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  • CSLP Web site now has 9 Signing Videos! - Posted Friday, June 12, 2009

    CSLP offers the following signing videos available at www.cslpreads.org:

    Tommy Thumbs

    Color Signs

    Are You Happy?

    The More We Get Together

    Dance Away

    Five Little Paint Brushes

    If You're Happy

    Music at Our House

    Additional Signs

  • ALA Great Web Sites for Kids has been updated - Posted Friday, June 5, 2009

    The Great Web Sites for Kids committee has selected 19 sites as a 2009 Great Web Site for Kids. These sites have been added to the Great Web Sites for Kids page. See the annotated list below, or go to the website: http://www.ala.org/greatsites.

    Great Web Sites for Kids are those considered the best web sites for ages birth to 14, outstanding in both content and conception. As applied to web sites for young people, “great” should be thought to include sites of especially commendable quality, sites that reflect and encourage young people’s interests in exemplary ways.

    Sincerely,

    Meagan Albright & Sharon Haupt

    co-chairs of the 2009 Great Web Sites for Kids committee

  • Magazines that teens can't resist - Posted Thursday, June 4, 2009

    Here are 11 magazines that teens can’t resist.

    By Carlie Webber -- School Library Journal, 5/1/2009

  • Check out tool kit for promoting library to tweens - Posted Thursday, June 4, 2009

     

    Contact: Laura Schulte-Cooper, ALSC Program Officer, (312) 280-2165, lschulte@ala.org

    For Immediate Release, May 26, 2009

    Phase Two of ALSC’s  Kids! Campaign targets tweens

    Phase two of the Association for Library Service to Children’s (ALSC) Kids! @ your library® public awareness campaign, which officially launches in July, focuses on tools to help librarians promote library services to kids in grades five through eight.

    In preparation of the official July launch, the following free resources have been added to the campaign’s online tool kit: "Bud, Not Buddy" readers theater script, adapted from an excerpt of Christopher Paul Curtis’s award-winning book; and "The Library Card" readers theater script, adapted from an excerpt of Jerry Spinelli’s award-winning book. Other additions to the tool kit include a fresh, new navy blue and lime green version of the So Much to See/Do @ your library® artwork, which is also now available in Russian, Polish and French. The artwork is ideal for promotional flyers and library handouts.

    All campaign resources are free and available for download at http://www.ala.org/kids.

    The campaign’s phase two launch is the conference program, “A.R.T. and Your Library: How You Can Bring Them Together!” which is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, July 12, in McCormick Place West, Room W-181. Renowned children’s authors Avi, Brian Selznick, Pam Muñoz Ryan, and Sarah Weeks will perform their readers theater magic to demonstrate how librarians can successfully present readers theater in the library. Librarian presenters will share what’s new in the campaign tool kit and how libraries are using these resources.

  • Target's Early Childhood Reading Grants - Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009

    Overview

    Reading is an essential element in a child’s educational process. Reading grants are awarded to schools, libraries and nonprofit organizations, supporting programs such as weekend book clubs and after-school reading programs that foster a love of reading and encourage children, from birth through age 9, to read together with their families.

    Guidelines

    Target will accept grant applications online between March 1 and May 31, 2009, for programs taking place between October 1, 2009, and September 30, 2010. You will receive notification about your request by September 30, 2009. Most grants average between $1,000 and $3,000.

    Apply Online

    You may apply for grants from March 1 through May 31:

     

  • Looking for Amigurumi Program to Share - Posted Friday, April 17, 2009

    Amigurumi is the Japanese art of crocheting seriously cute animals, toys or dolls. Would anyone who has held a teen Amigurumi program be willing to share the patterns used and the results? 

  • Baby's Developmental Stages "Brain Map" is Online - Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009

    The Baby Brain Map is a resource that reveals the secrets of how early care enriches development. You won't want to miss the opportunity to learn more about brain development from this free tool, which is organized in an easy to use Q & A format. Click on the image to explore the Baby Brain Map: http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_util_babybrainflash1

  • 2009 LOIS LENSKI COVEY FOUNDATION, INC. Grant - Posted Monday, March 23, 2009

      APPLICATIONS INVITED FOR 2009 LOIS LENSKI COVEY FOUNDATION LIBRARY GRANTS

     

    Libraries serving economically or socially at-risk children are invited to apply for 2009 Lois Lenski Covey Foundation library grants. Grants are for the acquisition of books published for young people preschool through grade 12.  To be considered, libraries must have limited book budgets and serve a disadvantaged population. Rural and urban, public, school, and non-profit agency libraries are eligible.  The grants are given to individual libraries, rather than library systems or cooperatives. 2009 grants will range from $500 to $3000.  

     

  • Web site to learn about disaster preparedness - Posted Friday, March 20, 2009

     

    SERT, the State Emergency Response Team, works together to ensure that Florida is prepared to respond to emergencies, recover from them, and mitigate their impacts. SERT’s motto is Semper Gumby - Always Flexible. Their standing order is to first take care of the needs of survivors.

  • ALA offers gaming grant - Posted Friday, February 27, 2009

    The American Library Association (ALA) Office for Literacy and Outreach Services is seeking applications from public, school and academic libraries interested in developing and implementing innovative literacy gaming services for youth ages 10-18. 

    This program is part of ALA’s Libraries, Literacy and Gaming initiative funded by  Verizon. 

     

    Ten $5,000.00 grants will be awarded to libraries clearly demonstrating creativity, capacity, sustainability and a strong commitment to literacy-related gaming services. In addition, the winning libraries will receive ongoing support and technical assistance from a team of nationally recognized library gaming experts. Winners will be announced during National Library Week, April 12-18.  The grant application is available online at http://librarygamingtoolkit.org/rfp. All applications must be submitted by 11:59 pm, Friday, March 20.