colleagues just called her 85 year old mother and I could hear her saying, "Go get your books, go get your DVDs, because we might be closed for three weeks."

I honestly thought "I should get some DVDs!!!" and then I remembered that we just signed up for Netflix. And also I have work as usual since I work from home, so nothing is really changing for me. So the DVDs can go with someone else. But I want my book.

Libraries have access for patrons to Kanopy and hoopla and cloudlibrary and a bunch of other things. Beyond the regular streaming services these are great for audiobooks, ebooks, and movies. Also if you are a Pbs supporter (and some NPR stations) you should have Pbs passport which has a ton of stuff. PLUS podcasts. So many podcasts. For kids home I would look into alternating visual screen time with audio time if kids are open to it. Older kids can even find subject matter appropriate podcasts - I'm thinking specifically history.

Libraries have access for patrons to Kanopy and hoopla and cloudlibrary and a bunch of other things. Beyond the regular streaming services these are great for audiobooks, ebooks, and movies.

In addition to all those, ours also has a lot of comic books available online as well as Freegal Music, where you can stream music or download up to 7 songs per week. Libraries are the damn best.

I am planning on recording some of my puppet shows so we can post them online for patrons, since we can't do online story times because of copyright issues.

But since I write the puppet shows--HA! Take that!

I need to get my new Kindle set up with Overdrive. I'd tried to set it up a few weeks ago and was getting weird error messages, and figured I'd get it done later, since my old one still worked OK with it, but then I never got around to doing it.

My students keep asking me questions like, "If we do end up with the campus closed for the rest of the semester, what are we going to do for final exams?" and I'm like, I know no more than you do.

It looks like a bunch of TV shows are shutting down production for the time being. It's a good thing we have an endless backlog of TV shows to watch.