by Leah Langby | Dec 7, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
It’s been a rough fall, with catastrophes and tragedies and outrageous things happening in the world. Many of my closest friends and family are dealing with tremendous personal challenges and hardships . And, on a much less traumatic note, there has...
by Leah Langby | Dec 3, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Patti Blount was recently interviewed for a School Library Journal article about collections for English Language Learners. It is an interesting and worthwhile article, and it is fun to have someone we know quoted in it!
by Leah Langby | Dec 2, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
In January of this year, IFLS librarians enthusiastically signed up to participate in a way of sharing book suggestions. Each month, we had a reading goal, a genre to try to read and report back to other librarians. By this fall, participation was...
by Leah Langby | Nov 25, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Kids enjoy scarves at a Bloomer storytimeYou may have already heard that the G.E. Bleskacek Memorial Library in Bloomer won a Standing Up for Rural Schools, Libraries and Communities Award, along with their partner, the Bloomer Area School District. They won the...
by Leah Langby | Nov 23, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Learning theater games takes trust and an ability to laugh! Luckily, librarians had both at the SLP workshop!Last Thursday was our annual Summer Library Program (and Beyond) Workshop. We had an inspiring keynote talk from Sharon Grover and Marge Loch...
by Leah Langby | Nov 17, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
I found a thoughtful piece in American Indians in Children’s Literature the other day–an open letter to teachers about some of the images that are so popular at this time of year, but are actually inaccurate and ultimately harmful in perpetuating...
by Leah Langby | Nov 12, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Over the course of the past year, thanks to a LSTA grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services and also thanks to a growing national and state-wide discussion on the topic, IFLS librarians have been working on getting up to speed about being Media...
by Leah Langby | Nov 11, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
I’ve read a few accounts of the WLA Annual Conference, and I have to add my accolades. I have had a whirlwind fall with more work-related obligations than usual–I’ve been out of the office more than in, it feels like. I wrapped up October...
by Leah Langby | Oct 27, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Hungry Johnny, written by Cheryl Minnema and illustrated by Wesley Ballinger, is one of the award winnersWordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers recognized several titles for Wordcraft Awards and Honors last week. These books are written by Native...
by Leah Langby | Oct 23, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many of you attended the October 6 Media Mentor workshop with Erin Walsh and Chip Donohue. Those terrific presenters told us about Faith Rogow, a “Media Literacy Education Maven.” She has an upcoming FREE webinar from Early Childhood...
by Leah Langby | Oct 22, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
In a recent Pew Study on libraries, guess what they found?85% of people believe libraries should DEFINITELY provide free early literacy programs85% of people believe libraries should DEFINITELY work more closely with local schools to provide resources to kids.These...
by Leah Langby | Oct 19, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
It’s been a while since I’ve posted–blog posting has been falling to the bottom of my list and then falling right off the list as I’ve been occupied with other projects and commitments. Hopefully, this will be the start of more regular...
