Connecting Boys with Books New!

Pain in the Brain - Working with Young Adults

Best and Worst of Times Survival Toolkit - a Youth Services Series

Programming for Tomorrow's World

Slammin' @ your library: Poetry Programs for Teens

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Best and Worst of Times Survival Toolkit-a Youth Series Workshop Series

Workshop One: Getting the Word Out (September 22, 2:30-5:00, Peabody Institute Library, Danvers)

• Redefining ourselves: Handout
• Marketing ourselves: Handout
• Advocating for Youth Services: Handout, Handout, Handout

Workshop Two: Managing in Lean Times (January, 10:00-12:30)

• Volunteers: Handout
• Staff-training: Handout
• Collection Development on "Bare bones": Handout

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Connecting Boys with Books
(Stevens Memorial Library, North Andover, December 5, 2005)

Boys are in trouble. All right, it seems boys are always in trouble, but this is serious. Boys are failing to read at an alarming rate. Libraries are not solving the problem because boys are not a presence in libraries. Find out how we lose boys, and why, what the consequences are for boys, and what we as librarians can do to save boys from lives as non-readers.
Michael Sullivan, Director of the Weeks Public Library in Greenland, NH, storyteller, chess teacher, and author of the book Connecting Boys With Books (ALA, 2003) and The Fundamentals of Children's Services (ALA, 2005) will share practical, proven, and sometimes off-beat suggestions on how to turn boys into life-long readers.
Handout
Booklist

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Pain in the Brain
(Rowley Public Library, October 5, 2005)

This customer service workshop delivers new insight into why teens and pre-teens act the way they do and tips on correcting inappropriate library behaviors.

Handouts:
Teen Library Behavior
Teen Brain

Presented by Beth Gallaway, Consultant, Metrowest Regional Library System and ALA Serving the Underserved Trainer.

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Programming for Tomorrow's World
(Tewksbury, October 18, 2004)

A Youth Services workshop to help colleagues both in public and school libraries with programs and services in light of grim budgets.

Presenters were:

• Kate Belczyck, Children's Librarian, Memorial Hall Library, Andover
• Jennifer Brown, Reference Librarian, Governor Dummer Academy, Byfield
• Beth Gallaway, Youth Services Consultant, Metrowest Region

This workshop included:

• Programming in the Library
• Non-traditional programming:
• Gaming for Tech-Savvy Teens
• Resources for Tech Programs @ your library
• YA Programming for Tomorrow's World
• Resource and Information sharing

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Slammin' @ your library: Poetry Programs for Teens
Presented by Beth Gallaway, Young Adult Librarian, Haverhill Public Library

• Handouts
• Open Mic Poetry Coffeehouse: an account of the first Coffeehouse at Peabody Institute Library, Danvers, by Danielle Ambrose

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