by Leah Langby | Apr 30, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
“Read and Feed! Connecting kids to Libraries and Summer Meals”Date: May 2nd (Friday), 2014Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm CSTRegister Here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FeedandReadDescription: Join us as we discover ways to engage children during the long...
by Leah Langby | Apr 28, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Last week, I attended an excellent webinar put together by DPI about Universal Design/Universal Design for Learning, and how these concepts can inform our work as librarians to make our libraries more welcoming and inclusive of everyone in the community. The...
by Leah Langby | Apr 24, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Now it is time to start promoting these 25 nominees to teens so that they can vote starting in August. The top ten will be announced during Teen Read Week.How many have you read? How are they going out at your library? Do you own them all? I...
by Leah Langby | Apr 22, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Play time after toddler storytime in BloomerLibrarians in IFLS-Land! As part of an LSTA grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, we have been doing some work in the early childhood realm. Here are a few resources to check out:Watch for a re-cap...
by Leah Langby | Apr 16, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Unless it is about the latest blockbuster film, weighty information about literature for teens and children doesn’t always make its way into popular media. But CNN, Entertainment Weekly, and several other mainstream publications have been running articles about...
by Leah Langby | Apr 14, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
I’m in charge of content for the YSS Blog this month, which means I’ve been collecting great posts from some of the librarians in our system who are YSS members. In case you don’t follow that blog, I want to draw your attention to a few posts...