by Leah Langby | Oct 29, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
I had a great chat with Valerie Spooner, the youth services librarian in Ladysmith, this afternoon. I LOVED hearing this story about the ways putting in the time for partnerships and relationships can pay off! In 2020 I was able to fulfill one of my library dreams...
by Leah Langby | Oct 21, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
I recently got a question from a librarian who had weeded a lot of Thanksgiving books that perpetuate myths about Thanksgiving that are both historically inaccurate and promote harmful ideas about the Indigenous people already here when the colonists celebrated their...
by Leah Langby | Oct 11, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Reb for passing along this sound advice from Angela Hursch about marketing to what can be a very tricky audience: teens. Take a look at this short video, Boost Teen Library Attendance, and see how many of these things you are already doing, and if there...
by Leah Langby | Oct 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Tuesday, November 12, 1-2 pm According to recent data, only 37% of Wisconsin third-graders ranked as proficient or better at reading. There has been a lot of discussion nationally and statewide about the ways literacy instruction has been failing kids, especially...
by Leah Langby | Sep 19, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
I attended an excellent webinar yesterday through Early Childhood Education Webinars with Anna Reyner, an art therapist who is also an early childhood expert. Wow! So many wonderful ideas. The Early Childhood Education Webinars are almost always thought-provoking,...
by Leah Langby | Sep 16, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you don’t already follow the Wisconsin Library Association’s Youth Services Section Youth Services Shout-Out Blog, I highly recommend starting. A few updates about what is happening in the world of YSS: YSS is planning a Virtual Performer’s...
by Leah Langby | Sep 12, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
On Tuesday, youth services folks from IFLS and Wisconsin Valley Library System libraries had a joint virtual check-in to de-brief summer wins and losses. It was fun to work with my colleague Kristie Hauer from WVLS on this project! We tried a new format, breaking...
by Leah Langby | Aug 30, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Wow, three blog posts in a week?! I guess the webinar More Than Welcome: Libraries Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities was inspiring! Community Awareness and Communication It is important to let families affected by disabilities know they are...
by Leah Langby | Aug 28, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Following up on my last post about the webinar More Than Welcome: Libraries Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities! Today we are covering Programming. Many early childhood experts are very focused on the importance of inclusion instead of offering...
by Leah Langby | Aug 26, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
I had a chance to watch a recorded webinar this afternoon: More Than Welcome: Libraries Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities, which is a culminating project by the University of Kentucky’s Human Development Institute (funded by the Institute for...
by Leah Langby | Aug 13, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Like many of you, I love the content in the Jbrary blog. This blog started as a resource for hundreds of storytime songs, rhymes, and fingerplays. It includes a ton of great resources for people who are new to storytime, along with probing and thoughtful articles...
by Leah Langby | Jul 31, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Nearly 60 percent of Wisconsin high school students reported at least one mental health challenge in the 2023 Youth Risky Behaviors Survey. Only twenty percent of those who reported significant mental health challenges reported receiving the help they needed most or...
