Topic of the Month: Professional Development on a Budget
Professional development is essential to learn new skills and keep up with trends in libraries and technology. It can be tough to attend conferences and take courses and workshops, though, with a tight budget for registrations, not to mention travel. Here are some ideas for ways to keep up with professional development with limited funds.
Reading
Keep up with professional literature using these sources as a start:
Keep up with professional literature using these sources as a start:
- The State Library has a great professional development collection for librarians, and all are available to you through interlibrary loan, free of charge! See our catalog at http://salsa.stlib.state.nm.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=nms&menu=search#focus.
- Our database system, Magazines Online, has a database of periodicals just for librarians called InfoTrac Information Science & Library Issues. It includes full-text articles from 1980 to the present from such journals as Library Journal, Computers in Libraries, School Library Journal, Library Trends, Horn Book, and more. Check out our webpage on Magazines Online for youth services librarians at http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=371&Itemid=655 for more info.
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There are many blogs by and for librarians that can be good way to keep up with trends in libraryland. Just a few lists of blogs to try:
- Kid-lit Bloggers to Watch: http://www.hbook.com/resources/librarians/blogs.asp
- 100 Best Blogs for Librarians of the Future: http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2009/100-best-blogs-for-librarians-of-the-future/
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Listservs are another good way to keep up with library news and trends. Here are a few to start with:
- YALSA has several listservs: http://lists.ala.org/wws/lists/divisions/yalsa
- ALSC also has several: http://lists.ala.org/wws/lists/divisions/alsc
- PUBYAC: (PUBlic libraries,Young Adults, and Children): http://www.pubyac.org/
Online Courses and Workshops
Online professional development offers a convenient way to learn without having to travel. Even though some of the options listed here do have a fee, you’ll be saving travel dollars.
Online professional development offers a convenient way to learn without having to travel. Even though some of the options listed here do have a fee, you’ll be saving travel dollars.
Free Online Opportunities
SABLE Courses: A program for library staff who don’t have formal education in library science. The sequence for Youth Services staff includes Early Childhood Services, Services to School Age Children, and Young Adult Services.
SABLE Courses: A program for library staff who don’t have formal education in library science. The sequence for Youth Services staff includes Early Childhood Services, Services to School Age Children, and Young Adult Services.
Learning 2.0: This guided, self-paced project encourages staff to learn about new technologies like blogs, wikis, podcasts, and more.
Online Programming for All Libraries (OPAL): Interactive programs and training. Program topics are wide-ranging but do include youth services topics. Many past programs are archived.
SirsiDynixInstitute: Free, online access to industry-leading speakers and events through webinars, both live and archived. Program topics include youth services issues.
WebJunction: Bulletin boards, articles, and much more are available. Online courses are offered, most for a fee. Go to http://www.webjunction.org/populations-served for free youth services resources; for courses, check out http://www.webjunction.org/catalog, then scroll to Library Services.
YALSA Professional Development Center: Many articles, resources, staff spotlights, tip sheets, and more on serving young adults. There are also competencies for librarians serving young adults.
Booklist Webinars: Live and archived webinars on a range of topics, including many youth services issues.
Fee-Based Opportunities
ALA Distance Learning: A variety of web-based courses, including youth services topics. Fees vary with course length and topic.
ALA Distance Learning: A variety of web-based courses, including youth services topics. Fees vary with course length and topic.
Amigos Continuing Education: A large selection of self-paced and instructor-led online courses. Options include a few youth services topics.
Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC): ALSC offers online courses ranging from 4 to 6 weeks on a variety of timely topics.
Library Education @ Desktop (LEAD): A series of self-paced tutorials offered by the University of North Texas School of Library and Information Sciences. Several youth services topics are available. Courses are $20.
Simmons College Graduate School of LIS Online Workshops: Online workshops on a variety of topics with an emphasis on technology, children’s, and young adult topics. Most courses are $250.
U. of Wisconsin-Madison School of LIS Continuing Ed.: A variety of online courses of different lengths. Current topics include graphic novels, core elements of children’s services, and YA services and literature. Fees vary with course length.
YALSA Online Courses: YALSA provides online continuing education classes on a rotating basis during the summer, autumn and winter sessions to enhance the skills and knowledge of young adult librarians and library workers who serve teens.
Internal and Cooperative Teaching
- Arrange for staff, volunteers, and community members with relevant skills to teach other staff and volunteers. This sharing of skills and experience can include a storytelling technique, new online tool, customer service best practices, or anything else relevant. This could be done during a once or twice a month brown bag lunch, for instance.
- Take this idea a step further and work with neighboring libraries to do the same thing.
State Library Updates and Announcements
Looking for Centennial Authors, Storyteller, and Poet
The New Mexico State Library and Centennial planners are accepting nominations for four honorary positions associated with the commemoration of New Mexico’s hundred years of statehood – Poet, Storyteller, Author and Children’s Author.
The New Mexico State Library and Centennial planners are accepting nominations for four honorary positions associated with the commemoration of New Mexico’s hundred years of statehood – Poet, Storyteller, Author and Children’s Author.
Nominations may be submitted by individual New Mexico residents or representatives of organizations in New Mexico and may include self-nominations. The deadline for submissions is June 23, 2010. The individuals selected will be announced at a ceremony in the fall of 2010.
To nominate an artist, click here to view the nomination guidelines.
To complete an online nomination packet, go to our Survey Monkey form.
And please pass this announcement along to all who may be interested in nominating others—or themselves! Thanks!
Upcoming Newsletter Topics:
- May: The Impact of SRPs
- June: A Closer Look at the Importance of Displays
Please contribute any materials, tips, questions, and comments you have on these topics to be included in the newsletters! And please let me know if there are any topics you’d like to see featured in the newsletter.
Summer Reading Program 2010
Make a Splash—Read! Webliography
Check out the file attached to the email for an extensive, annotated list of websites that go with the 2010 SRP theme!
Check out the file attached to the email for an extensive, annotated list of websites that go with the 2010 SRP theme!
Spanish Logo Available Soon
A color and black and white version of the Make a Splash logo will be available on the CSLP website for you to use. The CSLP webmaster should have those up in the next few days. They will be in the members area in the downloads section (requires log-in).
A color and black and white version of the Make a Splash logo will be available on the CSLP website for you to use. The CSLP webmaster should have those up in the next few days. They will be in the members area in the downloads section (requires log-in).
Sensational Summer Reading Webinar Now Archived
Booklist’s Sensational Summer Reading Webinar: Programming Tips and Titles for Children and Teens is now available at http://vimeo.com/10581232.
Booklist’s Sensational Summer Reading Webinar: Programming Tips and Titles for Children and Teens is now available at http://vimeo.com/10581232.
How Does Your Garden Programming Grow?
Considering offering some gardening programs during your SRP this year? Check out these programs from libraries nationwide for ideas: http://www.programminglibrarian.org/blog/2010/march-2010/how-does-your-garden-programming-grow.html.
Considering offering some gardening programs during your SRP this year? Check out these programs from libraries nationwide for ideas: http://www.programminglibrarian.org/blog/2010/march-2010/how-does-your-garden-programming-grow.html.
2011 SRP
In case you’re thinking ahead, the illustrators for next year’s theme (World Cultures and Travel) are:
In case you’re thinking ahead, the illustrators for next year’s theme (World Cultures and Travel) are:
- Children’s slogan: One World, Many Stories- Raphael Lopez
- Teen slogan: You Are Here- Svetlana Chmakova
(The following are reprinted with permission from the Idaho Commission for Libraries, The Scoop newsletter, April 16, 2010)
Flying Disks Warning
For those of you who ordered the flying disks from the CSLP catalog, please be warned that when the disks are released from their storage pouches they pop out very quickly. This can be dangerous, as they tend to aim right for the user’s head. Please advise your parents and library staff. Some librarians around the nation have elected to take the disks out of the pouches before offering them to kids as prizes.
For those of you who ordered the flying disks from the CSLP catalog, please be warned that when the disks are released from their storage pouches they pop out very quickly. This can be dangerous, as they tend to aim right for the user’s head. Please advise your parents and library staff. Some librarians around the nation have elected to take the disks out of the pouches before offering them to kids as prizes.
Tactile Graphics Sheets Available
There are now tactile graphics sheets for the 2010 “Make a Splash” theme to be used with children who are visually impaired. These materials have been made available through the cooperation of the Outreach Department of the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The set includes six tactile graphic sheets:
There are now tactile graphics sheets for the 2010 “Make a Splash” theme to be used with children who are visually impaired. These materials have been made available through the cooperation of the Outreach Department of the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The set includes six tactile graphic sheets:
- Word Find from page 128
- Parrot Pattern from page 164
- Skull and Crossbones Pattern from page 166
- Fish Pattern from page 191
- Shell Game from page 197
- Smiling Crocodile Pattern from page 223
The cost for the set is $20, with no shipping fee. See the Summer Reading Resources website for ordering information.
News & Opportunities
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a collection development workshop for librarians working with children and teens
a collection development workshop for librarians working with children and teens
Where: New Mexico State Library, 1209 Camino Carlos Rey, Santa Fe
When: May 21, 10:00-4:00 (lunch provided!)
Who: Any librarians or teachers working with children aged 0-18 interested in brushing up on their collection development skills
How Much: FREE! (handouts and door prizes too!)
When: May 21, 10:00-4:00 (lunch provided!)
Who: Any librarians or teachers working with children aged 0-18 interested in brushing up on their collection development skills
How Much: FREE! (handouts and door prizes too!)
Collection development: maybe the most important skill we have as librarians, yet all too often it’s the one we let get rustiest! How can a librarian keep up with everything that’s being published? What’s going to fly off the shelves and what’s going to make your patrons roll their eyes? It’s time to reinvigorate your collection development skills and this one day workshop from the Northern New Mexico Youth Services Special Interest Group!
Participants will spend the day not only hearing about the latest trends in children and teen’s publishing but learning how to stay on top of what’s coming out next and what the “next big thing” is going to be. The session will cover titles for all ages, from birth to age 18, and expose participants to a wide range of new titles and publishers.
Contact NNMYSSIG Chair Angie Manfredi at angelina.manfredi@lacnm.us for more information on how you can participate in this amazing event, or Click here to register!
Censorship stories sought
NM librarians Kathy Barco and Valerie Nye have a manuscript in progress and are looking for essays about censorship battles.
NM librarians Kathy Barco and Valerie Nye have a manuscript in progress and are looking for essays about censorship battles.
"We are seeking submissions for an ALA book about Challenged Materials. Details are on our website: www.librarycensorship.com. The deadline for the book (working title is True Stories of Censorship Battles in American Libraries) has been extended to May 15. We are seeking essays by and about librarians in public, school, and academic libraries who have experienced challenges to remove material from library collections. Stories that don't necessarily end successfully are welcome. We can be contacted via LinkedIn and Facebook and on our website: www.librarycensorship.com. Thanks!"
We Give Books
We Give Books is a free Web site for parents, caregivers, and educators. A collaboration between Penguin Group and the Pearson Foundation, the initiative will donate a book though a literacy organization for every book read online. The books are part of Penguin Group's digital collection of classic children's literature. Complete program details are available at www.wegivebooks.org.
We Give Books is a free Web site for parents, caregivers, and educators. A collaboration between Penguin Group and the Pearson Foundation, the initiative will donate a book though a literacy organization for every book read online. The books are part of Penguin Group's digital collection of classic children's literature. Complete program details are available at www.wegivebooks.org.
Choose Privacy Week Video
ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom is pleased to share a brand new trailer for our upcoming Choose Privacy Week video! Check it out at http://vimeo.com/10998821. Produced by Laura Zimmer, a fantastic young filmmaker, the full video will be available the week of April 26 for use during Choose Privacy Week (May 2-8, 2010). We hope that libraries and others will share the video online and host events to discuss the issues it raises. In addition to "man on the street" interviews, the finished video will feature individuals like Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow, and ALA President Camila Alire discussing privacy. For more information on Choose Privacy Week, visit www.privacyrevolution.org or contact amaycock@ala.org.
ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom is pleased to share a brand new trailer for our upcoming Choose Privacy Week video! Check it out at http://vimeo.com/10998821. Produced by Laura Zimmer, a fantastic young filmmaker, the full video will be available the week of April 26 for use during Choose Privacy Week (May 2-8, 2010). We hope that libraries and others will share the video online and host events to discuss the issues it raises. In addition to "man on the street" interviews, the finished video will feature individuals like Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow, and ALA President Camila Alire discussing privacy. For more information on Choose Privacy Week, visit www.privacyrevolution.org or contact amaycock@ala.org.
YALSA Symposium—in Albuquerque!
Registration is now open for YALSA's Young Adult Literature Symposium, Nov. 5–7, at the Albuquerque Marriott. Go to www.ala.org/yalitsymposium to register. The 2010 theme is “Diversity, Literature, and Teens: Beyond Good Intentions.” Join YALSA as we explore the depth and breadth of contemporary literature in search of an answer to these questions.
Early bird registration costs $195 for YALSA members and members of the NM Library Association; $245 for ALA personal members; $300 for nonmembers; and $50 for students, who must be enrolled full-time in a library and information science program. Preconference sessions and special events are also available for additional fees. Early bird pricing expires on Sept. 10. Rooms at the Albuquerque Marriott are offered at a special rate for registrants of $99 per night.
Registration is now open for YALSA's Young Adult Literature Symposium, Nov. 5–7, at the Albuquerque Marriott. Go to www.ala.org/yalitsymposium to register. The 2010 theme is “Diversity, Literature, and Teens: Beyond Good Intentions.” Join YALSA as we explore the depth and breadth of contemporary literature in search of an answer to these questions.
Early bird registration costs $195 for YALSA members and members of the NM Library Association; $245 for ALA personal members; $300 for nonmembers; and $50 for students, who must be enrolled full-time in a library and information science program. Preconference sessions and special events are also available for additional fees. Early bird pricing expires on Sept. 10. Rooms at the Albuquerque Marriott are offered at a special rate for registrants of $99 per night.
To learn more about programs, find out how to reserve a hotel room, and more, visit www.ala.org/yalitsymposium. Questions? Contact yalsa@ala.org or 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4390.
TechGYRLS Summer Camp
TechGYRLS is a program developed by the YWCA USA in 1997 in response to the widening gap in exposure to and interest in technology for girls. The goal of TechGYRLS is to broaden girls’ knowledge and interests and to help them develop the confidence to use technology tools in whatever profession they pursue.
TechGYRLS is a program developed by the YWCA USA in 1997 in response to the widening gap in exposure to and interest in technology for girls. The goal of TechGYRLS is to broaden girls’ knowledge and interests and to help them develop the confidence to use technology tools in whatever profession they pursue.
TechGYRLS TNT Camp is open to girls ages 11-13 who have a letter of recommendation from a science or math teacher. Limited scholarships are available. Tuition is $350.00 per week. There are two one-week overnight camp sessions to choose from this June, to be held at the YWCA Camp, Pinon Canyon in Tijeras. Go to http://www.ywca.org/site/pp.asp?c=chJJJUOBJoH&b=481597 for more info and to register.
Internet Safety
In a 7 page report entitled Empowering Parents and Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape, the Federal Trade Commission explains how it helps to keep children safe in both fast-changing online environments from computers to game consoles to mobile phones and the traditional media, through comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission. The FTC's written comments describe its authority to enforce laws that protect children in media environments; its recent studies examining how food, beverages, and entertainment are marketed to children; and its consumer education campaigns for parents, children, and educators about becoming media savvy. Go to http://www.ftc.gov/os/2010/04/V100006empowerparents.pdf to read the comments.
In a 7 page report entitled Empowering Parents and Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape, the Federal Trade Commission explains how it helps to keep children safe in both fast-changing online environments from computers to game consoles to mobile phones and the traditional media, through comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission. The FTC's written comments describe its authority to enforce laws that protect children in media environments; its recent studies examining how food, beverages, and entertainment are marketed to children; and its consumer education campaigns for parents, children, and educators about becoming media savvy. Go to http://www.ftc.gov/os/2010/04/V100006empowerparents.pdf to read the comments.
Teaching Web Page Evaluation Using Hoax Sites
The Teaching Web Page Evaluation Using Hoax Sites web page lists well-done online hoaxes that librarians, teachers, and parents can use to teach kids and teens about evaluating websites. Go to http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html to view the site.
The Teaching Web Page Evaluation Using Hoax Sites web page lists well-done online hoaxes that librarians, teachers, and parents can use to teach kids and teens about evaluating websites. Go to http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html to view the site.
Professional Development Workshop: All about Science
What: Building On Research to Improve Practice: Applying what we know about learning science in informal environments
Who: Facilitated by Dennis Schatz, Pacific Science Center
When: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: At the NM Museum of Natural History & Science, Albuquerque
How much: NMAM members: $45; non-members: $55 (includes box lunch)
What: Building On Research to Improve Practice: Applying what we know about learning science in informal environments
Who: Facilitated by Dennis Schatz, Pacific Science Center
When: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: At the NM Museum of Natural History & Science, Albuquerque
How much: NMAM members: $45; non-members: $55 (includes box lunch)
The National Research Council has just published Surrounded by Science: Learning Science in Informal Environments. If you want to utilize best practices or plan to justify what you are doing—this book and this workshop are what you need. We will engage in activities that highlight some of the themes from the publication and other related research, observe visitor interaction in a museum setting (New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and Explora!) and discuss ways we might apply what is learned from the workshop to further learning within our own setting. Although the focus of this workshop will be learning in informal science settings, participants from all kinds of museums and informal learning settings will find many things applicable to their work.
For registration questions, contact Selena Connealy, selena.connealy@comcast.net or 505-217-5605.
July is National Culinary Arts Month
This month-long celebration held each July promotes awareness of professional cooks and chefs and their contributions to new culinary trends and dining excellence. It’s also a good time to offer food-related programming at your library. Check out ways to highlight cooking in your library at http://www.programminglibrarian.org/library/planning/events-and-celebrations/national-culinary-arts-month.html.
This month-long celebration held each July promotes awareness of professional cooks and chefs and their contributions to new culinary trends and dining excellence. It’s also a good time to offer food-related programming at your library. Check out ways to highlight cooking in your library at http://www.programminglibrarian.org/library/planning/events-and-celebrations/national-culinary-arts-month.html.
Libraries (and Cameras) Help Teens Show How They See It
This article explains a program held at 21 libraries in California, and includes a how-to manual for libraries interested in offering a similar program: http://www.programminglibrarian.org/blog/2010/march-2010/libraries-and-cameras-help-teens-show-how-they-see-it.html
This article explains a program held at 21 libraries in California, and includes a how-to manual for libraries interested in offering a similar program: http://www.programminglibrarian.org/blog/2010/march-2010/libraries-and-cameras-help-teens-show-how-they-see-it.html
(The following are reprinted with permission from the Idaho Commission for Libraries, The Scoop newsletter, April 16, 2010)
Archived Webinar: Creating a Successful Teen Advisory Board
Our friends at the Texas State Library hosted a webinar on teen advisory boards. Creating a successful teen advisory board can invest your teen audience in the library and in their community. What if teens aren't currently coming into your library? Well, no better way to get them interested than to put them in charge of their own library destiny by creating a teen advisory board. Valerie Jensen, Assistant County Librarian of the Chambers County Library System in Anahuac, Texas discusses her library's efforts to get the teens in the door and keep them interested.
Our friends at the Texas State Library hosted a webinar on teen advisory boards. Creating a successful teen advisory board can invest your teen audience in the library and in their community. What if teens aren't currently coming into your library? Well, no better way to get them interested than to put them in charge of their own library destiny by creating a teen advisory board. Valerie Jensen, Assistant County Librarian of the Chambers County Library System in Anahuac, Texas discusses her library's efforts to get the teens in the door and keep them interested.
View the Archived Webinar (free registration required)
Links from Webinar (doc)
Sample Teen Survey (pdf)
Sample Teen Advisory Board application (pdf)
Links from Webinar (doc)
Sample Teen Survey (pdf)
Sample Teen Advisory Board application (pdf)
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, May 6, is a day to promote positive youth development and resiliency for all children. Communities across the country recognize the day with events focused on raising awareness about the importance of mental health and the mental health needs of infants, children, youth and their families. Help spread the word that “mental health matters” for all children. Check out the info on the NM Public Education Department/School and Family Support Bureau website: http://www.ped.state.nm.us/sfsb/tools/.
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, May 6, is a day to promote positive youth development and resiliency for all children. Communities across the country recognize the day with events focused on raising awareness about the importance of mental health and the mental health needs of infants, children, youth and their families. Help spread the word that “mental health matters” for all children. Check out the info on the NM Public Education Department/School and Family Support Bureau website: http://www.ped.state.nm.us/sfsb/tools/.
The Book Nook
Children’s Book Week
Since 1919, Children's Book Week has been celebrated nationally in schools, libraries, bookstores, clubs, private homes -- any place where there are children and books. Educators, librarians, booksellers, and families have celebrated children's books and the love of reading with storytelling, parties, author and illustrator appearances, and other book-related events.
Since 1919, Children's Book Week has been celebrated nationally in schools, libraries, bookstores, clubs, private homes -- any place where there are children and books. Educators, librarians, booksellers, and families have celebrated children's books and the love of reading with storytelling, parties, author and illustrator appearances, and other book-related events.
This year, Children’s Book Week is May 10-16. Find ideas about how to celebrate at your library at http://www.bookweekonline.com/for-teachers. Download fun bookmarks for the event at http://www.bookweekonline.com/bookmark. And have your young patrons vote for the Children’s Choice Book Awards at http://www.bookweekonline.com/voting.
Challenged Book List
The ALA’s Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2009 reflect a range of themes, and consist of the following titles:
The ALA’s Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2009 reflect a range of themes, and consist of the following titles:
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“TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series), by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs -
“And Tango Makes Three” by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
Reasons: Homosexuality -
“The Perks of Being A Wallflower,” by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Anti-Family, Offensive Language, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs, Suicide -
“To Kill A Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee
Reasons: Racism, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group -
Twilight (series) by Stephenie Meyer
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group -
“Catcher in the Rye,” by J.D. Salinger
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group -
“My Sister’s Keeper,” by Jodi Picoult
Reasons: Sexism, Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs, Suicide, Violence -
“The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things,” by Carolyn Mackler
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group -
“The Color Purple,” Alice Walker
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group -
“The Chocolate War,” by Robert Cormier
Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group
New this year is an updated list of the top 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of the Decade (2000 – 2009). Topping the list is the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. Go to http://tinyurl.com/top100fcb for the list.
For more information on book challenges and censorship, visit the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom’s Banned Books Week Web site at www.ala.org/bbooks.
Free First Chapter
To promote John Grisham's new book Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, Dutton Children's Books is offering the first chapter as a free download at http://www.theodoreboone.com/.
To promote John Grisham's new book Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, Dutton Children's Books is offering the first chapter as a free download at http://www.theodoreboone.com/.
2010 Indies Choice Book Awards
The American Booksellers Association's 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards have been announced. The winners are:
The American Booksellers Association's 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards have been announced. The winners are:
- Picture Book: The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown)
- Middle Reader: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Random/Wendy Lamb)
- Young Adult: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic).
- Most Engaging Author: Kate DiCamillo
Picture Book Hall of Fame:
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz (Atheneum)
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
- The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson (Viking)
Helping Books/Helping Families Program
The Helping Books/Helping Families Program is a resource center compiled to assist families and adults with finding and using quality children’s literature as a tool for individual and group discussion activities. The Literature Database is a collection of children’s literature titles, both fiction and nonfiction, covering topics that focus on ethical and personal issues relevant to young people. These titles have been reviewed and selected by librarians, teachers, and other trained adults working with children’s literature. Helping Books Resources lists programs, web sites, books, videos, and other tools that provide guidelines for the use of children’s literature to generate discussion.
The Helping Books/Helping Families Program is a resource center compiled to assist families and adults with finding and using quality children’s literature as a tool for individual and group discussion activities. The Literature Database is a collection of children’s literature titles, both fiction and nonfiction, covering topics that focus on ethical and personal issues relevant to young people. These titles have been reviewed and selected by librarians, teachers, and other trained adults working with children’s literature. Helping Books Resources lists programs, web sites, books, videos, and other tools that provide guidelines for the use of children’s literature to generate discussion.
(The following are reprinted with permission from the Idaho Commission for Libraries, The Scoop newsletter, April 16, 2010)
Best Read Aloud Picture Books
Best Read Aloud Picture Books, www.mnstate.edu/cmc/BestReadAlouds.cfm, is a new online bibliography available from the Curriculum Materials Center at Livingston Lord Library, Minnesota State University Moorhead. The bibliography provides lists of picture books, published between 2004 and 2008, that are highly recommended for reading aloud to children. The bibliography is divided by age levels: toddlers-age 5; ages 6-8, and ages 9-12. Each of the books has been read aloud to numerous children to obtain feedback. Each annotation includes a description of the book and details of how children and readers responded to the book.
Best Read Aloud Picture Books, www.mnstate.edu/cmc/BestReadAlouds.cfm, is a new online bibliography available from the Curriculum Materials Center at Livingston Lord Library, Minnesota State University Moorhead. The bibliography provides lists of picture books, published between 2004 and 2008, that are highly recommended for reading aloud to children. The bibliography is divided by age levels: toddlers-age 5; ages 6-8, and ages 9-12. Each of the books has been read aloud to numerous children to obtain feedback. Each annotation includes a description of the book and details of how children and readers responded to the book.
