by Leah Langby | Apr 3, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Our new State Youth Services and Special Needs Consultant Tessa Michaelson Schmidt has created the Wisconsin Youth Services Showcase. It’s a monthly showcase of ideas and people in our state doing fabulous things. (Psst–you are all doing that) One of our...
by Leah Langby | Apr 2, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
I found this in Channel Weekly, it looks like a worthwhile free webinar coming up, especially if you are trying to make decisions about how to incorporate technology into your children’s room! Register on the day of the event.(photo by Leonid Mamchenkov)FREE...
by Leah Langby | Mar 30, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Being a military kid isn’t easy, and the Operation: Military Kids effort in Wisconsin is trying to reach out to libraries to collaborate to provide more resources to kids. It would be a great time to do a program or a display aimed at kids who are affected by a...
by Leah Langby | Mar 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Sometimes Georgia in New Richmond reminds me of my grandfather. Odd, I know. But every time my Grandma Dot would make a pie, no matter what kind, Grandpa Mel would exclaim, “You know Dot, I do believe this is my favorite kind of pie.” Georgia has that kind...
by Leah Langby | Mar 16, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
At the Summer Library Program workshop, Becky Arenivar shared a great idea she used last summer to keep families in Prescott up to date on programs and special events at the library. As part of registration for the SLP, she collects a family email address and...
by Leah Langby | Mar 15, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Here’s a webinar that might be interesting to those of you trying to figure out how to continue to provide quality programs with a dwindling budget. The title makes me a little itchy (corporate sponsorship has some drawbacks), but I think you might get some good...
by Leah Langby | Mar 14, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Kids participating in after school activities in Bloomer used hand prints to help Kathy (the children’s librarian) create a hungry caterpillar collage for the wall in the children’s room. The collage has transformed the room with its colorful presence, and...
by Leah Langby | Mar 6, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Colleen from Menomonie sent the coolest stop-animation video she made to promote her teen program coming up this summer about (you guessed it) stop animation! She is trying to make more videos to promote library programs.She made the stop animation using a free...
by Leah Langby | Feb 28, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
(photo from flickr, erin m, Florida Supercon)YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association) has named a top ten list of graphic novels for teens. How many are in your collection? What do the teens in your library...
by Leah Langby | Feb 27, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Here is a collection of decoration ideas from the summer library program workshop:If you want to have a picture (of an astronaut or some other night-time related person or animal) with a face cut out for photo opportunities and general silliness, someone suggested...
by Leah Langby | Feb 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Channel Weekly for alerting me to these excellent, free continuing education opportunities!1. CCBC Shorts Are you working on your book tie-ins for this summer’s “Dream Big, Read” and “Own the Night” children’s and teen library program themes? Don’t be in the...
by Leah Langby | Feb 23, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Children’s Book Week is coming up, May 7-13. Encourage kids to read the books nominated for the Children’s Choice award, and then VOTE, starting March 14!2012 Digital Toolkit is another resource, featuring everything you need to help spread the...
