Tuesday Tips - A Joke a Day!

Sam Jones is the Youth Services Librarian at the Beaver Dam Public Library. She shares tips to make your job easier in her Tuesday posts.

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Last November, I started doing daily jokes for DINOvember. I rolled out our whiteboard that I usually use for storytimes and set it out by my desk. The jokes were all dinosaur themed. I learned pretty quickly that a joke a day was a lot (and there aren't a ton of family-friendly jokes about dinosaurs). About halfway through the month, I decided to do two jokes a week. One on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The other is on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. It is also a lot easier to remember what the joke is this way. After November, I put the board away and stopped doing the jokes. 

I wish I would've counted how many people asked what happened to the jokes. It was a lot more than I imagined, so I brought it back this month. I'm still doing two jokes a week and it doesn't feel like it is too much. I'm also planning out a month of jokes in advance, so I don't have to worry about what joke to use the day I need it. 

The great thing about this is that it really doesn't take up a lot of time and it makes people happy. I'm looking for a more permanent place to put the jokes, but it is definitely something I intend to keep on doing. In case you were wondering, this month's theme was winter and our joke for today is:  What kind of fish do penguins catch at night? A starfish.