by Leah Langby | May 7, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Okay, after scratching my brow and consulting some more tech-savvy people in the IFLS office, I realize that I spoke too soon in promising the copies of the Summer Library Program video public service announcements. We haven’t figured out how to do it yet. On a...
by Leah Langby | May 6, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you are looking for an easy way to promote your Summer Library Program, you might be interested in a DVD of a Public Service Announcement that can be played on local television stations, at your library, and possibly at the school. The videos are aimed at kids and...
by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
We just received a note from a mother who brought up a simple idea that would help her and her family enjoy the library more. She has a 3 year old who can’t reach the sinks in the restroom, so his mom needs to hold him up to the sink, and try to wash his hands...
by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
This week marks the inaugural Choose Privacy Week, a celebration of our right to privacy and an opportunity to engage libraries, librarians, and the general public about the importance of this issue in our increasingly public world. Sponsored by the ALA Office for...
by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Hollis Helmeci, the new director at the Rusk County Library in Ladysmith, for this information. The authors of an upcoming ALA Publications book, True Stories of Censorship Battles in American Libraries are collecting stories for their book. If you have had...
by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Imagine being in a room filled with the best books written for children and teens in the past year, and people talking excitedly about them. If you were at the IFLS/CESA 10 Great Books workshop last week, you know how fun that can be! We had an entertaining...
by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
What a great idea for a program. At Menomonie Public Library’s regularly scheduled storytime, they had a super-cool visitor a few weeks ago–a school bus! Says Debbie, The 17 boys and 3 girls loved their “field trip” (to the parking lot where thebus was...
by Leah Langby | Apr 30, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Today I had an illuminating experience when dropping my daughter off at school. She was carrying gobs of extra stuff today, plus it was raining so she asked if I would drop her off near the door in the crazy-busy parking lot. Being a pushover, I said yes.As I waited...
by Leah Langby | Apr 26, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
WLA members and prospective library school students are eligible to apply for the scholarships for library education and library continuing education sponsored by the Wisconsin Library Association Foundation. The six scholarships are funded by the WLA Foundation...
by Leah Langby | Apr 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Ooops. I just spent longer than I meant to exploring the author programs on TeachingBooks.net. I didn’t mean to, but I devoured an interview with Lois Lowry and then gobbled up an author’s readers theatre of Love That Dog (by Sharon Creech), read by Sharon...
by Leah Langby | Apr 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
There are several libraries in our system that have had very successful book discussion groups for teens. If you are thinking of doing something like this, there are a few resources right here in western Wisconsin for you to consider!Susan Pesheck from River Falls has...
by Leah Langby | Apr 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Shelly from L.E. Phillips for this toe-tapping contribution:I went to a music session at PLA called Move-n-Groove: Making Music Meaningful. The presenters gave a list of some of their favorite songs to use in storytime. They had a ton of fun presenting the...
