by Leah Langby | Jun 7, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
The American Library Association is sponsoring grants for libraries to conduct book clubs with underserved teens:”Working with small groups of teens, grantees will host reading and discussion programs for up to four thematically related books. The...
by Leah Langby | May 18, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo credit, pixabayIn January, a school bus driver contacted Patti Blount, director at the Durand Community Library and asked if there was a way to get some books on the bus so that kids with long rides would have something fun to do. The library worked with...
by Leah Langby | Feb 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
Image from PixabayThanks to Maria Potvin from Frederic for this guest post!In our area, we have a small, one-room school which serves our Amish community. Every couple weeks I bring a new bin of books. Recently, when I pulled up to the school, I interrupted a snowball...
by Leah Langby | Dec 5, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image from PixabayThe Young Adult Library Services Association is sponsoring a series of FREE webinars–you don’t have to be a member to participate, and you don’t have to pay. This is pretty exciting! The topics cover everything from teen...
by Leah Langby | Oct 11, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
There are some public libraries that are doing great work with kids involved with the juvenile justice system. At ALA last summer, I attended a program about a library that lines up volunteer bedtime readers and author visits at the local juvenile detention...