On Being Honored

by | Oct 23, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids

Photo credit:  Kris Adams Wendt (she says the magical hands were not intentional, but appropriate!)Last week, I had the experience of a lifetime, as I was honored as the WLA/Demco Wisconsin Librarian of the Year.  The honor itself, plus the kind words of...

STEM Inspiration Conference

by | Oct 16, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids

I love hearing from colleagues who have flown the coop, so to speak, and are working in libraries outside of our system.  First of all, I love to hear from them because I like them, and love to hear what they are up to and what they are thinking about. ...

Making Justice in Madison

by | Oct 11, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids

There are some public libraries that are doing great work with kids involved with the juvenile justice system.  At ALA last summer, I attended a program about a library that lines up volunteer bedtime readers and author visits at the local juvenile detention...

Collection Development Resource

by | Oct 10, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids

The blog has been a victim of the triage that becomes necessary during especially busy times, which August, September, and October seem to be.  BUT.  I have it on my calendar to do a blog entry several times in the upcoming weeks, so look for more...

Writing Workshop for Kids in Eau Claire

by | Sep 13, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids

As part of the Chippewa Valley Book Festival, local writers  will be holding  wonderful sounding workshops for young writers at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire.  Jessi Peterson is one of the presenters for the workshop for 3-5...

WLA Conference Cool Stuff!

by | Sep 12, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids

Sorry for the absence of blog posts, I’ve been out of the office more than in for the past few weeks, taking part in some terrific opportunities (the Youth Services Institute, Prepare Training to learn how to defuse challenging situations, and dropping my...

Early Childhood Development–Understanding Numbers

by | Aug 25, 2017 | Uncategorized

Even though it is on a commercial site, this is a great explanation of the way kids learn to understand numbers (being able to count to 10 does not mean that children understand the concept behind the numbers).  It gives some simple suggestions of activities to...

Read On Wisconsin

by | Aug 22, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids

The booklists and other resources have been released for 2017-2018 Read On Wisconsin books.  If you don’t already know about it, Read On Wisconsin provides book discussion resources and carefully selected books for several age groups each month.  If...

2017 Teens’ Top Ten Voting Open!

by | Aug 17, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids

Teens’ Top Ten, sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association, allows teens from across the country to vote for their top three favorite recent books from a list created by other teens.  This is a great way to encourage teens in your area to...

Barron’s Rearrangement Pays Off!

by | Aug 9, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids

If you get two creative people together who are interested in thinking outside the box about ways to meet community needs, you just never know where you’ll end up.  Patti Becker and Sue Queiser at Barron have been looking at the way the community uses the...