by Leah Langby | Feb 10, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Last week I, like many of you, watched the announcements of the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards via twitter or live streaming. I always get excited about these announcements, thrilled when favorites win, and fascinated to see what rose to...
by Leah Langby | Feb 6, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Ashley Bieber of the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library for this guest post.This fall I was contacted by an employee of Q2, a group for LGBTQ youth in the Chippewa Valley about ways the library could support LGBTQ teens. I was more than...
by Leah Langby | Feb 5, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Homemade block playMany thanks to Becky Arenivar for this guest post!So many webinars, but so little time! It’s hard sometimes to make space in our busy schedules for another webinar, but they can really pay off big time and I have the cute kid pics to prove...
by Leah Langby | Feb 4, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks for bearing with me as I try to figure out the best way to manage the Reading Goals project. I was pleased with the results, but found my form to be a little unwieldy and time-consuming to manage. Hopefully I’ll figure out a way to make this...
by Leah Langby | Jan 30, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Using Bins in BarronThanks to Patti from Barron for this guest post:Barron is using a hybrid approach to shelving their children’s collection, with several subject bins within our picture book area. We decided about the first of the year to do this. We...
by Leah Langby | Jan 27, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Anna in all her gloryEau Claire just had a low-key Frozen Sing-along program on a school’s out day. The really special thing was that we had special guest Princess Anna attend the event. Princess Anna is UWEC student Misty Price. She and her cosplay group have...
by Leah Langby | Jan 26, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
It’s fun to see the list servs alive with results of library’s Mock Newbery, Caldecott, Printz (and other) Award Discussions. It would be fun to do that sometime in our system, wouldn’t it? Maybe some day. In the meantime, someone posted...
by Leah Langby | Jan 23, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Sharon Grover from the Hedberg Public Library in Janesville passed on information about a fascinating article in the New Yorker magazine about Providence Talks, a project in Providence, Rhode Island that attempts to address the word gap (based on the Hart and Risley...
by Leah Langby | Jan 21, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Silly protest signToday I was getting on my winter duds to take my morning dog walk, listening to Wisconsin Public Radio, when I heard something that made me jut my chin and Make Proclamations at my good-humored husband. This happens fairly often when I listen...
by Leah Langby | Jan 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
An eager participant in last year’s Science Fair at the Menomonie Public LibraryI came across a terrific post in the Show Me Librarian Blog about the Skokie Public Library’s new Boom Box Room–an area with interactive STEAM activities that rotate,...
by Leah Langby | Jan 13, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Crayon displayThanks to Samantha Carpenter, the new youth services assistant at L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library for this cool and easy-to-replicate idea.The “Name Our Crayons” wall in Youth Services at LEPMPL went up in December in conjunction with...
by Leah Langby | Jan 12, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Antler- and crown-making at the Fall Creek Library’s Frozen Sing-Along PartyI’ve been hearing about libraries having a lot of fun with Frozen Sing-Along programs. Then today I ran into a couple of Frozen-inspired activities in No Time for Flashcards...
