by Leah Langby | Jun 11, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay I came across an article from the Harvard Business Review about How to Get Through an Extremely Busy Time at Work and thought immediately of all you wonderful peeps out there in the thick of kicking off your summer programming....
by Leah Langby | Jun 6, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
A few weeks back, I put out a call for cool SLP promotion/ideas. I heard from 4 libraries with great info about their SLP (and beyond!). If you have stuff to share, I’d love to hear about it! Barron is having a Summer Reading Program Launch on June...
by Leah Langby | Jun 5, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Healing Library is a company that creates kits for purchase to help families process a traumatic event or situation. They have made resources (activity sheets, discussion points, booklists, and more) available for free so that libraries can create and customize their...
by Leah Langby | Jun 3, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Pew Research Center has a new survey report out about the way teens and parents view screen time. I read the overview , and here are a few things I thought were interesting: More than half of parents feel like teens are distracted from in-person...
by Leah Langby | May 30, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
I read a short piece in the Atlantic about how public libraries often act as Second Responders. Like when there is a natural disaster, and the library provides resources to help folks figure out where to look for help, or goes to a shelter to provide storytimes or...
by Leah Langby | May 28, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
I found out about this game, Spoilers!, from an ALSC listserv. It was developed by Kendra Wright, formerly at the Sno-Isle Library System in the state of Washington. Though this game requires library staff to commit to reading a lot of middle-grade books, it sure...