by Leah Langby | Apr 15, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten nominations are here! This is the only booklist voted on and decided entirely by teens. Download all 25 and encourage your teens to start reading them so they’re prepared for the national vote, which will take place from August to...
by Leah Langby | Apr 15, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Georgia Jones, who sent in this submission about a special event she hosted recently to celebrate Addy, the American Girl character. She also blogged about this event on her blog: http://comeintodelight.blogspot.com/, so go there for more photos and fun!...
by Leah Langby | Apr 13, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Budget cuts in school districts lead to some bad situations for school libraries–and the students and teachers who use them. This amazing letter by a first grader in Bloomington, Indiana was published in The Herald Times on April 6, and reprinted in a post to...
by Leah Langby | Apr 13, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
While you have been scrambling around getting ready for this year’s SLP, the Collaborative Summer Library Program committee have been meeting to determine upcoming themes. Sometimes it is nice to have those themes percolating in the back of your head, so here is...
by Leah Langby | Apr 13, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Brendan McCarty, the new youth services librarian at Bloomer, sent this note:Here is a relevant article I found about teen “misbehavior” at a suburban Milwaukee (Wauwatosa) library. I think it’s a useful article because, even though most libraries in our area don’t...
by Leah Langby | Apr 12, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Georgia Jones for helping to create this list of booklist sites! These will help with readers’ advisory! http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/series/juv/title.cfm Mid-Continent Public Library’s list of children’s series and sequels...
