Child watching televisionMost of us are aware that the American Academy of Pediatrics is coming out soon with new guidelines related to children and media. The actual guidelines aren’t available yet, but the AAP has released a preliminary announcement...
The Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference has a youth track this year! Here’s a chance to hear (and ask questions of) some nationally-known librarians, with no treacherous driving required.Highlighting the youth track:Developing Library Leaders with...
The American Indian Library Association and the Asian Pacific American Librarian Association are now accepting applications for the ‘Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture’ Grant. Talk Story is a literacy program that caters to Asian Pacific...
Thanks to Sam Carpenter from the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library for this guest post!Ah, December. Summer is long-gone, the holidays are upon us, and that means it’s time for . . . closet cleaning. Yes, we dug deep into our back storage room,...
Kids are happy to be codingThanks to Kay Fitzgerald from Osceola for this guest post!At Osceola Public Library we ran a program called Coding and Cookies that introduced middle through high schoolers to computer coding. We had never run a program like this before...
Image from PixabayMany thanks to Jenna Gilles-Turner, who wrote this guest blog post.I was one of the lucky few (Yes. Be jealous.) to attend the Youth Services Development Institute in Green Lake, WI in September. It was one of the most inspiring, motivating, and...
