by Leah Langby | Jun 26, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
There are some amazing teen artists out there. The Library As Incubator Project is sponsoring an art contest for teens, encouraging them to create art inspired by a book, take a photo, and submit to them. Sounds cool! For more information, check out...
by Leah Langby | Jun 23, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Prizes, prizes, prizes. Do they make your Summer Library Program more or less fun? There has been a lot of good discussion in our state lately about SLP prizes, how effective they are, and how much money we spend on them. There are lots of...
by Leah Langby | Jun 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Amy Koester, from the Show Me Librarian Blog, has a guest post on the Library As Incubator blog about a super-cool STEAM program about camouflage,. using that ubiquitous craft supply, coffee filters. Take a look at this post, plus Amy’s other posts about...
by Leah Langby | Jun 16, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
The Cooperative Children’s Book Center announced the 2014-2015 titles for Read On Wisconsin last week. You will find monthly titles for every age group, and the goal is to promote a state-wide common read and discussion. Cool, huh? Not only that,...
by Leah Langby | Jun 11, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids, Uncategorized
My fabulous friend and colleague Sue Abrahamson from the Waupaca Public Library shared a tidbit with me the other day about an experiment she was doing with kids about how many drops of water fit on a penny. This is something that could work as an all-day, drop-in...
by Leah Langby | Jun 9, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
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...
by Leah Langby | Jun 5, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
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...
by Leah Langby | Jun 3, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
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...
by Leah Langby | Jun 2, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
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...
by Leah Langby | May 30, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
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...
by Leah Langby | May 27, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
“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...
by Leah Langby | May 23, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
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...
