Resources:

11:45-12:00 Readers Advisory, Collection Development, Tech

 

Neighborhooding:

--some people will make up Dewey numbers to make a section easier to find or group books together--don’t be afraid to make up a Dewey number!

--how do we label our books? With stickers? How about colored label tape? 

--leveling books: a lot of libraries will actually level the books themselves and section those out. 

--some libraries have sectioned out Early Chapter Books/First Chapter Books 

--Mattapoisett has created a section that is sort of a cusp section of upper middle grade books but not the hardcore teen stuff. Has anyone else created a section like this? Mattapoisett is pulling them out as a separate section, not stickering. 

 

Non-Traditional Materials:

--Moby Outdoor Science Packs: family backpacks with tools and activity sheets to appeal to a wide range of ages on different topics i.e. bat boxes, composting, insects, organic gardening, rockhounding, things to do at the beach, maple sugaring, etc. 

--Library of Things: what do you have?

--children’s rooms often have circulating kits that are literacy based

--robot kits, makey makey, wifi hotspots, Roku, Launchpads, 

--most of us are unwilling to charge people for lost people from kits, but when it comes to big ticket items, we feel that there has to be more patron responsibility

 

Reader’s Advisory:

--Narwhal and Jelly (early reader graphic novel)

--Newsprints (middle grade fiction--grades 5+)

--podcasts: My Brother and Me; Comedy Bang Bang, Flophouse, Lore; Rosebuddies; Reply All; the Librarian Is In; Literary Disco; Overdue; Freakonomics--great way to get your adult patrons who like audio some different options!

--Jazz Day

--March graphic novel series by John Lewis--required reading!

 

11:45-12:00 Storytime, Song Share

            -MASSYAC Archives for storytime behavioral issues

            -School Readiness Through Partnerships, Tinker Kits http://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/learning-resources

-Peep’s Big Wide World-observational questions

-Tinker Lab-book, website, facebook

-Megan David Lambert: Reading Picture Books with children

 

11:45-12:30 Teen/Tween Issues, Programming

-Inthecornerblogspot.com

-Tumblr, Tumblrmetrics.com

 

1:15-2:00 Shareable Programming

 

PROGRAMMING

 

Summer Reading: Prizeless!:

READ AND BEAD: 

Everyone gets a chain necklace and a “brag tag” to start. Earn beads to decorate your necklace. 15 minute beads; hour beads, 2 hour beads, 4 hour beads, etc. Everyone gets to do math! i.e. an hour could be 4 15 minute beads or one special 1 hour beads. Have a sheet and each thing they color (i.e. a bubble, etc.) is worth 15 minutes. Readinthecorner.blogspot.com you can see the summer reading blogposts for this program.

Charity: if the kids read so many books for a goal, they will give their money to another charity

Some places have just a big party but you only get an invite if you complete your summer reading

Another place is thinking of having 9 holes of mini golf (small local guy is fairly cheap!)

Bouncy houses as a party wrap prize to get to go to if you hand in your reading

 

Offsite Programming:

Doing programs at other locations, i.e. Food pantry, Headstart, Farmer’s Market, Barre Library is going to go to the local band concerts on the common in the summer with Imagination Blocks plus free books and library card applications, collaborate with fitness centers, local farms, senior centers, playgrounds, use your CFCE

 

Open Play Spaces:

Some libraries do just open playgroups--allow any who comes to just use a space to play in free form, can add toys or not

Put out centers that people can play with with various themes: STEM, dress up, math, community helpers, tinker kits

Can put out tinker kit items with no directions and let the kids do what they want with it; i.e. put out a sieve, pipe cleaners, etc.

 

Other ideas:

passive programming: materials for collages, scavenger hunts, quiz hunts around the room, I Spy collages or boards

 

Sensory Story Times:

Talk to Ashley Waring at Reading PL for advice; lots of little things you can do, like have a schedule board of what’s happening in order, fidget toys, weighted pads, etc. 

 

Get Teens in with:

STEM stuff (take things apart!) or building things, anime clubs, cooking or food--see if you can contract with a local chef to come and teach the kids how to make something; chocolate fondue

Teens love having unstructured time where they can hang but do a non-directed activity

Book Tastings: teens have to basically rate a couple of books and then “dessert” is they get to have the ingredients for their dessert once they have handed in their little reviews--it is an unstructured kind of book clubs

 

Battle of the Books: teams of kids who have to read 6 books over a span of time then they all come together all dressed up and then have a trivia contest based on the books with a pizza party

 

Use the MCBA books and have to read at least 5 books, vote on the books, make a little video

 

Try having the book club AT the school 

 

Read to Me Book group where you pick longer picture books or such that can be read even last minute beforehand and then you talk about it in the group and then make a craft/activity for grades K to 3

 

How about a Book Share kind of group where the kids just get to come and talk about/share stuff they are reading/watching/seeing at the movies

 

You can make videos of the kids acting out scenes to books

 

Do book to movie comparisons

 

 

1:12-2:00 Political Climate, Work/Life Balance, AKA "We Are Cranky"

Student Resource Center 

-Trevor project will send you stuff: http://www.thetrevorproject.org/ (call for resources)

-How to Spot Fake News graphic: https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11174

-You Are Safe Here Posters: http://www.diana-toledano.com/blog/2016/11/20/every-kid-is-loved-here

-Real Facts

-Checkology

-Snopes

-GLSEN

 

Yoga/Meditation Resources

Yoga with Adriene https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene

Doyogawithme.com

Fuck this meditation

Tufts meditation resources

 

Podcasts

My Favorite Murder

My brother my brother and me

Still buffering

ReplyAll

Imaginary Worlds

2DopeQueens

Sooo Many White Guys

Call your girlfriend

Pod Save America

The Flophourse

Presidents are people too

Hard Core History

The Yarn

Dear Hank and John (vlogbrothers)