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Youth Services News

January 25, 2019

Youth ServicesNews January 25, 2019
Newsletters are archived on the OLIS website.

Indigenous Voices

We're fortunate to have a number of reviewing sources to help guide us in our collection development practices and encourage us to think critically about the ways we represent and amplify indigenous voices in our communities.


  • Debbie Reese, 2019 Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer, has extensive reviews and critical essays at American Indians in Children's Literature.
  • Oyate is a Native organization that also provides evaluation of books and curricula with Indian themes.
  • Indigo's Bookshelf is a newer site that Florida Native Miccosukee, Seminole, Black, Latinix, queer and disabled youth have founded to review Native #ownvoices. The site also honors the founders' friend Indigo, who at 16 years old died by suicide in 2018.
  • And don't forget about the Rhode Island award winning Tomaquag Museum when looking for local educators and events!
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RI Book Award Voting

It's book award season!


RI Children's Book Award (RICBA)


The time has come for your students and patrons to vote for their favorite book among the RI Children’s Book Award nominees for 2019! For over 20 years the Rhode Island Children’s Book Award has generated widespread enthusiasm for reading. Thank you to the many schools and libraries in Rhode Island that participate. All voting and program evaluation will be done online February 1-March 1. Visit the new RICBA voting web page for additional information and voting materials. 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)

It’s that time of the year again – voting for the Rhode Island Teen Book Award winner! Teens of Rhode Island get a chance to vote for the book they think is the best book they have read from a list selected by teachers, public librarians, and school library media specialists.

Where can our teens vote? Well, they can do it in schools and local public libraries. Interested schools and libraries can find an official ballot under Official Election Ballot , to download and print. Ballots can be accepted at the participating schools and libraries from 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


Stay tuned for RI Middle School Book Award (RIMSBA) voting, March 1st-March 31st.

2019 RI Mock Newbery

Each January Rhode Island librarians gather to select a "mock" version of the Newbery award. This year, librarians discussed a total of 32 Newbery eligible books over the course of three months and three meetings.

On January 15, 2019 a group of 10 children's and school librarians selected the following winner and honor books:

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2019 RI Mock Newbery Winner

The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor
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2019 RI Mock Newbery Honor

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
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2019 RI Mock Newbery Honor

Louisana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo
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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!
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RI Mock Caldecott

This year's Mock Caldecott voting is online! After two rounds of inconclusive ballots, we've opened up a third round. We'll have one last round of voting over the weekend and name our winner just before the awards are announced Monday morning.

Ballot 3 is at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LNSV2RG

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Youth Media Awards Webcast

Bookmark the link to this year's live webcast, scheduled for Monday morning at 8am PT (11am our time). This year will be especially exciting as the American Indian Library Association (AILA), Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), and the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) will also be highlighting their top picks during the live announcements.

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.

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Help Support RIDE's SurveyWorks

Last year, more than 119,500 (up from 113,000 in 2017) students, parents, and educators participated in SurveyWorks, a school culture and climate survey that helps illustrate what is working and what can be improved in Rhode Island schools.

Are students engaged in their learning? Do parents feel welcome in their school community? Are teachers included in decision-making with school leadership? These are the kinds of important questions asked through SurveyWorks, and this year, we want to engage even more Rhode Islanders in the discussion.

In particular, we’re focused on increasing family participation, because parent voices are too often left out of the discussion when it comes to their child’s education.


That’s where our public libraries come in.

Attached are flyers in English and Spanish that we hope you may consider displaying in your library. On the flyer, you’ll note that it encourages parents to visit your Reference Desk for help. If you are willing to support this effort, we can provide you with instructions on how to access and navigate the SurveyWorks website, as well as a customized list of school codes for your community. Each school in the state has a unique code for SurveyWorks, and we are happy to generate a list for your city or town, if you are willing to help local families complete the survey in the library.


The SurveyWorks window will be open from January 14 to March 31, 2019. Schools will select two-week windows in which to more heavily promote the survey, but parents can complete the survey at any time during the full survey window. The survey takes approximately 20 minutes from start to finish, and is available in English and Spanish. Schools have a very limited number of paper copies available, but with your help, we are hoping to transition to an almost entirely online administration. If you have any library events in that survey window at which you think it could be helpful for RIDE to attend and promote SurveyWorks, please let us know and we can work with your team.

Thank you for your support, and if you are willing to help us in this effort, please contact Meg Geoghegan at Megan.Geoghegan@ride.ri.gov for more information and for a list of your local school codes.

Upcoming Events and Celebrations

February
World Read Aloud Day (February 1)
Take Your Child to the Library Day (February 2)


March
Read Across America Day (March 2)

Upcoming OLIS CE

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

Event Information

Children's and Teen Summer Reading Program Performer Booking Meeting

Register

Snow date: Tuesday, February 12

Bring your library calendar, and your presenter wish-list for our annual summer reading program block-booking event. Each library will receive booking number in advance of the meeting.

Performers will be booking teen programs 9:30am-10:30am.

Performers will be booking children's programs 10:30am-12:00pm.

When?

Thursday, Jan 31, 2019, 09:30 AM

Where?

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

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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