Pre-Conference Workshop Well Received

Several NFLS librarians attended the SLP Workshop last Tuesday, October 16 at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary. I was lucky enough to be able to attend some of the sessions myself, and they were great! Here are some comments from participants.:

It was GREAT!  Fired us all up & gave us a "headstart" for picking things up between now & summer.  Teen ideas (LaCrosse presenter), Georgia Jones' preschool ideas & Patti Sinclair's session were my favorites.
- Kathy Dettman, Brown County Library

My co-worker, Brianna, and I enjoyed the break-out sessions we went to.  We found the Teen session very informative with many good ideas.  Since we don't have a separate teen area (yet), we were excited to glean information, so hopefully we will be able to implement one in the near future.
- Julie Dassler, Shawano City-County Library

The workshop was fabulous!  I really thought it neat that we were given the handouts for all of the sessions at the time of check in.  That way if you couldn't get to something that you really wanted to go to, you still had the information.  There were some really neat ideas in the display area and a couple of the programs that had enough info to plan an entire summer - without even having the manual!
- Bonnie Joski, Kewaunee Public Library

Positive Uses of Social Networking in Libraries

Young adult librarians respond to the challenge of YALSA's "30 days of positive uses of social networking project. Every day throughout October three YALSA bloggers posted ideas and information about using social networking in the school and public library." - Neat New Stuff I Found This Week, http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2007.
- From "Monday Memo," October 22, 2007