by Leah Langby | Aug 19, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you are a teen and hang out at the Menomonie Public Library, you’re lucky! Teens have had a chance to do a bunch of cool stuff, from learning to decorate cakes from a pro, to learning zumba, yoga, and tai chi moves from instructors. They had a...
by Leah Langby | Aug 16, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids, Uncategorized
Teen readers between the ages of 12 and 18 can vote online for their favorites from this year’s list of nominated titles from now through September 15th. The books nominated for the list were selected by teen book groups from around the country (this is something your...
by Leah Langby | Aug 12, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
I’ve seen a lot of innovative collaboration activities in the library world–libraries working with schools, libraries working with community agencies, reaching out to museums and artists and scientists to provide fabulous programming. And I’ve...
by Leah Langby | Aug 8, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Rice Lake is trying an interesting new outreach project: having a presence at the local farmers market once a week. Linda Mullin sets up a table, some blankets, some brochures and books at the Farmer’s Market every Thursday afternoon, and has been...
by Leah Langby | Aug 6, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Every year, Wisconsin’s Farm Technology Days draws tens of thousands of people (this year, the estimate was 35-40 thousand people). The event moves around every year, and this year, it was held on a farm near Barron. The Barron Public Library...
by Leah Langby | Aug 1, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
This year’s ALA Annual Conference was the site of a Guerrilla Storytime Action–youth services librarians gathering in a public place to talk about storytime–sharing ideas about early literacy strategies, methods for getting kids and adults back on...
