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2012 CSLP PSA's Available

2012 CSLP Teen Video Challenge Winners

Programming Ideas for Children and Families

T&T: Dynamic Teen and Tween Programming
 

FEL Features 

Innovate and Inspire

Grant Opportunities

Quick Links

Florida Electronic Library 

Florida Memory Project 

Florida Library Training Calendar  

Summer Reads 

By signing up for a CSLP website account, youth services staff have access to more resources not included in the CSLP manuals.  

Creating a Library Aware Community: Making Print Materials Work for You  

May 17 at 2:00 p.m.

Gale Cengage Learning is offering a special series of Summer Reading webinars designed to help you incorporate Gale electronic resources into your summer reading program. The resources and activities covered will make reading (and research) fun and engaging, while encouraging appreciation and use of your library and its resources.   

Developing & Supporting Your Summer Reading Program

May 17 at 10:00 a.m.

Using Books & Authors for Readers Advisory

May 21 at 2:00 p.m.  

CSLP has made the "Dream Big READ" public service announcement (in both Spanish and English) available as downloads for TV broadcast. Public libraries should send the links provided to broadcasting stations that accept digital video files for broadcast.

CSLP is offering links to the English and Spanish versions of the three encoding options (mpeg2, Standard def h.264, and High def h.264) for digital download. Each station can download the format that they accept.  

Public Library Summer Reading: "Dream Big, READ!" CSLP 2012 PSA

The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) announced the winners of the 2012 Teen Video Challenge.  The Teen Video Challenge is a national competition that encourages teens to get involved with reading and their public library's summer reading program.   

Congratulations to the Florida Teen Video Contest Winner - Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative, Bloomingdale Regional Library's Own the Night.  

Hillsborough County Public Library - Cyber Creations Club

This video competition is in its second year with a focus on this year's CSLP 2012 slogan "Own the Night."  Each participating state selected one winning video to be named the official CSLP Teen Video Challenge state winner for 2012. Twenty-three states and over 100 teens participated in the creation of these winning videos.

To view other winning videos, please visit CSLP's website. The winning videos can be used by all teens and all public libraries to promote summer reading nationwide.

For their hard work and creativity, each winner for this year's competition will receive $275; the associated public library will receive $100 plus a $50 gift certificate from Highsmith. The awards can be used as each winner sees fit.

CSLP plans to continue the Teen Video Challenge as an annual competition.  Please check the CSLP website later this summer or in early fall for information on the 2013 Teen Video Challenge.

Connect With Your Kids @ Your Library  

Connect With Your Kids @ Your Library promotes the library to parents as a trusted place to spend quality time with their children, reinforces the notion that taking children to the library is a sign of being a good parent, and demonstrates the free high quality programs available at the library for parents and children.

The Family Activity Guide for parents provides tips for using library resources to create quality family time.  Suggested activities, such as learning to manage money, exploring different cultures and living green, are grouped by theme: learn, explore, connect, play and create.  The guides are now available in English and Spanish. 

Mixing in Math (MiM) offers free English and Spanish resources librarians can use to bolster children's numeracy skills.  MiM resources are designed to be incorporated into existing programs, such as story times, crafts, projects, book displays, and summer reading programs for the elementary grades. Resources related to this summer's Dream Big: Read theme are available online.             

For those of you who don't already know, the Collaborative Summer Library Program's teen theme for 2012 is "Own the Night," which calls to mind all manner of creepy, fun programs.  Also, a lot of the books on this year's Best Fiction for Young Adults (BFYA) list lend themselves to these creepy, fun ideas. Here are two "Own the Night" themed programs for the 2012 BFYA pick, Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake.

Anna Dressed in Blood is the story of Cas Lowood, a boy who hunts and kills ghosts. He meets the ghost of Anna, a girl who was brutally murdered in 1958 and who kills anyone who sets foot in her home. Oddly enough, the two spare each other, but why? This book is great for the ghosts and scary stories portions of the "Own the Night" theme. One program idea for this book would be to invite your local paranormal society to the library to discuss ghost hunting tips, tricks, and safety. I have worked with my local paranormal society, and they were great! They even brought in equipment to demonstrate and asked the teens to debunk ghost photos. It was a blast, and since Cas is a ghost hunter, it ties in perfectly with the book.

Another good program for this book would be to have a local story teller come in and share local ghost stories and urban legends. You could also share these stories yourself or compile handouts of local ghost stories and legends and have the teens share them with each other. Sit in a circle, dim the lights, hand out a flashlight to anyone who is telling a story. Have them hold it under their faces to give them a gruesome look. Then, serve everyone fake s'mores by spreading chocolate icing and marshmallow fluff onto graham crackers. (I wish I could take credit for this, but the idea came 

Image from Florida Memory Photographic Collectio

from Jennifer Hopwood who presented at the Florida Library Youth Program's Summer Workshop.) Now, you have the perfect campfire tales program in the library, combining two "Own the Night" themes: camping and scary stories. This program also ties in with Anna Dressed in Blood because Cas gathers all of his information about the ghosts that he hunts through the urban legends that his classmates share.

Finding Information

Kids InfoBits encourages young students to research and find information by applying a proven method to their work - keep it simple. Colorful graphics guide students through levels of information and a straightforward keyword/subject search guides more experienced young researchers to the information they need quickly.

Kids InfoBits makes searching fun and easy with a colorful, graphic interface or a simple subject search that places the emphasis on successful searches. This allows children to spend time enjoying and learning from the answers they find themselves.

Kids InfoBits presents all results matching a student's inquiry tabulated by source type. Children choose the source they wish and are presented with links to the full text. Sources include: 

• Reference
• Magazines
• Newspapers
• Maps, Flags and Seals
• Charts and Graphs
• Images

Don't miss the Teacher Toolbox which offers resources for helping students learn to write reports, including downloadable worksheets. 

Teens' Top Ten is an ongoing project where publishers of young adult books provide galleys of their recent titles to teen book discussion groups in libraries. In exchange, teen readers evaluate books for the publishers. At the end of the year, the selected book groups vote to determine the 25 nominees for the Teens' Top Ten annual poll, which is open online to all teens. Teens across the country will choose their favorite books of the year by voting on these nominations, with the winners announced during Teen Read Week.

The Teens' Top Ten committee will select 15 groups. Each selected group will serve a two-year term beginning in January 2013. These groups will nominate titles for the 2013 and 2014 Teens' Top Ten.

Online information about YALSA

Contact the YALSA office by phone: 800.545.2433, ext. 4390, or email, yalsa@ala.org.     

Applications Being Accepted for Leadership Institute

The Division of Library and Information Services' Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute prepares individuals to lead libraries today and into the future. If you are a dynamic, creative and achievement-oriented individual who is interested in increasing and improving your library leadership knowledge and skills, apply today.

The Institute includes:

• 10 face to face learning sessions
• Online resources including a wiki and webinars
• Self-selected, goal-based mentoring partnerships
• Live and online learning support

This nationally recognized, comprehensive, 10-month Institute provides an opportunity for you to improve your leadership skills and become part of an elite group of over 250 Institute graduates who are leading changes in libraries across Florida, making a difference today while shaping the future of information access.

Additional information and applications are online. The deadline to apply is June 1, 2012. 

It only takes a snippet of your time to share your successful programming ideas, tricks, happenings and news with stephanie.race@dos.myflorida.com.