by Leah Langby | Nov 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Take a tip from the koala: REST!Several people listed being overwhelmed and exhausted during the summer in the exercise about the thing people hate the most about the Summer Library Program. I think we can all relate to the feeling of being inundated with...
by Leah Langby | Nov 23, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
I’ve had a bit of a rocky fall, and have missed a lot of work to help care for a loved one who is at the end of her life. I thought it might be appropriate during this Thanksgiving season to give some thanks for things that are helping me get through it...
by Leah Langby | Nov 22, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
Luckily, your programs and services don’t HAVE to fit into boxes, colorful and fun as those boxes might be.At the SLP workshop on November 11, our wonderful presenter Holly Storck Post asked people to write down one thing they hate about SLP. I noticed...
by Leah Langby | Nov 18, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
At the SLP/Youth Services workshop we had last week, our presenter Holly Storck Post had participants list things they hate about the summer library program. I noticed some interesting themes in this mix. I’m going to address them in a series of blog posts....
by Leah Langby | Nov 17, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
Last week more than 50 librarians from around the IFLS region gathered for a workshop to prepare for the Summer Library Program, but also so much more. We had an inspiring keynote talk from Holly Storck Post about planning and evaluating programs, reaching...
by Leah Langby | Nov 10, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Samantha at LEPMPL for this guest post!I did a teen program called Animal Mug Mugs a couple weeks ago. It was the first time in the two years I have worked at LEPMPL that my registration for a teen craft was full, and it was a lot of fun! I bought 12 white...
by Leah Langby | Nov 9, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
Alice swimming in a sea of tearsWhen I was a kid, I read a LOT. And there were two pairs of books (Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland) that everyone in my family had read, and read often. We even had LP recordings of Maurice Evans and Cyril Richard...
by Leah Langby | Nov 3, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
Abby, the new teen librarian in Menomonie, was having a busy week a few weeks ago–acting in a community theater production of the Crucible and also squeezing in time for a popular Halloween program for teens. Who knew painting pumpkins and watching a Halloween...
by Leah Langby | Nov 2, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
I learned some startling and distressing statistics about young children and homelessness today in an infographic put together by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Education. In their Interagency Policy...