With Valentine’s day coming up soon, consider making some miniature book chocolate valentines. All you need is some Hershey’s Nuggets chocolates, red cardstock or poster board, and a hot glue gun.

Get creative with your library's book titles, snap a photo, and voilà — you've created Book Spine Poetry!

Now, enter your photos in the LibraryThing Book Spine Poetry Contest:

Put yourself in the shoes of one of your library's customers by observing Work Like a Patron Day on October 12, 2011.  Proposed by Brian Herzog (the "Swiss Army Librarian"), he says "The point of Work Like A Patron day is to remind librarians that libraries are for patrons, and it's important to gauge the result of our efforts from their point of view.

Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. It highlights the benefits of free and open access to information, while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

Becky Tatar used the PubLib discussion group to ask this question:

The Reel to Real program helps libraries host public screenings of PBS documentaries, followed by audience discussions with local experts. The program is a partnership of Wisconsin Public Television (WPT) and the Wisconsin Library Association (WLA).

National Drop Everything and Read Day is a celebration to remind and encourage families to make reading together on a daily basis a family priority.