by Leah Langby | Jan 9, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Don’t forget to check out the following sessions at the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference! There are many others that would be of use to a general audience, but these Wednesday sessions may be of particular interest to librarians serving youth!Wednesday...
by Leah Langby | Jan 6, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
At our Summer Library Program workshop, one of the groups that librarians felt they had a hard time reaching is tweens (3rd-7th graders or so). I found a few good resources for people who are feeling like this is a gap for them:Five Lessons in Tween...
by Leah Langby | Jan 3, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Sam Carpenter at LEPMPL for this guest post! Those of you who came to the Sure-fire Teen Programs presentation at the SLP workshop in November might remember Ashley Bieber, the teen coordinator at LEPMPL, talking about an upcoming Escape the Room program....
by Leah Langby | Dec 16, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
The final big trend to discuss from the SLP workshop responses to making the Summer Library Program easier: Simplification.Several people talked about looking at programs and simplifying them. Many talked about looking at record-keeping and simplifying it....
by Leah Langby | Dec 14, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
We need to spread the word that the earliest weeks matter!Many thanks to Saroj Ghoting, Early Literacy Consultant (and popular workshop presenter) for pointing out the interesting results of a Zero to Three parent survey. Major points are summarized here, and...
by Leah Langby | Dec 6, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
Asking for help should be easier and more pleasant than a giant dose of castor oil!Moving on from the things that people HATE about the Summer Library Program, and moving on to the things that people thought they might be able to do to make their SLP easier. A...
