by Leah Langby | Dec 16, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Feinberg, Sandra, et. al. The Family-Centered Library Handbook. Neal-Schuman, 2007.Imagine a library where all families with small children feel welcome, are excited to go to, and parents and children are learning skills that will help both children and families...
by Leah Langby | Dec 15, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Do you still have some money to spend, or wondering how to start once the new year begins? You might want to check the Best Books of the Year Mashup created by Nora Rawlinson at the Early Word Blog. She has created a spreadsheet of books that have made various Best of...
by Leah Langby | Dec 10, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
I read an interesting article in American Libraries a few weeks ago about a great niche for libraries to fill–researching and collecting information about local scholarships. Odds are much better for receiving a scholarship from the local Kiwanis club than with...
by Leah Langby | Dec 9, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Here’s a smattering of cool stuff people have sent me in the past month: Marcia Dressel from the Osceola Public Schools sent a reminder about the Federal Trade Commission’s website, which provides brochures on a variety of topics. Some youth-related ones...
by Leah Langby | Dec 8, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Patti Blount from Durand for forwarding this information to me!Two very popular free programs from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center for teachers and librarians are scheduled to run again this year via the POLYCOM system (available at public...
by Leah Langby | Dec 6, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
You are invited to attend a free webinar entitled, “The Road to CIVILITY: Implementing a Choose Civility Initiative”, on Friday, December 10, from 10 to 11 a.m. Central Time. Led by Howard County Library (MD), it is designed to enhance civility, respect, empathy,...
by Leah Langby | Dec 3, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
This in from Brendan, youth services librarian at Bloomer: At the Bloomer Public Library, I’ve started up a little program called GUYS READ. It’s based on the “movement” of the same name started by popular kids’ author Jon Scieska. The idea behind the initiative is...
by Leah Langby | Dec 2, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Well, I’m not sure I completely agree with that, but library policies are extremely helpful in guiding staff and creating consistency. This came up several times last month at the Youth Services Idea Swap about working with parents and caregivers.Several...
by Leah Langby | Dec 1, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
What a cool way to celebrate Say Cheese Day! Check out what they did in Ellsworth!(the following is an excerpt from an article in the newspaper):”What better way to highlight our library and Say Cheese in Ellsworth than by having kids create cheese sculptures...
by Leah Langby | Nov 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
There are several libraries in our system that have teen book discussion groups. In Park Falls, youth services librarian Matthew White has an active discussion group. Last month, they read The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. After looking high and low for...
by Leah Langby | Nov 22, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Did you know that Santa makes his home for part of the year in Hudson? According to Mary Davis, she has found the twinkliest, gentlest, most real Santa right there in town. If you need a Santa for your programs, this fellow does travel (not sure if magic is...
by Leah Langby | Nov 19, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
More rave reviews about performers! Shelley at Ellsworth reported, “On November 2nd, we hosted Robert and Lynn Halbrook’s “Wizard’s School”, a perfect complement to the November release of the new Harry Potter film. The backdrop for Wizard’s School was...
