by Leah Langby | May 22, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Not sure if you are seeing Fidget Spinners in your libraries (I’ve yet to lay eyes on one in person but I live a sheltered life). Thanks to a Facebook post by Jenna at Chippewa Falls, I read a thought-provoking blog post about them. Not about their popularity...
by Leah Langby | May 18, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Public Libraries: A Vital Space for Family Engagement , a report from the Public Library Association and the Harvard Family Research Project, is a call to action for libraries to learn about and reach for more effective family engagement. Libraries, the...
by Leah Langby | May 12, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Lack of money can cause tunnelingThis is the second in a series of posts about the book Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan (an economics professor at Harvard) and Eldar Shafir (a psychology and public affairs...
by Leah Langby | May 11, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
The proverbial ticking clock!This is the second in a series of posts about the book Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan (an economics professor at Harvard) and Eldar Shafir (a psychology and public affairs professor...
by Leah Langby | May 10, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you’ve had a conversation with me in the past month or so, you’ve probably heard me talking about a book I finally just finished called Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan (an economics professor at Harvard)...
by Leah Langby | May 3, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
The post The SYNC program returns to give you free audiobooks all summer long appeared first on OverDrive Blogs. It is edited slightly here. Audiobooks are wonderful for reading while on the go and thanks to AudioFile’s SYNC program, you can...