by Leah Langby | Sep 24, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids, Uncategorized
Young kids need opportunities to develop their fine motor skills. Many of you incorporate letting kids develop those skills at storytime with art project–kids practice cutting, drawing, painting, picking up small objects, etc. I found a fun post at...
by Leah Langby | Sep 23, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Marge Loch-Wouters for passing on this information! Sign up for this free webinar and learn how easy it is for your library to participate in Money Smart Week @ your library, April 5-12, 2014. a partnership between ALA and the Federal Reserve Bank of...
by Leah Langby | Sep 20, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Wisconsin’s own Library As Incubator blog has a new regular feature: Science Meets Crafts program kits, with information, how-tos, detailed instructions, lists, costs, and imbedded instructional videos. The kits come from a teen librarian and crafter...
by Leah Langby | Sep 18, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Norma Scott, director of the Somerset Public Library, for this post about the lasting effects of the 2012 Autism grant project in her library and her life! When our library decided to participate in a grant about autism offered through IFLS in 2012, I...
by Leah Langby | Sep 17, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Since I started this blog more than three years ago, I’ve never lost track of posting for so long–more than 2 weeks! I kept putting this on my list of things to do and it kept falling off the end as I frantically tried to keep up with grant-writing,...
by Leah Langby | Aug 27, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Dawn Wacek, the director of the Rice Lake Public Library, recently had an article in the newsletter put together by Novelist about ways to attract boys. She used great examples from libraries around our system, so you might find your name in big lights if you...
