SLP Workshop Follow-up: Teens Part 1

Penny Johnson from Baraboo was our featured presenter talking about engaging promotions and programs for teens.  She had some inspiring things to say to start us off.  The 40 Developmental Assets for Adolescents, created and studied by the Search Institute have been...

Video Contest

2013 is the first year Wisconsin will participate in the Collaborative Summer Library Program(CSLP) Teen Video Challenge.  There are cash prizes, both for the winning entry’s creator and the library they use!  Instead of simply putting up a flyer in...

All-Ages Fun in Dresser

Tiffany Meyer enlisted some wonderful community experts and partners, along with her own creativity, to make the Summer Library Program in Dresser a great success.  There was a pop-up planetarium, a local herbalist taking kids on a lawn walk to spot common useful...

Numbering the Stars in Colfax

Charis Collins invited Paul Vernon, a middle school science teacher in Menomonie, to bring his inflatable planetarium to the library in Colfax this summer.  The kids loved hearing about it, and loved going into it even more:Then the participants spent some time...