Our next Teen Brown Bag will be held from 12 - 2 pm on Wednesday, March 17 at NFLS!
You bring your lunch, and we'll provide beverages!
Swap and get ideas for the theme this summer, "Make Waves."
Please register with Denise at NFLS! 920-448-4410 or dfitzger@mail.nfls.lib.wi.us
Friday, February 19, 2010
SRP Workshop at the Beach!
The SRP Planning Workshop was held yesterday in the Nature Center of the beautiful Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary!About 40 librarians were in attendance for live music, presentations, good food, mingling and idea swapping. Everyone had crafts to take home, as well as a tote bag and READ pin. Some of the lucky door prize winners were:
Joan Denis - Spray n Splash Whale
Molly Senechal, Cindy Tuschy - Beach pail, beach towel, toy fishing kits
Cyndie Shaffer - water mattresses
Mariel Carter - BBWS tote bag
Terry Ehle from Lester Public Library shared awesome display and decoration ideas. Molly Johnson talked about the benefits of pet therapy at libraries. Her partner, "Beamish," kept everyone entertained! Cindy Tuschy of Gillett provided lots of other great ideas!
Thanks to all who attended!
See the NFLS Flickr page for photos of the day!
Molly's hand out and recommended reading is available on scribd.
Canines
Below are three videos of the day, that are also available on blip.tv.
Karla's Reviews
Saving Francesca By Melissa Marchetta
Francesca is beginning year 11 for the first time at St. Sebastian's, an all-boys school that recently went co-ed. This is at the wishes of her energetic mother, Mia, who wants Francesca to get away from the negative influence of a cliquey group of girls at her old school. At St. Sebastian's, there are 30 girls in a school of 750 boys; Francesca describes it like "either living in a fishbowl or like you don't exist." This is enough of a challenge to be facing, but then her charismatic mother is basically incapacitated by acute depression. Suddenly, everything is falling apart at home, and school is a challenge.
Francesca finds herself trying to cope at home while fighting for rights as a girl in an all-boy school, falling for William Trombel (a rather full of himself year 12 house leader), becoming friends with an unlikely group of girls and boys, and finding out who she is in this new and difficult growing experience.
The Year of Secret AssignmentsBy Jaclyn Moriarty
Best friends Lydia, Emily, and Cassie have been assigned to write to male pen pals from their rival school for English class. Told entirely in letters, lists, e-mails and other written forms of communication, we see how the relationships between each pair evolve and grow into friendship and then romance. Cassie ends up with a hostile pen pal who plays a cruel trick on her. This causes the five students to come together to teach her pen pal a lesson. Good read for younger teens.
~ Karla Giraldéz, BCL- Southwest
Make a Splash Sites
With the recent merge of two of my favorite fail-safe resources, the Internet Public Library and the Librarian’s Index to the Internet, I found A LOT of water-related sites that kids with love – all on one page! Here are a few of them:
"Online book about sharks that has facts, pictures, print-outs, extreme sharks, and much more."
- CEO, Rhonda Puntney, Issue 337, February 9, 2010
Culver's Coloring Contest
Culver's is continuing their joint National Library Week program with
the YSS and the Wisconsin Library Association. The program will be the same as in previous years and children will be asked to submit coloring sheets that correspond with the theme "Communities Thrive
@ Your Library."
The program is for children ages 11 and under.
This is an optional program and libraries are not required to participate.
The project runs in April and libraries are free to design the program
that best fits your needs. Many libraries collect coloring sheets in
the early weeks of the month and then present the prizes to winners,
either chosen through a drawing or by library staff serving as judges,
during National Library Week (April 11-17, 2010).
Contact Jamie by February 23 if you are interested in participating!
CSLP Suggestions
Suggestions are needed for the 2012 Children and Teen Slogans. The general concept is "Night Time."
One slogan that generated a great deal of interest last spring was "Into the Night" for children.
We also need ideas for a general concept for 2013.
Please send ideas to Jamie by February 24th!
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