by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
What a great idea for a program. At Menomonie Public Library’s regularly scheduled storytime, they had a super-cool visitor a few weeks ago–a school bus! Says Debbie, The 17 boys and 3 girls loved their “field trip” (to the parking lot where thebus was...
by Leah Langby | Apr 30, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Today I had an illuminating experience when dropping my daughter off at school. She was carrying gobs of extra stuff today, plus it was raining so she asked if I would drop her off near the door in the crazy-busy parking lot. Being a pushover, I said yes.As I waited...
by Leah Langby | Apr 26, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
WLA members and prospective library school students are eligible to apply for the scholarships for library education and library continuing education sponsored by the Wisconsin Library Association Foundation. The six scholarships are funded by the WLA Foundation...
by Leah Langby | Apr 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
There are several libraries in our system that have had very successful book discussion groups for teens. If you are thinking of doing something like this, there are a few resources right here in western Wisconsin for you to consider!Susan Pesheck from River Falls has...
by Leah Langby | Apr 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Shelly from L.E. Phillips for this toe-tapping contribution:I went to a music session at PLA called Move-n-Groove: Making Music Meaningful. The presenters gave a list of some of their favorite songs to use in storytime. They had a ton of fun presenting the...
by Leah Langby | Apr 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Jenny from Colfax for this post!This last Monday we had a teen trivia event after school with popcorn, pop, pretzels and cookies for snacks. We had a small turn out of seven but still had lots of fun. We used the game Trivial Pursuit Team. I was the quizzer...
