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November 1st-30th
November 5th-8th
November 13th
Galley Group
November 18th
December 10th
Mock Caldecott
December 11th
YASD Author Luncheon
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November Reads
Here are some new YA titles that are coming out this month!
The Walled City
by Ryan Graudin
November 4th
The Retribution of Mara Dyer
by Michelle Hokin
November 4th
Unbroken
by Laura Hillenbrand
November 11th
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Book Buzz made its way to Long Island on Tuesday November 28th where publishers shared their upcoming titles to over 100 of our librarians. School and library marketers as well as editors presented from Random House, Harper Collins, Tor Teen, Sourcebooks, Penguin, Quirk and many more! If you are looking to see what titles were presented search for #BookBuzzLI on Twitter or check out some of the morning's children's and teen books on Project Yawesome:
http://projectyawesome.blogspot.com/search/label/bookbuzzli
Both morning and afternoon session PowerPoint presentations will be available on the Gateway shortly.
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It Starts with a Story
Two hundred public and school librarians from Suffolk and Nassau counties made their way to the 16th Suffolk Literature Conference: It Starts with a Story. The day began with a read aloud of Lois Ehlert's Rrralph performed by the author/illustrator herself and her editor of over 20 years Allyn Johnston. They then spoke about working together and how Lois doesn't use email! Hand written letters and parcels are shipped back and forth during the writing and editing process. The pair were a delight to start off the day.
After attendees enjoyed discussion groups they sat down to lunch and were entertained by the one and only Holly Black (pictured below). Black shared the stories of her life (a ghost that lived in her attic and Barbies that she would turn into vampires) that shaped her and her career. She showed photos of her creepy child hood home as well as herself as an angst filled teenager. She went on to speak about the Spiderwick Chronicles, her newest YA novel The Darkest Part of the Forest and everything in between. The day was full of wonderful stories!
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YASD Author Luncheon
"Please join YASD for its Annual Author Luncheon on Thursday, December 11, 2014 at the Irish Coffee Pub from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm. Our guest speaker will be award winning Young Adult author, Matt de la Pe�a, whose works include The Living, Ball Don't Lie, Mexican Whiteboy and We Were Here. He will discuss the importance of diverse books in the lives of young readers and the impact diversity has had on his own literary journey. Matt will also talk about his involvement on the Advisory Board of the We Need Diverse Books campaign."
YASD AUTHOR LUNCHEON REGISTRATION
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Teen Video Challenge
2015
New York State, as part of Summer Reading at New York Libraries, is very pleased to participate in the Teen Video Challenge for the fifth year. We hope all libraries, library systems, and schools will encourage teens in their communities to create and submit an entry promoting summer reading and libraries. Attached is a promotional flyer that can be printed out for distribution and posted in libraries, schools, and community locations.
Teens are directed to submit entry forms to their local library by February 25, 2015.
All information and forms for the competition, including "Information and Timeline for Public Libraries' are available on the Summer Reading at New York Libraries website at, http://www.summerreadingnys.org/teens/teens-video-challenge/.
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National Novel Writing Month
NaNoWriMo is back!
Celebrate the month for writing that novel/picture book/book of essays your patrons(or maybe you!) have been putting off all year. Take the time to sit down and write. Perhaps you can block out some time for your community room to be used as NaNoWriMo headquarters where laptops or charging stations or even some beverages can be served to help your community put pen to paper! Take a look at the main website at www.nanowrimo.org or participate in their Young Writers Program by going to ywp.nanowrimo.org.
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Upcoming Trainings
Your Move: Board Game Programming at Your Library
November 18th
9:30AM: coffee and tea, 10AM - 12PM
SCLS
Board game aficionado Brian Schwartz, Patchogue-Medford Library, will share his wisdom of starting your own collection, best games for beginners and board game programming at the library.You'll even get to play!
To register please visit:
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