Punch-box Fortunes

I’m a tactile person, so imagine my delight the other day when I was in the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire and I found this cool-as-can-be punch-box book fortune:Behind these tantalizing little tissue-paper circles are little fortunes,...

Nationwide Teen Lock-In

Many libraries in the area have teen lock-in programs, extravaganzas that happen after-hours.  Some last all night, some for a few hours, but in every case teens clamor for more chances to spend time together in the library when no one else is there. ...

Partnership Inspiration

A few weeks ago State Superintendent Tony Evers awarded the Standing Up for Rural Wisconsin Schools, Libraries and Communities Award to the St. Croix Falls Elementary School Library and the St. Croix Falls Public Library.  How cool is that?!  Read on for...

Represent!

Eau Claire teens advocating for strong school, public and university librariesYesterday was Wisconsin’s Library Legislative Day, which I attended for the second time.  We took a bus from Eau Claire, and people got up at crazy hours so they could be at the...

Lemony Snicket Snippets

Lemony Snicket won this year’s Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book for his book The Dark, illustrated by Jon Klassen.  The Cooperative Children’s Book Center administers this award.  It’s a great idea to...