by Leah Langby | Dec 2, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids, Learning Loop
Thanks to Katie Halama, Youth Services Coordinator, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, for this guest post! Katie received a scholarship from IFLS to attend the Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference. She shared insights and resources from a session by...
by Leah Langby | Nov 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Thanks to a grant from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, IFLS is awarding scholarships to IFLS-area public library workers for a variety of online and in-person learning opportunities. ...
by Leah Langby | Nov 25, 2024 | Learning Loop
Jamie Smith from Hudson took the UW-Madison iSchool’s Continuing Education course: Strategies for Supervising Part-Time Staff thanks to a scholarship from IFLS. Here are some of Jamie’s key highlights and takeaways from the course: Allow enough time for...
by Leah Langby | Nov 25, 2024 | Learning Loop
Welcome to Learning Loop, the new IFLS Continuing Education/Professional Development Blog. This blog was first created as a way to facilitate sharing by library workers who receive scholarships from IFLS to allow them to pursue professional development...
by Leah Langby | Nov 25, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
At the IFLS webinar Improving Literacy: Understanding Dyslexia and Reading Instruction for Librarians earlier this month, I was delighted to hear about a collection in Baldwin, developed by Molly Haley and Rita Magno in cooperation with the school district. I...
by Leah Langby | Nov 21, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
I talked with Regina Arndt, the long-time youth services librarian in Altoona recently and got inspired by some of her programs. Teen programs can be tricky, and some of these ideas seem like they might work well for other libraries! Ping Pong and Pizza Nights Every...
by Leah Langby | Nov 20, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Great questions were asked, great ideas were swapped! Here are a few highlights (sorry if I’m forgetting something): Karen Magnusson (formerly of Woodville, now of Baldwin) gave a report about her experience at the Play, Make, Learn Conference in...
by Leah Langby | Nov 5, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Linda Johnson, the new youth services librarian in Phillips, for sharing this fun collaboration. Leveraging her existing connection with the school and with the Family and Consumer Education teacher, Linda organized a Great Halloween Cupcake Bake-Off for...
by Leah Langby | Oct 29, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
I had a great chat with Valerie Spooner, the youth services librarian in Ladysmith, this afternoon. I LOVED hearing this story about the ways putting in the time for partnerships and relationships can pay off! In 2020 I was able to fulfill one of my library dreams...
by Leah Langby | Oct 21, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
I recently got a question from a librarian who had weeded a lot of Thanksgiving books that perpetuate myths about Thanksgiving that are both historically inaccurate and promote harmful ideas about the Indigenous people already here when the colonists celebrated their...
by Leah Langby | Oct 11, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Reb for passing along this sound advice from Angela Hursch about marketing to what can be a very tricky audience: teens. Take a look at this short video, Boost Teen Library Attendance, and see how many of these things you are already doing, and if there...
by Leah Langby | Oct 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Tuesday, November 12, 1-2 pm According to recent data, only 37% of Wisconsin third-graders ranked as proficient or better at reading. There has been a lot of discussion nationally and statewide about the ways literacy instruction has been failing kids, especially...
