The YART fall meeting is GO!
It is going to be a good one! You guys should totally come! Great stuff to help you deal with potential challenges to your collection, great stuff to help inspire you to have some totally awesome author visits, great ways to collaborate between public and school libraries, and some great prizes to be won!
Look at the flier, fill it out, send it in, and join us!
Monday, August 29, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Some stuff to talk about!
Just some quick things to mention for everyone.
First of all: we are almost done getting things cemented in for our Fall meeting in HAstings! We are going to have a discussion about intellectual freedom in your school and public library and their collections with people who KNOW. Learn about some amazing author visits Stacy Lickteig hosted at Bryan High School and get inspired to have your own! Share ways in which you partner with your public library or school library and get some great suggestions. We'll be doing more things than that, eat donuts and coffee, and give away some prizes (including and autographed Ellen Hopkins book in celebration of Banned Book Week).
I'll be getting the flier/signup out to the mailing list and link posted by Wednesday, so keep an eye on your mailboxes and this blog.
Second up: NLA elections! It is time to get your next YART officers (and other NLA positions) elected. Head to NLA site, log in, and vote!
Thirdly: Just a quick suggestion for programming and fun. I just discovered that my favorite board game publisher of all time, Cheapass Games has started making some of their games available as PDF files for free download! Check it out! Some amazing games that your patrons and students will love and you can't beat the price!
Edit: I should add that though the games are free, it would be nice to drop a dollar or two as a donation so they can keep doing this.
First of all: we are almost done getting things cemented in for our Fall meeting in HAstings! We are going to have a discussion about intellectual freedom in your school and public library and their collections with people who KNOW. Learn about some amazing author visits Stacy Lickteig hosted at Bryan High School and get inspired to have your own! Share ways in which you partner with your public library or school library and get some great suggestions. We'll be doing more things than that, eat donuts and coffee, and give away some prizes (including and autographed Ellen Hopkins book in celebration of Banned Book Week).
I'll be getting the flier/signup out to the mailing list and link posted by Wednesday, so keep an eye on your mailboxes and this blog.
Second up: NLA elections! It is time to get your next YART officers (and other NLA positions) elected. Head to NLA site, log in, and vote!
Thirdly: Just a quick suggestion for programming and fun. I just discovered that my favorite board game publisher of all time, Cheapass Games has started making some of their games available as PDF files for free download! Check it out! Some amazing games that your patrons and students will love and you can't beat the price!
Edit: I should add that though the games are free, it would be nice to drop a dollar or two as a donation so they can keep doing this.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
I love when YA makes it to EW
Librarians,
Many of you dont' know this, but I am a pop culture Junkie! I mean that in total honesty. I can sit and read back issues of Entertainment Weekly for hours. I have a stack of them going back to when I was in high school. Let's agree that I love that magazine and all the pop culture stuff it tells me.
What has me posting about it is what was on the front of the EW.com site today. Tomorrow is the release of "13 Reasons Why" on paperback, and EW did an interview with Jay Asher, the books author. You can check out the interview here, and you can learn about Jay Asher here. You can also be excited for his next book, coauthored with Carolyn Mackler and titled "The Future of Us" about two teens who log onto AOL in the mid 1990's and discover their facebook pages in 2011. Can it get more awesome than that?
Jake
P.S. If you haven't checked out the discussion boards yet, I would encourage you do to so. Gordon has some awesome stuff going on there and it never hurt anyone to put in your two cents.
Many of you dont' know this, but I am a pop culture Junkie! I mean that in total honesty. I can sit and read back issues of Entertainment Weekly for hours. I have a stack of them going back to when I was in high school. Let's agree that I love that magazine and all the pop culture stuff it tells me.
What has me posting about it is what was on the front of the EW.com site today. Tomorrow is the release of "13 Reasons Why" on paperback, and EW did an interview with Jay Asher, the books author. You can check out the interview here, and you can learn about Jay Asher here. You can also be excited for his next book, coauthored with Carolyn Mackler and titled "The Future of Us" about two teens who log onto AOL in the mid 1990's and discover their facebook pages in 2011. Can it get more awesome than that?
Jake
P.S. If you haven't checked out the discussion boards yet, I would encourage you do to so. Gordon has some awesome stuff going on there and it never hurt anyone to put in your two cents.
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Get Excited!!!
All,
I just wanted to drop a line because 1: I'm a terrible person and let summer get the best of my blogging. I will do a much better job. I didn't even know about the Wall Street Journal article until yesterday. I know, FAIL!
2: Gordon sent the first program in a box out on Wednesday. It was the Japanese tea set. Don't worry, it'll come back in a month's time (maybe sooner) and then you can check it out for your library. Don't forget, we also have a Hunger Games program in a box and a Blue Balliet box. Both of those are available for shipping RIGHT NOW and can be to your library for the low, low price of only $10.
Contact someone on the exec board to find out how you can get one sent to your library right away!
Lastly, I hope you have all been waiting in anticipation for our Fall meeting. If you're going to ask questions like "When is it" we'll have to get back to you. What I can tell you is that our topic of discussion will be intellectual freedom. We are hoping to have someone from the Library Commission come and talk to us about the current challenges in intellectual freedom, as well as the opportunites we can take advantage of with students and patrons to talk about the various aspects of intellectual freedom.
Be well! Stay cool, and keep being awesome.
Jake
I just wanted to drop a line because 1: I'm a terrible person and let summer get the best of my blogging. I will do a much better job. I didn't even know about the Wall Street Journal article until yesterday. I know, FAIL!
2: Gordon sent the first program in a box out on Wednesday. It was the Japanese tea set. Don't worry, it'll come back in a month's time (maybe sooner) and then you can check it out for your library. Don't forget, we also have a Hunger Games program in a box and a Blue Balliet box. Both of those are available for shipping RIGHT NOW and can be to your library for the low, low price of only $10.
Contact someone on the exec board to find out how you can get one sent to your library right away!
Lastly, I hope you have all been waiting in anticipation for our Fall meeting. If you're going to ask questions like "When is it" we'll have to get back to you. What I can tell you is that our topic of discussion will be intellectual freedom. We are hoping to have someone from the Library Commission come and talk to us about the current challenges in intellectual freedom, as well as the opportunites we can take advantage of with students and patrons to talk about the various aspects of intellectual freedom.
Be well! Stay cool, and keep being awesome.
Jake
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Friday, April 8, 2011
Information and INFORMATION!!!
Hey everyone,
Jake here at the NLA board meeting. Gordon, Lindsey and I have been hanging out with a lot of really interesting librarians talking shop about NLA business.
A few things that you need to know:
1. If you have any ideas for presentations at NLA, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE submit them. It is very important that YART be a powerhouse of representation. Last year, we had at least 3 presentations at NLA Fall Conference, and we had standing room only at one of them and very good attendance at the other two. We have been doing well and we hope to continue that tradition. Proposals are due NEXT FRIDAY!!
2. June 1st is the deadline for nominations for Vice-Chair and Secretary. Each year, we have to elect new members to positions in our organization. It has come to our attention that we will need two (2) nominees for each position. That means we will need at least four (4) people to try for our open positions. I will be taking over for Gordon as Chair, so there will be someone in the exec board who knows what's going on (right...?)!
Lots of great things happening here. Be sure to keep in mind your Fall schedules because we will be having a meeting before NLA sometime in September.
Be Well!
Jake here at the NLA board meeting. Gordon, Lindsey and I have been hanging out with a lot of really interesting librarians talking shop about NLA business.
A few things that you need to know:
1. If you have any ideas for presentations at NLA, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE submit them. It is very important that YART be a powerhouse of representation. Last year, we had at least 3 presentations at NLA Fall Conference, and we had standing room only at one of them and very good attendance at the other two. We have been doing well and we hope to continue that tradition. Proposals are due NEXT FRIDAY!!
2. June 1st is the deadline for nominations for Vice-Chair and Secretary. Each year, we have to elect new members to positions in our organization. It has come to our attention that we will need two (2) nominees for each position. That means we will need at least four (4) people to try for our open positions. I will be taking over for Gordon as Chair, so there will be someone in the exec board who knows what's going on (right...?)!
Lots of great things happening here. Be sure to keep in mind your Fall schedules because we will be having a meeting before NLA sometime in September.
Be Well!
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