Charlotte Zolotow Symposium

by | Jun 4, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids

The Charlotte Zolotow Award is given for the most distinguished text in a picture bookWhere can you hear amazing book creators like Angie Thomas, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Candace Fleming, Crescent Dragonwagon, Eric Rohman, and Javaka Steptoe; talk with other librarians...

Free Is Key TEDx Talk

by | May 29, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids

Many people from IFLS-land will remember Dawn Wacek as the library director (and before that, the youth services manager) at the Rice Lake Public Library.  She left our system, but thankfully didn’t leave the state, she is currently the youth services...

Maintaining Equilibrium During Summer

by | May 24, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids

image from PixabayI read a really great blog post on Teen Librarian Toolbox about the Summer Library Program this morning–I highly recommend checking it out.  In it, she talks about how important summer programming is, how good it is to capitalize on...

Make & Take Table in Rice Lake

by | May 22, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids

Many thanks to Erin Hunter from the Rice Lake Public Library for this guest post!Teens, tweens, and young kids all enjoyed making a superhero maskRecently, the Rice Lake Public Library turned a small table in its Youth Services department into a fun space for kids,...