by Leah Langby | Nov 18, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Do you get questions from parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other adults about good books to give as gifts? How can you harness this curiosity to spreading the word about some of your favorites?Some libraries create lists and displays to distribute at the...
by Leah Langby | Nov 15, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Shelly and Julie from Ellsworth have a very popular American Girl Book Club in Ellsworth, it brings in 40-plus girls grades K-5 every month: We’re celebrating our 5th year of hosting our wildly popular American Girl Book Club. This year we are having adventures...
by Leah Langby | Nov 12, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
We had a lively discussion at today’s youth services idea swap about parents and caregivers. Some things we discussed included: Correcting children’s behavior in front of parents–how to handle if it if parents are offended, what to do if parents...
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 | Nov 10, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Teens at a 2008 special event at the New Richmond Public LibraryNew books in the IFLS collection–contact Leah if you want to borrow them (they aren’t catalogued yet!):Risky Business: Taking and Managing Risks in Library Services for Teens. By Linda W....
by Leah Langby | Nov 9, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Clip art from this year’s Collaborative Summer Library Program ManualMark your calendars, the Summer Library Program Workshop is coming on February 11 at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Menomonie. If time is going as freakishly fast for you as it is for...
by Leah Langby | Nov 2, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
From Becky Arenivar at Prescott, a how-to-do-it success story!Fifteen teens attend the Prescott Public Library’s Duct Tape Unrolled event. Teens could choose 3 items from a possible six to make, starting with easy items like bookmarks and jewelry and moving to...
by Leah Langby | Oct 20, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
In Rice Lake, Dawn and the rest of the children’s staff had a fun day with trains!Last month we celebrated everyone’s favorite mass transit—the train! We had a preschool train party that was advertised in the paper, on our website, and in our email that we send...
by Leah Langby | Oct 20, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Are you going to the WLA conference this year? Mark your calendars and start reading for a great program, you won’t want to miss. The Youth Services Section Book Discussion will be held Thursday (November 4) at 4 p.m. This is your chance to participate in...
by Leah Langby | Oct 20, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Karen Wendt from Monona Public Library (WLA’s Library of the Year) sent information on a great program that went over really well in her library:We had a really fun Leaf Printing program with Deborah Proctor (The Recycle Bug) at the Monona Public Library. We had...
by Leah Langby | Oct 20, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Lisa from Colfax, who immediately answered my call for content! Yay! If she can do it, so can you!Here’s what Lisa says:We just had “Madame Lanita” (a.k.a. Kris Winter) come to our library last night for a family program. She entertained us...
by Leah Langby | Oct 19, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
I am wallowing a little over here, and would love some content for the blog! I have some general things to put on later this week, but I’d love to feature some ideas you have. If you had a great program this fall, what was it? How did you do it? Who came? What...
