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Library Magician Jeff Quinn
- Nov 18, 2015
- 1 min
Bookings Are Starting Early!
Wow! You librarians don't mess around! I'm getting several calls and e-mails and it's not even the end of November! Just today, I put Mason City, Iowa on my calendar and yesterday I added Columbus, Nebraska. Both of those libraries have had me several years in a row and now everytime I visit it's like visiting dear friends. Columbus and Mason City join Fremont, Papillion, Lincoln, Syracuse, Weeping Water and one Omaha Branch on my calendar so far. This year I performed a
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Nebraska Magician, Jeff Quinn
- Mar 21, 2015
- 2 min
Building a Magic Show
The Hero-themed Summer Reading Program magic show is coming together quite nicely. I've put together a ton of ideas, now comes the hard part...weeding things down to a 40-minute show! After I decide which tricks and routines I'm going to do for the Summer Reading Program, I have to decide which order to put them in. Then I need to design the transitions that will lead me from one trick to the next. I also need to figure out where everything will be placed, how I'll move an
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Jeff Quinn
- Feb 21, 2014
- 3 min
10 Library-Related Things You Probably Don't Know About Me
I'm in sort of a fun mood, so instead of blogging about something serious, I thought I'd do something a bit lighter today and give you a list of 10 things you probably don't know about me. And, as a bonus...they're all library or reading related. I went to Jackson Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska as a child and one book that I checked out time after time from the school library was Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic. Even way back then it was an outdated magic b
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