Book Trailers for the Win

by | Jan 31, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids, Uncategorized

Book Trailers are a fun way to promote books.  Colleen from Menomonie often uses them as part of the mix when she is booktalking to teens.  Some libraries feature them prominently on websites.  This seems like a cool project for a teen advisory board,...

Teen Resources for the Time-Strapped

by | Jul 31, 2013 | Uncategorized

Let’s face it, most libraries don’t have someone devoting a lot of time to teen services.  Even the teen librarian in our system’s larges library has dozens of other important non-teen-related duties to attend to. For those of you who are...

Eau Claire’s Out of This World Videos

by | May 22, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids

The folks at the public library in Eau Claire have stepped up their game in promotion of the Summer Library Program.  They created two videos, one to promote their program for younger kids–complete with a sequence at the end featuring even the dignified...

Teen Tech Week!

by | Feb 28, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids

Tomorrow, we’ll go back to a round-up of ideas from the Summer Library Program, but for right now, I want to do a timely post about Teen Tech Week, which is coming right up March 10-16.  This year’s theme:  Check In @ Your Library, which...