by Leah Langby | Jun 27, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image credit: PixabayMany libraries in IFLS-land have a terrific 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program, encouraging families to read together as much as possible before school starts. It’s a fun way to promote this, and a few years ago IFLS joined...
by Leah Langby | Jun 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
Image from PixabayThis week the Association for Library Service to Children made a big decision. They are changing the name of the award given to a children’s book author for a lasting, life-long contribution to children’s literature. It will...
by Leah Langby | Jun 18, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image credit: PixabayMany of you know about Renee Grassi, either from her work nationally OR from her terrific workshop for IFLS last year, when she talked about making library programs, particularly the Summer Library Program, more accessible to and inclusive...
by Leah Langby | Jun 15, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image credit: PixabayThe Center for Disease Control is out with statistics about youth and risk, based on a survey of 13-17-year olds. Some interesting trends:Sexual activity is down, but among teens having sex, condom use is also down.In most other...
by Leah Langby | Jun 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
I got to attend the Lake Superior Library Symposium this year for the first time. This small conference puts together librarians from academic and public (and a few special) libraries from 2-3 states, mixes, and creates an amazing blend of inspiration,...
by Leah Langby | Jun 7, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
The American Library Association is sponsoring grants for libraries to conduct book clubs with underserved teens:”Working with small groups of teens, grantees will host reading and discussion programs for up to four thematically related books. The...
by Leah Langby | Jun 5, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image from PixabayI have had many conversations with librarians over the years about amazing partnerships–or a discouraging lack thereof–between school and public libraries. It can take time and patience to develop the relationships with your school...
by Leah Langby | Jun 4, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
The Charlotte Zolotow Award is given for the most distinguished text in a picture bookWhere can you hear amazing book creators like Angie Thomas, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Candace Fleming, Crescent Dragonwagon, Eric Rohman, and Javaka Steptoe; talk with other librarians...
by Leah Langby | May 31, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Arthur Rackham illustration from Goldilocks and the Three Bears, from PixabayA recent study from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital showed that reading aloud, combined with pictures, is the sweet spot for developing children’s brains. ...
by Leah Langby | May 29, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many people from IFLS-land will remember Dawn Wacek as the library director (and before that, the youth services manager) at the Rice Lake Public Library. She left our system, but thankfully didn’t leave the state, she is currently the youth services...
by Leah Langby | May 24, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
image from PixabayI read a really great blog post on Teen Librarian Toolbox about the Summer Library Program this morning–I highly recommend checking it out. In it, she talks about how important summer programming is, how good it is to capitalize on...
by Leah Langby | May 23, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you haven’t seen it yet, please take a few minutes to watch this fun video, created by the staff at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library! Truly a joyful group effort that involved staff from all over the library, this is my favorite summer library...
