by Leah Langby | May 11, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Last week, 3 IFLS-area librarians and I went to Sun Prairie for further training in the Wakanheza Project™. The Wakanheza Project™ is an initiative/concept started by the Ramsey County Public Health Department as a community-level primary prevention approach to...
by Leah Langby | May 10, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Every once in a while it seems like a good idea to post a conglomeration of unrelated cool things I’ve gleaned from list-servs, notes from IFLS librarians, newsletters, etc. So here goes!Hollis Helmeci, library director in Ladysmith and self-proclaimed SkippyJon...
by Leah Langby | May 6, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Hooray for Christy at Pepin for sending in some photos and ideas just when we needed them! Doesn’t this look fun? You don’t have to be a large library to have a successful toddler program. If you need help with coming up with ideas, please contact...
by Leah Langby | Apr 29, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
We had an interesting idea swap today in Bloomer, complete with a guest appearance via Skype (from London!) by Dr. Rebekah Willett. Dr. Willett, soon to be a professor at the School for Library and Information Studies at UW-Madison, has research interest in children...
by Leah Langby | Apr 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
I keep finding titles that are related to this year’s theme–maybe you can figure out a way to use them in your programs this summer!Storytime choices:Yum! Yuck! A Foldout Book of People Sounds. By Linda Sue Park and Julia Durango, illustrated by Sue Rama....
by Leah Langby | Apr 27, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
I was going to give you another list of books to consider using for your summer library program, but I started in on the Queen of Water and realized it needed its very own post.Queen of Water by Laura Resau and Maria Virginia Farinango. Delacorte, 2011.(grades...
by Leah Langby | Apr 21, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
There is so much out there to help you do a terrific Summer Library Program. Lately, a few books and one movie caught my eye. I thought they would be fun to feature in a display or use in some other way during your Summer Library Program. Not meant to be...
by Leah Langby | Apr 20, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Remember Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library? It’s been revised and updated into a second version, and Wednesday, May 4 at 1 pm there will be a free Sneak Peek Webinar for the Every Child Ready to Read® (ECRR) @ your library® 2nd Edition.Featuring Dr. Susan...
by Leah Langby | Apr 19, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
We had a really great workshop earlier this month with Tammi Poppe, an autism expert from Shawano County. The folks at the workshop learned a lot about the autism spectrum and some great things to consider when providing services. Here is one:For someone who has a lot...
by Leah Langby | Apr 12, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Wowser! Check out the amazing paintings created for the children’s room at the St. Angelo Public Library in Cumberland. The library hired local artist Jeff Hile to create the murals as a way to honor the life of Katherine Robinson, the well-loved library...
by Leah Langby | Apr 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
No, this isn’t a philosophical, futuristic essay, or a call to action lest Summer Library Programs be cut (though I’m sure we could have a blog post about that some day, too). It’s a heads-up about the themes chosen by the Collaborative Summer...
by Leah Langby | Apr 1, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Please excuse spacing issues–I fought long and hard to get it to look this good! Two reviews of recent books of poetry, to celebrate: Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku, by Lee Wardlaw, Illustrated by Eugene Yelchin. Henry Holt, 2011 (978-0-8050-8995-0) According...
