Welcome to the new Items of Interest newsletter. The new blog format allows SCLS youth services librarians to add comments to postings. Please contact Shawn Brommer if you have questions or if you have news for the next Items of Interest.
Popular Papberbacks for Young Adults
Ideas needed for 2007 SLP Manual "Get A Clue"
Homeschool article & resources
NCTE Excellence in Poetry Award
The Newbery, Caldecott and other ALSC awards were announced on January 23, 2006. For a complete list of award winners visit the ALSC web site.
The Association for Library Service to Children has published its
Notable Children's media lists:
2006 Notable Children's Books
2006 Notable Children's Recordings
2006 Notable Children's Videos
2006 Notable Computer Software for Children
If you have trouble with the above links, go to www.ala.org/alsc, click
on "Awards & Scholarships" and "Children's Notable Lists" on the
left-hand navigation menu.
The Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults Committee has announced this year's award winning paperbacks for teens. These lists, available on the ALA website. This award list is designed to introduce teens, librarians, and other interested adults to a wide variety of titles.
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is pleased to announce its kids! @ your library campaign. Building on The Campaign for America's Libraries, a multi-year, public awareness and advocacy campaign sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA), ALSC's initiative will provide promotion tips, sample press materials, downloadable art, and other tools to help local libraries reach out to kids, their parents and caregivers.
To run effective programs, youth services librarians in public libraries need the support of their supervisors and directors. The Sullivan award highlights the important role administrators play in support of public library service to children.
Deadline extended for Sullivan Award!
The Sullivan Award is an annual award consisting of a commemorative gift
and a 24k gold-framed citation presented to an individual who has shown
exceptional understanding and support of public library service to
children while having general management/supervisory/ administrative
responsibility that has included public library service to children in
its scope. Donated by Peggy Sullivan Ph.D.
An application is available online.
The deadline is March 1, 2006.
Patti Sinclair who edits the CSLP manual has sent a request asking for some
good ideas for school visit presentations for the 2007 children's manual.
"I need some clues! I've lost the scent! I've run into a dead end. Too many
puzzles, codes, literary snoops and lost civilizations are rattling around
in my brain.Any ideas for skits, stories, jokes, a monologue, some fun
patter...,etc. that will entice young readers to the library next (2007)
summer for 'Get a Clue @ Your Library.'"
send your ideas as soon as possible to Patti at:
trishsinclair@sbcglobal.net.
The last edition of the YSS press is available online.
In this issue:
From the Desk of Christine Carroll
Meet the Board
Book Festivals
SRP School Visits
WLA Reflections
Marvelous Money
Graphic Novels in the News
Harry Potter Parties
The Reading is Fundamental page has lots of tips, stories, songs and activities to support 0-5 literacy development on their web page. Share these ideas at your storytimes and with parents and caregivers who come to your library programs!
Even though the article is a few months old, I want to draw everyone’s attention to an August 2005 article from School Library Journal, "In a Class of Their Own," by Ann Slattery, which provides information about homeschooling for public librarians. The article includes a booklist of books and web sites that provide current information about homeschooling.
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