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Events Calendar
September 2 at 8 p.m. YALSA chat
September 10 at Huntington YASD meetingSeptember 10 at Islandia Marriott Photoshop trainingSeptember 24 CampYA registration deadlineSeptember 26 National Book FestivalOctober 1 at Bay Shore Brightwaters Camp YAOctober 1 YALSA Symposium proposals
October 8 YASD author luncheonOctober 14-17 NYLA conferenceOctober 18 Teen Top Ten voting deadlineOctober 18 - 24 Teen Read WeekOctober 23 Fall Into BooksNovember 6 Nassau Lit FestNovember 17 NBA press conferenceNovember 21 NYPL Book Fest |
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Awards, Contests, & Grants
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Book Buddy
Bay Shore Brightwaters Public Library sponsored a successful Book Buddy program this summer with 122 teens volunteering to work as Book Buddies. Great T-shirts. Great Teens. Great Program!
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Video Volunteers
The Nerdfighters are at it again!
Brothers Hank & John Green are promoting Video Volunteers, a program which encourages teens to create videos for charity and upload them to YouTube. The promotion is funny, the cause is worthwhile. It's all good!
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Greetings!
It's September! Time to shift gears and think about fall. Hope that you are planning some school visits. As you visit with school personnel, please consider the promoting Suffolk Homework Help. SCLS has some great new marketing tools to assist you. Call for further details
Best,
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The Battle of 2009
On Saturday August 15, teams from thirty-seven Suffolk County Public Libraries competed in the Suffolk Cooperative Library System's thirteenth annual Battle of the Books. Javits Lecture Center, located on the campus of Stony Brook University was filled with costumed teens ready to share their knowledge of eight books.
Later that evening Hauppauge Public Library won the championship! Congratulations to our finalists: Babylon Public Library, Emma S. Clark Memorial Library, and Hampton Bays Public Library.
Thanks to all of the teens, coaches, parents, and library staff who worked so hard to make Battle of the Books a memorable event.
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Battle Flicks  Saleena Au, the official Battle of the Books photographer has put together a DVD containing photographs from Battle of the Books 2009. From candid shots, team costumes, and groups posing on stage, this is an extensive collection with over 300 photographs. One copy of the DVD is available to each of the thirty-seven libraries.
If you would like a copy of these Battle photographs, please contact Barbara Moon.
Thank you to Samantha Alberts and James Buckman for making the DVD copies and Extra Special Thanks to Saleena. Awesome photographs!
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Camp YA
It's almost here and you won't want to miss this. Join with great librarians from Suffolk, Nassau, Brooklyn, Queens, & NYC.
Time is running out!
Registration closes September 24.
When: October 1
9:30 a.m.
Where: Bay Shore Brightwaters Public Library
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Mystery and Intrigue
Several interesting graphic titles have crossed my desk this past month. Filled with murder, mystery and intrigue these titles are just my "cup of tea."
 Pluto by Naoki Urasawa introduces readers to Gesicht, an agent with Europol. Both Gesicht and his wife Helena have the appearance of humans, but are robots. Called to investigate the first murder in eight years, the detective uncovers a series of both human and robot murders. Gesicht begins to suspect that a robot may be responsible for this series of deaths. Great characters and riveting plot make Pluto manga and mystery at its best. Here is one series to get hooked on!
Bodart and Vehlmann's Green Manor: Assassins and Gentlemen continues the fine celebral tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle's depiction of "murder most foul." English gentlemen meet at the Green Manor Club to debate the question: "Do you believe that there can be a murder without a victim and without a murderer?" One after another, members begin to regale the club with strange stories of murders. Was there a murderer? Was there a body? Keep reading for an interesting twist at the end!
Got teens who like comics, graphic novels, and manga? Got teens who like to share their opinions? If so, consider hosting a Great Graphic Novel critique session. Contact Barbara Moon for details.
Please consult the SCLS Professional Collection for a complete listing of all titles available for examination.
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