by Leah Langby | Nov 10, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
I attended a Lead the Change pre-conference at this year’s Wisconsin Library Association Conference, and was pleased to see a bunch of IFLS librarians there. Yay, IFLS!One of the great ideas that was shared at this workshop was related to Summer...
by Leah Langby | Oct 7, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
License-plate etching and awesome collaborative library outreach!Thanks to Kelly McBride of Osceola for this blog post about some terrific collaborative efforts between the public libraries in Osceola, Dresser and St. Croix Falls. Thanks to her library partners,...
by Leah Langby | Aug 11, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
This past weekend, the Cameron Public Library held their Summer Library Program wrap-up, with a performance by the Fandazzi Fire Circus. A whopping 447 people (maybe more) attended! This would be a tremendous turn-out in any city, but Cameron is a small...
by Leah Langby | Aug 8, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Summer Library Program is an exciting, exhausting, and time-honored tradition at public libraries. I love to hear stories of success and continually popular traditions. I also love to hear about your innovations, your questioning how to improve outcomes,...
by Leah Langby | Jul 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Arlene from Hawkins had a successful program earlier this summer. Menomonie author Jeanne Styczinski, who wrote Mama, how Does the Wind Start to Blow, presented a program about her book and being an author/illustrator. Arlene says she did a terrific...