SLP Resource

Last-minute planning?? Want a back-up plan in case your star performer gets laryngitis? Check out the terrific compilation of ideas put together by the Youth Services Section of the Wisconsin Library Association. This includes handouts from the statewide Summer...

Book Cart Drill Team

It’s time to gear up for the annual Book Cart Drill Team Competition at this year’s Wisconsin Library Association Conference at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells. Register your team and get crackin’ on your routine for a chance to win a prize...

Freebies for SLP Decorating

Need some supplies for last-minute SLP decorations? I have some pretty swell things to give away to an IFLS library. First come, first serve, though if you send me some content for the blog, I’ll be oh-so-happy! Send an email to langby@ifls.lib.wi.us and tell me...

The Great Prize Debate

How many of you have prizes for your Summer Library Program? I am very interested in the conversation about whether or not giving out trinkets as prizes for reading is a good or bad practice. There has been a lot of discussion on an Association for Library Service to...

Summer Library Program PSA Update

Okay, after scratching my brow and consulting some more tech-savvy people in the IFLS office, I realize that I spoke too soon in promising the copies of the Summer Library Program video public service announcements. We haven’t figured out how to do it yet. On a...

Make Waves/ Make a Splash PSAs

If you are looking for an easy way to promote your Summer Library Program, you might be interested in a DVD of a Public Service Announcement that can be played on local television stations, at your library, and possibly at the school. The videos are aimed at kids and...

It’s the Little Things

We just received a note from a mother who brought up a simple idea that would help her and her family enjoy the library more. She has a 3 year old who can’t reach the sinks in the restroom, so his mom needs to hold him up to the sink, and try to wash his hands...

Privacy Week

This week marks the inaugural Choose Privacy Week, a celebration of our right to privacy and an opportunity to engage libraries, librarians, and the general public about the importance of this issue in our increasingly public world. Sponsored by the ALA Office for...

True Stories of Censorship Battles

Thanks to Hollis Helmeci, the new director at the Rusk County Library in Ladysmith, for this information. The authors of an upcoming ALA Publications book, True Stories of Censorship Battles in American Libraries are collecting stories for their book. If you have had...