by Leah Langby | Nov 25, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
At the IFLS webinar Improving Literacy: Understanding Dyslexia and Reading Instruction for Librarians earlier this month, I was delighted to hear about a collection in Baldwin, developed by Molly Haley and Rita Magno in cooperation with the school district. I...
by Leah Langby | Jul 19, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Kathy Larson from Bloomer for this terrific guest post!I’ve gone to many workshops over the past few years where I’ve heard librarians say, “Setting up a coding club is so easy” but they can’t really explain how they started it. I thought there was some...
by Leah Langby | Oct 22, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
In a recent Pew Study on libraries, guess what they found?85% of people believe libraries should DEFINITELY provide free early literacy programs85% of people believe libraries should DEFINITELY work more closely with local schools to provide resources to kids.These...
by Leah Langby | Apr 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
Bulletin Board of the K-2 bracketsThe folks at the Augusta Library had fun with a March Madness bracket for BOOKS this year. The library staff chose their favorite books and set them up in brackets against each other, and then let the elementary school kids...
by Leah Langby | Feb 24, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
This just in from Marge Loch Wouters: a new blog about programming for kids 0-11 years old: Kids Library Program Mojo. The blog is based on the discussion and course work in Marge’s six week online UW- Madison SLIS CE course: Power...
