08/20/2024 10:30 AM- Delivery Delay: Due to a breakdown, the following libraries will be delayed: Altoona, Augusta, Eau Claire, Fairchild and Fall Creek. Contact noack@ifls.lib.wi.us with further questions.
The United Way St. Croix Valley’s Success by Six Initiative (for Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix Counties) has created a terrific, fully-vetted Pinterest page with some great topics for parents of young children! Task force members are looking at each page and...
There are some great opportunities for participation in LSTA grants this coming year. Look for a few system-wide possibilities that are coming your way in the next month, but you can also consider applying for a grant of your own, too!This year’s LSTA...
The invitation is for YOU! (Sir John Tenniel) How often do you see invitations to apply for cool stuff go out on listservs and assume that the sender is talking about someone else? They aren’t! They are talking about you! Here’s one example: The...
Both of these awards are useful for following up on the information many of us learned a few weeks ago at the Storytimes for Everyone workshop with Saroj Ghoting. For those of you looking to incorporate more nonfiction into storytimes and other programs for...
If you are anything like me, it is difficult to be inside working on a day like this (especially when there is so much work to be done OUTSIDE at home!). Here are a few tidbits I’ve run across this week that might make staring at your computer more fun.No...
“I can’t check it out!”Julie Belz and the other fabulous staff in Ellsworth came up with a terrific skit to promote their summer library program, but this could be used to promote the library any time of year! Here’s what she...
There is so much good stuff out there! I found a reference to this in the Growing Wisconsin Readers Blog, but wanted to make sure everyone saw it. For those of you who put so much work and effort into educating yourselves and adapting your storytime for...
In recent workshops in IFLS-land with brilliant presenters like Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, Jim Gill and Saroj Ghoting, we have been learning a lot of important stuff about early literacy, the importance of helping children and their caregivers get access to great resources...
Thanks so much to Christy Rundquist from Pepin for this terrific guest post! The Homeschool Group at Pepin made “Lava Lamps” that would be a great activity for summer reading. They also got to mix colors to make orange and purple, besides just the...
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has updated and released three Summer Reading lists. The lists are full of book titles to keep children engaged in reading throughout the summer. Lists are available for K-8 students. Each is available to...
Caregivers and babies (The Commons Getty Collection) One of the sessions I attended at the Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries conference last week was by Ashley Theim-Menning about the importance of addressing the developmental milestones of the children...
Thanks so much to Becky Arenivar from Prescott Public Library for this inspiring guest post! I am going to be purchasing this title for the IFLS Professional Collection, as well. Miss Becky was getting tired from the mental effort it took to hold the attention...
