Summer Reading Program Updates
Summer Reading Program Materials are being shipped in early March to the Regional offices. Individual orders to member libraries will be sent out in the following weeks. Folks should have their posters, bookmarks, logs, YA cards, and certificates by late March, early April!
FY06 - FY07 Plan of Service for Youth Services
The NMRLS Youth Services Committee www.nmrls.org/about/committee.shtml#ya has been hard at work since the beginning of 2005 in creating the first ever Youth Services Plan of Service.
This Plan will provide a focus on the needs of member librarians in the Region who work with youth, birth through young adult. The Plan covers Fiscal Years 06 and 07. Come spring 2006, we will be aligned with other NMRLS Committees in creating a Plan of Service for FY08.
The Committee has worked diligently on this Plan and has brainstormed ideas to implement the objectives of the Plan.
Youth Services Survey:
The first activity is conducting a survey to communicate with our colleagues about the existence of this Committee, to identify outstanding and innovative programs, and to assess the needs of the member librarians. This survey was posted in late February with a deadline of March 10th. Results will be published in the next Newsletter.
What's on your mind? A Strategic Planning Forum for Youth Services Librarians
A second activity is to provide opportunities for Youth Services Librarians to explore topics of interest and importance.
Youth Services Librarians (school and public) are invited to attend this strategic brainstorming forum. Discussion will include issues and ideas in providing programs and services. Priorities from the discussion will be used towards future training and workshops. The sessions are facilitated by members of the Youth Services Committee.
- Monday, April 24 -- 10:00-11:30 -- Reading Public Library
Facilitated by Rachel Baumgartner, Children's Librarian, Reading Public Library, and Steve Connor, Young Adult Librarian, Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield
- Tuesday, May 16 -- 3:45-5:15 -- Pike School, Andover
Facilitated by Fran Mellin, Library Media Specialist, Pike School, and Kate Belczyk, Children's Librarian, Memorial Hall Library, Andover
- Tuesday, May 24 -- 10:00-11:30 -- Shore Country Day School, Beverly
Facilitated by Lisa Estabrook, Library Media Specialist, Shore Country Day School, and Kelly Rae Unger, Children's Librarian, Peabody Institute Library, Peabody
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The Youth Services Book Review Group
Monday, April 3, 2006
The Youth Services Book Review Group meets once a month, from 10:00 to 12:00, at the NMRLS office in Danvers. Books from publishers are available to reviewers in advance of their publication date. Reviews are shared each session in round-robin fashion. New reviewers are always welcome! Just come and the books will fall into your hands! (No registration required)
NMRLS and Metrowest Present: Every Child Ready to Read @ your library
3/21/2006 -- 10:00 AM to 04:30 PM -- Billerica Public Library, Billerica
Young Adult Roundtable: Summer Reading 2006
3/30/2006 -- 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM -- Tewksbury Public Library, Tewksbury
For more workshops for youth services librarians, please visit www.nmrls.org/youth/ys_wkshops.shtml
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