by Leah Langby | Apr 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Jenny from Colfax for this post!This last Monday we had a teen trivia event after school with popcorn, pop, pretzels and cookies for snacks. We had a small turn out of seven but still had lots of fun. We used the game Trivial Pursuit Team. I was the quizzer...
by Leah Langby | Apr 15, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten nominations are here! This is the only booklist voted on and decided entirely by teens. Download all 25 and encourage your teens to start reading them so they’re prepared for the national vote, which will take place from August to...
by Leah Langby | Apr 15, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Georgia Jones, who sent in this submission about a special event she hosted recently to celebrate Addy, the American Girl character. She also blogged about this event on her blog: http://comeintodelight.blogspot.com/, so go there for more photos and fun!...
by Leah Langby | Apr 13, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Budget cuts in school districts lead to some bad situations for school libraries–and the students and teachers who use them. This amazing letter by a first grader in Bloomington, Indiana was published in The Herald Times on April 6, and reprinted in a post to...
by Leah Langby | Apr 13, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
While you have been scrambling around getting ready for this year’s SLP, the Collaborative Summer Library Program committee have been meeting to determine upcoming themes. Sometimes it is nice to have those themes percolating in the back of your head, so here is...
by Leah Langby | Apr 13, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Brendan McCarty, the new youth services librarian at Bloomer, sent this note:Here is a relevant article I found about teen “misbehavior” at a suburban Milwaukee (Wauwatosa) library. I think it’s a useful article because, even though most libraries in our area don’t...
by Leah Langby | Apr 12, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Georgia Jones for helping to create this list of booklist sites! These will help with readers’ advisory! Kent District Library has a tool: https://ww2.kdl.org/ The Cooperative Children’s Book Center has subject bibliographies about a variety of...
by Leah Langby | Apr 12, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
April 28’s workshop will feature some of the most fabulous presenters in the Midwest! Grab your chance to examine books selected by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center as the best of 2009, and then listen to the smart folks from the CCBC talk about...
by Leah Langby | Apr 12, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Did you ever have a program that did NOT work? A movie program with a broken projector? Hundreds of people for a performer who didn’t show up? An idea that seemed great when you thought about it, but wasn’t so great once you had forty kids running around...
by Leah Langby | Apr 12, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks so much to Marcia Sarnowski from Winding Rivers Library System for sending this excellent resource along! Many of you use the Starred Reviews I send out each month. Elizabeth Bluemle blogs for Publishers Weekly, and she has compiled a list of books that have...
by Leah Langby | Apr 7, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Shelly Collins-Fuerbringer from L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire for this terrific compilation of bibliographies, available from their website. The bibliographies are updated every year, and include everything from suggestions for good...
