by Leah Langby | Feb 14, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Innaugural Meeting of the Lego Club in Eau Claire!Thanks to Alisha Green from the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire for sending in description and photos from a terrific, easy-to-reproduce, and fun program!How many kids came? Around 22 kids came...
by Leah Langby | Feb 7, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
This summer, there are amazing opportunities for storytelling at your library, and with a theme like One World, Many Stories, what better time to start doing some participatory storytelling??Marge Loch-Wouters, who some of you have enjoyed seeing at workshops over the...
by Leah Langby | Feb 3, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
The DPI seeks sponsors to provide free meals to economically disadvantaged children as part of the Summer Food Service Program. “Almost 40 percent of our students qualify for free or reduced-price meals during the school year. The increasing number of economically...
by Leah Langby | Jan 26, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to an LSTA grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, we got some great new books for the IFLS professional collection. If you want to borrow them, you can do so via the staff side of the MORE catalog. If you aren’t on MORE, contact me or...
by Leah Langby | Jan 25, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
image from flickr, hcplebranch,boy playing with tangrams at storytimeThe Vermont Center for the Book has come up with some resources to help librarians incorporate math and science ideas and concepts into their storytimes called What’s the Big Idea. How fun is...
by Leah Langby | Jan 21, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Jo at the Phillips Public Library for this list of dates you might want to remember with displays or programs at your library: March 2 Read Across America6-12 Teen Tech WeekAprilPoetry month2 International Children’s Book Day10 National Library Week12...
