If you’ll be in San Diego, join ALSC for these exciting events! FRIDAY, January 7 ALSC Speed Networking, 7:30 — 9 p.m., MAR/Santa Rosa The object of the evening is to meet as many professionals as you can… with Speed Networking! Join ALSC for this fun spin on the classic speed dating structure. Participants will be organized to move around the room every couple of minutes, meeting new colleagues and exchanging ideas. The event is free and refreshments will be provided. ALSC Speed Networking is being sponsored by Disney-Hyperion. SUNDAY, January 9 ALSC All Committee Meeting, 8 a.m. — Noon, SDCC/Room 32 A/B and 30 C/D All committees will meet during this time to discuss the year’s happenings and future plans. All members are welcome to attend and sit-in on open committee meetings! MONDAY, January 10 ALA Youth Media Awards Announcement, 7:45 a.m., SDCC/Ballrooms A-D The ALA Public Information Office…
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ALSC announces winners of El día de los nií±os/El día del los libros mini-grants
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is pleased to announce the winners of the El dia de los ninos/El dia de los libros mini-grants. Eight libraries serving a population of 75,000 or less have won mini-grants worth $4,000 each; and seven libraries serving a population of more than 75,000 have won mini-grants worth $6,000 each. The mini-grants are part of ALSC’s Everyone Reads @ your library grant, generously funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Intended as an expansion of El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Día), the mini-grants have been awarded to libraries that demonstrated a need to better address the diverse backgrounds within their communities. “These mini-grants will provide children and families with an opportunity to explore the diverse cultures of their community,” said Julie Corsaro, President of the Association for Library Service to Children. “Libraries are an ideal family destination, offering parents…
Rave Reviews for ALSC’s Online Courses
At ALSC we can’t help but be proud of our online education programs. They continue to get rave reviews from students and yet…not everyone knows about them! If you read this blog and you don’t know our online courses by now, we aim to fix that. Incidentally, registration is open for the Winter 2011 online courses. Courses begin February 7, 2011. Detailed descriptions and registration information is available on the ALSC website. Fees are $95 for personal ALSC members; $145 for personal ALA members; and $165 for non-members. But really, the best way for us to describe the courses is from the responses we get. Several courses have been reviewed in the past on this blog (like, here and here), but we thought we’d bring a few more quotes for your perusal. These quotes were taken directly from the fall 2010 reviews of our courses. Enjoy! Information Literacy “The instructor’s own…
Illustration Instruction
“Drawn to Delight: How Picturebooks Work and (Play)” 2010 ALSC Conference preconference was held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. This awesome, fun-filled day provided a one-of-a-kind look into the world of picturebooks, how they are developed and created. We were awed by the award-winning illustrators who spoke to us about their work and gave us insights into how they begin their creative process. After their presentations we were split into small groups to tour the gallery and meet the illustrators; to watch how they use their mediums and create their illustrative works. Our particular group met with Javaka Steptoe, Timothy Basil Ering, William Low, Laura Vaccaro Seeger and Yuyi Morales. Each had such different methods of using artistic materials from digital artistry, charcoals and oils and die-cuts to create their final products. The highlight of the event was Caldecott Medal illustrator, Jerry Pinkney, presenting his overview…
Challenging but Rewarding
“The Newbery Medal: Past, Present and Future” taught by K.T. Horning is a class I would highly recommend for those of your furthering your interest in the Newbery Award or to become a Newbery committee member. The class only lasts six weeks and is demanding, but highly rewarding. Each week there are required readings including personal selections of previous Newbery winners, supplementary readings and online book discussion forums with leading questions posed by K.T. These discussions were often lively and offered various thoughts and viewpoints from our classmates. We also considered the clearly defined criteria the committee is charged with when looking for distinguished qualities in children’s literature. What I found interesting was the makeup of our class, we weren’t just all librarians; we had authors, teachers, people who loved to read, others just interested in the Newbery and its history and others interested in furthering their professional development through…
Morris Seminar: The Man, The Day, The Experience
I remember first hearing about the Bill Morris Seminar from a very active colleague in ALSC, but I was just a little bit too late to even be considered for the first seminar as all the participants had been selected and had accepted their invitations. I was politely told by a staff member in the ALSC office that the next seminar would be held in January of 2010, at ALA Midwinter in Boston. Trust me, that was a date I wasn’t going to forget. I closely monitored the ALSC website for the announcement of when the applications were available for the 2010 seminar. I made sure it was completed with every ounce of useful professional knowledge I could pick out of my brain and chose my two professional colleagues who also had to write letters of recommendation. And then I waited. I received the phone call from Jenny Najduch, Program…
ALSC Announces FLIP Workshop Winners
ALSC is pleased to announce the winners of an all-expense-paid family literacy training workshop, funded through a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded to the Children’s Museum of Houston (CMH). ALSC is a national dissemination partner in the grant. Ten ALSC members partnered with their local children’s museum for the Family Literacy Involvement Program (FLIP) workshop to be held at the CMH on May 18, 2011. FLIP is multi-lingual interactive learning literacy program for families with children birth through age eight that helps develop early learners’ reading and comprehension skills, and encourage reading engagement. The core of the program is a FLIP kit that is checked-out from the library and allows families to experience shared reading and book-centric activities in the comfort of their home. The purpose of the training is to instruct participants on the implementation of this literacy program in their libraries…
Member Discussion of the ALSC Scope of Attention Motion
As previously stated in the ALSConnect newsletter and on the ALSC-L electronic discussion list and the ALSC blog, there will be an opportunity for our membership-at-large to discuss the ALSC Scope of Attention Motion. It will begin today on ALAConnect (http://connect.ala.org/node/114682) at 12:00 p.m. EST and continue for one month. The ALSC Board of Directors have agreed to bring this motion to the membership-at-large, who will vote on it in Spring 2011. If approved, this motion would replace the phrase “through the eighth grade of junior high school age” with “through and including age 13” in the following ALSC Bylaw phrase: “It [ALSC] is responsible for the evaluation and selection of book and non-book library materials and for the improvement of techniques of library service to children from preschool through the eighth grade of junior high school age, when such materials and techniques are intended for use in more than…