In one of my first posts to the ALSC Blog, I mentioned sharing professional reading. Since then, I have toyed with ways to do this. While I am uncertain LibraryThing is our best option, I thought we could give it a go, at least for the first 200 books, the limit to maintain a free membership.
I created an account for ALSC Blog and have added a link to that account on the bottom of the sidebar on the ALSC Blog’s home page. The January book to be discussed/shared is The Family-Centered Library Handbook by Sandra Feinberg et al. The book for February will be A Crash Course in Children’s Services by Penny Peck as suggested by ALSC Blog reader, Tina. I will add that title to the ALSC Blog’s Library Thing account after I post about The Family-Centered Library Handbook.
I invite you to recommend titles to this professional reading list by either commenting here or emailing alscblog@gmail.com. If you have other ideas of ways to do this, please share those as well. Thanks!
angelaNS
Two books that I find very helpful in storytime planning are:
Early Literacy Storytimes @your library, by Saroj Nadkarni Ghosting & Pamela Martin-Diaz, 2006, ALA. This one has great ideas on how to incorporate the early literacy concepts smoothly into your storytimes.
And..
Ready to Go Storytimes, by Gail Benton and Particia Waichulaitis, 2003, Neal-Schuman. Patterns, fingerplays, music (CD included), stories, themes, and more! Very helpful for integrating multi-media & fun into storytime.
diannaburt
I would agree on both these titles:
Early Literacy Storytimes @your library, by Saroj Nadkarni Ghosting & Pamela Martin-Diaz
Ready to Go Storytimes, by Gail Benton and Particia Waichulaitis
I have been using early literacy as part of my storytimes for 5 years now, and this title helps greatly. I also had the honor of attending a workshop by Gail and Trish and their stuff is terrific!
Teresa Walls Post author
Thanks, Angela and Dianna! I will put those two titles down as our March titles, since it sounds as though they partner very nicely.
afewsocks
Though this isn’t a specifically children’s recommendation – it’s an important book, I think, for us as librarians as it discusses where information management and sharing are headed: Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger. The book addresses things like blogging, tagging, flickr, wikis, wisdom of the crowd, etc. Since this is what we’ll be handing the children we’re working with today, I felt it really informed the direction of our county’s services, programs and catalog!
Teresa Walls Post author
Thanks! I’ll add it to the list. Sounds interesting and timely.
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