by Leah Langby | May 13, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
I attended a meeting of system consultants trying to help their libraries serve traditionally underserved populations last week. It’s always a treat to get together with other people who do your job, especially when those people are smart, thoughtful,...
by Leah Langby | May 9, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Do you ever struggle, as a youth services librarian, to communicate the importance of youth services to your managers? Most libraries in this reason do a terrific job of valuing their youth services (programs, collections, outreach and more) and the librarians...
by Leah Langby | May 7, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
One of the things that would make all of our jobs easier is a little extra cash, and people are looking for outside sources of funding for projects and day-to-day operations, particularly when local funding is is short supply.Grant-writing is one great way to...
by Leah Langby | May 6, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you need to do some advocacy to support the importance of youth services programming, materials, and staff, a new study from the Pew Research Center gives you some great statistics to quote! Here’s one: Almost every parent (97%) feels it is...
by Leah Langby | May 3, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Becky Arenivar from Prescott Public Library for this inspiring guest post! I’m always on a quest to engage kids and families who come to the library, but don’t attend events or Storytime. It would be great to get them to come to events and...
by Leah Langby | Apr 22, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
In case you don’t have the Youth Services Shout-Out (WLA’s Youth Services Section blog) on your regular list of blogs to read: 1. You should consider adding it to your list–lots of great information and inspiration there! 2. Check out the great...
