Illinois - Children

Young Adult Advisory Board & Book Discussion Club

2009-10-21T23:15:41Z

Hello Library Friends. I am looking for advice as I put together a
"young adult advisory board and book discussion club" for ...yes, YA's.
I am hoping to create monthly meetings where YA's review and recommend their fave books,
vote for best book of 2009, as well as assist me with choosing books to purchase for the collection & recommend other
YA programs and materials. An ongoing club......

Has anyone else run a program like this?
Any shorter names/titles you can help me brainstorm for this board/club?

sugggestions and thoughts are appreciated

Deb in RI
Bibliodeb@gmail.com

thanks!

RE: Bilingual Storytime - questions from webinar

2009-10-13T19:41:46Z

At the Evergreen Branch Library's bilingual storytime, I read two stories in English, and my assistant reads one in English first, and then in Spanish. Sometimes my stories may have a few words of English, and we always try to include some fingerplays in Spanish.

CArol Kotsch
Children's Librarian
Evergreen Branch
Wichita, KS

Bilingual Storytime - questions from webinar

2009-07-29T20:22:14Z

Here are a few of the questions the community can continue to answer following the webinar Bilingual Storytimes: Building Early Literacy and Community.

Where do you get your bilingual books or books in other languages? Vendors? Publishers?
Do you take your storytimes on the road? Like school outreach? I get lots of requests from ESL classes.
What do you think is the best way to present bilingually with in a storytime... what's most effective for language learning? One webinar participant said "I do 3 stories. 1-In Spanish and verbally summarize as I go along in English 2- A bilingual book with key words in Spanish and 3- English book (available for check out in Spanish) with verbal summary in Spanish as I go along".

Dora the Explorer

2009-07-20T17:42:33Z

Our library is planning a Dora the Explorer book party. I've choosen some simple preschool crafts and games based on the tv series and books, but if anyone has something to share or advice to give, I'll take it!

Carol Kotsch
Children's Librarian
Evergreen Branch
Wichita, KS

RE: Favorite Authors

2009-03-18T21:29:35Z

The partons in our library tend to check out books about Star Wars, Pokemon, and Magic Tree house books frequently. Another popular series is the Diary of a Wimpy Kid. This one is very popular among the boys.

Favorite Authors

2009-01-22T19:35:13Z

I, too, love Danny Dunn--are the books still available? The Encyclopedia Brown (Donald J Sobol) and Boxcar Children (Gertrude Chandler Warner) books still circulate well

2009 Books for Children Grants from Libri Foundation

2009-01-06T20:10:51Z

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 2009

The Libri Foundation is currently accepting applications for its 2009 BOOKS FOR CHILDREN grants.

The Libri Foundation is a nationwide non-profit organization which donates new, quality, hardcover children's books to small, rural public libraries throughout the United States. Since October 1990, the Foundation has donated over $3,600,000 worth of new children’s books to more than 2,500 libraries in 49 states, including Alaska and Hawaii.

In order to encourage and reward local support of libraries, The Libri Foundation will match any amount of money raised by your local sponsors from $50 to $350 on a 2-to-1 ratio. Thus, a library can receive up to $1,050 worth of new children's books. After a library receives a grant, local sponsors (such as formal or informal Friends groups, civic or social organizations, local businesses, etc.) have four months, or longer if necessary, to raise their matching funds.

The librarian of each participating library selects the books her library will receive from a booklist provided by the Foundation. The 700-plus fiction and nonfiction titles on the booklist reflect the very best of children's literature published primarily in the last three years. These titles, which are for children ages 12 and under, are award-winners or have received starred reviews in library, literary, or education journals. The booklist also includes a selection of classic children’s titles.

Libraries are qualified on an individual basis. In general, county libraries should serve a population under 16,000 and town libraries should serve a population under 10,000 (usually under 5,000). Libraries should be in a rural area, have a limited operating budget, and an active children's department.

Please note: Rural is usually considered to be at least 30 miles from a city with a population over 40,000. Town libraries with total operating budgets over $150,000 and county libraries with total operating budgets over $350,000 are rarely given grants.

Applications are accepted from independent libraries as well as libraries which are part of a county, regional, or cooperative library system.

A school library may apply only if it also serves as the public library (i.e. it is open to the everyone in the community, has some summer hours, and there is no public library in town).

A branch library may apply if the community it is in meets the definition of rural. If the branch library receives its funding from its parent institution, then the parent institution’s total operating budget, not just the branch library’s total operating budget, must meet the budget guidelines.

Previous BOOKS FOR CHILDREN grant recipients are eligible to apply for another grant three years after the receipt of their last grant.
Libraries that do not fulfill all grant requirements, including the final report, may not apply for another grant.

Grants are awarded three times a year: (postmarked by) January 23rd (extended), April 15th, and August 15th. Grants are awarded January 31st, April 30th, and August 31st.

Application guidelines and forms may be downloaded from the Foundation's website at: www.librifoundation.org.

For more information about The Libri Foundation or its Books for Children program, please contact Ms. Barbara J. McKillip, President, The Libri Foundation, PO Box 10246, Eugene, OR 97440. 541-747-9655 (phone); 541-747-4348 (fax); libri@librifoundation.org (email). Normal office hours are: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Pacific Time.

Election Activites

2008-07-30T18:16:46Z

Hi I hope I'm posting this in the right place. Given that this is an election year, my library plans to hold a campaign party and mock election using the characters for "Duck for President." I would love to hear ideas for snacks to have and activities we could do to make it seem as real as possible.

Re: Favorite series - Little House

2008-07-24T20:50:12Z

In addition to Laura Ingalls Wilder's original "Little House" series, I also quite enjoyed Roger Lea MacBride's "The Rose Years" follow-up series. ("The Caroline Years" didn't quite live up, IMHO.)

Re: Local Book Awards

2008-04-25T12:07:24Z

Maine has the Lupine and Katahdin Awards each year.
A flyer of winners is posted here. The Lupine Award is designed to honor a living author or illustrator who is a resident of Maine, or who has created a work whose focus is Maine, as shown through the work's characterization, plot or setting. The Katahdin Award is a lifetime achievement award recognizing an outstanding body of work of childrens literature in Maine. The Katahdin Award is designed to honor a living Maine author or illustrator.

Re: Aha! Moment

2007-12-20T00:21:53Z

Fantastic! Thank you for sharing your moment, and also for bringing to light your shape program. My husband is a math tutor in our kid's public school, and while I know that our libraries do a great job taking part in literacy efforts, I don't think I hear enough about public libraries promoting math literacy in their programs.

I'd love to hear more about it :-) and about any other math programs going on out there.

Re: Aha! Moment

2007-12-14T15:54:42Z

Such a nice moment. Thank you for sharing!

Aha! Moment

2007-12-13T17:03:10Z

This morning I did a shape program with my 3 - 5 program. After we talked about shapes we then went on a shape walk. At the moment I am currently operating in a P.A.L. building so there is a huge gym in my building which is where we took our walk. When we got into the gym I let the kids have at it to find shapes. One little girl very excitedly told me that the huge fan in the gym was a circle.

I loved that moment but the bigger moment came when I did the shape program with my 6 and up storytime. We worked with tangrams in that group. One boy, who will turn 7 tomorrow, had a little trouble getting started but then something clicked and he started flying through the level 1 puzzles. I gave him a level 2 puzzle which he seemed to do fairly easily so I had him turn it over. He was having some difficulty getting the pieces to work together in the new puzzle so I had him move one of the big triangles. He did, which of course changed the shape of his puzzle so we tried to fit the remaining pieces in with no success. We tried a number of times to change this one big triangle hoping it would all work out. Finally he put the big triangle in where it need to be and I asked him if he thought his remaining pieces would fit in the space that was left. He looked at the puzzle and his pieces and then looked up at me with the biggest smile on his face. He then bent over his puzzle again and put the last three pieces in grinning the whole time. How great!

Technology in Children's Services

2007-11-21T21:51:43Z

Good morning all,

I work at the Whatcom Community College Library in Bellingham, WA and am getting my MLIS online through the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

This semester I am writing a term paper on children's librarianship, and I have some burning questions.

For those of you who are currently involved in children's librarianship: What is the role of technology in your job and how do you see it changing in the future? How has it changed from the past? What are some differences between the role of technology in children's and adult services (i.e. when children come to a public library, do they interact with technology as much as an adult would need to, and if so are they better at it?)

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Re: Anybody out there?

2007-10-29T19:47:46Z

Thanks for the suggestions!

Barbara

Re: Anybody out there?

2007-10-15T16:09:13Z

Barbara,
I have them with the Mother Goose cutout when I display info about WTBI at conferences etc. You could have them available for parents as a takeaway after a WTBI program.

Re: Growth Chart

2007-10-11T19:31:39Z

What a great "idea". I'll give it a try at my library!

Anybody out there?

2007-10-11T19:20:49Z

Hello All WTBI,

We are getting close to our November WTBI Conference in Delaware and was just wondering how everyone's year is going so far?

I also wanted to know if anyone has used those long informational cards. You know the ones that cover "Asking questions...", "Communicating...", "Designing and making models...", "Experimenting..." etc.. I have three sets of the cards and I am not sure what to do with them. Any suggestions?

Barbara Keesey
Appoquinimink Library
Middletown, De

Re: It's fall! What are you doing for Banned Books Week?

2007-09-26T22:08:07Z

I'd like to revive your discussion, mjmackey! Now that Banned Books Week is only a few days away, let's hear what you all are doing. I've also started a [url /forums/thread.jspa?threadID=7315]Banned Books Week[/url] topic within "Patron Services: Programming" so we can hear about programs reaching out to youth and adults.

Thanks for getting the conversation going!
Zola
WebJunction

It's fall! What are you doing for Banned Books Week?

2007-08-16T22:15:15Z

Well, not really fall, but Banned Book Week is only six weeks away, September 29October 6, 2007. Our library here in Los Alamos has a new YS supervisor, so we're fired up. Displays and public readings are on our agenda.

What's on yours?

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm

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