by Leah Langby | Nov 5, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
I attended an interesting session at the Wisconsin Library Association Conference about leveraging social media as a Readers’ Advisory tool. Ben Miller from Sauk City Public Library talked about using Pinterest to recommend books, have a virtual...
by Leah Langby | Nov 2, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Common Core State Standards…it’s quite a buzz term. Libraries are increasingly being asked to understand and support them. But what does it all mean?? According to the mission statement of the Common Core State Standard Initiative: “The Common...
by Leah Langby | Nov 1, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
In chatting with Monica at River Falls, I found out about their YA for Adult Book Group. It sounded like such fun, I had to ask a few questions of Monica and Heather, two staffers who work with this book group.What made you decide to do a YA for Adult Book...
by Leah Langby | Oct 31, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
I attended a rousing and inspiring session at the WLA Conference about collaborating effectively with schools. I know this is an area that many of you are looking for help with, and you can look for a webinar and some other initiatives coming up in 2013. ...
by Leah Langby | Oct 30, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Reach Out and Read in action on a military base (part of the program is helping parents understand that it is normal development for babies to interact with books by mouthing them).By now, many of you have heard about the Reach Out and Read initiative, and...
by Leah Langby | Oct 29, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Later this week, look for some insight gleaned from great sessions I attended at the Wisconsin Library Association Conference (it was great to see many of you there!).For now, I want to draw your attention to some heartening news–and a wake-up call about...
