by Leah Langby | Oct 20, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Lisa from Colfax, who immediately answered my call for content! Yay! If she can do it, so can you!Here’s what Lisa says:We just had “Madame Lanita” (a.k.a. Kris Winter) come to our library last night for a family program. She entertained us...
by Leah Langby | Oct 19, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
I am wallowing a little over here, and would love some content for the blog! I have some general things to put on later this week, but I’d love to feature some ideas you have. If you had a great program this fall, what was it? How did you do it? Who came? What...
by Leah Langby | Sep 30, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
I got a great question from Jenny in Colfax, looking for books related to Teen Read Week’s theme: Books with a Beat. There wasn’t much in terms of booklists on the YALSA website, so I made my own. I thought Jenny maybe isn’t the only one looking for...
by Leah Langby | Sep 30, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
There are some great opportunities to help you keep up with the huge number of titles for children and youth–all without leaving your desk. Check out the following offers of webinars from other systems and from vendors: The South Central Library System, together...
by Leah Langby | Sep 28, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Deadline: November 19, 2010 (From the Library Grants blog)The Great Stories CLUB (Connecting Libraries, Underserved teens, and Books) is a book club program designed to reach underserved, troubled teen populations through books that are relevant to their lives. All...
by Leah Langby | Sep 22, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Creative Costuming–and actors of all ages– at work! Sometimes it can be a challenge to work with teens. Some libraries have a hard time attracting them to their library, their programs, their teen advisory boards. Once they are there, it can be tricky to...
by Leah Langby | Sep 17, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Remember those coolio manuals that everyone loves to use to plan the Summer Library Program? Well, guess how those manuals come about? Amazing, creative, smart librarians like you (yes, I mean you!) contribute ideas.The manual editor, Patti Sinclair, is looking for...
by Leah Langby | Sep 16, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Matthew White, the youth services librarian in Park Falls, has been doing some great work to establish connections with the teens in the area. He has a new teen area, and has been working with a group of kids on a Teen Advisory Board. His board, BookForce, is working...
by Leah Langby | Sep 15, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Keep those SLP stories and photos coming, people really like to see what you are doing, and that is the whole purpose of this blog.In Amery, a prize that kids really respond well to is having their picture in the paper! “Top Readers” in the SLP program get...
by Leah Langby | Sep 14, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Librarians at the Menomonie Public Library play host to a certified therapy dog every week, letting kids read to the dog to increase their confidence through reading to a non-judgemental, patient listener. Their program, Reading in the Doghouse, received some great...
by Leah Langby | Sep 13, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
The ALSC Quicklists Consulting Committee has created a booklist to assist members who may be receiving requests for book titles on Islam, Muslims and the Qur’an in response to a planned public burning of the Qur’an by Rev. Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center...
by Leah Langby | Sep 9, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
I got this great note from Jenna Gilles at the Fall Creek Library this week, she suggested it would be a good blog post, and I agree!”In November we are having a Bunch of Munsch storytime. So, I wrote Robert Munsch about it and to support him for his recent...
