Youth Services Forum - 2008 The Youth Services Forum is an annual event for library professionals. The purpose is to discuss hot topics in youth services. Click Here to download the registration form
PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS MORNING GENERAL SESSION: WHAT CAN GOOGLE DO FOR YOU AND YOUR PATRONS??? Find out about free Google tools that will enhance your productivity, communication, collaboration, and instruction. These tools can be accessed 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Attendees will learn about tools for word processing, spreadsheets, web page editing, notebooks, and more from a Google Certified Teacher. You will be able to start using these tools the next time you go on the Internet. Whether you work with elementary, middle, or high school students, these tools are for you. When you get back to your library, your patrons will be amazed at the tools you can give them and it’s all free!!! Its time to give new meaning to the phrase “I got it on Google”! Presenter: Miriam Parkinson, Librarian, Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Fair Lawn, NJ REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR SUMMER READING (ONLINE READING PROGRAM) Tired of filling out registration cards, counting them and tallying Summer Reading Club statistics by hand? Then it's time to learn about an online reading program that can help you keep track of registration, prizes and statistics. Our panel of 3 public librarians will share their online software experiences with reading programs of different sizes serving children of various ages and teens. Questions welcomed. Presenters: Adrienne Basso, Westfield Memorial Library, Carolyn Belvin, Brick Branch of the Ocean County Public Library, and Laura Butler, Mount Laurel Public Library LEARN A STORY IN ONE HOUR You can do it! Margaret Read MacDonald has given us the format, and Anne Lemay, will lead you through it, sharing tips and techniques, just as she teaches it in Traditions in Oral Narration at Rutgers SCILS. You will actually learn a story that you can use. These techniques can be used to learn stories for every age group. Time will be given to practice your story, and volunteers may present their tale to the group. Just bring yourself, Anne will provide everything else. Presenter: Anne Lemay, Franklin Township Free Public Library, Somerset, NJ ALSC’S KIDS! @ YOUR LIBRARY CAMPAIGN IN YOUR LIBRARY Need some new ideas on how to celebrate month long events or how to promote a new service to your library community? This public awareness initiative will provide you with some new ideas on how this campaign can invigorate your programs for kids in grades K – 4 and their families. You’ll also get some successful program ideas from libraries around the country. Everything that is available in the campaign’s toolkit for you to use in your libraries will be explained. Presenter: Sharon Rawlins, NJ State Library YA FOR OLDER TEENS: IT’S MORE THAN SEX AND FOUR LETTER WORDS "Teens stop reading YA at 14" and "Good readers only want to read adult books" are two teen reading myths that Liz Burns and Carlie Webber will discuss. Current fiction aimed at older teen readers provides teenagers with both classic questions and views of humanity such as "Who am I" and "What is my place in society?" as well as contemporary issues such as college, identity, social status, and relationships. Presenters: Carlie Webber, Bergen County Cooperative Library System and Elizabeth Burns, NJ Library for the Blind and Handicapped PUBLISHING PROMOS AND YOU: PERFECT TOGETHER In tight budget times, take advantage of publishing promotions to offer programs on popular topics or blockbuster series books like Pirates of the Caribbean, Fancy Nancy, or Breaking Dawn that offer a lot of bang for the buck! Examples given will be from tots to teens--and audience participation will be encouraged! Presenter: Jeanne Ryan, Oradell Public Library “BE CREATIVE @ YOUR LIBRARY” & “EXPRESS YOURSELF @ YOUR LIBRARY” It’s time to “Be Creative!” Get a sneak preview of ways that you can “Express Yourself” and explore the Arts which is the theme for the 2009 Summer Reading Program by attending this workshop and get an early peek at 2009’s artwork and incentives, discuss and share programming ideas, decorating tips and talk about what worked well in your library. Presented by 2009 Statewide Summer Reading Committee Co-Chairs Allison Santos and Michelle Willis and members of the committee. THE TWEEN ZINE WRITING WORKSHOP SERIES: A POTENTIALLY CHEAP AND ALWAYS FUN WAY TO SERVE YOUR FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH GRADERS Presenter: Mary Fran Daley, Hunterdon County Library EXTREME DS BOOT CAMP: A MULTIMEDIA ADVENTURE FOR TEENS ONLY AFTERNOON GENERAL SESSION: GOING GREEN IN YOUR LIBRARY - A SHARED COMMUNITY ACTION Susan Conlon, the Teen Services Librarian at the Princeton Public Library and coordinator and co-founder of the Princeton Environmental Film Festival, will discuss her experiences connecting with young adults, children, community members, library staff and organizations to help promote and move towards environmental sustainability. Susan will discuss how to create a range of exciting programs around environmental interests and themes that will engage youth and intergenerational library participation, and she will provide resources to support similar efforts in your library. Presenters: Susan Conlon, Princeton Public Library, Chris Johnson, Director of Community Outreach, Better World Books, Margo Pellegrino, Surf Rider member and ocean activist, Kai Marshall-Otto, student of environmental studies and business at Rutgers University and co-founder of the Princeton Environmental Film Festival, Martha Perry, Princeton Public Library DIRECTIONS TO MONMOUTH COUNTY LIBRARY ***Please park on the LOWER LEVEL ONLY behind the library FROM THE NORTH FROM THE WEST or FROM THE WEST FROM THE TRENTON AREA
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