Swap Meet of Ideas

Schedule (so far!):

8:30 am – Meet and Greet your fellow librarians!

Session 1: 9:00 – 9:50 am – Meet together in the Community Room
Active Shooter Training with Officer Hirschi from the Rexburg Police Department

Session 2: 10:00 – 10:50 am

• Community Room: Summer Reading Round Table: Successes, Struggles, Strategies, and Outreach
• Activity Room: Reader’s Advisories for Adults
• Biography Area: Organization Helps: Trello, To Dewey or Not to Dewey, etc.
• Graphic Novels Area: Passion to Purpose with Patrick Bodily of the Idaho Commission for Libraries

Session 3: 11:00 – 11:50 am

• Community Room: Online Fun: Scavenger Hunts, Blind Dates, Wandoo, Goodreads Challenges & more
• Activity Room: Make an Ally: Sponsors, Foundations, etc.
• Biography Area: Reader’s Advisories for Youth
• Graphic Novels Area: Programs for Specialized Groups and Purposes: Nutrition, Adults with Disabilities, Talking Book Service, etc.

LUNCH: 12:00 – 1:20 pm – on your own
Grab some food and bring it back.  We’ll have Library Tours, Brain Storms and DRAWINGS! Be sure to browse the Show and Tell tables.

1:15 pm – DRAWINGS! In the Community Room – Be sure to put your name in!

Session 4: 1:30 – 2:20 pm

• Community Room: Alternative Collections: Speedy Reader Kits, Binge Boxes, Seeds, Tools, Foreign Language, and endless possibilities (and how the heck do I catalog them?)
• Activity Room: Adult/Teen Programming
• Graphic Novels Area: Director’s Headaches and Housekeeping
• Family History Center (in the Parking Lot of the Library): Genealogical Resources and Tools for All with David and Karen Magleby from the Family History Center

Session 5: 2:30 – 3:20 pm

• Community Room: 3D Printers and Pens, Lego Clubs, and Other Maker Fun
• Activity Room: Harry Potter Programming: Magic at the McKay, Birthday Party, etc.
• Biography Area: Intro to Italic Calligraphy
• Graphic Novels Area: ILS Roundtable: Coha vs. Polaris

Session 6: 3:30 – 4:00 pm – if you want to stay!

• Library Tours
• Brain Storms
• Show and Tell Tables

Local Eateries, closest to farther away:

Close to the library – Main Street

• Taco Bell – 22 W Main St – in the same parking lot as the library
• Broulim’s Deli / Kotako Korean Tacos – 124 W Main S – Inside Broulim’s supermarket
• Jamba Juice (drinks) – 138 W Main St
• Ramirez Mexican Food – 27 W Main St – across Main Street from the library
• Great Harvest Bread Co. (sandwiches) – 19 East Main St
• Original Thai – 10 East Main St
• Fongs Chinese Restaurant – 26 East Main St
• JB’s Restaurant – 150 W Main St
• Pizza Hut – 163 West Main St
• Dominos – 155 West Main St
• Red Rabbit Grill – (comfort food) 155 West Main St, #8
• The Churreria (Mexican) – 155 West Main St, #5

South of the library

• Soup for You? – 52 College Ave
• Gringo’s Mexican Restaurant – 43 South Center
• Little Caesars Pizza – 26 West 100 South
• Millhollow – (sandwiches, ice cream) 48 South 100 East
• Jimmy John’s (sandwiches) – 109 South 2nd West
• Kainoa’s Hawaiian Grill – 115 South 2nd West
• Gator Jack’s (Cajun) – 160 W 2nd S
• Taco Time – 274 S 2nd W
• Righteous Slice (pizza) – 175 W 2nd S #100
• Papa Johns (pizza) – 76 W 2nd S Ste A
• Café Rio (Mexican) – 76 W 2nd S

North of the library – 2nd East

• Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers – 42 N 2nd E
• Sonic Drive In – 210 N 2nd E
• June’s Place (coffee, tea, hot chocolate, pastries, sandwiches) – 259 N 2nd East
• Pizza Pie Café – 240 N 2nd E
• Subway (sandwiches)- 321 N 2nd E
• Dairy Queen – 346 N 2nd E
• McDonalds – 175 Valley River Dr
• Jack in the Box – 461 N 2nd E
• Arbys – 478 N 2nd E
• The Hickory (burgers, barbecue & hand-cut fries) – 485 N 2nd E
• Flat Rock Pizza – 485 N 2nd E St
• Costa Vida (Mexican)- 485 N 2nd E Suite 108
• Dongs Sushi Bar – 505 N 2nd E St
• Wendys – 545 N 2nd E
• Del Taco – 568 N 2nd E
• Mandarin House (Chinese) – 222 E 7th N
• Panda Express – 1490 N 2nd E – in the Walmart parking lot