by Leah Langby | Sep 16, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you don’t already follow the Wisconsin Library Association’s Youth Services Section Youth Services Shout-Out Blog, I highly recommend starting. A few updates about what is happening in the world of YSS: YSS is planning a Virtual Performer’s...
by Leah Langby | Sep 12, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
On Tuesday, youth services folks from IFLS and Wisconsin Valley Library System libraries had a joint virtual check-in to de-brief summer wins and losses. It was fun to work with my colleague Kristie Hauer from WVLS on this project! We tried a new format, breaking...
by Leah Langby | Aug 30, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Wow, three blog posts in a week?! I guess the webinar More Than Welcome: Libraries Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities was inspiring! Community Awareness and Communication It is important to let families affected by disabilities know they are...
by Leah Langby | Aug 28, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Following up on my last post about the webinar More Than Welcome: Libraries Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities! Today we are covering Programming. Many early childhood experts are very focused on the importance of inclusion instead of offering...
by Leah Langby | Aug 26, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
I had a chance to watch a recorded webinar this afternoon: More Than Welcome: Libraries Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities, which is a culminating project by the University of Kentucky’s Human Development Institute (funded by the Institute for...
by Leah Langby | Aug 13, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Like many of you, I love the content in the Jbrary blog. This blog started as a resource for hundreds of storytime songs, rhymes, and fingerplays. It includes a ton of great resources for people who are new to storytime, along with probing and thoughtful articles...