by Leah Langby | May 25, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
It’s time to gear up for the annual Book Cart Drill Team Competition at this year’s Wisconsin Library Association Conference at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells. Register your team and get crackin’ on your routine for a chance to win a prize...
by Leah Langby | May 24, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Need some supplies for last-minute SLP decorations? I have some pretty swell things to give away to an IFLS library. First come, first serve, though if you send me some content for the blog, I’ll be oh-so-happy! Send an email to [email protected] and tell me...
by Leah Langby | May 17, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
This year the Chippewa Valley Book Festival is launching a new project: The Chippewa Valley Reads…!This event is designed to bring people of all ages together through the joy of reading and discussing books by a renowned author. This year’s author is...
by Leah Langby | May 14, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
How many of you have prizes for your Summer Library Program? I am very interested in the conversation about whether or not giving out trinkets as prizes for reading is a good or bad practice. There has been a lot of discussion on an Association for Library Service to...
by Leah Langby | May 12, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Do you have an active teen advisory board? YALSA is accepting applications for the 2010-2012 round of YA Galley! YA Galley is an ongoing project in which publishers of young adult books provide free copies of their recent titles to teen book discussion groups in...
by Leah Langby | May 7, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Okay, after scratching my brow and consulting some more tech-savvy people in the IFLS office, I realize that I spoke too soon in promising the copies of the Summer Library Program video public service announcements. We haven’t figured out how to do it yet. On a...
by Leah Langby | May 6, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you are looking for an easy way to promote your Summer Library Program, you might be interested in a DVD of a Public Service Announcement that can be played on local television stations, at your library, and possibly at the school. The videos are aimed at kids and...
by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
We just received a note from a mother who brought up a simple idea that would help her and her family enjoy the library more. She has a 3 year old who can’t reach the sinks in the restroom, so his mom needs to hold him up to the sink, and try to wash his hands...
by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
This week marks the inaugural Choose Privacy Week, a celebration of our right to privacy and an opportunity to engage libraries, librarians, and the general public about the importance of this issue in our increasingly public world. Sponsored by the ALA Office for...
by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Hollis Helmeci, the new director at the Rusk County Library in Ladysmith, for this information. The authors of an upcoming ALA Publications book, True Stories of Censorship Battles in American Libraries are collecting stories for their book. If you have had...
by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Imagine being in a room filled with the best books written for children and teens in the past year, and people talking excitedly about them. If you were at the IFLS/CESA 10 Great Books workshop last week, you know how fun that can be! We had an entertaining...
by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
What a great idea for a program. At Menomonie Public Library’s regularly scheduled storytime, they had a super-cool visitor a few weeks ago–a school bus! Says Debbie, The 17 boys and 3 girls loved their “field trip” (to the parking lot where thebus was...
