by Leah Langby | Apr 6, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
from PixabayI’m still reeling from the terrific Power Up conference I attended last week, but then I had the chance to attend the Eau Claire B.R.A.I.N. Team Annual Conference yesterday, and I’m blown away again!One of the speakers, Mark Sweet, is a...
by Leah Langby | Apr 3, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Last week, I attended Power Up: A Conference in Leadership for Youth Services Managers and Staff. Woah! Lots of big ideas and smart people and great connections and things to think about! Look for more about this conference coming out over the...
by Leah Langby | Mar 29, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Stanford University has come out with a free online course to help people learn about gender identity issues, particularly with regard to children. Wow! What a great resource! It consists of several short videos made up of conversations with...
by Leah Langby | Mar 28, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
The Milky Way (Pixabay)Thank you to Claire Parrish at Rice Lake Public Library for letting me know about STAR-Net: Science Technology Resources for Libraries. This website, provided by The Space Science Institute’s National Center for Interactive...
by Leah Langby | Mar 27, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Transformation’s coming! (from Pixabay)I’m so excited! Since 2013, odd-numbered years have a special transformative quality for 25 lucky library staff who work with youth in Wisconsin. That’s because every other year, there is a...
by Leah Langby | Mar 24, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
According to an article in Cosmopolitan Magazine, the Institute for Museum and Library Services accounted for 0.00006 percent of the federal budget in 2016. Yet this institution provides crucial infrastructure to Wisconsin libraries, along with funding to pursue...
