Though the day was dark, cold, and wet, participants and presenters made the day glow with networking, ideas, and fun!
An earlier posting presented the agenda
Please visit the slideshow to see glimpses of the fun!
Some comments from the evaluation include:
“What a great annual, delicious way to mingle and see such a wide range of librarians!”
9:30 – 1:30
Peabody Institute Library, Danvers
The Third Annual Program Power Breakfast is an opportunity to meet with colleagues and brainstorm effective and creative ways to encourage children, teens, families, and adults to visit the library and to read throughout the year.
Our panel of outstanding NMRLS member librarians will share tips and techniques on the many aspects of planning, conducting, and evaluating programs for all ages.
The day begins with a catered brunch with plenty of time to network with your colleagues.
There is a small program fee. There is a registration limit. Please download Registration Form
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In a roundtable format, several youth services librarians shared their best storytime programs and shared what made them the best. There were lots of handouts from everyone. Contact me if you want copies!
Beverly: Nancy Bonne offers a Mother Goose time for 18 months - 3 years of age. Her format begins with kids getting a name tag (any peel and stick label will do!). A Hello Song begins the session followed by songs, books, motion, rhymes, lots of vocabulary. Ending the session is the Goodbye song with a laundry basket filled with books, inviting parent and child to linger. Nancy also demonstrated her “story apron”, a walking flannel board.
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The next Breakfast will be on Friday, April 4th, 9:30 - 1:30, at the Peabody Institute Library in Danvers!
Registration will be available beginning in January! Same low cost!
See you there!
On April 27, 2007, over 50 librarians gathered at the Peabody Institute Library in Danvers for the Second Annual Program Power Breakfast. A full agenda included topics from Web 2.0 to Teatime for two year olds!
Please view a photo showcase - it’s not the same as being there but fun all the same!
General remarks from the evaluations:
• I liked the range of different programs. Some of them have sparked ideas of programs we can do in our library, or to do some things differently.
• The variety of info is good. Techies and crafties and program fiends all found ideas to use.
• I found the entire set-up of the workshop helpful. The presenters were wonderful and we were given ample opportunity to ask questions, particularly when we visited each exhibit.
• The handouts were complete and relevant. After hearing the presentations, the handouts reinforced it all.
More comments on specific programs:
• Pesky Library web tools was most cool - maybe ideas for our website. Good booklists/handouts from Pollard Library
• Children’s program ideas - Sara’s free crafts, Karen’s Tea for Twos, Lawrence puppet show for library cards and Lowell’s parenting workshop. All awesome. Plan to adapt for our needs.
• info on book talking & book discussion
Tell Me a Cuento is a true success. My goal is to reach every parent in Lawrence, and we’re making a beginning. It’s an ongoing program that I take to ESL classes held at the community college, to Even Start parents, to parent groups that meet in schools, to teenagers in the Essex Correction Center, to Child Care Circuit. The idea is to bring a program of joy and fun with books to parents and build their reading culture and that will enhance their children’s connection to books.
Each group meets three times and we have a book discussion around the book, focusing on readers’ experiences that the book makes them remember. People have liked the books a lot and get into amazing discussions. Target funded copies for them to keep. They also get library cards and invitations to library programs.
Another goal is to train volunteer discussion leaders so the program can happen in many more places or be repeated for a group.
I have lots of photos because I photograph each group and they write a collaborative poem that comes from the discussion.
Librarian’s Name: Terry Farish
Email: tfarish@mvlc.org
Library/City: Lawrence
In honor of the release of the 6th book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 15 young adults trained to become members of the Order of the Phoenix. One month before training commenced, interested teens place their names in the Goblet of Fire and the Goblet “chose” the participants. Order of the Phoenix Training lasted for a week.
The training schedule was:
Day 1: Wand weighing and Care of Magical Creatures. Activities: Making a wand,dragon matching game (using info from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), practice solving riddles in case of contact with a sphinx and decorating a mirror that could be used in case of a basilisk attack.
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A special storytime on the second Saturday of every month where dads are in the majority. The storytime is very similar to our usual offerings for children ages 2-6. Funny stories are the big hits. After a half hour of stories and songs, dads enjoy coffee and munchkins. Children have apple juice and snacks. We run this year round, so dads can count on the schedule. Holding it once a month makes them put it on the home calendar. (We have far more success with this than we did running a storytime every Saturday.) At first dads came for the good of their children. They return because it’s fun, and they see lots of other dads on a regular basis. The children insist on visiting the library more frequently, so the dads are now regular library patrons.
The program began with funding from the Friends for refreshments. The Family Foundation Network assists with funding now, because they are looking for programs that service dads. We are beginning outreach with the Billerica House of Correction with the hope that moms will be more willing to bring young children for visits if there is something fun to do.
Librarian’s Name:Maureen Foley
E-mail: mfoley@mvlc.org
Library/City:Chelmsford
Since the summer of 2004, middle and high school students have participated in “About Face!” self-portrait drawing workshops presented by upper division art education students at the Montserrat College of Art, Beverly. Each 1 ½ hour workshop introduces a new drawing technique and artistic style using various media including colored pencil, oil pastel, charcoal, mixed media, and collage. We have offered up to 5 classes but have found 3 is probably the maximum we can afford without applying for and receiving grant funding.
Registration is limited to 15 participants per class. Students are asked to bring their own drawing pads (9” X 12” minimum) and a hand mirror. For collage, students are invited to bring some materials of their own to use and share. The Friends of the Library have provided funding for materials and instructor stipends. Art materials cost approximately $80.00 per summer session. The instructors are paid $50.00 per workshop.
When this YA program was initially proposed, the main goal was to develop quality summer programming for local teens. Montserrat College was an untapped resource. When the Art Education Chair was contacted and asked for student teacher recommendations, a mutually beneficial collaboration was born. These summer classes provide practical teaching experience for art education students. For the library, what could be cooler than offering art workshops taught by art students who look the part, share great examples of their work, and introduce the career of art instructor to creative teens!
Library/City:Hamilton-Wenham Public Library
This popular program takes place one Friday morning a month. Fourteen two-year-olds dress up (often as only toddlers can dress!)and practice their social skills around a tea table with 2 books, finger plays, songs, action rhymes, puppets preceding. My assistant, Jan, has done this program now for 5 years with great success. Just one note - we do the story part of the program first in another section and then go to the tea table. It works best that way with fewer distractions. We use a plastic tablecloth and a tea set from Oriental Trading Company. Our Friends group pay for this and it averages $5. a month for white grape juice, cookies and tablecloth.
Librarian’s Name:Karen Nee
E-mail: nee@noblenet.org
Library/City:Marblehead
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