by Leah Langby | Jul 10, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Act 31 requires all students and teachers in Wisconsin to receive instruction on the history, culture, and tribal soverignty of the American Indian nations and tribal communities in Wisconsin. Public libraries need to have materials that support this work for a...
by Leah Langby | Jul 9, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
The WLA Conference Committee wants you to share examples of how your library strives to include everyone in your library space, programming, and services. Submit your photos and descriptions here. The images and ideas will be used for displays at...
by Leah Langby | Jul 8, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image by Michael Gaida from Pixabay I mentioned earlier that I attended a workshop in June about Using Brief Interventions with Families with Dr. Robert Nix of UW-Madison. One of the things he highlighted was the effect that a simple prompt can have on...
by Leah Langby | Jul 5, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Credit: Huyck, David and Sarah Park Dahlen. (2019 June 19). Diversity in Children’s Books 2018. sarahpark.com blog. Created in consultation with Edith Campbell, Molly Beth Griffin, K. T. Horning, Debbie Reese, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, and...
by Leah Langby | Jun 25, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo by jonas mohamadi from PexelsWell, last week whipped by while I was busy doing other things and I didn’t keep up with my excellent goals about blogging every single week. I’m sure most of you are too busy to be reading much in...
by Leah Langby | Jun 11, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay I came across an article from the Harvard Business Review about How to Get Through an Extremely Busy Time at Work and thought immediately of all you wonderful peeps out there in the thick of kicking off your summer programming....
by Leah Langby | Jun 6, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
A few weeks back, I put out a call for cool SLP promotion/ideas. I heard from 4 libraries with great info about their SLP (and beyond!). If you have stuff to share, I’d love to hear about it! Barron is having a Summer Reading Program Launch on June...
by Leah Langby | Jun 5, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Healing Library is a company that creates kits for purchase to help families process a traumatic event or situation. They have made resources (activity sheets, discussion points, booklists, and more) available for free so that libraries can create and customize their...
by Leah Langby | Jun 3, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Pew Research Center has a new survey report out about the way teens and parents view screen time. I read the overview , and here are a few things I thought were interesting: More than half of parents feel like teens are distracted from in-person...
by Leah Langby | May 30, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
I read a short piece in the Atlantic about how public libraries often act as Second Responders. Like when there is a natural disaster, and the library provides resources to help folks figure out where to look for help, or goes to a shelter to provide storytimes or...
by Leah Langby | May 28, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
I found out about this game, Spoilers!, from an ALSC listserv. It was developed by Kendra Wright, formerly at the Sno-Isle Library System in the state of Washington. Though this game requires library staff to commit to reading a lot of middle-grade books, it sure...
by Leah Langby | May 21, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay Do you advertise your library programs and services in the laundromat? It’s a place where people, often families, spend a fair amount of time waiting. If you aren’t already advertising your...
