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...
by Leah Langby | Apr 30, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Today I had an illuminating experience when dropping my daughter off at school. She was carrying gobs of extra stuff today, plus it was raining so she asked if I would drop her off near the door in the crazy-busy parking lot. Being a pushover, I said yes.As I waited...
by Leah Langby | Apr 26, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
WLA members and prospective library school students are eligible to apply for the scholarships for library education and library continuing education sponsored by the Wisconsin Library Association Foundation. The six scholarships are funded by the WLA Foundation...
by Leah Langby | Apr 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Ooops. I just spent longer than I meant to exploring the author programs on TeachingBooks.net. I didn’t mean to, but I devoured an interview with Lois Lowry and then gobbled up an author’s readers theatre of Love That Dog (by Sharon Creech), read by Sharon...
