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...
