by Leah Langby | Aug 29, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
WLA conference logo I always look forward to the Wisconsin Library Association Conference, coming up this year at the Kalahari Resort from November 4-7. I highly recommend it as a chance to have time away from your library, but still be thinking hard about library...
by Leah Langby | Aug 21, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
I’m excited about this upcoming webinar, which I found out about from the Growing Wisconsin Readers blog. I feel like I need more information about child development, and I’m thinking of ways to bring that information to our system. Check it...
by Leah Langby | Aug 18, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids, Uncategorized
The artists and their finished explosively awesome artChristy in Pepin sent in another great post about making Exploding Paint Bombs at her summer storytime. The basic instructions are here, but Christy had a few extra tips for librarians considering doing...
by Leah Langby | Aug 13, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Christy from Pepin for this guest post!Every fall families would come into the Pepin Public Library and socialize with each other and the conversation would turn to “What are your kids going to be for Halloween?” They would then talk about costumes...
by Leah Langby | Aug 11, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
This past weekend, the Cameron Public Library held their Summer Library Program wrap-up, with a performance by the Fandazzi Fire Circus. A whopping 447 people (maybe more) attended! This would be a tremendous turn-out in any city, but Cameron is a small...
by Leah Langby | Aug 8, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Summer Library Program is an exciting, exhausting, and time-honored tradition at public libraries. I love to hear stories of success and continually popular traditions. I also love to hear about your innovations, your questioning how to improve outcomes,...
