by Leah Langby | Apr 12, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Cole Zrostlik wrote recently with the happy news that the St. Croix Falls Public Library has received another national grant! YALSA and Dollar General sponsor a grant to help libraries hire teen interns to help with the Summer Library Program–both to help...
by Leah Langby | Apr 11, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Ashley Bieber, Rice Lake Public Library, for this guest blog post! A couple of months ago I was introduced to an Americorps volunteer that is in town through November. It turns out she was very interested in folk dancing and had taught at a...
by Leah Langby | Apr 8, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Check the YSS Blog for a guest post by our own Colleen Crowley about a Caine’s Arcade-inspired partnership with the Boys and Girls Club. Super Cool!Two kids work on set-up for their cardboard arcade game in Chippewa Falls
by Leah Langby | Apr 4, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
I got a great message from Alisha at the public library in Eau Claire in response to a recent blog post about incentives (THANKS, Alisha!). She’s trying out an exciting new incentive program for the Summer Library Program: I decided to try something new...
by Leah Langby | Apr 1, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Jerissa Christianson, the youth services librarian in Amery, for sharing these fun ideas for jazzing up storytime with a little bit of intrigue! Activities JarWrite out a variety of activities on several small pieces of colored paper. Example activities...
by Leah Langby | Mar 29, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
It’s nice to see one of our own getting some much-deserved recognition. Jenna in Fall Creek manages to put together a truly robust line-up of programming and get quite a bit of media attention for it, too. Like many of you, she manages to do this in...
