All-Ages Fun in Dresser

Tiffany Meyer enlisted some wonderful community experts and partners, along with her own creativity, to make the Summer Library Program in Dresser a great success.  There was a pop-up planetarium, a local herbalist taking kids on a lawn walk to spot common useful...

Teens, Tweens and Social Networking

Thanks to Tessa Michaelson Schmidt for sharing this FREE and RELEVANT webinar opportunity!  If you are planning to attend our excellent workshop about Futureproofing your library that morning, don’t worry if you can’t get back to your library in time,...

Another Local Author!

Eau Claire school librarians are an amazing bunch.  Rebecca Hogue Wojahn, who has written several well-received nonfiction titles for kids, has a new novel, to be published next week!  Malcolm at Midnight looks like a great read for middle grades: Malcolm, a...

Colfax Reaching Out with Technology

Lisa Ludwig, director at the Colfax Public Library, got a grant from Dunn Energy to purchase an iPad and several autism-related apps for it.  She is working with the local parent’s autism support group and the school to promote the iPad.  One of...

Gadgets Gizmos and Goo, Oh My!

I posted this over at the Youth Services Shout-Out Blog (Wisconsin Library Association’s Youth Services Section blog), but it was so great I had to post here, too!There’s a discussion on an ALSC listserv about science programs, and Nicole from the Cheshire...

Meet a Librarian–Deb Nelson

Deb Nelson works in the children’s department at the Menomonie Public Library, and they are lucky to have her there!  Deb’s kind, humorous and dedicated self comes across very well in her answers! How long have you been working at the...

After-Hours Fun

Last week, the Hudson Area Library, in cooperation with the Teen Advisory Board, offered an after-hours Fun and Games Night at the library.  From 6:30-10:00 pm, the 11 TAB volunteers and two adult chaperones kept busy running games, ice-breakers, and more...

Numbering the Stars in Colfax

Charis Collins invited Paul Vernon, a middle school science teacher in Menomonie, to bring his inflatable planetarium to the library in Colfax this summer.  The kids loved hearing about it, and loved going into it even more:Then the participants spent some time...

Roll, Glow and Blow

Centuria had a great summer, with plenty of fun activities.  One of the best days was called Roll Glow and Blow.  Kids made sculptures and spray painted them with glow-in-the-dark paint:They also made some terrific bubble-machines using styrofoam cups,...

Farewell to Elaine

Most librarians in IFLS-land have had a chance to meet the lovely, exuberant, creative and wise Elaine Meyer, youth services librarian at Amery for the past…err…long, long time.  Elaine–after helping shepherd her library through some difficult...

Great New Storytime Music!

Thanks to Jill Patchin at the public library in Eau Claire for this review (the above photo is from a baby storytime at the library, where I’m sure these CDs will come in handy!)We recently got a set of new cds from The LearningGroove.  I found them this...

Performer Raves

Rave reviews from Plum City and Pepin for Dino from Nature’s Niche:Christy says:  “Dino, from Nature’s Niche provided an educational and fun program on the benefits of the rainforest and the importance of protecting it.  To help...