by Leah Langby | Jun 3, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Pew Research Center has a new survey report out about the way teens and parents view screen time. I read the overview , and here are a few things I thought were interesting: More than half of parents feel like teens are distracted from in-person...
by Leah Langby | May 30, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
I read a short piece in the Atlantic about how public libraries often act as Second Responders. Like when there is a natural disaster, and the library provides resources to help folks figure out where to look for help, or goes to a shelter to provide storytimes or...
by Leah Langby | May 28, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
I found out about this game, Spoilers!, from an ALSC listserv. It was developed by Kendra Wright, formerly at the Sno-Isle Library System in the state of Washington. Though this game requires library staff to commit to reading a lot of middle-grade books, it sure...
by Leah Langby | May 21, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay Do you advertise your library programs and services in the laundromat? It’s a place where people, often families, spend a fair amount of time waiting. If you aren’t already advertising your...
by Leah Langby | May 14, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image by emmabeyjd from Pixabay The Cardigan Newsletter is a monthly e-newsletter for children’s librarians, written by Allie Barton and Katherine Hickey, two youth services librarians from Oklahoma. Each issue has sections...
by Leah Langby | May 13, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay I’ve been hearing a lot about Diversity Audits as a way of critically examining a collection to determine how well it represents typically under-represented groups. Karen Jensen at the Teen Librarian’s Toolbox has some...
