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Youth Services News

February 8, 2019

Youth ServicesNews February 8, 2019
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Kids Reading Across RI 2019

The Kids Reading Across RI Committee is proud to announce that Sanity & Tallulah by Molly Brooks is this year's selection! Get ready for two clever friends, a three headed cat, space hijinks, and a bit of mystery.


In the next month you will receive information about requesting free copies of Sanity &Tallulah to use for KRARI book discussions throughout the spring and summer. As always, these books will belong to your library and you may decide how you want to distribute them (give them to book discussion participants to keep, catalog them, etc.). We will begin distributing the books in early March through OLIS-LORI delivery.


KRARI book sets are also made available to school librarians. In the past, volunteers from the RI Center for the Book have distributed book sets to requesting schools that do not receive OLIS-LORI delivery. However, if you're looking for a way to connect with schools, you may want to consider being a pick-up location for book sets requested by school librarians in your community. (Or you could offer to deliver the set to the school, a definite "in" for stopping by to talk up your summer reading program!) Let us know if you're interested in being a pick-up location and you'll be contacted if a school librarian from your district requests a book set.


Mark you calendar for the kickoff event scheduled for Saturday, May 4th from 2pm-4pm at the State House. Author Molly Brooks will join us to sign books and speak to attendees. In the next month the KRARI committee will be inviting libraries and organizations to host a table at the kickoff, so start brainstorming an out of this world activity, display, or handout for the event!

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Money Smart Week

From the RILA Financial Literacy Roundtable:


Money Smart Week begins on March 30th! Still haven’t booked a program? The Financial Literacy Roundtable has compiled a list of contacts for financial education providers throughout the state to help you get started: Financial Literacy Program Resource List.

We would love to help you promote your Money Smart Week events, so please submit them to flrt@rilibraries.org by Friday, March 1st. Events will be listed in our statewide calendar, posted to our Money Smart Week RI Facebookpage (follow us there!), and promoted at our kick-off event.


This year, FLRT is partnering with the Financial Planning Association of RI to host Financial Planning Day at the North Providence Public Libraryto kick off MSW. The event will take place on Saturday, March 30th from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm and is open to the public. Certified Financial Planners will provide free, one-on-one consultations with attendees, as well as present on Investing Basics and Real World Retirement Planning. Please find the flyer attached. Visit Eventbrite for details and to register.

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NERCTL 2019 Spring Event

Transform Our Communities, Transform Our World

NERTCL One-Day Conference 2019

March 29, 2019

Nevins Memorial Library, Methuen, MA

REGISTER NOW


Join your colleagues for a day of discussion focused on advocacy, services, and community transformations for children, teens, and their families.

Featuring …

  • Keynote speaker, Rita Meade: public librarian, author, and Twitter celebrity @ScrewyDecimal
  • Luke Kirkland, teen specialist at the Waltham (MA) Public Library: advocacy and teen-services extraordinaire.
  • Librarian-led panel discussions on Drag Queen Story Hour …
  • … and Family Place Libraries.
  • And you! Meet fellow librarians and solve the world’s problems during a relaxed round table discussion covering everything from favorite flavors of ice cream to the biggest challenges facing your library.
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RI Book Award Voting

It's book award season!


RI Children's Book Award (RICBA)

February 1 - March 1

If you are a public library that will have a voting station, please contact Danielle Margarida to have your library listed on the voting web page and in the next RICBA newsletter.


RI Teen Book Award (RITBA)

January 22 - February 28

Voting results should be emailed to riteenbookaward@gmail.com by Friday, March 1.

We are once again offering free books as prizes and incentives for both teen voters and voting stations in public and school libraries across Rhode Island. For more information and to get your voting station involved, click here for 2019 Voting Incentives .

Please direct any questions to riteenbookaward@gmail.com


RI Middle School Book Award (RIMSBA) voting to be announced, March 1st-March 31st.

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February Mock Newbery Read-Along

Join the Mock Newbery Goodreads group read-along! Each month we'll pick a book published in 2019 to read and virtually discuss in preparation for creating our first 2020 reading list. February's book is The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart. (Our March book is Pay Attention, Carter Jones by Gary Schmidt if you want to get a head start!)

Not part of the Mock Newbery Goodreads group? Join now! Have a book to suggest for a future read-along? Let me know!

RILA Conference 2019: Call for Proposals

From RILA:


Join us for the 2019 Rhode Island Library Association Annual Conference

on May 22nd & 23rd at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI.


The 2019 RILA Conference will launch a statewide news literacy initiative, featuring engaging sessions on news and media literacy, civic education and democracy, and many other topics of interest to public, academic, school, and special librarians and library staff. We can't wait to see you at the conference!


Interested in presenting? Submit your proposal today! Conference proposals are due February 22nd.

Upcoming OLIS CE

Registration for all OLIS fall 2018 continuing education programs is now open. Check the OLIS CE calendar.

Event Information

Children's Sensory Story time Support Group

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Snow date: Tuesday, February 26


Join fellow youth services librarians to share best practices for sensory story times and inclusive library programs and services. We will be discussing community connections, sensory activity ideas, and programs/services beyond story time.

Please bring your PR materials for your library's upcoming sensory programs so that the group can help with promotion!

Agenda:

  • Performers offering programs suited for children with special need. (Maria Cotto will share a list of performers).

  • Coordinating a Sensory Special Event to promote our libraries, programs, partner organizations, and to connect with families in our communities. (Potential annual event).

  • Sensory activity ideas.

  • Questions that may have come up during your sensory story time.

  • Experiences implementing Sensory Story Time or other sensory programs in your community.

All materials and ideas generated from this meeting will be collected on the Children's Sensory Story Time Support Group LibGuide.

The Sensory Story Time Support Group is a grassroots community of practice developed and faciliated by Maria Cotto at the Pawtucket Public Library and Babs Wells at the Greenville Public Library. The Sensory Storytime Support Group seeks to empower youth services librarians to better serve children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families by expanding programming, outreach, partnerships, and resources that welcome all abilities. For more information about the Sensory Story Time Support Group please contact Maria Cotto at risensorystorytime@gmail.com and and Babs Wells at babswells2012@gmail.com.


Related LibGuide: Children's Sensory Story Time Support Group by Danielle Margarida

When?

Tuesday, Feb 12, 2019, 01:00 PM

Where?

West Warwick Public Library, Main Street, West Warwick, RI, USA

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Young Adult Roundtable: Connected Learning

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Join us for this supersized YART meeting! Together we'll explore the 6 principles of Connected Learning and its practical applications for Teen Services. Learn how you are already implementing elements of CL, and come away with new, attainable ideas for teen programming.

Lunch will be provided. Please contact Danielle Margarida with any dietary restrictions before February 15th.

Training Objective

  • Strengthen the knowledge, skill and abilities of library staff to deliver high quality computer science/computational thinking experiences using the Connected Learning approach.

Training Outcomes
Participants will:

  • understand the philosophy of Connected Learning as it relates to educational and career opportunities
  • explore the six principles of Connected Learning
  • think about how to operationalize Connected Learning theory into practice
  • learn about how a library has incorporated Connected Learning into a production-centered site

This training is part of the YALSA/COSLA IMLS grant funded project "Transforming Teen Services: a Train the Trainer Approach."

When?

Tuesday, Feb 26, 2019, 09:30 AM

Where?

Cranston Public Library: Central Library, Sockanosset Cross Road, Cranston, RI, USA

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Young Adult Roundtable: Computational Thinking

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One way to start thinking about what computational thinking is all about is to take part in an activity that connects library staff to an actual project that teens might work on. In this session participants get hands-on experience and a chance to discuss what computational thinking is and how it can be integrated into teen activities.

Meeting Outcomes
Participants will be able to:

  • Articulate some of the core concepts of computational thinking
  • Begin designing activities for and with teens that connect CL and CT
  • Understand the value of integrating CT into activities for and with teens
  • Connect CT to pre-existing library activities and services.

This training is part of the YALSA/COSLA IMLS grant funded project "Transforming Teen Services: a Train the Trainer Approach."


Related LibGuide: Young Adult Roundtable by Danielle Margarida

When?

Tuesday, Mar 12, 2019, 09:00 AM

Where?

North Kingstown Free Library, Boone Street, North Kingstown, RI, USA

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Supercharged Storytimes

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Learn about the nationally recognized Supercharged Storytimes framework that will help you take your storytime to the next level. Discuss early literacy domains, parent education, and storytime assessment tools to strengthen your preschool education strategies. Participants will learn the Project VIEWS 2 framework and planning tools to create a storytime plan they can take back to their library. Open to anyone who works in children’s services and plans storytimes.

Objectives:

  • To understand the research behind Project Views2 and its importance for library storytimes
  • To learn the Project Views2 framework and planning tool and ways that it intersects Every Child Read to Read concepts
  • To plan a storytime using the Views2 Planning Tool

About Supercharged Storytimes

Supercharged Storytimes is a transformative way to approach planning, executing, and reviewing storytime plans using scientific research and proven methods of success. Through an IMLS grant, the Washington State Library funded VIEWS 2 to discover ways to tie library activities to educational results and brain development.

Caitlin Augusta is a children's librarian at the Stratford Library and a Library educator for the Connecticut State Library. She's a graduate of Wellesley College with an MLS from the University of Illinois. In her space time, she reviews for School Library Journal and Audiofile Magazine. The Supercharged Storytimes workshop is is taught with permission of the authors, Kathleen Campana, J. Elizabeth Mills, and Saroj Nadkarni Ghoting.

When?

Thursday, Apr 11, 2019, 09:30 AM

Where?

Warwick Public Library: Central Library, Sandy Lane, Warwick, RI, USA

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Young Adult Roundtable: Connecting Computational Thinking and Connected Learning

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We've explored Connected Learning (CL) and Computational Thinking (CT), now it's time to bring it all home and look at how the CL framework can be used to design new (or support exisiting) activities and services for teens.

Training Objective

  • Participants scaffold knowledge they already have about Connected Learning (CL) and computational thinking (CT), and use it to recognize the ways in which CT supports CL.

Training Outcomes
Participants will:

  • articulate how CL environments support youth learning of CT
  • understand how to get started designing CT activities using a CT framework

This training is part of the YALSA/COSLA IMLS grant funded project "Transforming Teen Services: a Train the Trainer Approach."


Related LibGuide: Young Adult Roundtable by Danielle Margarida

When?

Thursday, Apr 25, 2019, 09:30 AM

Where?

Tiverton Public Library, Roosevelt Avenue, Tiverton, RI, USA

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Young Adult Roundtable: Youth Development

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Working with youth calls for an understanding of how they develop, their needs, and their assets. Together we'll explore key research into child and youth development and how it impacts library program planning for tweens and teens. We'll also discuss using developmental stages and needs to demonstrate ways in which coworkers can help support teens and teen services.

Training Outcomes

Participants will:

  • develop an understanding of the cultural concept of childhood in the United States
  • identify the various ages and stages of child development
  • design developmentally appropriate activities and learning environments
  • explore ways to advocate for teens and teen services by sharing information about youth development and needs with coworkers

This training is part of the YALSA/COSLA IMLS grant funded project "Transforming Teen Services: a Train the Trainer Approach."


Related LibGuide: Young Adult Roundtable by Danielle Margarida

When?

Thursday, May 9, 2019, 09:30 AM

Where?

West Warwick Public Library, Main Street, West Warwick, RI, USA

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Children's Services Roundtable: Beginning Reader Collection

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Whether you call it beginning readers, early readers, or easy readers, your collection for kids just starting to read on their own can often pose a number of unique challenges. Together we'll explore the needs of new readers and how to meet those needs through collection development, collection organization, and readers' advisory.

Please bring:

  • a description of how you catalog, label, and shelve your beginning reader collection
  • examples of how this collection is promoted
  • resources you use for developing this collection
  • any recommended book lists you've created for this collection

Meeting goals:

  • Participants will discuss ideas and recommendations for supporting beginning readers.

Meeting outcomes:

  • Participants will use crowdsourced resources and recommendations to evaluate their beginning reader collection in relation to community needs and library resources (i.e. space, budget, etc.)
  • Participants will have a network of youth services library staff available to advise on various aspects of beginning reader collection development.
  • Participants will collectively develop a beginning reader collection resource guide to be shared on the Children's Services Roundtable LibGuide.

Related LibGuide: Children's Services Roundtable by Danielle Margarida

When?

Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 01:00 PM

Where?

East Greenwich Free Library, Peirce Street, East Greenwich, RI, USA

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Contact

Email: danielle.margarida@olis.ri.gov
Website: http://www.olis.ri.gov/
Location: 1 Capitol Hill Providence, RI 02908
Phone: 401-574-9309
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Twitter: @olisri