News January 4, 2008 (mp3 file; 3:58 min.)
Upcoming Events for Early 2008:
Well, we’re taking down the Christmas tree here at SWILSA and getting excited about the events and promotional ideas for the coming months of the new year.
First, I hope that many of you are registered for sessions of the Iowa Small Libraries Online Conference with keynote speakers Michael Stephens and Pat Wagner on January 16th. The entire “conference” takes place in Wimba classrooms, so all you need is a computer with a broadband Internet connection. If you haven’t used Wimba before, don’t let that stop you – just give us a call and we’ll make sure that you get set up before the conference date.
The All Iowa Reads books for discussion groups are here and the schedule shows only a few months already taken. Be sure to attend the ICN session on January 17th with Dale Ross and Susan Craig to help you plan for your own discussion group. I finished the book Digging to America over the holidays and it is an interesting study of the way relationships develop and something of what it is like to live as an immigrant in this country.
One of the most fun activites of the year for us is planning for the Summer Library Program. We are getting started on bulletin board ideas and so on to be ready for the Summer Library Program workshop on February 14th at the Red Oak YMCA. Register to attend through the State Library’s CE Catalog.
Our Early Childhood Literacy project will get a boost in early March with workshops presented by Saroj Ghoting. Saroj spoke at last year’s Kids First Conference and her book Early Literacy Storytimes @ your library with its focus on six early literacy skills has formed a basis for our Early Childhood Literacy materials – especially our new Storytime Kits. Watch for details about these workshops soon and check out the new ECL website for materials you can use right away!
And March 2-8 is Teen Tech Week. We will be doing a bulletin board kit for this event in the near future. For ideas that you can use to celebrate this week at your library, see the link posted on today’s blog.
These are just a few of the highlights – be sure to check the CE Catalog for more online CE opportunities, and browse the SWILSA website for additional program and display ideas.
~Sue
Links from Today's Podcast:
Book Reviewed by Marcia on Today's Podcast:
Flannelboard Stories for Infants and Toddlers: Bilingual Edition by Ann Carlson and Mary Carlson; American Library Association; 2005.
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