This Week in SALS Youth Services
June 3, 2016
Short and sweet
This week Carol Geary writes in:
Mechanicville District Public Library is providing opportunities for community service this year, through our Global Awareness theme, including holding a MoonCatchers sewing bee at the library. At the sewing bee, participants work on making reusable sanitary products for girls in countries like Uganda that have to miss school because of not having the access to these products to use during their cycles. The sewing bees are open to the community and all ages can participate whether you can sew or not because all kinds of tasks go into creating the products. On June 8, the library will not have hold a sewing bee from 6 to 8 PM but MoonCatchers organizer Ellie Von Willsheim will speak about the project and the difference it makes in girl's lives. Our children, teen and adult summer program participants can earn summer reading raffle tickets by not only reading but by volunteering at library programs like the sewing bee. Other programs include a book discussion and film showing of He Named Me Malala, as part of an awareness campaign about the struggles children all over the world, many female, face just for wanting to read and learn. On a lighter note, later in the summer we will be also be collecting "socks for Dobby" as part of our Harry Potter celebration, to be donated to a local community organization.
I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream
Mo Willems
Gerald the elephant has a big decision to make, but will he make it in time?
Find the book
Tom Watson
Stick Dog and his feral friends are looking for relief on a very hot day--and this time they have their eyes on a ice cream truck.
Find the book
Anthony McGowan
Having been run over by an ice cream truck, sixteen-year-old Conor tries to figure out what he did that condemned him to Hell, and how to swap his personalized torment for the "torture" of popular music, women, and video games.
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Upcoming Events
Strategies for Successful Partnerships and Outreach to Families with Young Children
Registration for morning session: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/r2rny34
Thursday, Jun 9, 2016, 09:30 AM
Southern Adirondack Library System, Whitney Place, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States
Early Learning Spaces
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Thursday, Jun 9, 2016, 01:30 PM
22 Whitney Place, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States
Beanstack
They are working on refining the deliverables for the RFP, and wondered if you might have some ideas about features that you like or do not like about Beanstack. Please email me directly with your thoughts if you are currently using the software.
News from LibraryLand
Teen Challenge Video
The New York State Library is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2016 Teen Video Challenge for New York State is “Catch a Book.” This video was created and performed by brothers Brian and Simon Wulf, and submitted by the Newstead Public Library in Akron, New York. Brian and Simon receive a cash prize from CSLP and the Newstead Public Library receives a gift certificate from Upstart.
The annual Teen Video Challenge, organized and sponsored by the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP), is a national competition to encourage teens to get involved with reading and their public library’s summer reading program. This year, teens made videos to promote summer reading at public libraries with a focus on the CSLP 2016 slogan, “Get in the Game Read!” Winning videos were selected at the state level and are recognized as official CSLP Teen Video Challenge winners for 2016.
The New York State winner for the 2016 Teen Video Challenge was selected through a two-step process. In the first round of judging, 19 New York State public librarians narrowed the entrants down to 3 finalists. The second panel of 4 media professionals and celebrity judges then chose “Catch a Book” as this year’s winner.
The New York State winning and finalist videos are featured on the Summer Reading at New York Libraries website at http://www.summerreadingnys.org/teens/teen-video-challenge-winners-2016/
Winners from all participating states were announced on April 28, 2016 during the CSLP Annual Meeting held in Salt Lake City, Utah. To see all 26 winning state videos, visit the 2016 Teen Video Challenge page at http://www.summerreadingnys.org/teens/teen-video-challenge-winners-2016/ and scroll down to the link for “Winners from All States.” All winning videos can be used by teens and public libraries to promote summer reading throughout New York State and nationwide.
The New York State Library congratulates all winners and finalists in the 2016 Teen Video Challenge and looks forward to more teens and libraries participating next year. Please visit the Summer Reading at New York Libraries website www.summerreadingnys.org regularly for updates and resources, and have a fun summer of reading and learning!
More Great Websites for Kids
The newly added sites are:
ALMA Kids - http://kids.alma.cl/
Art for Kids - http://artforkidshub.com/
CERNland - http://www.cernland.net/index.html?l=es
Get the Math - http://www.thirteen.org/get-the-math/
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - https://www.gilderlehrman.org/
Knowledge Kids - http://www.knowledgekids.ca/games
Matemáticas Visuales - http://www.fundacioncnse.org/educa/matematicas/
Math TV - http://www.mathtv.com/
Mineralogy4Kids - Mineralogy4Kids.org
NYPL Digital Collections - http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
SmartHistory - http://smarthistory.org
TEDEd Lessons Worth Sharing - http://ed.ted.com
We All Live in the Forbidden City - http://www.walfc.org/about-us/
“The Great Websites Committee has chosen thirteen new sites to add to its database,” said committee co-chairs Lisa Taylor, Barnegat (New Jersey) Branch, Ocean County Library System, and Alia Shields, Cherry Hill (New Jersey) Public Library. “As usual, the sites cover a variety of topics, however, it's worth noting that at least five of the sites should be of particular interest to educators, and there are three new Spanish language additions. One of the committee's favorites is SmartHistory, a ‘resource for the study of art and cultural history.’"
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