by Leah Langby | Feb 4, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks for bearing with me as I try to figure out the best way to manage the Reading Goals project. I was pleased with the results, but found my form to be a little unwieldy and time-consuming to manage. Hopefully I’ll figure out a way to make this...
by Leah Langby | Jan 30, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Using Bins in BarronThanks to Patti from Barron for this guest post:Barron is using a hybrid approach to shelving their children’s collection, with several subject bins within our picture book area. We decided about the first of the year to do this. We...
by Leah Langby | Jan 27, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Anna in all her gloryEau Claire just had a low-key Frozen Sing-along program on a school’s out day. The really special thing was that we had special guest Princess Anna attend the event. Princess Anna is UWEC student Misty Price. She and her cosplay group have...
by Leah Langby | Jan 26, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
It’s fun to see the list servs alive with results of library’s Mock Newbery, Caldecott, Printz (and other) Award Discussions. It would be fun to do that sometime in our system, wouldn’t it? Maybe some day. In the meantime, someone posted...
by Leah Langby | Jan 23, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Sharon Grover from the Hedberg Public Library in Janesville passed on information about a fascinating article in the New Yorker magazine about Providence Talks, a project in Providence, Rhode Island that attempts to address the word gap (based on the Hart and Risley...
by Leah Langby | Jan 21, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Silly protest signToday I was getting on my winter duds to take my morning dog walk, listening to Wisconsin Public Radio, when I heard something that made me jut my chin and Make Proclamations at my good-humored husband. This happens fairly often when I listen...
