Blogs
Keeping Up With Kids is Leah Langby’s long-running popular blog. She delves into subjects related to Youth Services from many different angles.
IFLS Youth Services Check-in Follow-up: Circulating Kits
We talked about circulating kits at the latest IFLS Youth Services Check-In. Here are some things we covered: STEM KITS, which include resources...
January 21 2022 IFLS Youth Services Updates
(also sent as an email to the IFLS youth services list) Performers PLEASE NOTE: Performer resources listed here are intended for IFLS librarians. ...
Early Literacy Requires Family Engagement
Last week I got a few reminders about the importance and delight of engaging with and supporting families with young children for a multitude...
Resources for Serving Underserved Communities from ALSC
The Association for Library Service to Children's Library Service to Underserved Children and Caregivers committee has created some practical...
Weekly Digest is a compilation of the best information that crosses our desks at IFLS. Edited by Rebecca Kilde, so if you’d like something to appear in Weekly Digest, send it to kilde@ifls.lib.wi.us with Weekly Digest in the subject line. Posts are deleted after six months.
Weekly Digest Extra: Beanstack
Missed one! What you need to know about this year’s Beanstack If you are a library that has used Beanstack in the past, you should have received...
Weekly Digest: new advocacy center, Together We Read, leadership institute and the regular news and helpful resources
ARSL Advocacy Center Build your advocacy muscles with the new ARSL Advocacy Center! Built and maintained by the ARSL Advocacy Committee, our...
Weekly Digest: snow day! grant, program tracker help, new and coming soon
$$$ opportunity closing Feb 28 Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities will offer more than $7 million in grants...
Weekly Digest: Bins needed, events coming up, Bad Graph contest winners
Bins needed at Waltco! The Waltco terminal is running very low on empty bins. Libraries with an abundance of empties are encouraged to send them to...
Storytime Tips for Engaging with Parents
Like many of you, I love the content in the Jbrary blog. This blog started as a resource for hundreds of storytime songs, rhymes, and fingerplays. ...
Weekly Digest: IFLS survey, Tip Jar, new directors, Trustee Training Week and Tech Days and 3 more not-to-miss news items
Request from John Thompson This is for everybody at your library: directors, library staff, and board members (directors please share with your...
Weekly Digest: Flexible Facilities press release, BIPOC unconference call for committee members, in case you missed TWAM, poster, events coming up
Flexible Facilities press release (from John) The DOA release a press release on Friday. Madison, Wis. - The Wisconsin Department of...
Wisconsin Teens in a Mental Health Crisis
Nearly 60 percent of Wisconsin high school students reported at least one mental health challenge in the 2023 Youth Risky Behaviors Survey. Only...