There’s still time to sign-up for the 11th Annual Fall Into Books Children’s and Teens Literature Conference.
This year our keynote speaker is Marsha Howard, Coordinator for Poetry in The Branches for Poets House a 50,000 volume poetry library and literary center.
Our guest author is John Grandits an award-winning book and magazine designer and the author of Beatrice Black Bear, a monthly cartoon for Click magazine.
Beth Green from Wappingers Junior High School will be one of our discussion group leaders!
Date: Friday, October 23, 2009 (registration deadline October 2, 2009)
Target Audience: School Library Media Specialists and Public Librarians
Location: Marian Shrine, Stony Point, NY
Click on the links below for copies of the flyers.
Note: Bus transportation is available. FIB 2009 Bus flyer
Fall Into Books is sponsored by:
Dutchess BOCES School Library System
Orange-Ulster BOCES School Library System
Rockland BOCES School Library System
Sullivan BOCES School Library System
Ramapo Catskill Library System
Mid-Hudson Library System
The New York Library Association presents: A Hudson Valley Networking Hour
When: Friday, September 11, 2009 from 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Where: 36 Main (36 Main Street, New Paltz)
5 Reasons to Join Us:
- Meet new people to add to your personal and professional networks
- Re-connect with your existing network
- Learn more about NYLA and upcoming events
- Establish your presence in the Hudson Valley library community
- Have some fun and relax at a restaurant known as “The place to be in New Paltz.” Stay for dinner!
RSVP for this event by registering at http://calendar.midhudson.org/ by Friday, September 4, 2009.
The Mid-Hudson Library System will sponsor the 2009 Battle of the Books competition on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at Roy C. Ketcham High School in Wappingers Falls from 1:00 pm - 4:00pm. For more details go to http://midhudson.org/department/youth/bob/Main.htm
The 2009 Statewide Summer Reading Program theme is “The Arts” with the slogans “Be Creative @ Your Library” (children) and “Express Yourself @ Your Library” (teens). In addition, this year New York is celebrating the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial; therefore, New York State History related materials will be highlighted through the additional slogan, “Be Creative: Explore New York”.
This year the New York State Library has created a packet of New York Statewide Summer Reading Program materials for school library media specialists to use with students, faculty, and local public libraries.
There are three components of the New York Statewide School
Library Partnering Packet:
- The School Library Partner Manual: an overview of the 2009 theme, ideas for partnering with local public libraries, promotional materials, and the Collaborative Summer Reading Program (CSLP) arts inspired readings lists.
- Be Creative, Explore New York: A Picture of NYS History, Culture, and Diversity. The New York State Library, in partnership with the New York Library Association’s Youth Services Section and School Library Media Section, has created four selected reading lists (picture books, elementary, tween, and teen & up) that celebrate the history, culture, and diversity of New York State. The lists are designed to provide a “flavor” of New York State and to spark an interest in the diversity and history of the state.
All School Library Media Specialists are invited to to visit the http://www.summerreadingnys.org website for a wealth of summer reading program ideas and information.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 is Library Lobby Day for NYS libraries. Libraries need you to stand up and speak out this year. Students, educators and parents are strongly encouraged to travel with your regional School Library System Coordinators and other library supporters to meet with NYS legislators to speak out for libraries! NYS Libraries need more money. Our School Library Systems are facing an 18% cut in funding. Legislators need to learn what libraries do for citizens of New York State.
MHLS and RCLS are coordinating transportation for the day. To register for the bus go to http://midhudson.org/funding/advocacy/bus09.pdf
For more information and talking points for lobby day:
New York Library Association
http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=148
The regional School Library Systems are hosting the AASL Licensed Institute: Leading Through Collaboration. This regional institute ties into two of the basic ideas of collaboration and leadership — that underlie the vision of library media programs presented in Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. Each is integral to every aspect of the library media program and every component of the school library media specialist’s role.
The instructor will guide you through this one-day workshop that provides you with an opportunity to increase your understanding of the components of leadership, identify your own leadership skills and professional priorities, and apply leadership strategies to the challenges we face in our schools and our profession. You will have time and opportunities to connect with other school library media professionals and establish networks to work together to effect change.
Date: Monday, March 2, 2009 (Registration deadline - Thursday, February 26, 2009)
Time: 8:00am - 4:00pm (Lunch will be served)
Location:
Orange-Ulster BOCES Harriman Learning Center, 163 Harriman Heights Road, Monroe, NY 10950
To register online go to www.mylearningplan.com
This workshop series is in collaboration with AASL and the NYS School Library Systems Association. The series is supported in part by Federal Library Services and Technology Act funds, awarded to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.
School Library System | September 22, 2009
