by Leah Langby | Jun 21, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Whether you are already planning fall programs and events or you are looking for a few additional activities to make your summer programs pop, don’t forget about the programming kits available to libraries through Lend Items. I’ll be featuring a few of...
by Leah Langby | Jun 20, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
It has been more than a minute since I committed to posting regularly, or at least semi-regularly, on this blog. Sometime during the pandemic, I let it go. Now, as I try to navigate all the giant rivers of information and ideas that are rushing towards me and figure...
by IFLS Staff | Jun 13, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Contents: New Lend Items Kits Scholarships Available to Attend ALSC National Institute Collaborative Summer Library Program—Free Virtual Author Presentations Survey about Teen Anti-Book Ban Programs Return of the Blog New Lend Items Kits Our neighbors and partners the...
by Leah Langby | Mar 7, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Contents: Rethinking Registration webinar YS Check-in Follow-up Book Give Away TeachingBooks for Libraries CCBC Choices Share Your STEM Awesomeness Rethinking Registration webinar Wednesday, March 20, 10-10:30 am Register Do you spend a lot of time creating and...
by Leah Langby | Jan 8, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
There are a few library directors in our system that are authors, and one of them has gone the mainstream publishing route. Shelley Tougas, the director at Hudson, has written several fiction and nonfiction books for middle-graders and now her picture book debut,...
by Leah Langby | Dec 20, 2023 | Keeping Up With Kids
Smokey Bear Reading Challenge Early Literacy Award Book Discussion Teen Internship Grant Opportunity Recommended Books by Indigenous Creators Teen Success in Amery Smokey Bear Reading Challenge The USDA Forest Service is sponsoring a Smokey Bear Reading Challenge in...