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Newsletter Topics
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FLYP YouTube Channel
SSYRA Lists
Community Time Capsules
T&T: Dynamic Teen and Tween Programming
FEL Features
Innovate and Inspire
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Summer Reads
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By signing up for a CSLP website account, youth services staff have access to more resources not included in the CSLP manuals.
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Upcoming Training
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Grant Writing for Libraries Serving Children
July 11 at 1 p.m. EDT
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Kids InfoBits
June 20 @ 10 a.m. EDT
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Ongoing Training
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If you work in a Florida library, you are eligible to enroll in more than 350 self-paced online courses offered through WebJunction Florida. Check out Planning Story Times for Children, There Will Always be Storytellers, or any of the many Microsoft Office courses. Have a WJ account but can't remember the password? Try WebJunction (case sensitive) and you'll be prompted to reset your password. |
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. Viva Florida 500 - Community Time Capsules
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 In 2013, Florida will be recognized as the only state in the nation with 500 continuous years of documented European history. In commemoration, Viva Florida 500 will be a year-long, statewide celebration of this 500th anniversary that brings awareness to Florida's rich and diverse history.
In anticipation of the commemoration, the Department of State's Division of Library and Information Services is providing each county and independent municipal library with a time capsule purchased with Library Services and Technology Act grant funds. Your library can use this time capsule to coordinate a Viva Florida 500 event.
The Division has developed a wonderful resource with advice for creating a time capsule. In the fall, we will also offer online training on how to create a time capsule and ideas for developing programs.
Below are additional resources for creating a time capsule for children and young adults.
Community time capsule program ideas:
- What should go into the time capsule? Hold a program to discuss appropriate items to include.
- Plan community event around burying the capsule at a public library or other public facility.
- Plan children's, teens' and adult programs around making personal or family time capsules.
- Plan how long it should be buried-1 year; 5 years; 50 years.
- Research other time capsules already prepared by your community. What event sparked the making of the capsule? When will it be opened? Where is it kept?
Remember to register your time capsule with the International Time Capsule Society.
We look forward to hearing about the programs your library has planned to commemorate Florida's history. Please send information to the Youth Services Consultant at stephanie.race@dos.myflorida.com.
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Library Development Launches YouTube Channel
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The B ureau of Library Development has launched a YouTube Channel. The first playlist on the channel features Florida's 2012 CSLP Teen Video Contest entries.
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Reading is So Delicious!
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The Division of Library and Information Services continues to look for ways to complement the CSLP materials and offer Florida libraries additional materials to use throughout the year to promote reading.
This summer, DLIS has contracted with the Illinois Library Association (ILA) to make materials from the iREAD Summer Reading Program available. ILA has created high quality, low cost resources and products that can aid Florida's local library staff to motivate children and young adults to read. This program can be used throughout the year as a supplemental reading program to your current summer reading program. The 71 FLYP contacts will receive resource guides with CDs, bookmarks, reading café posters and book sandwich posters.
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2012-2013 SSYRA Announced
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The 2012 - 2013 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (SSYRA) lists were recently announced:
The Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Program is a statewide reading motivation program for students in grades 3-8. The program, cosponsored by the School Library Media Services Office of the Department of Education and the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME), began in 1983.
The purpose of the SSYRA Program is to encourage students to read independently for personal satisfaction, based on interest rather than reading level.
Sunshine State books are selected for their wide appeal, literary value, varied genres, curriculum connections, and/or multicultural representation. Students are encouraged to read in order to improve their reading fluency.
SSYRA provides a unique opportunity for school and public librarians to collaborate on programs. Use the Promotion Ideas to kick start to your brainstorming session. Start early and perhaps you can arrange to borrow voting booths from your county elections office.
Are the school and public librarians in your county collaborating to encourage students to read the SSYRA books? Does your library offer a unique program? We'd love to hear your SSYRA success stories (stephanie.race@dos.myflorida.com).
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T&T: Dynamic Teen and Tween Programming
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St. Johns County Public Library System Main Library's new Healthy Sweets and Tiny Treats program was a fantastic success!
 We first read about the "Tiny Treats" idea in the American Girl Magazine and we discovered that they'd also published a Tiny Treats book. Once we ordered the book we felt it was perfect for a new school-age program to try.
We chose to make four of the treats: mini cakes, mini donuts, mini s'mores and mini ice cream cones. Supplies cost around $25.00 and we had lots of items left over for a later program.
The room was set up with butcher paper covered tables and parchment paper workstations with sprinkles, sugar, cinnamon, toothpicks (for holding the cheerios), utensils and plenty of napkins. We made examples of the treats for each child to work from and we passed the examples around to get them started.
 The cakes are made by frosting and decorating two Oreos. The mini donuts are decorated, frosted and cinnamon-dusted cheerios. We put those in little lined donut boxes we folded up ahead of time. The mini s'mores are made from Golden Grahams cereal, one mini marshmallow and one chocolate chip microwaved for 8 seconds. I made up the s'mores and handed them out as the kids were working. Last, we made the mini ice cream cones with a melon baller and Bugles corn snacks.
As the kids worked I refreshed supplies, helped with inspiration and ideas and served apples and caramel dipper snacks. This was a very messy hands-on program and an extra pair hands (and the parents' help) certainly helped. Some of the younger children ate their treats right after creating them and had a blast with all of the sugar and frosting. The older children worked hard on perfecting their cakes and donuts and were more than happy to pose for proud photos with their tiny creations!
Many thanks to Lisa Calvert (lcalvert@sjcfl.us), Children's Librarian, at the St. Johns County Public Library System Main Library for sharing. If you want to share your programming ideas, simply send them to the Youth Services Consultant at stephanie.race@dos.myflorida.com. |
FEL Feature
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Do you have students who show up at the last minute and want to check out your reference books? Tell them a bout Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) - available 24/7 through the Florida Electronic Library.
GVRL offers students a wide variety of full-text interdisciplinary content from over 50 titles to help tackle their
assignments, papers, projects and presentations. This depth of choice from one resource encourages users to investigate all eReference titles in the collection, to target the exact content they need.
A Vibrant Engaging User Experience
User-focused navigation encourages researchers to
stay longer, search deeper and find what they need
faster. Features include:
- Eye-catching book covers to engage users.
- View your e-books on your iPad.
- An interactive online book experience with two-page view and page flipper.
- Cross-search and browse within your collection and across series.
- Search within volumes of multivolume sets.
- User interface available in 34 languages.
- ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology in 19 languages.
- 24/7 unlimited and simultaneous circulation of your eReference collection.
- On-demand machine-aided content translations into 14 languages.
High School Librarian: "I like the sidebar navigation because it helps students make the choice of what (subject) category they should be in."
Supporting 21st Century Learning
With its depth of features and content, Gale Virtual Reference Library is a digital cross-curricular resource that supports information literacy and the development of 21st century skills and reinforcing the critical difference between authoritative resources and consumer-published content on the web.
High School Student: "...the book covers catch my eye... It gives me hope-makes me feel like I am going to find what I am looking for."
Order free bookmarks, posters and table tents to help increase awareness of Gale Virtual Reference Library in your library. Make it even easier to access by adding a widget or database icon to your library website.
Learn more... attend online training.
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Innovate and Inspire
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 Step Up to the Plate @ Your Library, a baseball trivia contest, swung into action June 4th! Play for a chance to visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame! This year, Step Up to the Plate is a whole new ball game.
- New trivia question posted each week.
- Multiple chances to win!
- Players will have a week to use their library's resources to answer the question correctly.
Prizes:
- Grand Prize: A trip for two to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum to attend the World Series Gala and a behind the scenes tour of the museum and archives in October 2012.
- Weekly runners up: A prize package from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Promote: Librarians are encouraged to promote Step Up to the Plate @ Your Library using their social media outlets by posting questions on websites, Facebook and Twitter.
There's an app for that. Teen lit fans, library staff, educators, parents and teen readers with Apple d  evices can now visit the Apple App Store and download the free Teen Book Finder, the first app created by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association. The free app, which highlights books and media from YALSA's awards and selected book and media lists, can be run on an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad. YALSA's Teen Book Finder is available thanks to generous funding by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. |
Snippets
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Anne Kelly, the Youth Services Librarian at Brockway Memorial Library in Miami Shores sent this update... "I've had two Mother-Daughter Book Groups in the past several months: we discussed Anne of Green Gables and Caddie Woodlawn. Both were well-attended. Although they're older novels both mothers and daughters enjoyed them. We discussed the book, did a related activity, and had refreshments.
My next book discussion will be for students 7 and older, The Phantom Tollbooth, on August 1. Summer programs will be every Tuesday and Friday from 2 - 3:30 p.m. I'm busy!"
kellya@miamishoresvillage.com
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Natalie Donoso-Lane from Marion County Public Library System has shared pictures of their displays and decorations.
natalie.donoso-lane@marioncountyfl.org
We want to know what's happening in your library.
It only takes a snippet of your time to share your successful programming ideas, tricks, happenings and news to the Youth Services Consultant at stephanie.race@dos.myflorida.com. |
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