March 7 YS Round-UP

Contents: Rethinking Registration webinar YS Check-in Follow-up Book Give Away TeachingBooks for Libraries CCBC Choices Share Your STEM Awesomeness Rethinking Registration webinar Wednesday, March 20, 10-10:30 am  Register Do you spend a lot of time creating and...
An Author in Our Midst

An Author in Our Midst

There are a few library directors in our system that are authors, and one of them has gone the mainstream publishing route.  Shelley Tougas, the director at Hudson, has written several fiction and nonfiction books for middle-graders and now her picture book debut,...

Youth Services Round-Up December 20 2023

Smokey Bear Reading Challenge Early Literacy Award Book Discussion Teen Internship Grant Opportunity Recommended Books by Indigenous Creators Teen Success in Amery Smokey Bear Reading Challenge The USDA Forest Service is sponsoring a Smokey Bear Reading Challenge in...

Youth Services Round-Up December 6, 2023

CONTENTS: Mark your calendars Freedom to Read/Program Resources Summer Library Program Resource Reminders Accu-Cut Reminder and NEW DIES Get More News MARK YOUR CALENDARS for these Youth Services learning opportunities. More details in 2024! April 17, 9:30-3:30  Youth...

Youth Services Round-Up November 15 2023

Reminder:  Youth Services Check-In, November 29 at 2 pm Topic:  Beyond Readers Advisory.  We’ll talk about resources and ideas for recommending games, toys, kits, videos, music, apps and more.  What resources do you like?  What kind of questions stump you?  How do you...

End of October Round-Up

Welcome to chilly weather!  There are some things coming up in November that should warm you up, and some other information to share.  I’ll post a version of this on the Youth Services Blog as well.  Here we go: Youth Services Check-in November 29Free Webinars SLP...

Youth Services Round Up

Check-In Our first virtual youth services check-in of the fall will be on September 21 at 2:00 pm.    I hope to see some of you there!  I’ll send a reminder with meeting info on the 21st.  Come ready to discuss: Something you learned (the easy way or the hard way!)...

Teens and Mental Health

The Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) had some sobering statistics about teen mental health, including that: More than half of all students self-reported “significant problems with anxiety,” with 80.5 percent of students who identify as lesbian, gay, or...

Periodic Resource and Reminder Round-Up

  WEIGH IN ON UPCOMING YOUTH SERVICES CHECK-INS We really want to make Youth Services Check-Ins work for YOU.  If you are at all interested in checking in with other YS library workers, please take 5 minutes (tops!) to fill out this survey by April 28.  BEANSTACK...