by Leah Langby | Dec 8, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Patti Blount from Durand for forwarding this information to me!Two very popular free programs from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center for teachers and librarians are scheduled to run again this year via the POLYCOM system (available at public...
by Leah Langby | Dec 6, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
You are invited to attend a free webinar entitled, “The Road to CIVILITY: Implementing a Choose Civility Initiative”, on Friday, December 10, from 10 to 11 a.m. Central Time. Led by Howard County Library (MD), it is designed to enhance civility, respect, empathy,...
by Leah Langby | Dec 3, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
This in from Brendan, youth services librarian at Bloomer: At the Bloomer Public Library, I’ve started up a little program called GUYS READ. It’s based on the “movement” of the same name started by popular kids’ author Jon Scieska. The idea behind the initiative is...
by Leah Langby | Dec 2, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Well, I’m not sure I completely agree with that, but library policies are extremely helpful in guiding staff and creating consistency. This came up several times last month at the Youth Services Idea Swap about working with parents and caregivers.Several...
by Leah Langby | Dec 1, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
What a cool way to celebrate Say Cheese Day! Check out what they did in Ellsworth!(the following is an excerpt from an article in the newspaper):”What better way to highlight our library and Say Cheese in Ellsworth than by having kids create cheese sculptures...
by Leah Langby | Nov 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
There are several libraries in our system that have teen book discussion groups. In Park Falls, youth services librarian Matthew White has an active discussion group. Last month, they read The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. After looking high and low for...
