CynthiaParkhill

My focus this week was thinking about best practices when connecting with library stakeholders. One best practice that stood out for me was ...

The school year is nearing its end at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts, but there will be plenty to do and read through the summer r...

There’s still time to visit Friends of the Santa Rosa Libraries’ Fall 2024 book sale: 2 to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7 at the Veterans Building ...

In my approach to youth librarianship, one important emphasis for me this time of year is to promote my public library’s summer reading pr...

On Feb. 3, 2024, I went to a youth-oriented comics convention, LumaCon in Petaluma, California. Event highlights, for me, were talking wit...

We’re on an adventure to collect as many stickers as we can for a map of libraries in the Sonoma County Library system. During our most re...

The 2023-2024 school year is almost here, and Sonoma County Library is offering free school supplies to students going into Kindergarten t...

Hotspot, available from Sonoma County Libray For LIS 5804, my studies this week focused on technology: specifically on “digital inclusion.”...

Circa March 2011: Locating “holds” at Lakeport library The focus of my studies this week, for LIS 5804, is on library resource sharing and ...

One of our takeaway concepts this week concerning the value of public libraries was the idea that different forms of value require different...

As part of my studies this week for LIS 5804, The Public Library, I explored the “Library Search & Compare” datasite, hosted by the Inst...

For my first week of studies in LIS 5804, The Public Library, I was to write a haiku in response to a photograph in Robert Dawson’s The Publ...

I’m reading a couple of adult-interest books (as well as a book for younger readers) in an effort to complete the 2022 Book Riot Read Har...

Identification of partners, collaborators, and resources is an important aspect of a “Library and Community Analysis.” The local public libr...

Someone removed all the books from a Pride display at the Rohnert Park library. In solidarity with Sonoma County Library and with other loca...

Video: During Winter Break, I’m logging my minutes for Sonoma County Library’s 2022 Winter Reading Challenge.

Congratulations to our departing eighth-graders; it was great to be able to see you receive your certificates with an in-person promotion ...

My latest video on YouTube : Whatever books you read or listen to between now and Jan. 31, 2021, be sure to log your minutes for Sonoma Co...

First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom has issued a five-week Summer Reading Challenge to encourage California families to “check-out” thei...

With a new amendment to the county’s order to shelter-in-place in effect as of 12:01 a.m. today, look for curbside service to soon begin at...