by Leah Langby | Jan 4, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Kids in Menomonie show how much fun an event about building and problem-solving can beThanks to some left-over funds from a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, IFLS has put together some fabulous new School Age...
by Leah Langby | Dec 9, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Here’s a smattering of cool stuff people have sent me in the past month: Marcia Dressel from the Osceola Public Schools sent a reminder about the Federal Trade Commission’s website, which provides brochures on a variety of topics. Some youth-related ones...
by Leah Langby | Dec 3, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
This in from Brendan, youth services librarian at Bloomer: At the Bloomer Public Library, I’ve started up a little program called GUYS READ. It’s based on the “movement” of the same name started by popular kids’ author Jon Scieska. The idea behind the initiative is...
by Leah Langby | Nov 11, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Two IFLS librarians are having fun with gross things, and so are the kids they serve!Jenna Gilles, youth services librarian at the Fall Creek Public Library had a Grossology 101 program last month which was attended by 58 people. That’s almost 5% of the entire...
by Leah Langby | Aug 17, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
In Chippewa Falls, they had an easy, fun program that librarians and kids alike would be happy to repeat. This just in from Colleen:One our best programs this summer was our ‘Pokemon Summer Academy’ that we held for kids in 2nd -7th grades. Kids played an...
