by Leah Langby | May 31, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Arthur Rackham illustration from Goldilocks and the Three Bears, from PixabayA recent study from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital showed that reading aloud, combined with pictures, is the sweet spot for developing children’s brains. ...
by Leah Langby | May 29, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many people from IFLS-land will remember Dawn Wacek as the library director (and before that, the youth services manager) at the Rice Lake Public Library. She left our system, but thankfully didn’t leave the state, she is currently the youth services...
by Leah Langby | May 24, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
image from PixabayI read a really great blog post on Teen Librarian Toolbox about the Summer Library Program this morning–I highly recommend checking it out. In it, she talks about how important summer programming is, how good it is to capitalize on...
by Leah Langby | May 23, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you haven’t seen it yet, please take a few minutes to watch this fun video, created by the staff at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library! Truly a joyful group effort that involved staff from all over the library, this is my favorite summer library...
by Leah Langby | May 22, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Erin Hunter from the Rice Lake Public Library for this guest post!Teens, tweens, and young kids all enjoyed making a superhero maskRecently, the Rice Lake Public Library turned a small table in its Youth Services department into a fun space for kids,...
by Leah Langby | May 18, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo credit, pixabayIn January, a school bus driver contacted Patti Blount, director at the Durand Community Library and asked if there was a way to get some books on the bus so that kids with long rides would have something fun to do. The library worked with...
