Blog Posts tagged as: games and gaming

BPL Book Bingo: Reading Across the Ages

Virginia

My son loves crossing off a spot on the BPL Book Bingo card that is proudly hung on our refrigerator. My advice is to get creative and dig into our vast collection of books at BPL. Before you know it, you and your child will have filled up the card and read 23 (or 24) books that you might not normally have picked up!
"Mommy, did you bring me another book from the libralee?"   This is what my five-year-old greets me with as soon as I come home from work. (“Librarlee” is what he currently says instead of "library," and since he's getting older and…

BPL Book Bingo! 23 Books for 2023

Virginia; Caroline Kravitz

Each time a new year rolls around, it seems the age-old resolution to “read more books” does too. This year, we challenge you to not only read more books but to read 23 books for 2023! And, we've developed a list to guide your reading and encourage you to step outside your comfort zone.   So, in 2023, we challenge you to read: A book for the new year (check out some of our New Year's booklists for inspiration!)  A book with a bookmark from a previous patron   A book in translation   An audiobook or eBook …

Game On! It's International Games Week at Your Library

Jessica

Every year the American Library Association Games & Gaming Round Table runs International Games Week, an opportunity to celebrate gaming in libraries. Taking place this year from November 7th-13th, libraries can register gaming events they hold during the week to highlight just how much fun and educational gaming takes place inside our spaces. And we do a lot of gaming: from traditional games like chess and bingo to the latest video games, not a week goes by in which BPL staff are not running a gaming session of some sort. Next week we are running more than 20…