by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Hollis Helmeci, the new director at the Rusk County Library in Ladysmith, for this information. The authors of an upcoming ALA Publications book, True Stories of Censorship Battles in American Libraries are collecting stories for their book. If you have had...
by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Imagine being in a room filled with the best books written for children and teens in the past year, and people talking excitedly about them. If you were at the IFLS/CESA 10 Great Books workshop last week, you know how fun that can be! We had an entertaining...
by Leah Langby | May 5, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
What a great idea for a program. At Menomonie Public Library’s regularly scheduled storytime, they had a super-cool visitor a few weeks ago–a school bus! Says Debbie, The 17 boys and 3 girls loved their “field trip” (to the parking lot where thebus was...
by Leah Langby | Apr 30, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Today I had an illuminating experience when dropping my daughter off at school. She was carrying gobs of extra stuff today, plus it was raining so she asked if I would drop her off near the door in the crazy-busy parking lot. Being a pushover, I said yes.As I waited...
by Leah Langby | Apr 26, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
WLA members and prospective library school students are eligible to apply for the scholarships for library education and library continuing education sponsored by the Wisconsin Library Association Foundation. The six scholarships are funded by the WLA Foundation...
by Leah Langby | Apr 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
Ooops. I just spent longer than I meant to exploring the author programs on TeachingBooks.net. I didn’t mean to, but I devoured an interview with Lois Lowry and then gobbled up an author’s readers theatre of Love That Dog (by Sharon Creech), read by Sharon...
by Leah Langby | Apr 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
There are several libraries in our system that have had very successful book discussion groups for teens. If you are thinking of doing something like this, there are a few resources right here in western Wisconsin for you to consider!Susan Pesheck from River Falls has...
by Leah Langby | Apr 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Shelly from L.E. Phillips for this toe-tapping contribution:I went to a music session at PLA called Move-n-Groove: Making Music Meaningful. The presenters gave a list of some of their favorite songs to use in storytime. They had a ton of fun presenting the...
by Leah Langby | Apr 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Jenny from Colfax for this post!This last Monday we had a teen trivia event after school with popcorn, pop, pretzels and cookies for snacks. We had a small turn out of seven but still had lots of fun. We used the game Trivial Pursuit Team. I was the quizzer...
by Leah Langby | Apr 15, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten nominations are here! This is the only booklist voted on and decided entirely by teens. Download all 25 and encourage your teens to start reading them so they’re prepared for the national vote, which will take place from August to...
by Leah Langby | Apr 15, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Georgia Jones, who sent in this submission about a special event she hosted recently to celebrate Addy, the American Girl character. She also blogged about this event on her blog: http://comeintodelight.blogspot.com/, so go there for more photos and fun!...
by Leah Langby | Apr 13, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Budget cuts in school districts lead to some bad situations for school libraries–and the students and teachers who use them. This amazing letter by a first grader in Bloomington, Indiana was published in The Herald Times on April 6, and reprinted in a post to...
