Grants for Great Stories Clubs

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...

Books on the Bus in Durand

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...

Outreach to Amish School in Frederic

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...

FREE Webinar Series on Teen Services

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...

Making Justice in Madison

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...