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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:

• 1st Sensory Special Event promoting our libraries, programs, organizations and connecting with the families in our community (The Autism Project Walkathon)

• RIPIN (Rhode Island Parent Information Network) Peer Support Group meeting and the public libraries?.

• 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 Babs Wells at babswells2012@gmail.com.

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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We'll be discussing the newest YA books (fiction and non-fic published bewtween June 2018 - May 2019). Please submit titles you'd like to discuss to Danielle Margarida (use subject line Current YA) by May 30 or bring your favorite new titles to the meeting. This will also be the last YART meeting of the year, so we will wrap up the meeting with our 2018/19 highlights and planning for 2019/20 meetings.

Related LibGuide: Young Adult Roundtable by Danielle Margarida