SJRLC Connections

A+ Meeting and Program: Aug 19,, 10-3 @ GCLS Mullica Hill

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
10 am to 3 pm
(coffee at 9:30; catered lunch included)

Booktalking the Reading Rants Way

With Special Guest Speaker:

Jennifer Hubert, Author of Reading Rants

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Cost: FREE!

Gloucester County Library, Mullica Hill
Directions: http://www.sjrlc.org/directions/GCLS 

Click here for registration form

We invite SJRLC librarians who serve teens from both school (middle and high) and public libraries as well as administrators who fund these services to join us for a great booktalking program, networking lunch, and planning session on services to teens in the Region.  (Librarians from other Regions can register on a space-available basis) We are pleased to announce that Jennifer Hubert will be our guest presenter! Booktalking the "Reading Rants" way!  Booktalking is a tremendous tool for promoting your collection and attracting readers. Join our speaker Jennifer Hubert, author of the website Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Booklists for Teens and book of the same title, in a fun, useful, interactive presentation.  You will learn tips and techniques that will help newbie and seasoned booktalkers alike craft successful booktalks that connect young adults with books they will love! Jennifer is a self-described YA librarian, book reviewer, author, quilter and reality TV junkie.  She helps librarians connect with young adults, and helps young adults connect with books they love through her writing, blogging, and presenting. When she's not reading or writing about great young adult books, Jennifer works directly with teens in her position as the Middle School Librarian at the Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. In addition to Jennifer's presentation, we will also hear about the new Teen Spaces at Atlantic City and Camden County Libraries.  There will also be time for you to talk and share with each other. We promise you a day of engagement, sharing, and inspiration! Come as a Team!  Contact your school/public library counterpart and come as a team.  See the "Connecting" section on our wiki (sjrlcaplus.pbwiki.com/Connecting) to find your counterpart.  Network with Others: Connect with school and public librarians who serve teens across South Jersey! Share your accomplishments!  If you've collaborated with your school/public library counterpart on programs or services, you'll have an opportunity to share your success stories.  Tell us about your Teen Space! Help us plan new ideas and services:  What can can we accomplish together in 2009? Be inspired: By our inspiring speaker, and by each other! Click here for registration form --- Earn 5 Professional Development Hours for attending this program ---

Join SJRLC's Children's & YA Book Eval Program

Hello everyone -

 

The SJRLC’s Children’s and YA Book Eval Program is now beginning our 2009-2010 year, and we’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to join us! 

Since 1987, the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative has run a very successful Book Evaluation Program, using review copies of new books provided by top children's and young adult publishers.  Every year thousands of these free books are distributed. When you participate, you and your SJRLC member library will benefit in many ways:

• For every two book you review, you select one to keep.  Review 20 items and your library has 10 free books!
• Reviews are entered online; it’s quick and easy.
•  It’s a great chance to share and compare with other library professionals.
•  You have the opportunity to preview quality new books. 
•  You can choose to attend bi-monthly meetings scheduled in both the western and southern portions of the SJRLC region, or to receive and return your material via CDL/Velocity Express.

Reviewers are asked to fill out a program sign-up form each year, even if they have completed one in the past. If you’ve already registered for 2009-10, thank you. And if you haven’t, please consider joining us. A sign-up form is available online at http://www.sjrlc.org/bookeval/bookeval2009_2010.pdf. If you know of anyone who would like to join the program, please encourage them to send in a registration as well.

 

If you have any questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We look forward to working with you!

 

Laurie Cranston,Woodbury Public Library

Summer Reading Program Support

Posted on behalf of James Keebler, Piscataway Public Library

Hello all,

Amidst the funding drama here in Piscataway, apparently I did at least one thing correctly.  We developed a relationship with Sky Blue FC, the new New Jersey professional women's soccer team that will be playing the rest of their games in Piscataway at Rutgers.  We have worked with them to develop a Summer Reading program.  I had previously sent out the information to LMXAC libraries, unsure of how it would be received. Apparently it gained a lot of interest, so I thought I would include the information for libraries around New Jersey if you choose to place it on your listserv.

We pursued the relationship and the program for a few reasons:

1. Like many communities, we have a very strong youth soccer group.
2. The tickets are great for all kids, including young girls.
3. Many of my staff felt it was time for us to support women's professional sports.
4. As a league that is just starting out, they are extremely friendly and helpful.
5. Some of the restaurants and businesses that had supported our Summer Reading Program in the past have well...passed.

I have attached the informational flyer if you would like to send out the information to your member libraries.  They are also offering a fundraising option that might be of interest to Friends groups.   If you have any further questions, feel free to contact me or the Sky Blue Staff member listed on the flyer.

Thank you for your time.

James

Link to Flyer: http://www.sjrlc.org/PDF/summerreading2009.pdf

Digital Learning Day

Hello All,

The Tri-County Librarians Association and the Camden County Association of School Librarians has put together a Digital Learning Day for March 28, 2009.  It will be held at Lindenwold High School.  Please join us if you can.  Here is the information about the day:

 

Digital Learning Day
March 28, 2009
Lindenwold High School, 801 Egg Harbor Rd.,Lindenwold, NJ 08021

 

Presented by the Camden County Association of School Librarians and the Tri-County Librarians’ Association

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

8:30am – 9:00am:   Registration and refreshments  

9:00am – 10:00 am:  Breakout Session I

Gaggle, More Than a Bunch of Geese

Scott Wagner, Clearview Middle School, Social Studies Teacher

Gaggle is more than a safe e-mail account.  Students and teachers can blog, use message boards, open chat rooms, store information in digital lockers, and communicate in a safe environment.

This is a hands-on workshop.

 

Bring Your Lessons Alive with a Smartboard

Larry Abrams, Lindenwold High School , Teacher

Using Smartboards while employing all of its elements can bring understanding to many different types of learners. Learn how to use all of the capabilities that a Smartboard has to offer to enrich your presentations to your students.

 

Travel the World with Google Earth

Miriam Parkinson, Thomas Jefferson Middle School, LMS

Explore the earth, sky and the oceans.  Learn how to work with the many features of Google Earth and how to guide your students and teachers on curriculum relevant activities.  We’ll dig into finding and using Google Lit trips.

This is a hands-on workshop.  All participants must have a Gmail account prior to this workshop.

 

All Things Kindle

Nina Franco,Burlington Twp.  High School LMS

 

Kindle? $$$? Personal/ professional use? Kindle 2?  Meet the Kindle face-to-face in this session and experience what it is like to hold it, read with it and see how quickly you can download books with this handy device.

 

10:00am – 10:15am:  Break

10:15am – 11:15am: Breakout Session II

Gaggle, More Than a Bunch of Geese

Scott Wagner, Clearview Middle School, Social Studies Teacher

REPEAT from Session I.

This is a hands-on workshop.

 

Travel the World with Google Earth

Miriam Parkinson, Thomas Jefferson Middle School LMS

CONTINUATION from Session I.

This is a hands-on workshop.  All participants must have a Gmail account prior to this workshop.

 

Blogs, wikis, and podcasts, OH MY! Put Library 2.0 to Work in Your Library/Classroom

Dr. Marilyn Shontz, Rowan University

The availability of Library 2.0 tools can be overwhelming. This presentation will help you consider the problems and benefits of  Web apps, blogs, wikis, bookmarking tools, podcasts, using tagging, virtual and social networks. While using all of these tools is not possible, knowing enough to select the ones right for your school is the first step to a technology based program.

 

 

11:15am – 11:30am; Break

11:30am – 12:30pm: Breakout Session III

 

Blogs, wikis, and podcasts, OH MY! Put Library 2.0 to Work in Your Library/Classroom

Dr. Marilyn Shontz,  Rowan University

REPEAT from Session II

 

iGoogle

Miriam Parkinson,  Thomas Jefferson Middle School LMS

Learn how to set up your own personal search page with iGoogle and have information come to you. We will use themes, gadgets, and RSS to make a custom page just right for your needs.  We’ll also share quick search tips to help ourselves, our students and our teachers.

This is a hands-on workshop.  All participants must have a Gmail account prior to this workshop.

Cell Phones in the Classroom

Michael Chiumento, Burlington Twp. High School English teacher and Nina Franco, Burlington Twp. High School LMS

It is no secret that kids, especially teens, spend a large portion of their day communicating via their cell phones.  It is also common knowledge that many teachers and administrators view cell phones in a school environment as distractions, instruments for cheating, and other various disciplinary problems.  This session will examine and demonstrate cell phones as learning tools for students both in and out of school. You will see examples of how teachers with the aid of the Internet can reach and engage kids throughout grade levels and across curriculums.

 

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Registration is only $5.00 (to cover the cost of refreshments during registration and breaks)

                                                                    

PLEASE let us know if you will be attending on March 28, 2009 by sending your completed registration form and fee to: Jackie Gould

          

1089 Tristram Circle
Mantua, NJ   o8051

 

Please make checks payable to: Tri-County Library Association

Registration deadline:  March 20, 2009

 

                                     

Join us for an exciting morning of technology!

                                                           

 

Professional Developments credits will be given for each workshop.

  

Detach and mail this form with your check.

 

 

REGISTRATION FORM

 

Name ________________________________________________________________

 

Address _______________________________________________________________

 

Home phone #__________________________________________________________

 

Home email____________________________________________________________

 

School ________________________________________________________________

 

Municipality of  School____________________________________________________

 

Note:  Home phone number and email are for emergency only.  This information will not be given to any listserv, mailing list, etc.

 

 

If you have any questions, please contact:

Michelle

Michelle Marhefka

Library Media Specialist

Clearview Middle School

595 Jefferson Rd.

Mullica Hill, NJ  08062

856.223.2732 (phone)

856.223.9068 (fax)

NJLA Performers' Showcase Committee -- looking for members

From Diane Cann, Head of Youth Services, West Deptford Free Public Library

NJLA Performers' Showcase Committee -- looking for members

The Committee meets once "in person" -- all other correspondence and discussion is via email or telephone; this year the meeting is Friday, February 6 from 10 a.m. - 12/12:30 p.m. at Hamilton Township Library. 

NJLA Performers' Showcase is held in November; the tentative date and location for the 2009 Showcase is Thursday, November 5, at Monmouth County Library.

For more information contact Diane Cann, Chair, dmcann[at]westdeptford.lib.nj.us
 
Join us...it's a fun and rewarding committee to serve on!
 
Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

 

 
 

RFP Announcement: Teen Space Demonstration Project

Announcement of RFP

SJRLC A+ Teen Space

Demonstration Project

 

 

The South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative invites proposals from SJRLC member public libraries to serve as the demonstration library for the SJRLC A+ Teen Space Demonstration Project.

 

Borrowing ideas from the very successful ImaginOn facility at the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (NC), the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative will match Transformation Grant funds from the New Jersey State Library and a selected SJRLC member library to replicate aspects of these services in Southern NJ and to serve as a model for other New Jersey Libraries.

 

Our goal is to provide a safe and fun environment for teens that responds to their likes and needs as digital natives in the 21^st century through an incubator teen space project.

 

           You are invited to review our RFP and to submit a proposal no later than November 14, 2008. PDF and Microsoft Word versions of the RFP and Application are available at www.sjrlc.org/teenspace

 

 

 

October 10, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Youth Services Forum, Oct 15, 2008

The 18th annual Youth Services Forum: A Day of Hot Topics and Issues in Library Services to Children and Young Adults, sponsored by the NJ State Library, the children's and teen sections of NJLA and NJASL, will be held on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at the Monmouth County Library's Headquarters in Manalapan from 9 am until 3 pm.

The registration fee (including breakfast and lunch) is the same as it was last year - $25.00 for NJLA or NJASL members, $37.50 for non-members and $12.50 for students. CE credits will be awarded.

The registration form and the program descriptions with library directions are on the main pages of the NJLA website, http://www.njla.org and NJYAC website, http://www.njyac.org

The deadline to register is October 6, 2008. Make check or voucher payable to NJLA.

Questions? Contact:

Sharon Rawlins , Youth Services Consultant , NJ State Library srawlins [at] njstatelib.org , 609-278-2640 ext. 116

Meet the Authors: NJ Statewide Children’s and Young Adult Author Conference

Meet the Authors: NJ Statewide Children’s and Young Adult Author Conference

 

Register now for the annual NJ Statewide Children’s and Young Adult Author Conference, April 11, 2008, sponsored by the NJ State Library and the Children’s and Teen Services Sections of NJLA. The registration form is available on the NJYAC website at http://www.njyac.org and on the NJ State Library website at http://www.njstatelib.org under the heading Library Development Bureau, then click on LDB News and select 2008 Author Conference Registration Form. It will also be posted on NJLA’s website, http://www.njla.org very soon.

This fun and stimulating day of author presentations will be held at the Woodbridge Public Library, 1 George Frederick Plaza, Woodbridge, NJ. The program will be held from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM.

A light breakfast and lunch will be included.  Come for coffee at 9:30 AM, with the program to start at 10:00 AM. 

Copies of the author’s books will be available to purchase and have signed by the authors.

 
Featuring authors/illustrators: 

• Sarah Beth Durst, author fantasy Into the Wild “Amusing, but not profound.” – School Library Journal
• Kevin C. Pyle, author of the graphic novel Blindspot  “Perfectly captures a shining moment of boyhood” - Booklist 
• Marie Lamba, author of the teen novel What I Meant “Realistic and well-paced.” – Kirkus

 In addition to the other authors, Tonya Bolden will also be there.

Her newest nonfiction book is George Washington Carver. Her other nonfiction books
for readers in grades 6 and up include: Take-Off (Bk & CD): American All-Girl Bands During World War I; M.L.K.: The Journey of a King; The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali;Wake Up Our Souls: A Celebration of Black American Artists; and Cause: Reconstruction American 1863-1877.

 
For more information, contact Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Consultant, NJ State Library, srawlins [at] njstatelib.org, 609-278-2640 ext. 116.

Garden State Book Award Winners

The Children's Services Section of the New Jersey Library Association announces the following recipients of the 2008 Garden State Children's Book Award:

EASY-TO-READ BOOK

ONE NOSY PUP
by Carol Wallace, illustrated by Steve Bjvrkman

EASY-TO-READ SERIES BOOK

HENRY AND MUDGE AND THE GREAT GRANDPAS
by Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Sugie Stevenson

FICTION, GRADES 2 - 5

LUNCH MONEY
by Andrew Clements, illustrations by Brian Selznick

NON-FICTION, GRADES 2 - 5

RUNNY BABBIT: A BILLY SOOK
by Shel Silverstein

The Garden State Children's Book Awards were established in 1977 in order to give recognition to books for elementary grade readers. The nominees are selected
by a committee of the Children's Services Section of the New Jersey Library Association on the basis of literary merit; the winners are chosen by popularity
with readers. A three-year lapse from the original publication date is allowed in order to determine popularity.

The awards are given in three categories, with the option of one additional series category: a work specifically designated as Easy-To-Read by the publisher; a work of fiction for grades 2 - 5; a work of non-fiction for grades 2 - 5. Awards, presented annually at the NJLA spring conference, are given to both the author and the illustrator.

This year's conference will be held at the Ocean Place Conference Center in Long Branch, from April 29-May 1 with the awards presentation luncheon on May 1.

For further information, visit the NJLA website at www.njla.org, or contact Sandy Holtz, Chair, Garden State Childrens Book Awards Committee, by phone at
973-762-1622 x5013 or email at sholtz[at]maplewoodlibrary.org.

Garden State Teen Book Award winners

Courtesy of Kimberly L. Paone,  Supervisor, Adult/Teen Services,  Elizabeth Public Library

The votes are in (and counted) and I'm happy to announce this year's Garden State Teen Book Award winners:

Fiction, Grades 6-8
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
[runners-up: Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan]

Fiction, Grades 9-12
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
[runners-up: My Sister's Keeper by Jodie Picoult and Peeps by Scott Westerfeld]

Nonfiction, Grades 6-12
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
[runners-up: Red Hot Salsa by Lori Marie Carlson, ed. and Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti]

This year, there were 805 votes total, from 61 participating school and public libraries.  Thanks to all of you that contributed votes on behalf of your students!  The NJLA YA section is currently working hard to put together the 2008 ballot, so you can look for that at NJLA.