Summer Library Program 2010 (workshops for librarians held Fall 2009)

Last year, we offered 11 children’s workshops and 4 teen. We are financially unable to provide that many workshops this year and have decided to offer 8 workshops that will include both the children’s and teen’s summer library programs.

As you know, the 2010 themes are "Make a Splash @ Your Library" (Children) and "Make Waves @ Your Library" (Teen). We decided to combine the children’s and teen’s programs into one workshop because:

• Most of us who work with kids know the age continuum of summer reading participants is a sliding scale with no precise cutoff – a program/book/activity/craft that works for older children might easily be adapted to teen or vice versa.
• The majority of our librarians work with both children and teens.
• The teen and children’s themes are complimentary so can exist comfortably in the same workshop.
• It will enable all attendees to have access to all the ideas.
• We’ll be able to double the number of locations where the teen SLP program will be included.
• We’ll be able to keep the team presentations that were so popular. Naturally some parts of the presentation will be heavily weighted to one group, for instance, preschool and younger, but we feel having the two presenters will help keep the energy level up and possibly provide a different frame of reference that could open up new ideas.

This year, because of funding issues, we will not be able to offer refreshments. We will remind everyone to bring their own snack and/or water. We are scheduling an hour for lunch so librarians can go out and have an opportunity to network. We also plan to have more interactive brainstorming scheduled into the workshops this year to provide further opportunities for networking and sharing and taking advantage of some shared expertise.

We look forward to seeing you this fall at the State Library’s summer library program workshops!

Please visit the CE Catalog to register.