by Leah Langby | May 18, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Public Libraries: A Vital Space for Family Engagement , a report from the Public Library Association and the Harvard Family Research Project, is a call to action for libraries to learn about and reach for more effective family engagement. Libraries, the...
by Leah Langby | May 12, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Lack of money can cause tunnelingThis is the second in a series of posts about the book Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan (an economics professor at Harvard) and Eldar Shafir (a psychology and public affairs...
by Leah Langby | May 11, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
The proverbial ticking clock!This is the second in a series of posts about the book Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan (an economics professor at Harvard) and Eldar Shafir (a psychology and public affairs professor...
by Leah Langby | May 10, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you’ve had a conversation with me in the past month or so, you’ve probably heard me talking about a book I finally just finished called Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan (an economics professor at Harvard)...
by Leah Langby | May 3, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
The post The SYNC program returns to give you free audiobooks all summer long appeared first on OverDrive Blogs. It is edited slightly here. Audiobooks are wonderful for reading while on the go and thanks to AudioFile’s SYNC program, you can...
by Leah Langby | May 3, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Flickr Creative Commons, Eli Christman I live in a bit of a popular culture bubble, and I’m often late to the game of hearing about what is hot. Last week, one month after the Netflix series based on the teen book by Jay Asher Thirteen Reasons Why was released,...
by Leah Langby | Apr 26, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Teen groups from across the country read galleys and discuss books all year to select the books they think should be nominated for YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten list. Then, teens from across the country have a chance to vote for their favorites, and the top...
by Leah Langby | Apr 17, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Valerie Spooner from Ladysmith for this inspiring guest post!We have a women’s shelter in our town that does a wonderful job, but residents don’t always feel comfortable coming to the library. Many of the women who use their services also have...
by Leah Langby | Apr 6, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
from PixabayI’m still reeling from the terrific Power Up conference I attended last week, but then I had the chance to attend the Eau Claire B.R.A.I.N. Team Annual Conference yesterday, and I’m blown away again!One of the speakers, Mark Sweet, is a...
by Leah Langby | Apr 3, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Last week, I attended Power Up: A Conference in Leadership for Youth Services Managers and Staff. Woah! Lots of big ideas and smart people and great connections and things to think about! Look for more about this conference coming out over the...
by Leah Langby | Mar 29, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Stanford University has come out with a free online course to help people learn about gender identity issues, particularly with regard to children. Wow! What a great resource! It consists of several short videos made up of conversations with...
by Leah Langby | Mar 28, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
The Milky Way (Pixabay)Thank you to Claire Parrish at Rice Lake Public Library for letting me know about STAR-Net: Science Technology Resources for Libraries. This website, provided by The Space Science Institute’s National Center for Interactive...
