Fine Motor Skills

Young kids need opportunities to develop their fine motor skills.  Many of you incorporate letting kids develop those skills at storytime with art project–kids practice cutting, drawing, painting, picking up small objects, etc.  I found a fun post at...

Teen Resources for the Time-Strapped

Let’s face it, most libraries don’t have someone devoting a lot of time to teen services.  Even the teen librarian in our system’s larges library has dozens of other important non-teen-related duties to attend to. For those of you who are...

Terrific STEM Resource

If you are looking for ways to incorporate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) activities into your programming for kids, here is another great resource!  A Wiki, set up to collect ideas for programs.  The submissions I sampled were great, with...

Storytime Bonanza Follow-Up

I can’t believe I forgot to take photos at the Storytime Bonanza Workshop!  I find I’m always too interested in what is going on to take time to remember things like taking pictures–especially when we have such great presenters as all those IFLS...

SLP Incentives–take 2

I got a great message from Alisha at the public library in Eau Claire in response to a recent blog post about incentives (THANKS, Alisha!).  She’s trying out an exciting new incentive program for the Summer Library Program: I decided to try something new...