ULA Children's Services

CSRT/YART Fall Workshop

2010-08-31T16:37:00.008-06:00

Mark your calendars!

October 1, 2010
Park City Library, Park City, UT

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joni Richards Bodart

Check out the flyer for more information.

http://utahyart.pbworks.com/f/FlyerCSRTYARTFallWorkshop2010.pdf

Boys and Books: A Match Not Always Made in Heaven

2010-08-17T18:03:00.006-06:00

Parents and educators alike will tell you that the love of reading (sadly) doesn’t always come naturally to boys. As a story in Washingtonpost.com (1/25/05) put it “girls read; boys don’t.” Is there anything a concerned adult can do? Ann Cannon’s experiences as a teacher of children’s literature, a bookseller, a writer, and a mother of five sons have convinced her that the answer is yes. She’ll discuss strategies and specific titles that have been successful with real live boys.

You’re Invited!
Join us for an upbeat librarian's training with Ann Cannon. If you work with boys (and you do) then this is for you! Come away with new knowledge, ideas, and best of all renewed enthusiasm for boys, books, and library life in general. Free.

Monday, September 20, 2010
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Whitmore Library Auditorium
2197 Fort Union Boulevard (7000 South)
Salt Lake City, UT 84121-3139
RSVP: Laura Berube

lberube@slcolibrary.org

ULA Annual Conference - May 12 -14, 2010

2010-03-11T18:36:00.007-07:00

Don't forget to come to the ULA Annual Conference in St. George. CSRT is hosting several programs for children's librarians.

Book Prop Fun

Leveled Reading 101

Using Music in Children's Programming

Summer Reading Panel

Beehive Book Award Nominees for 2010 - 2011

For more information, schedule, descriptions and registration information check out the ULA Conference Website.

2009-08-03T19:43:00.011-06:00

Speaker: Kathleen Baxter

Through practical experience booktalking to thousands of kids, School Library Journal columnist, Kathleen Baxter, feels that nonfiction can be the key to getting kids to read. Participants will be motivated and energized as they acquire a practical knowledge of nonfiction books, booktalking, and appeal factors.

Come join us for our CSRT/YART Fall Workshop held in beautiful Huntsville, Utah.

Date: September 11, 2009

Location: Ogden Valley Branch Library
131 South 7400 East

Huntsville, Utah

Cost: $35.00

For more information and a registration form click here.

See You At ULA

2009-04-24T10:25:00.001-06:00

Look for updates on Monday with everything we did at ULA. It's been a great conference so far!

Also, mark Friday, September 11 in your calendar for our Get Real: Nonfiction for Kids and Teens Workshop in Huntsville, UT!

Author Carla Morris at Draper Library on January 29

2009-01-03T16:58:00.004-07:00

CARLA MORRIS
Author of Beehive Nominee
The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29
7:00 p.m.
Draper Library
1136 E. Pioneer Road

Win a signed copy of her book! Visit www.slcolibrary.org for more information.

This event is presented in partnership with Salt Lake County Library Services, the Children’s Literature Association of Utah, and the Children’s Services Roundtable of the Utah Library Association

ALSC Announces Great Websites for Children

2008-12-26T12:15:00.003-07:00

ALA/ALSC has published a list of recommended websites for children. To see what made the list visit:

http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2008/december2008/webforchildren.cfm

Kidding Around

2008-12-15T14:06:00.002-07:00

Welcome to our newsletter "Kidding Around!" There are lots of fun ideas and good information inside each issue!

http://whitmore.pbwiki.com/Kidding-Around

Walter Wick Exhibition at the BYU Art Museum

2008-11-26T12:27:00.005-07:00

Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic (February 26 - August 1, 2009): The playful, inventive and interactive world of Walter Wick will be the subject of Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic. Represented in the exhibition are large-scale works by the Hartford-based photographer whose I SPY and Can You See What I See books for children are long-time best-sellers, as well as examples of his sets, set-ups and props. Admission to all exhibits is free. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays; and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. For more information on exhibits and museum programs, call (801) 422-ARTS or visit the museum’s website .

Rosemary Wells Visit - October 20, 2008

2008-09-13T13:11:00.007-06:00

We are so excited that author Rosemary Wells will be coming to the Whitmore Library (2197 Fort Union Boulevard, Salt Lake City) on Monday, October 20 at 7:00pm. -- an appearance sponsored by ULA-CSRT and the Children's Literature Association of Utah (CLAU). She will be talking about the importance of literacy for children as well as doing a signing after her talk. We are not sure yet whether we'll have books available for purchase or if you will need to bring your own books to be signed. This program is for ADULTS only and children will not be allowed in the meeting room.

CSRT Newsletter - Writers Wanted

2008-07-15T19:33:00.004-06:00

We're going to be publishing a CSRT quarterly newsletter. We're looking for news we can use!Have you done a popular program? Got a stupendous storytime theme? Read a great book? Have a technology tool to share? Email your ideas, articles, etc. to Anna at azanarini@slcolibrary.org. We're looking at publishing our first issue in October, so email Anna by September 12.

CSRT Meeting Notes - 7/11/08

2008-07-15T19:31:00.002-06:00

CSRT Meeting Notes - 7/11/08

Programming/Continuing Education

Fall Workshop 2008 - Anna will contact the ULA Continuing Education Committee to see if a Fall Workshop will take place as scheduled and see what they want us to do. We will probably present the Tween program or another program that was presented at the Cedar City conference.

CSRT/YART Fall Workshop 2009 - CSRT would like to offer a chidlren's/YA workshop day in conjunction with one of the CE Committee's Fall Workshops. If the CE Committee does not have any workshops, CSRT would like to continue to do a late summer/fall workshop in partnership with YART. We will ask for $2500 to cover the cost of a one-day workshop including speaker fee.

ULA Conference 2009 - Theme is "Turn Up the Volume". We'd like to get a really big name speaker, ie. Mo Willems or Jon Scieszka, to speak at the conference and also at a session for the public to attend. ULA President Steve Decker is interested in getting ULA out in the public's attention, so we're hoping they will put money into it. Mo Willems is $3000 plus travel per day (yikes!), but it can't hurt to ask. All ULA members will be able to submit programs for the annual conference starting in August or September. These will come to Round Tables for review. Be thinking of programs, speakers, etc., that you'd like to see at ULA. The conference will be in Salt Lake City on April 22-24 at the Sandy Convention Center. Programs we thought would be good were publishing trends in kid's books, reader's advisory for early readers, and using stats/numbers to achieve advocacy and results.

Communication

CSRT will develop a quarterly newsletter to be emailed to all ULA members. Sections include Programming, Storytime Themes, Book/Media recommendations, News, Continuing Ed Opportunities, Calendars, Member Spotlight, and more. Please let Anna know if you'd like to write an article at azanarini@slco.lib.ut.us.

We will also investigate ListServ options and how much they are. We discussed that if messages come to us we are much more likely to look at them as opposed to visiting a blog or a wiki. However, please keep looking and adding to the CSRT blog at http://www.ula-csrt.blogspot.com/.

We decided that face-to-face meetings are tough because it's hard to find time and gas is so expensive and so will think of other ways to improve communication and sharing for CSRT members including the newsletter and the possible listserv.

CSRT Logo

We looked at some CSRT logo samples created by David Anderson and talked about one we liked with a few changes. We are looking at having block letters that spell CSRT that are colored in with different colors hovering above an open book with rainbow colored pages matching the colored letters. We are looking to brand CSRT to provide consistency in marketing and instant recognition.

Partnership with CLAU instead of Timpanogas

We will ask for money for 2008 to partner with CLAU for a fall author or illustrator visit in September or October. We decided to do this instead of partnering with the Timpanogas Storytelling Festival since we felt people did not take advantage of the CSRT discount offered at Timpanogas.

Non-Conference Budget Items

$2500 for Fall 2009 workshop

$500 to partner with CLAU

Possibly money for a listserv

CSRT Meeting - July 11

2008-07-08T20:21:00.002-06:00

There will be a CSRT Meeting on Friday, July 11 at 9:00am at the Whitmore Library, 2197 Fort Union Blvd., Salt Lake City. Everyone is welcome to attend - we hope to see you there!

2009 Summer Reading Program Workshops

2008-07-08T20:05:00.006-06:00

The Utah State Library is now accepting registrations for the annual summer reading program workshops. Here are the dates and locations:

Workshop 1, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 9:00-4:00, Cedar City Public Library
Workshop 2, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 9:00-4:00, Price City Library
Workshop 3, Thursday, Oct. 23, 9:00-4:00, Utah State Library, Salt Lake
Workshop 4, Friday, Oct. 24, 9:00-4:00, Weber County Library, Ogden

These four workshops are identical so select the location that is most convenient.

Patti Sinclair, the author/editor of the Children's Summer Reading Program Manual is returning due to popular demand. Those who attended last year's inaugural workshops had a lot of fun during Patti's sessions.

Our Young Adult trainer is Shari Haskins, the Teen Service Manager at the Riverton Branch of the Fremont County Library System in Wyoming. Shari will talk about gaming, programming, and collection development for teens and tweens.

More details and registration are available at:http://library.utah.gov/workshops/index.htm

ULA 2009

2008-06-13T13:38:00.002-06:00

What would you like to see at ULA Annual Conference, April 22-24, 2009? The theme will be "Turn Up the Volume." Please add a comment if you have ideas for topics, speakers, or activities for the conference or email Anna Zanarini at azanarini@slco.lib.ut.us. If you have a program you'd like to do, the ULA Program Board will be requesting proposals during late summer or fall -- or you can email Anna.

Tween Services - Help Needed

2008-06-13T13:01:00.003-06:00

Anybody out there doing great things with tweens? If you do tween programming, please send me an email at azanarini@slco.lib.ut.us or add a message to this post. We're looking at developing a list of programs, activities and services especially geard toward tweens.
Thanks!

CSRT/YART Summer Workshop

2008-06-07T15:24:00.004-06:00

Mark your calendars and send in your registration for the Summer Workshop in Cedar City on August 14-15. We've partnered with the Utah Shakespeare Festival to bring you great programs and opportunities for discount tickets to plays. Speakers include Fred Adams from the Shakespeare Festival and author Jessica Day George. Complete information can be found at the following link: http://www.ula.org/organization/attachments/YART/SummerWorkshop2008.pdf

Enrollment is limited, so send in your registration today!

Jim Gillat ULA 2008

2008-04-14T09:43:00.002-06:00

Big news! Everyone's favorite banjo player, Jim Gill, will be presenting two sessions at ULA on Wednesday, April 30. Music and play are his business and he'll teach us all about it! Check out the video below. He'll also be doing a free family concert at Wheeler Historic Farm on Tuesday, April 28 at 7:00pm. Join us for music and fun if you can!

Welcome to the ULA CSRT Blog!

2008-04-14T08:58:00.003-06:00

This is the place to find information about upcoming trainings and events and a place to share ideas, programs, questions and concerns.