by Leah Langby | Dec 6, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
You are invited to attend a free webinar entitled, “The Road to CIVILITY: Implementing a Choose Civility Initiative”, on Friday, December 10, from 10 to 11 a.m. Central Time. Led by Howard County Library (MD), it is designed to enhance civility, respect, empathy,...
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 | Dec 2, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Well, I’m not sure I completely agree with that, but library policies are extremely helpful in guiding staff and creating consistency. This came up several times last month at the Youth Services Idea Swap about working with parents and caregivers.Several...
by Leah Langby | Dec 1, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
What a cool way to celebrate Say Cheese Day! Check out what they did in Ellsworth!(the following is an excerpt from an article in the newspaper):”What better way to highlight our library and Say Cheese in Ellsworth than by having kids create cheese sculptures...
by Leah Langby | Nov 23, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
There are several libraries in our system that have teen book discussion groups. In Park Falls, youth services librarian Matthew White has an active discussion group. Last month, they read The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. After looking high and low for...
by Leah Langby | Nov 22, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
Did you know that Santa makes his home for part of the year in Hudson? According to Mary Davis, she has found the twinkliest, gentlest, most real Santa right there in town. If you need a Santa for your programs, this fellow does travel (not sure if magic is...
by Leah Langby | Nov 19, 2010 | Keeping Up With Kids
More rave reviews about performers! Shelley at Ellsworth reported, “On November 2nd, we hosted Robert and Lynn Halbrook’s “Wizard’s School”, a perfect complement to the November release of the new Harry Potter film. The backdrop for Wizard’s School was...
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...
