There’s a group of early childhood professionals (librarians, teachers, family literacy providers, childcare consultants, and more) in the Chippewa Valley working on an initiative to address the 30 million word gap identified by researchers Hart and Risely in...
Many thanks to Eau Claire Memorial High School librarian Pam Gardow, who sent over the annotated list of this year’s Teens’ Top Ten list, courtesy of YALSA! Annotations written by Teens’ Top Ten Book Groups.2017 Teens’ Top Ten1. Dinan, Kurt....
Photo credit: Kris Adams Wendt (she says the magical hands were not intentional, but appropriate!)Last week, I had the experience of a lifetime, as I was honored as the WLA/Demco Wisconsin Librarian of the Year. The honor itself, plus the kind words of...
I love hearing from colleagues who have flown the coop, so to speak, and are working in libraries outside of our system. First of all, I love to hear from them because I like them, and love to hear what they are up to and what they are thinking about. ...
There are some public libraries that are doing great work with kids involved with the juvenile justice system. At ALA last summer, I attended a program about a library that lines up volunteer bedtime readers and author visits at the local juvenile detention...
The blog has been a victim of the triage that becomes necessary during especially busy times, which August, September, and October seem to be. BUT. I have it on my calendar to do a blog entry several times in the upcoming weeks, so look for more...
Thanks to Maureen Welch for passing on these tips from the NoveList newsletter! They are specific to helping kids and teens find books using NoveList. Did you know? Appeals terms describe the mood or feel of books (think: funny, sad, inspiring), and they are a...
As part of the Chippewa Valley Book Festival, local writers will be holding wonderful sounding workshops for young writers at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire. Jessi Peterson is one of the presenters for the workshop for 3-5...
Sorry for the absence of blog posts, I’ve been out of the office more than in for the past few weeks, taking part in some terrific opportunities (the Youth Services Institute, Prepare Training to learn how to defuse challenging situations, and dropping my...
Even though it is on a commercial site, this is a great explanation of the way kids learn to understand numbers (being able to count to 10 does not mean that children understand the concept behind the numbers). It gives some simple suggestions of activities to...
The booklists and other resources have been released for 2017-2018 Read On Wisconsin books. If you don’t already know about it, Read On Wisconsin provides book discussion resources and carefully selected books for several age groups each month. If...
Teens’ Top Ten, sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association, allows teens from across the country to vote for their top three favorite recent books from a list created by other teens. This is a great way to encourage teens in your area to...
