Registration is limited so please register early and cancel your registration if you are unable to attend so that those on the waiting list have the opportunity to attend.

Deadline for registration is three weeks prior to each workshop or when workshop is full. For full workshops, a short waiting list will be created. This workshop is eligible for CE Grants from WSL.

For detailed information on registration, see this earlier blog entry.

The dates and locations for remaining workshops are as follows:

• Monday, April 12 2010: Jefferson County Library, Port Hadlock WA
• Monday, April 19, 2010: Spokane Public Library, Shadle Branch, Spokane, WA

Youth services library staff (and those who conduct storytimes at the library) are invited to attend this free workshop at one of the seven locations around the state. If there is space left three weeks before each workshop, registration will be accepted from non-youth library staff as well.

Join Jane Cobb for a full day workshop to learn:

• Interactive rhymes, songs and stories: how to use them in programs and teach them to parents and caregivers.
• Overview of early language and literacy development and how to apply this in programs.
• Introduction to storytelling in family programs; how to learn an oral story to tell, how to make it your own, and why storytelling is so beneficial to the whole family, and especially to young children.
• Program management tips: how to facilitate a group, how to deliver a program, learning what is appropriate for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and mixed ages; how to include reluctant participants (parents and children); how to handle difficult situations and surprise moments.

Registration is limited so please register early and cancel your registration if you are unable to attend so that those on the waiting list have the opportunity to attend.

Deadline for registration is two weeks prior to each workshop or when workshop is full. For full workshops, a short waiting list will be created.

This workshop is eligible for CE Grants from WSL to help cover travel costs if you live more than 50 miles from the workshop site.

The dates and locations for each workshop are as follows:

• Friday, April 9, 2010: Burlington Public Library; Burlington, WA

• Monday, April 12, 2010: Jefferson County Library; Port Hadlock, WA

• Tuesday, April 13,2010: Pierce County Library System Administration Center; Tacoma, WA

• Wednesday, April 14,2010, Fort Vancouver Public Library; Cascade Park Branch, Vancouver, WA

• Friday, April 16, 2010: Columbia County Rural Library System, Dayton, WA

• Monday, April 19, 2010: Spokane Public Library, Shadle Branch, Spokane, WA

• Tuesday, April 20, 2010: North Central Regional Library System Distribution Center, Wenatchee, WA

Register here.

For more information, please contact:

Jennifer Fenton, CE/Training Coordinator
Washington State Library
360.570.5571

Martha Shinners, Youth Services Consultant
Washington State Library
360.570.5567

First Tuesday, designed as a continuing-education opportunity for staff of libraries in Washington State, offers free web presentations from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., on the first Tuesday of each month. These presentations let attendees share their skills and successes and learn about new topics. The special-subject presentations, lasting about 30 minutes, are recorded so that others may listen at their own convenience.

Find out more about First Tuesdays here.

For more information, contact:
Jennifer Fenton
360-570-5571
jennifer.fenton@sos.wa.gov
or
Carolyn Petersen
360-570-5560
carolyn.petersen@sos.wa.gov

Please solicit your institution’s library staff, board members and volunteers for suggestions as to who they think should be nominated for this prestigious award.  The winner will receive recognition at the annual conference.

The CAYAS Award for Visionary Library Service to Youth recognizes individuals who, through their practice and example, provide inspiration and leadership for others who serve children and young adults in libraries.  Those eligible to be nominated for this award include staff or volunteers from public, school or special libraries.  The work that qualifies an individual for nomination may include cumulated efforts over several years in the field of library service to youth, or may be a singular and exceptional effort that sets new standards for practice.  The purpose of the award is not only to commend the individual who will receive it, but also to appreciate and bring attention to the remarkable and tireless efforts of all individuals who work with young people in libraries.

The completed nomination form (scroll down to the bottom of the page) may be submitted by email, or you may mail them directly to:

Mary Comstock
Kingsgate Library – KCLS
12315 NE 143rd Street
Kirkland, WA 98034

Deadline for nominations is February 20, 2010. The winner will receive recognition at the annual conference, this year the joint WLA/PNLA conference to be held in Victoria B.C. in August 11-13, 2010.

Each presenter will have a table where you can have hand-outs, PowerPoint, or examples of your program. Showcase attendees can visit the tables to get new ideas, and ask you questions about your amazing program.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Sarah Lynch, KCLS teen services librarian, by October 16.

Mock Newbery Workshop
The Mock Newbery Workshop is presented by CSD, the Children and Young Adult Services (CAYAS) Interest Group of WLA, and Multnomah County Library. Here are the particulars:

Date/Time: Saturday January 9, 2010 / 10 am – 4 pm
Location: Multnomah County Library’s Central Library
Cost: $15 / pays for snacks and a lunch from Elephant’s Delicatessen

This workshop has an attandance limit of 48!

Join library staff and educators from around Oregon and Washington for a fun and fascinating look at the Newbery medal. 2010 Newbery Committee chair Katie O’Dell and 2010 Committee member Steven Engelfried will talk about the Newbery committee experience. Former Newbery Committee members Nell Colburn, Marian Creamer, and Ellen Fader will lead a thought-provoking discussion about the challenging task of selecting the most distinguished children’s book of the year. Finally, all attendees will discuss several of the best books of 2009, culminating in a vote for the OLA/WLA Mock Newbery winner!
A book list will be sent out to registrants the middle of October.
Please contact Rick Samuelson with any questions.

CAYAS presents:
Booktalk Boot Camp

With Chapple Langemack and Melanie Workhoven

Learn how to build a great booktalk and perform it with pizzazz! Join veteran booktalker Chapple Langemack and actress Melanie Workhoven to review booktalking basics and avoid booktalking bugaboos. Discover how to choose a book, construct a compelling booktalk and use your voice, breath and physical presence to transfix your audience. This is a hands-on session, and you will gain skills necessary to booktalk to any age group. Participants are encouraged to bring their own booktalks to perform and receive helpful guided feedback from the presenters. This program focuses on the physical aspects of public speaking and booktalking. It is not a reader’s advisory class.

Wednesday October 7 at the downtown Yakima Valley Library .

Friday, October 30 at the KCLS Service Center.

Both workshops run from 9:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Doors will open at 9:00 a.m. for check-in. Lunch (including vegetarian options) will be provided.

Print and send in your registration now!

$35 for WLA members (discounted cost is a benefit of membership)
$45 for non-members
$25 for students

For additional information email Darcy Brixey or the WLA office.

But that was the past. When Washington joined the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) in 2004 everything changed. Thanks to Martha Shinners at the State Library we suddenly had free manuals full of programs, slogans and bulletin boards. Upstart/Highsmith provided a catalog of incentives to purchase at reasonable prices complete with big name artists.

While it sure is nifty when the manual arrives, somebody has to create it and the Collaborative in CSLP makes that happen. Each April the state representative and their delegates meet for a three day conference to vote on artists, themes, slogans, PSAs and all other the minute details needed to run such a large organization. Committees are formed to create the various manuals, but there is time at the meetings for people to run up to the microphone, identify themselves and share their ideas. Over the course of the summer the vendor committee will have their email burst to overflowing with all the choices that will eventually turn into the Upstart/Highsmith catalog.

It has been my great pleasure to spend the last three years as one of the CSLP delegates for Washington State. I have volunteered for the Vendor Committee and can attest to how hard all the committees work to make the CSLP such an amazing and easy to use program.

What I found the most amazing was watching democracy in action. My first year at the Conference the states had weighted votes based on how many libraries are in each state, so states like California had way more votes than Washington. Watching poor Cindy from Montana make 47 hash marks for their votes took a while. But by my second year the Collaborative had grown in size and the executive board passed a motion to switch to equally weighted votes, so now each state gets 3 votes. The tally process goes much faster during the roll call! During breaks we would discuss what we wanted to vote for and caucus with the representatives from other states about what we were choosing (and why they should vote with us) and vice versa. There were lively discussions as the room debated how slogans would be interpreted in big cities like New York City versus a small town in Arkansas.

So when you flip through your CSLP manual with a pad of sticky notes and sigh a big sigh of relief, take a moment to mentally thank the volunteers from around the country that made it happen.

~~Angela Nolet, outgoing CSLP delegate for Washington State

[Editor's note: The new WA delegate is Tracy Rebstock from Liberty Lake Municipal Library – she is involved in teen services and I'm sure will contribute a great deal to the CSLP effort!]

To that end, I’d like to publish periodic entries about you, and what you’re doing for kids at your libraries. Please feel free to email me brief “news releases” about your doings at your branches so the blog can feature your activity in the future. There is another added benefit to this — you all know how we who work with kids and teens love to borrow ideas from one another!

So here’s the information I need: email me at dadriance@sno-isle.org. Please put as your subject ” CAYAS blog.” Write a brief description of your idea, program, or successful activity. Include your name, library, position, and contact information. If I get enough responses, I may be able to do an entry with kids and teens library news at monthly intervals! I appreciate your input in making this blog a useful communication tool for CAYAS, and I value your feedback as well. Thanks!

Debbie Adriance, CAYAS blog editor

This year’s board retreat focused quite a bit on building community within our membership, as well as a renewed focus on continuing education opportunities. WLA is your your organization and we want every member to be able to participate, whether or not you are able to attend annual conferences. We talked about the possibility of sponsoring regional meet-up activities or an online book club to increase our connections to each other.

Following the retreat, the new CAYAS Board met together for the first time. With the next conference over a year away, we are in the planning stages of a number of sessions, including School/Public Library Partnerships, Programming for At-Risk Teens, Teen Programming Showcase, Story Time Showcase and more. If you’ve got any ideas for things you’d like to see at WLA/PNLA in Victoria next year, please let us know – we’re hoping that the conference will be irresistible to you. We are also planning to offer a stand-alone workshop on Booktalking in Issaquah and Yakima in October, so stay-tuned for more information.

Kristin Piepho, CAYAS Chair