Wednesday, April 15; 9 am - 3:30 pm
Appleton Public Library
Presented by: Megan Schliesman & Merri Lindgren
Children's Cooperative Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison (WI)
CCBC librarians Merri Lindgren and Megan Schliesman will talk about Great New Books for Children in the morning session and Great New Books for Teens in the afternoon, highlighting selected books from CCBC Choices 2015.
Books included in CCBC Choices 2015 will be available for hands-on examination. The Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC), located on the UW-Madison campus, serves as a children's literature library for adults, a book examination center, and a research library. Co-sponsored with OWLS and Winnefox.
Megan is currently chair of the Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association's Intellectual Freedom Special Interest Group, and a past member of the Wisconsin Library Association Intellectual Freedom Roundtable board. She has a B.A. degree in English from UW-Whitewater and a Master's Degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Merri has worked as a youth services librarian at the Helen M. Plum Memorial Library in Lombard, Illinois, and as an instructor of Adolescent and Young Adult Literature at Edgewood College. She is a former trustee of the Baraboo (Wisconsin) Public Library. Merri graduated from UW–Madison with a B.A. Degree in Psychology and has a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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