children services

Re-energizing Your Preschool Storytime: New Ideas for Busy Children's Staff

Posted Tuesday, November 23, 2010 by Stephanie Race, Library Staff

Re-energizing Your Preschool Storytime: New Ideas for Busy Children's Staff


Free Webinar

Thursday, December 2, 2010, from 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST

Registration is not required. More information and access information is available online.
The link to this program will be available at 2:30 p.m. on December 2, 2010.

It's Monday morning, AGAIN! Time to get your storytime ready for the week. Ho Hum. You could always recycle a previous storytime or... you can jazz up your repertoire with new fingerplays, flannels, puppets and book suggestions.

Try something new!

  • Learn how to use Readers Theater and bring your story alive with the help of your audience. A dramatic read aloud of a story is great for children's communication skills, collaboration skills and learning to use expression.

Make better connections with storytime parents!

  • Set up a "Stay and Play" after your storytime. Learn how to plan developmentally appropriate activities and share early literacy information with your participants Does this mean parents? If so, I think it would be clearer if it said parents, since the participants are really the children. It's reference, but you're just not sitting behind a desk.

Save time!

  • We sure don't have enough. Let this webinar help you refresh your love of storytime and provide you with new material. You won't have to spend time planning, just get out there and try out these fresh new ideas!

At the end of this one-hour webinar, attendees will learn about:

Call for Proposals - FL Library Association annual conference

Posted Monday, July 12, 2010 by Faye Roberts, Reader

Share your exciting program ideas for children and youth with other Florida librarians at the 2011 Florida Library Association conference.

 

FLA is accepting proposals for both preconference workshops and concurrent sessions at its 2011 Annual Conference.   Innovative ideas for delivering library services for children and teens are especially welcome.

 

The conference will be May 4-6, 2011 at the Doubletree in Orlando, Florida. Programs should reflect the conference theme “Open Libraries, Open Minds.”  The deadline to submit a proposal is August 24.

 

Florida Library Association's New Performers' Showcase To Be Inaugurated At This Year's Annual Conference

Posted Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by Anonymous,

My name is Cheryl Fishman and I am a children’s librarian in Boynton Beach, which is in South Palm Beach County.  I have the pleasure of informing you about a new FLA Annual Conference event called the Performers’ Showcase.  This event will take place at the conference on Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando. 

The purpose of this showcase is to provide librarians who work with youth (children and teens) and/or adults a forum in which they can preview quality performers for library programs.  This is an opportunity for librarians to get a “taste” of what a program may look like in their library before they decide to hire them. 

The current committee needs your help in preparing and executing this brand new event.  The FLA leadership and the Performers' Showcase Committee are looking to Youth Services Group Members to assist in the development and actual administration of the Performers’ Showcase.  We are recruiting you to actively participate in this endeavor!

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