by Leah Langby | Dec 9, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Looking for a ready-made booklist of books to recommend to 8-12 year olds? Look no further! The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has created an attractive booklist, complete with annotations, to help kids find the right book. All...
by Leah Langby | Dec 6, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
I read a great blog post from my friend and admired colleague, Linda Jerome, the teen librarian at the LaCrosse Public Library yesterday, and it spurred me to immediate action! Linda has been running a book discussion group for adults reading teen books, and has...
by Leah Langby | Nov 26, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Tiffany Meyer from Dresser Village Library received one of the Growing Wisconsin Readers grants this year 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program that is a collaboration between Dresser and the St. Croix Falls library. The program started on November 1, and they...
by Leah Langby | Nov 21, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Does the well ever run dry? Sometimes, even though we often have more ideas than time to do them, it is really great to have a few new places to look for ideas. Here are a few I came across this week:Library as Incubator had a great post about a new...
by Leah Langby | Nov 14, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
We’ve talked a lot in the past few years about how to make library programs and services more inclusive and accessible for kids on the autism spectrum. And now there is a terrific new resource with very practical ideas about how to make storytimes more...
by Leah Langby | Nov 7, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Wow! I was all set to post some great Halloween photos sent in by a library, but you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see them. Marge Loch-Wouters has a great 2-part post about collection development, with a list of 12 ways you can be a bad...
