by Leah Langby | Sep 8, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
I’m a huge fan of Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963; Elijah of Buxton, and one of my all-time, top-favorite books in the whole world: Bud, Not Buddy. I was excited to see the Christopher Paul Curtis is coming to...
by Leah Langby | Sep 1, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
We’ve had lots of chances for people to share ideas about what is going well, what your concerns are, what you wish the system could provide in terms of youth services. But here is one more chance for IFLS librarians to respond (please only respond if you work...
by Leah Langby | Aug 31, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Colleen from Menomonie reported a crowd of 21 teens whose parents were willing to drop them off at the library for a Mockingjay release party (more were wishing they could come, and an on-duty police officer who stopped by to pick up a copy of the book for his...
by Leah Langby | Aug 27, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
One of the biggest issues raised at a recent Youth Services Idea Swap was the perennial issue of TIME, and the lack thereof. We discussed the challenges of keeping up with newer media (blogs, facebook pages, flickr, websites), while still staying true to other key...
by Leah Langby | Aug 26, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Part of the IFLS Long Range Plan is to produce some MORE-related materials for youth. This sounds pretty vague, doesn’t it? That’s because we wanted to make sure to leave room for people working with youth to help us decide what format and contentyou would...
by Leah Langby | Aug 25, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Two book-related announcements today:The big day is here! Your teens have been reading the 2010 Teens’ TopTen nominations since last April, and now they can tell us which books are their favorites. Voting for the 2010 Teens’ Top Ten is available -and this...
