Tuesday, December 31, 2024

A Look Back at 2024 on the YSS blog

Image by Igor from Pixabay

It's been a fun year for the Youth Services Shout-out blog. Thanks for joining us. Here's a look at some of the year's highlights.

  • During 2024, we shared 288 posts. 
  • These 2024 posts had over 11,000 views.
  • Overall this year, we had over 170,000 views of all of our blog content - 3,446 posts from 2010 to the present - during 2024.
  • We've had a total of 1,194, 530 views overo the life of the blog!
What were the most viewed posts that were published in 2024? They were a mixture of diversity and inclusion topics; advice and tips from the field; Summer reading program thoughts; and YSS/WAPL info.
We check numerous sources to find out news to share with everyone working with youth in WI libraries: from the WLA newsletter; library system newsletters and Facebook pages; national blogs; wispublib; DPI, the CCBC; to folks sending us information and links throughout the year. We are grateful for the transparency and sharing that goes on among those in our profession! 

I want to give a shout-out to our contributors who took the time to write or create content for the blog this year.  A huge shout-out to our contributors from 2024:

  • Cathy Pescinski
  • Alison Loewen
  • Hanna Collins
  • Ashley Borman
  • Sam Jones
  • Jennifer Davis
  • Jenna Gilles
  • Leah Langby
  • Jeni Schomber
  • Chris Baker
  • Katherine Schoofs
  • Merry Lindgren
  • Laura Sauser
  • Megan Schliesman

If you would like to contribute to the blog, we'd love to have you! You can write about a program you've done; opinion piece; how-to; spotlight on great library service; upcoming event of interest to youth folks state-wide or whatever you think people working in youth services in WI would like to read! Plus we're always looking for links of interest to share with youth library folks. Simply email the blog admin at lochwouters@gmail.com and you can join the fun.

Thanks for being part of our YSS blog community this year and see you in 2025!

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