by Leah Langby | Jul 16, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
One of the things Dr. Robert Nix talked about during his workshop on Brief Interventions was research his colleague Markus Brauer is doing about discrimination and prejudice in an area called Intergroup Perception. In a recent study he did, he found that white...
by Leah Langby | Jul 15, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Is your summer reading program surpassing all expectations? Are you implementing a new service model and seeking feedback? Would you like to share out a successful initiative but avoid public speaking? The poster session at the WLA fall conference is for you! WLA...
by Leah Langby | Jul 12, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
According to 2017 data from the Institute for Research on Poverty, Eau Claire and Chippewa Counties are two of the three counties in the state that have a higher rate of child poverty than the rest of the state. Yikes! What is happening? To learn more, I’m...
by Leah Langby | Jul 10, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Act 31 requires all students and teachers in Wisconsin to receive instruction on the history, culture, and tribal soverignty of the American Indian nations and tribal communities in Wisconsin. Public libraries need to have materials that support this work for a...
by Leah Langby | Jul 9, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
The WLA Conference Committee wants you to share examples of how your library strives to include everyone in your library space, programming, and services. Submit your photos and descriptions here. The images and ideas will be used for displays at...
by Leah Langby | Jul 8, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image by Michael Gaida from Pixabay I mentioned earlier that I attended a workshop in June about Using Brief Interventions with Families with Dr. Robert Nix of UW-Madison. One of the things he highlighted was the effect that a simple prompt can have on...
by Leah Langby | Jul 5, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Credit: Huyck, David and Sarah Park Dahlen. (2019 June 19). Diversity in Children’s Books 2018. sarahpark.com blog. Created in consultation with Edith Campbell, Molly Beth Griffin, K. T. Horning, Debbie Reese, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, and...
by Leah Langby | Jun 25, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo by jonas mohamadi from PexelsWell, last week whipped by while I was busy doing other things and I didn’t keep up with my excellent goals about blogging every single week. I’m sure most of you are too busy to be reading much in...
by Leah Langby | Jun 11, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay I came across an article from the Harvard Business Review about How to Get Through an Extremely Busy Time at Work and thought immediately of all you wonderful peeps out there in the thick of kicking off your summer programming....
by Leah Langby | Jun 6, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
A few weeks back, I put out a call for cool SLP promotion/ideas. I heard from 4 libraries with great info about their SLP (and beyond!). If you have stuff to share, I’d love to hear about it! Barron is having a Summer Reading Program Launch on June...
by Leah Langby | Jun 5, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Healing Library is a company that creates kits for purchase to help families process a traumatic event or situation. They have made resources (activity sheets, discussion points, booklists, and more) available for free so that libraries can create and customize their...
by Leah Langby | Jun 3, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Pew Research Center has a new survey report out about the way teens and parents view screen time. I read the overview , and here are a few things I thought were interesting: More than half of parents feel like teens are distracted from in-person...
