by Leah Langby | Dec 10, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image from PixabayMany of you have heard of (or even attended workshops about) Adverse Childhood Experiences and the effects of toxic stress on the long-term physical and mental health of people who experience it as children. If you don’t know what this...
by Leah Langby | Dec 7, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Those of you who have been part of the Wisconsin library scene for a while probably already know about the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference, and you’ll be glad to know that there is a great line-up of 14 webinars for the 2019 Conference. If you are new...
by Leah Langby | Dec 5, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Danielle Welch, Programming Specialist at the Prescott Public Library for this guest post. Danielle is one of the IFLS 2018 WLA Conference Scholarship recipients.A few pieces of advice for anyone interested in attending a WLA conference. First,...
by Leah Langby | Nov 28, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image source: Pixabay I’ve been thinking about pronouns lately. It goes with thinking about how to make things like workshops, conferences, and library programming more welcoming, inclusive, and healthy for everyone, particularly trans people. People...
by Leah Langby | Nov 26, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image source: PixabayThis weekend, Morning Edition featured a crowd-sourced poem featuring things about America that people are thankful for. The remarkable Kwame Alexander took submissions and turned them into a beautiful poem. And guess what? ...
by Leah Langby | Nov 20, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image from pixabayNovember can be kind of a gloomy month, and I tend to spend the hours of 3:30-5:30 pm feeling vaguely anxious because it seems wrong for it to be getting dark so early. Whatever I might think about the origins of Thanksgiving, I truly...
