by Leah Langby | Apr 13, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
While you have been scrambling around getting ready for this year’s SLP, the Collaborative Summer Library Program committee have been meeting to determine upcoming themes. Sometimes it is nice to have those themes percolating in the back of your head, so here is...
by Leah Langby | Apr 13, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Brendan McCarty, the new youth services librarian at Bloomer, sent this note:Here is a relevant article I found about teen “misbehavior” at a suburban Milwaukee (Wauwatosa) library. I think it’s a useful article because, even though most libraries in our area don’t...
by Leah Langby | Apr 12, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Georgia Jones for helping to create this list of booklist sites! These will help with readers’ advisory! Kent District Library has a tool: https://ww2.kdl.org/ The Cooperative Children’s Book Center has subject bibliographies about a variety of...
by Leah Langby | Apr 12, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
April 28’s workshop will feature some of the most fabulous presenters in the Midwest! Grab your chance to examine books selected by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center as the best of 2009, and then listen to the smart folks from the CCBC talk about...
by Leah Langby | Apr 12, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Did you ever have a program that did NOT work? A movie program with a broken projector? Hundreds of people for a performer who didn’t show up? An idea that seemed great when you thought about it, but wasn’t so great once you had forty kids running around...
by Leah Langby | Apr 12, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks so much to Marcia Sarnowski from Winding Rivers Library System for sending this excellent resource along! Many of you use the Starred Reviews I send out each month. Elizabeth Bluemle blogs for Publishers Weekly, and she has compiled a list of books that have...
