by Leah Langby | Jul 26, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Patti Blount is the director at the Durand Community Library, one of the few public/school combination libraries in the state. How long have you been at the Durand Public Library? What did you do before that? I have been director of the Durand Public...
by Leah Langby | Jul 25, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Marge Loch Wouters over at Tiny Tips for Library Fun for the suggestion of checking out Ten Favorite Baby Storytime Plans from Melissa Depper’s Mel’s Desk blog. Mel’s Desk has all sorts of other excellent posts about storytime for the...
by Leah Langby | Jul 23, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Registration is now open for International Games Day @ Your Library, which will take place Saturday, November 3. International Games Day @ Your Library is a celebration of communities coming together to play at the library, and includes chances for libraries to...
by Leah Langby | Jul 20, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Becky Arenivar is the Program Librarian at the Prescott Public Library. She is one of IFLS’s trainers for The Wakanheza Project, she’s running for the board of directors for the Youth Services Section of the Wisconsin Library Association, and...
by Leah Langby | Jul 19, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Cole Zrostlik, youth services librarian at both St. Croix Falls and Milltown, has received an Ezra Jack Keats mini-grant for the St. Croix Falls Public Library. The Ezra Jack Keats mini-grants are $500 grants for projects that “foster creative expression,...
by Leah Langby | Jul 17, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
I had a great talk with Mary Davis from the Hudson Area Joint Library yesterday. Last year, they had a disappointing turnout for the expensive performers they hired, and this year she decided to hire fewer performers and look to volunteers to provide special...
by Leah Langby | Jul 16, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
I was recently asked to contribute a list of names of folks who might be a good fit for the Youth Services Section board of the Wisconsin Library Association. Well–you all know that this region boasts an unusually large number of fabulous librarians who...
by Leah Langby | Jul 11, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Cathy Lefevre is the library director at Sand Creek. The transformation she has managed to bring about in Sand Creek in the past 5 years, with the support and help of her community and her talented husband, has been astonishing! Read on, and get...
by Leah Langby | Jul 10, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
YA Novel Bluefish by Pat Schmatz Wins 2012 Burr/Worzalla Award Young Adult novel, Bluefish, written by Wisconsin native Pat Schmatz and published by Candlewick Press, has won the 2012 Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award. The Children’s Book Award Committee of the...
by Leah Langby | Jul 9, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Kris Farley had barely taken the reigns as youth services librarian in Ladysmith before her first big program–a special family storytime during Money Smart Week. The library received free copies of The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Commercials from...
by Leah Langby | Jul 6, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Free Webjunction Webinar:Grant funding is one way to find resources to support innovative programming and services for children. In this webinar, learn about finding, writing, and submitting grant opportunities. Presenters Dr. Sue C. Kimmel, Assistant Professor, and...
by Leah Langby | Jul 5, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
From YALSA: YALSA (Young Adult Library Service Association) has new National Teen Space Guidelines for Public Libraries. Download them for free at: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/guidelines/teenspaces. This is a tool for evaluating a public...
