by Leah Langby | Mar 15, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Here’s a webinar that might be interesting to those of you trying to figure out how to continue to provide quality programs with a dwindling budget. The title makes me a little itchy (corporate sponsorship has some drawbacks), but I think you might get some good...
by Leah Langby | Mar 14, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Kids participating in after school activities in Bloomer used hand prints to help Kathy (the children’s librarian) create a hungry caterpillar collage for the wall in the children’s room. The collage has transformed the room with its colorful presence, and...
by Leah Langby | Mar 6, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Colleen from Menomonie sent the coolest stop-animation video she made to promote her teen program coming up this summer about (you guessed it) stop animation! She is trying to make more videos to promote library programs.She made the stop animation using a free...
by Leah Langby | Feb 28, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
(photo from flickr, erin m, Florida Supercon)YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association) has named a top ten list of graphic novels for teens. How many are in your collection? What do the teens in your library...
by Leah Langby | Feb 27, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Here is a collection of decoration ideas from the summer library program workshop:If you want to have a picture (of an astronaut or some other night-time related person or animal) with a face cut out for photo opportunities and general silliness, someone suggested...
by Leah Langby | Feb 23, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
Children’s Book Week is coming up, May 7-13. Encourage kids to read the books nominated for the Children’s Choice award, and then VOTE, starting March 14!2012 Digital Toolkit is another resource, featuring everything you need to help spread the...
