by Leah Langby | Nov 18, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Do you get questions from parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other adults about good books to give as gifts? How can you harness this curiosity to spreading the word about some of your favorites?Some libraries create lists and displays to distribute at the...
by Leah Langby | Nov 15, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Shelly and Julie from Ellsworth have a very popular American Girl Book Club in Ellsworth, it brings in 40-plus girls grades K-5 every month: We’re celebrating our 5th year of hosting our wildly popular American Girl Book Club. This year we are having adventures...
by Leah Langby | Nov 12, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
We had a lively discussion at today’s youth services idea swap about parents and caregivers. Some things we discussed included: Correcting children’s behavior in front of parents–how to handle if it if parents are offended, what to do if parents...
by Leah Langby | Nov 11, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Two IFLS librarians are having fun with gross things, and so are the kids they serve!Jenna Gilles, youth services librarian at the Fall Creek Public Library had a Grossology 101 program last month which was attended by 58 people. That’s almost 5% of the entire...
by Leah Langby | Nov 10, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Teens at a 2008 special event at the New Richmond Public LibraryNew books in the IFLS collection–contact Leah if you want to borrow them (they aren’t catalogued yet!):Risky Business: Taking and Managing Risks in Library Services for Teens. By Linda W....
by Leah Langby | Nov 9, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Clip art from this year’s Collaborative Summer Library Program ManualMark your calendars, the Summer Library Program Workshop is coming on February 11 at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Menomonie. If time is going as freakishly fast for you as it is for...
