by Leah Langby | May 18, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Public Libraries: A Vital Space for Family Engagement , a report from the Public Library Association and the Harvard Family Research Project, is a call to action for libraries to learn about and reach for more effective family engagement. Libraries, the...
by Leah Langby | Aug 19, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
The Public Library Association has teamed up with the Harvard Family Research Project to provide libraries with resources and tools to help improve family engagement in library programs. The Harvard Family Research Project has a lot of terrific resources for...
by Leah Langby | Jun 28, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
Playing in PrescottJenna Gilles-Turner from the Chippewa Falls Public Library created some beautiful posters with engaging photographs and quotes and tidbits of child development information (including several about the importance of PLAY). That’s pretty...
by Leah Langby | May 19, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
Twins learning about the woods, walking, and fresh air with their grown-upsThe Urban Libraries Council and the National Council for Families Learning recently published a Leadership Brief on Libraries and Family Learning. It’s short, so you might want to...
by Leah Langby | Feb 23, 2016 | Keeping Up With Kids
A reader enjoys time with FreddyMany libraries in our system host therapy dogs who come and listen while kids read to them. The other day, Georgia from New Richmond got a lovely note from Jill, Freddy the dog’s handler about the ripple effect that reading...
