by Leah Langby | Dec 7, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
I’m doing blog double-duty this month, collecting and posting content on the YSS Blog (Youth Services Shout-Out). IFLS librarians have been very helpful in providing me with some content (yayy!)Here’s a round-up of recent posts by IFLS...
by Leah Langby | Dec 5, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Cole, the youth services librarian in St. Croix Falls, has been working with a teen who is passionate about anime and manga to create an Otaku Club. What a cool way to support a teen! Here’s what she says about it:The key to our Otaku/Anime Club has...
by Leah Langby | Dec 3, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Kathy Larson, the children’s librarian at the G. E. Bleskacek Public Library in Bloomer, has a new blog! So far, it’s only 2 posts long, but it looks like it is going to be a good one. Find out about the parallels and differences between being...
by Leah Langby | Nov 28, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
2013 is the first year Wisconsin will participate in the Collaborative Summer Library Program(CSLP) Teen Video Challenge. There are cash prizes, both for the winning entry’s creator and the library they use! Instead of simply putting up a flyer in...
by Leah Langby | Nov 26, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Ashley BieberThe Wisconsin Library Association’s We-Lead Initiative chose their latest group of participants well. We know this because half of the new protégés are librarians from IFLS libraries. Not only are we home-region proud, we also know that...
by Leah Langby | Nov 16, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
One of the sessions I attended at the WLA Conference this fall was all about resources available to help public libraries make the college application and financial aid maze easier for students. While many of the resources are specifically designed to help...