TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Coming Up This Month
2. SLP Update
3. Teen Services
3a. Programs for Tweens and Teens in 2007
3b. UW-Madison Offers One Day Course on the Adolescent Brain
3c. AskAway Contest Deadline Extended
3d. Celebrate Books with Bite @ your library® during Teen Read Week 2008
3e. Additions to the DLTCL Adolescent Literacy Web Page
4. Steppingstones of Technology Innovation for Children with Disabilities Grants
5. New Report Available on Wisconsin Children in Immigrant Families
6. The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families Offers Presentation on Early Learning
7. Child Online Protect Act Declared Unconstitutional for the Third Time
8. Cultivating Readers/Cultivando el Habito de la Lectura Brochure
9. Children's Book Awards Announced
9a. Children's Africana Book Awards
9b. The 2008 Carter G. Woodson Book Awards
10. ALSC and Oprah Team Up on a Kids Reading List
11. PBS Resources
11a. Free PBS Ecology Guide
11b. Resources for a New Children's Science Program
12. ALSC Updates Kids!@Your Library®Campaign
13. ALSC Will Offer Four OnLine Fall Courses
14. Saroj Ghoting Has a New Interactive Web Site on Storytimes
15. Monthly Postings are Archived on the Youth Services Web Page
16. Upcoming Events in 2008
1. Coming Up This Month
August is:
Breastfeeding Awareness Month, La Leche League, www.lalechleague.org
Children's Eye Health and Safety Month, Prevent Blindness America, www.preventblindness.org
National Inventors' Month www.inventorsdigest.com
2. SLP Update
Reports from around the state indicate the bug theme has been very popular this year. I have numerous park passes if anyone needs more. I also have tee shirts, 2 banners, 1 teen and 1 children's stand up display unit, and other display items that I have used here at DPI and can now donate to anyone who can use them. If you know someone who can use them, please let me know. We should be receiving order forms for SLP 2009 ("Be Creative" for children and "Express Yourself" for teens) in September. DLTCL will not be co-sponsoring a fall conference this year because the day before the WLA Fall Conference is Election Day. We want everyone to vote so we will not be sponsoring a fall workshop. I will be happy to work with any Systems that might be offering fall or spring workshops. YSS is interested in co-sponsoring in a fall conference next year.
3. Teen Services
3a. Programs for Tweens and Teens in 2007
According to data from the 2007 Annual Report, just over half of all public libraries in the state (53% or 206 libraries) offered at least one program for middle school students in 2007, and 32% (125) offered a program for high school students. These programs included board game nights (32% or 125 libraries), teen book discussion groups, including on-line discussion groups (27% or 105 libraries), and electronic gaming events (19% or 74 libraries.)
Other teen programming events included an anime or manga workshop or discussion group
(11% or 44 libraries). Many libraries offered opportunities for teens to perform at events such as poetry slams or other poetry events (20 libraries), opportunities for teen bands to play at the library (16 libraries). One library took teen musicians to a local nursing home to perform for the residents. Several libraries hosted teen dances at the library. Other performance-art opportunities included a break dance demonstration, open mic nights, modeling, Mystery Dinner or Mystery Theater, and Readers Theater.
Additional activities mentioned by various libraries included summer reading programs for teens, displays of teen art work in collaboration with middle and high schools and home schooled students, Teen Battle of the Books, and after school homework help. Several libraries mentioned that their teen group helped plan, design, and/or paint the teen area.
Teen programs also included Anime Clubs, classes on how to digitally altering photographs, jewelry making classes, a teen knitting programs. Individual libraries offered discussion groups such as a books to movies discussion group, a meeting for teen girls who live in foster care, and group that discussed general teen issues. Some libraries offered teen writing contests or an opportunity to publish their writing.
Some libraries offered programs related science, math and social studies concepts such as an Amazing Race Competition, geocaching, and money management for teens. In addition to break dancing, and Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) events which get teens active, one library offered a skate boarding demonstration. Additional programs libraries mentioned were teen lock-ins at the library, movie nights, scavenger hunts, and teen cooking demonstrations.
3b. UW-Madison Offers One Day Course on the Adolescent Brain
UW-Madison is offering the course "Human Brain: Demystifying the Adolescent Brain" on Friday, December 12, 2008, at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, UW-Madison Campus, from 9:00-4:00. The cost is $125 and lunch will be on your own. This workshop will provide the latest research-based information on adolescent brain development as well as discuss other factors that influence adolescent behavior. The presenter will be Kim Price, PhD. For more information go to http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/pda/aoda/. To register contact Kristi Obmascher 608-262-8971, kobmascher@dcs.wisc.edu or go to www.dcs.wisc.edu/register/cereg.htm (Program #8713).
3c. AskAway Contest Deadline Extended
The "I love AskAway" YouTube video contest deadline has been extended to August 22nd! Don't miss this chance to have your patron(s) win prizes and have their video displayed on the AskAway site and in AskAway promotions. All they need to do is go to: http://askaway.pbwiki.com/YouTube+Contest and follow the instructions.
We have a great flyer for you to use in promoting the contest go to: http://askaway.pbwiki.com/YouTube+Contest+Entry+Page you will find the poster at the top of the page. Don't forget the 2nd annual "AskAway awareness week" is coming up in September. Promote AskAway to your patrons during the week of Sept. 8, let us know what you did, and be eligible for one of two $50.00 prizes!
--Renee J. Ponzio, Reference Services Manager, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, Eau Claire; 715-839-1683; reneep@eauclaire.lib.wi.us
3d. Celebrate "Books with Bite @ Your Library®" During Teen Read Week 2008
Teen Read Week 2008 will be held October 12-18, and the theme is "Books with Bite @Your Library!" Teen Read Week is an initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association. Teen Read Week started in 1998, making this the 11th celebration of Teen Read Week.
Why is it important to celebrate? Teens have many options for entertainment, so it's important to remind them to spend time reading for pleasure: it's free, fun, and can be done anywhere. Research shows that teens who read for fun have better test scores and are more likely to succeed in the workforce. More than 4,800 school and public libraries registered to participate in Teen Read Week last year. More information is available at: http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/trw/trw2008/index.cfm
3e. Additions to the DLTCL Adolescent Literacy Web Page
A new section has been added to the DLTCL Adolescent Literacy Web page at www.dpi.wi.gov/pld/adolit.html. This section includes various summaries of research on topics related to videogaming. The additions include:
- The Educational Value of Videogames
- Issues involved in the Development of Educational Videogrames
- Public Libraries and Videogaming
- Social Value of Gaming
- Combined Bibliography on Videogaming
More summaries on additional topics will be added in September.
Librarians working on LSTA grants that focus on teens with special needs, and which include gaming equipment, may find the "Educational Value of Videogames" and "Public Libraries and Videogaming" helpful. There is some good background information in these documents and some data.
4. Steppingstones of Technology Innovation for Children with Disabilities Grants
A new federal grant program is being started by Grants.gov, which is a U.S. governmental grant resource. Public libraries are eligible applicants for funding to demonstrate technology innovation for use with children who have disabilities. For more information go to www.ed.gov/programs/oseptms/applicant.html#84327a
5. New Report Available on Wisconsin Children in Immigrant Families
The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families released a report in spring 2008 on Wisconsin Children in Immigrant Families. Among the key findings are:
- 76% of children of immigrant families in Wisconsin were born in the U.S., and are thus U.S. citizens
- 82% live with both of their parents and the parents are married
- 80% of the children have at least one parent who have at least completed high school
- 80% of the children speak English well
- 50% of the children of immigrants in the state live in poverty
To view the full report go to www.wccf.org/pdf/wi_children_immigrant_families.pdf
6. The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families Offers Presentation on Early Learning
Wisconsin Council on Children and Families is hosting the presentation,"Touchpoints: Building Families, Strengthening Communities" on Thursday, November 20, 2008, Noon-1:30 pm, at the Monona Terrace, Madison. This special luncheon presentation will feature Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Dr. Joshua Sparrow. The cost is $40.
Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, a noted international expert on child development, is Clinical Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the Founder of the Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital, Boston. He is also Founder of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, which offers programs and services designed to shift the paradigm of care so that our service delivery systems are appropriately focused on discovering and meeting the needs of families.
Dr. Sparrow, child, adolescent, and general psychiatrist, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, Director of Special Initiatives at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, supervisor for outpatient psychiatry services at Children's Hospital, Boston.
For more information and to register for the event, go to: http://wccf.org/event_policy_forum_2008_reg.php
7. Child Online Protect Act Declared Unconstitutional for the Third Time
After a decade of federal litigation and two decisions that were returned to lower courts from the Supreme Court for further review, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals July 22 unanimously declared the Child Online Protection Act of 1998 unconstitutional for the third time, on First and Fifth Amendment grounds. "The government has no more right to censor the Internet than it does books and magazines," Chris Hansen, ACLU senior staff attorney, remarked after the ruling was handed down.
During the string of legal proceedings, the American Library Association's Freedom to Read Foundation filed several amicus curiae briefs on behalf of the plaintiffs, the latest in November 2007 in American Civil Liberties Union v. Mukasey.
In its latest decision, the appeals court ruled that COPA "effectively suppresses a large amount of speech that adults have a constitutional right to receive and to address to one another." Agreeing with the lower court's March 2007 findings the decision stated that blocking software, "although not flawless," is a less-restrictive means of shielding youngsters from sexually explicit material. The court asserted that parents can tailor software settings "to the age and maturity of their children and thus use an appropriate flexible approach differing from COPA's 'one size fits all' approach," which the decision deemed "impermissibly vague" in violation of the Fifth Amendment by not specifying what would constitute a criminal violation. Filters "do not subject speakers to criminal or civil penalties," and can block access to non-U.S. websites as COPA cannot, the ruling asserted.
Justice Department spokesperson Charles Miller told American Libraries that the government was reviewing its options and "deciding what our next step will be." For the full article go to www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2008/july2008/copathirdstrike.cfm
--from American Libraries Direct, July 28, 2008
8. Cultivating Readers/Cultivando el Habito de la Lectura Brochure
The National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) has released a new resource printed in Spanish in conjunction with El día de los Niños, the holiday that recognizes children as the center of the Latino family. The publication, Cultivating Readers or Cultivando el hábito de la lectura, provides activities for parents to support their child's literacy, language and reading skills. NCFL thinks the resource will increase school readiness for infants and toddlers, preschoolers and students from kindergarten through third grade.
\The brochure gives some practical advice for parents to help in the development of their children's abilities. It is divided into sections so as to promote different kinds of habits for different age groups, 0-2, 3-5, and 6-8. It also includes a glossary of terms related to reading such as text comprehension, print awareness, phonemic awareness and more. Have some available as a handout for parents.
Go to www.famlit.org for more information and to download the Cultivating Readers brochure in both English and Spanish.
--From the July 17, 2008 edition of Rhonda Puntney's CEO posting for youth services librarians in Lakeshores and Mid-Wisconsin Library Systems.
9. Children's Book Awards Announced
9a. Children's Africana Book Awards
The Outreach Council of the African Studies Association (ASA) announce the winners of the 2008 Children's Africana Book Awards.
Best Book for Older Readers:
"Aya" by Marguerite Abouet, illustrated by Clement Oubrerie. (Drawn & Quarterly, 2007).
Honor Books for Older Readers:
"A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007).
"Rise of the Golden Cobra" by Henry T. Aubin. (Annick Press, 2007)
Best Book for Young Children:
"Ikenna Goes to Nigeria" by Ifeoma Onyefulu. (Frances Lincoln, 2007).
Honor Books for Younger Readers:
"Wiil Waal, A Somali Folktale" by Kathleen Moriarty, illustrated by Amin Ami. (Minnesota Humanities Center, 2007)
9b. The 2008 Carter G. Woodson Book Awards
The Carter G. Woodson Award is given annually by the National Council for Social Studies to honor outstanding social science books for children. This year's award winning books are:
Elementary Level (Grades K - 6)
"Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer" by Bill Wise, ill. Bill Farnsworth
Honor Book
"Surfer of the Century" by Ellie Crowe, Ill. Richard Waldrep
Middle Level (Grades 5 - 8)
"Black and White Airmen: Their True History" by John Fleischman
Honor Book
"Sophisticated Ladies: The Great Women of Jazz by Leslie Gourse, ill. Martin French"
Secondary Level (Grades 7 - 12)
"Don't Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man" by Vincent Collin Beach with Anni Beach
Honor Book
"United States v. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny" by Susan Dudley Gold
More information is available at: http://www.ncss.org/
--from Shawn Brommer, South Central Library System
10. ALSC and Oprah Team Up on a Kids Reading List
ALSC has teamed up with "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to provide a Kids Reading List on the show's Web site at
www.oprah.com/article/oprahsbookclub/kidsreadinglist/pkgkidsreadinglist/20080701_orig_kids_books
The list is divided into five age groups, from infant to two through 12 and up. Each group contains an annotated bibliography of librarian-recommended reading. There is also a separate "Classics" section, grouped by age ranges, giving parents the opportunity to share the books they once loved with their own children. The Web site also provides a list of ways to make reading fun for kids, and other helpful tips for parents. The Kids Reading List was compiled by the ALSC Quicklists Consulting Committee, which works to promote books and other resources through recommendations, compilations of lists, and related services.
--Shawn Brommer, South Central Library System
11. PBS Resources
11a. Free PBS Ecology Guide
The Greens, a PBS Web site that encourages kids to explore sustainability and take action wherever they can, is offering free Activity Guides to educators working with 9 to 12-year olds. How-to information pairs hands-on activities to deepen kids' understanding of topics like recycling and global warming with campaigns to reduce junk mail and get drivers to stop idling cars. Order the free Activity Guide at http://meetthegreens.pbskids.org/features/
The Greens Activity Guide contains leader notes, handouts, and how-to information for activities that allow kids to first learn about a problem and then engage in a hands-on activity that can help solve it. Activities can be conducted over separate one-hour sessions and address:
- Cutting down on trash: Kids make a garbage dump pizza and then start a BYOB: Bring Your Own Bag campaign.
- Recycling and reducing: Kids make their own recycled paper and then launch a Reduce Junk Mail campaign.
- Global warming and carbon footprints: Kids investigate the greenhouse effect and then they take action to reduce carbon emissions through a no-idling campaign.
--from Rhonda Puntney, Lakeshores/Mid-Wisconsin Library Systems
11b. Resources for a New Children's Science Program
Create some science buzz at your library by offering hands-on activities from the PBS kids' show -"Fetch!" with Ruff Ruffman. The free "Ruff Guide to Science" will help draw kids (ages 8-10) to the library for six activities and a game that introduces kids to exciting careers in science. This resource, designed with librarians in mind, includes tips on recruiting kids from the community (and managing the lengthy wait list), leader notes, direction sheets that can be photocopied for kids, membership cards to start a weekly FETCH Club, and a list of recommended science books (selected by librarians) to display so as to increase the circulation of science collection. No television viewing is required and all activities require easy-to-find, low-cost materials that won't break the library's budget.
To order your free copy to be mailed in fall 2008, send an e-mail to fetchnews@wgbh.org including your name, organization, mailing address (please indicate work or home address), email, and phone number.
--from Rhonda Puntney, Lakeshores/Mid-Wisconsin Library Systems
12. ALSC Updates Kids!@Your Library® Campaign
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), announces the latest updates to its Kids! @ your library® public awareness campaign. The latest additions to the campaign's online tool kit include: "The Library Dragon" readers theater script; line art adapted from children's illustrator Michael P. White's Kids! Campaign artwork; a bibliography of books about kids and libraries; a list of songs for kids about reading and libraries; a Dr. Seuss-themed hidden treasure puzzle; and a Dr. Seuss mad lib game. They are all free to download from www.ala.org/kids and use in your library and community.
ALSC has teamed up with JanWay and Kidstamps to make Kids! Campaign art available to librarians on temporary tattoos and rubber stamps. For information about tattoos, contact JanWay at 1 (800) 877-5242. Mention ALSC's customer number (26981). You will not be charged a set-up fee; it has already been paid by ALSC. For information on rubber stamps, contact Kidstamps at www.kidstamps.com or 1 (800) 727-5437 (phone).
ALSC is offering ten $100 cash prizes to libraries for the best use of Kids! Campaign materials. Contest details are posted at www.ala.org/ala/alsc/contest. Entries are due on Oct. 15, and winners will be announced at the 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting. For more information about the Kids! @ your library® Campaign and to check out all the free tool kit materials available, visit www.ala.org/kids and click on the tool kit link.
13. ALSC Will Offer Four OnLine Fall Courses
Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a Division of the American Library Association, will be offering online continuing education courses this fall, beginning October 6. The four courses being offered include: "Reading Instruction and Children's Books," "The Tech Savvy Booktalker," "The Technology Enhanced Library Professional" and "Sharing Poetry with Children." These courses will run four to six weeks, depending on the course, and will be taught in an online learning community using Moodle (www.moodle.org). For more information go to www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/edcareeers/profdevelopment/alscweb/index.cfm. However, the ALSC Web page is being updated in August and this page will not be available until the update is complete.
--from Jenny Najduch, Marketing Specialist, ALSC; 312-280-4026; jnajduch@ala.org
14. Saroj Ghoting Has a New Interactive Web Site on Storytimes
Saroj Ghoting is one of the seven national trainers for the Every Child Ready to Read @ your library initiative from ALA and the co-author of "Early Literacy Storytimes @ your library" which seeks to give librarians the tools they need to incorporate early literacy information for adults into storytimes.
Ghoting has recently added a feature to her website (www.earlylit.net) called "Storytime Share" (under the Storytime menu tab). This feature allows two things:
1. Librarians can submit their own storytime ideas and early literacy tips/adult asides to be shared with others. Just click on "Submit an Idea". Librarians can also submit storytime handouts and whole storytime plans. All submission are sent to Ghoting first, to stop spam and to make sure the info is correct. This makes it a kind of "controlled blog".
2. The other way it can be used is to search for items by
a. early literacy skill
b. age level
c. storytime element (book, fingerplay, songs, etc)
d. librarian name
e. name of library system
Because Storytime Share can be searched by name and library system, it offers a number of options. It can used as a planning aid. Staff in a library system can use it as a means of communication for ideas for storytimes and sharing early literacy info with adults. For example a Youth Services supervisor could say, submit an idea to Storytime Share and then could check back in a couple of weeks and see who has done the "assignment." Ghoting built in this feature because she has been doing trainings around the country and many library systems' children's staff communicate ideas at occasional meetings and via email. But there is no way to "go back and look." Often this kind of feature is very low on the priority list for the IT staff of the library system.
For more information contact Saroj Ghoting, Early Childhood Literacy Consultant, 5710 Piney Woods Road, Riner, VA 24149; 540-381-2676; sghoting@surfbest.net; www.earlylit.net
--from Shawn Brommer, South Central Library System
15. Monthly Postings are Archived on the Youth Services Web Page
The 2008 monthly postings for the system youth services liaisons will be archived on the DLTCL Youth Services Web page at http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/ys-postings.html.
16. Upcoming Events in 2008
The current calendar of upcoming events is at http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/yspost-events.html
Note: An attempt has been made to verify each of these dates and URLs. If you notice errors, your assistance in making corrections is very much appreciated.
Return to the System Youth Services Liaison Postings home page.
For questions about this information, contact Jamie McCanless (608) 267-9280
Last updated on 11/11/2008 2:22:16 PM
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