by Leah Langby | Jul 30, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image source: PixabayJust a last reminder: it’s not too late to consider submitting a proposal to the Power Up Conference, to be held in Madison March 28-29, 2019. This will be the second time the iSchool-sponsored conference on youth services...
by Leah Langby | Jul 24, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo by Julian Lozano on UnsplashPhoto by Julian Lozano on UnsplashChristy from Pepin recently shared a fun idea for a challenge for kids in the library. The goal: have a 3 minute conversation with library staff without...
by Leah Langby | Jul 19, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Save the date for the annual Youth Services Workshop–November 8 from 9:30-3:30 at the Chippewa Valley Technical College’s Energy Education Center in Eau Claire.Join us for a wonderful day of swapping ideas and thinking deeply about youth services, with...
by Leah Langby | Jul 9, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
School Library Journal has a FREE virtual conference, with presentations by authors that are getting quite a bit of buzz, and sessions about serving teens. August 15, you can do it from your desk (“Ha!” they all say, “Imagine having time to sit...
by Leah Langby | Jun 28, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reading a book that has helped me think and process and move my own needle a little bit as I am considering my own behavior and ideas around race. I HIGHLY recommend So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo. The six...
by Leah Langby | Jun 27, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image credit: PixabayMany libraries in IFLS-land have a terrific 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program, encouraging families to read together as much as possible before school starts. It’s a fun way to promote this, and a few years ago IFLS joined...
