Tag: The Unquiet Librarian
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Asking for input
Library turns to patrons as it faces budget cuts BY VIRGINIA ROBERTS Rhinelander District Library Director The Rhinelander District Library is facing budget cuts. We recently ... -
Rhinelander District Library: Where learning never ends!
BY VIRGINIA ROBERTS, DIRECTOR Rhinelander District Library Show Rhinelander District Library your library card! September is Library Card Sign-Up month! Be sure you have a library ... -
Farewell Summer
By Virginia Roberts, RDL Director Special to the Star Journal Memorial Day, and the clock starts ticking. Ninety days of summer—less really-and pretty soon things happen, ... -
Choose your own adventure (book) at the library
BY VIRGINIA ROBERTS Rhinelander District Library director Here it is July, and summer reading is well underway. A few days ago, I took a day off ... -
Summertime—and the learning’s easy
By Virginia Roberts Rhinelander District Library Director Many years ago, Robert Fulghum wrote All I really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. A well-known summary ... -
It’s National Library Week
BY VIRGINIA ROBERTS Rhinelander District Library Director April is… Spring rains, or more snow; time to renew your fishing license and yard clean up, provided the ... -
Library – the indoors winter sport
BY VIRGINIA ROBERTS Rhinelander District Library Director There are interesting things that happen in the Northwoods in the waning winter months. People actually want to be outside. ... -
Trials and tribulations of Facebook and family
The Unquiet Librarian BY VIRGINIA ROBERTS Rhinelander District Library Director Special to the Star Journal This is a cautionary tale in which we all learn something ... -
The Unquiet Librarian: What do you do here, anyway?
BY VIRGINIA ROBERTS Rhinelander District Library Director When I was a young librarian, just a few years out of graduate school at the UW Madison, a ... -
Holiday gifts for book lovers? Shop at the library
BY VIRGINIA ROBERTS Rhinelander District Library Director Here it comes—the full blown Holiday Season. And somehow, I simply do not feel even remotely ready. It may ...