by Leah Langby | Dec 30, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
The American Indian Library Association and the Asian Pacific American Librarian Association are now accepting applications for the ‘Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture’ Grant. Talk Story is a literacy program that caters to Asian Pacific...
by Leah Langby | Dec 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Flashlights, stories, and bed-time fun in OsceolaThanks for this guest post from Rebekah Palmer from Osceola. Send in your guest posts–plenty of interesting prizes left!We always have a blast at our monthly Nighty Night Time for preschoolers and their...
by Leah Langby | Dec 22, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Sam Carpenter from the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library for this guest post!Ah, December. Summer is long-gone, the holidays are upon us, and that means it’s time for . . . closet cleaning. Yes, we dug deep into our back storage room,...
by Leah Langby | Dec 21, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Kids are happy to be codingThanks to Kay Fitzgerald from Osceola for this guest post!At Osceola Public Library we ran a program called Coding and Cookies that introduced middle through high schoolers to computer coding. We had never run a program like this before...
by Leah Langby | Dec 17, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image from PixabayMany thanks to Jenna Gilles-Turner, who wrote this guest blog post.I was one of the lucky few (Yes. Be jealous.) to attend the Youth Services Development Institute in Green Lake, WI in September. It was one of the most inspiring, motivating, and...
by Leah Langby | Dec 15, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Teens dressed up and acted as Candyland charactersThanks to Jenny Jochimson at Hudson for this blog post about a fun event that involved people of all ages.If you are looking for a great Halloween or Christmas event, the Hudson Area Library just had great success...
by Leah Langby | Dec 11, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Here’s the handout!After more than a year of digging into New Media, Media Mentorship, and working with various community partners and dynamic educators to learn more and form our own ideas and understanding, I am pleased to say we’ve put together some...
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...
