by Leah Langby | Mar 30, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Being a military kid isn’t easy, and the Operation: Military Kids effort in Wisconsin is trying to reach out to libraries to collaborate to provide more resources to kids. It would be a great time to do a program or a display aimed at kids who are affected by a...
by Leah Langby | Mar 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Sometimes Georgia in New Richmond reminds me of my grandfather. Odd, I know. But every time my Grandma Dot would make a pie, no matter what kind, Grandpa Mel would exclaim, “You know Dot, I do believe this is my favorite kind of pie.” Georgia has that kind...
by Leah Langby | Mar 16, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
At the Summer Library Program workshop, Becky Arenivar shared a great idea she used last summer to keep families in Prescott up to date on programs and special events at the library. As part of registration for the SLP, she collects a family email address and...
by Leah Langby | Mar 15, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Here’s a webinar that might be interesting to those of you trying to figure out how to continue to provide quality programs with a dwindling budget. The title makes me a little itchy (corporate sponsorship has some drawbacks), but I think you might get some good...
by Leah Langby | Mar 14, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Kids participating in after school activities in Bloomer used hand prints to help Kathy (the children’s librarian) create a hungry caterpillar collage for the wall in the children’s room. The collage has transformed the room with its colorful presence, and...
by Leah Langby | Mar 6, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Colleen from Menomonie sent the coolest stop-animation video she made to promote her teen program coming up this summer about (you guessed it) stop animation! She is trying to make more videos to promote library programs.She made the stop animation using a free...