by Leah Langby | May 28, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Money to do cool technology stuff! Here are 2 options:Best Buy Children’s Foundation Grants are designed to help non-profit agencies teens build 21st-Century technology skills through programs that address the digital divide, and also give teens the chance...
by Leah Langby | May 24, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Ginny Julson, director of the Boyceville Public Library, for this submission: Every year all the kids from the elementary school come over one class at a time and do a skit on our stage to gear up for the SRP–each year we choose volunteers from...
by Leah Langby | May 22, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
The folks at the public library in Eau Claire have stepped up their game in promotion of the Summer Library Program. They created two videos, one to promote their program for younger kids–complete with a sequence at the end featuring even the dignified...
by Leah Langby | May 20, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Arlene Mabie is not only the library director at Hawkins, she also is the clerk treasurer for the recycling/disposal unit in Kennan (as well as a volunteer fire fighter and miniature horse-raiser…can you say Superhero?). She is motivated to encourage and...
by Leah Langby | May 16, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Today, in just one day, I read two thoughtful, worthwhile and entertaining blog posts with advice for new librarians. Interestingly, they have almost opposite messages, but both have value, and are worth reading and fitting into your worldview. These...
by Leah Langby | May 14, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Julie (mean banker Mr. Bigglebottom, above) adapted the new book: The Gold Miner’s Daughter, A Melodramatic Fairy Tale written by Jackie Mims Hopkins into a play for the library staff (and a few volunteers) to perform for students to promote the Summer Library...
