by Leah Langby | Mar 30, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Tent in the woods, courtesy of WI DNR flickrI just read a great blog post by Abby the Librarian about planning for vacations during the SUMMER. Shocking for some of you to think of, I’m sure, since summer is such a busy time for libraries, especially in...
by Leah Langby | Mar 27, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo credit: Quite AdeptAt the New Media Training I attended last week, I was excited to explore some apps that really invite joint attention between a parent and child, are engaging and interactive, and allow kids to explore early literacy and math concepts in...
by Leah Langby | Mar 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
I just listened to the archived recording of a UW-Madison SLIS Continuing Education webinar by Yee Lee Vue of the Appleton Public Library. She was talking about library outreach to the Hmong community. She spoke specifically about their project to bring...
by Leah Langby | Mar 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
As this publishes, I’ll be at a training with the folks from Little eLit, learning even more about this topic!One of the things Devorah Heitner mentioned in her webinar last week was to help parents be aware about the digital footprint they are creating...
by Leah Langby | Mar 18, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Alisha from the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library recently needed to come up with a quick program for a no-school day, and here’s what she came up with:”I needed to plan a program quick, so I asked library staff to bring me any random things they had...
by Leah Langby | Mar 16, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
The Youth Services Section of the Wisconsin Library Association has yet another terrific resource for all of you busy librarians out there! 52 Weeks of YA Programming was created by a team of YSS members who have had successful teen programs and were willing to...
by Leah Langby | Mar 13, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
More follow-up from Devorah Heitner’s webinar Strategies for Using Digital Technologies at Home from the Erikson Institute. I’m taking a few of her points and making individual blog posts out of them, but I highly recommend checking out...
by Leah Langby | Mar 11, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Child with tablet, courtesy of The Commons Getty Collection I just attended an outstanding webinar from The Erikson Institute, Strategies for Using Digital Technologies at Home. It was presented by Devorah Heitner. I can’t recommend listening to the recording...
by Leah Langby | Mar 6, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
RA wordle from https://ragenrestudy.wordpress.com/ In a recent discussion on an ALSC listserv, several people shared their favorite readers advisory websites for kids. I thought I’d share them with you! 8 Readers’ Advisory Sites post on the INALJ...
by Leah Langby | Mar 3, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
We had a more manageable list this month so I have included some comments from submitters.We were reading Realistic Fiction in February. In March, we’re reading Humorous Books–March is a month when I could use some humor…If you read a...
by Leah Langby | Feb 26, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Lately I’ve been reading some fascinating blogs and threads about diversity, and how to embrace and respect diverse voices as librarians (here’s one, which has an incredible bunch of comments). In the midst of this, I came across a reference to a...
by Leah Langby | Feb 23, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to the inquiring mind of Ted in Menomonie, and the input of several librarians in our area, IFLS is putting together a project to try out using Badges with teens. We are dabbling our toes in the waters, and we invite you to participate!Every year through...
