CEO, January 4, 2011

Children’s Event
Organizer

Lakeshores Library System and
Mid-Wisconsin Federated Library System
Youth Services Update
Issue 352, January 4, 2011

http://www.llsmwflschildrens.blogspot.com

In this issue:
One World, Many Stories
YALSA’s Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
Little Golden Books Archive
South Carolina’s Day by Day Calendar
Youth Media Awards
ALA Offers Traveling Exhibit Grant Opportunities
Dates to Remember
Website Faves
And Finally......


ONE WORLD, MANY STORIES

Ideas for SRP 2011 YA Booklist – “You Are Here” Theme
(compiled by Kristin Pekoll, West Bend Community Library)

Around the World in 100 Days by Gary Blackwood
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen
We Were Here by Matt de la Peña
A Field Guide for Heartbreakers by Kristen Tracy (taking a summer class in Czech Republic)
Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots by Abby McDonald (spending the summer in Canada)
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly (trip to France)
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (going to school in France)
Heist Society by Ally Carter (traveling around Europe)
The Juliet Club by Suzanne Harper (taking a summer class in Italy)
Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins (living in India)
Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson (road trip)
How to Be Bad by E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle (road trip)
Shift by Jennifer Bradbury (about a bike trip across America.)
As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins (involved getting around by various means)
North of Beautiful by Headley (published in '09, paperback came out this past February)
Crash into Me by Albert Borris
Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis
SASS: Students across the seven seas (series)


YALSA’S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTON

The YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18) during a November 1 – October 31 publishing year. The award winner will be announced annually at the ALA Midwinter Meeting Youth Media Awards, with a shortlist of up to five titles named the first week of December. The award will be presented at ALA Annual Conference.

Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing
By Ann Angel, published by Amulet/Abrams

Janis Joplin, a true "fish out of water" in Port Arthur, TX, follows her own path to become an icon of American music in her short, tragic life.


They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
By Susan Campbell Bartoletti, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Bartoletti provides readers with an in-depth look at the formation of the KKK and its subsequent evolution into a violent organization. With primary source material, she details the horrific history of the Ku Klux Klan and the people who fell victim to its reign of terror.


Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
By Rick Bowers, published by National Geographic Society

In 1958, the state of Mississippi began an undercover operation, The Sovereignty Commission, to spy on and potentially squelch the Civil Rights movement. Bowers' expose of this unknown organization reveals the extent to which some were willing to go to see segregation remain the law of the state.


The Dark Game: True Spy Stories
By Paul Janeczko, published by Candlewick Press

This compilation of different spies carries readers from the Revolutionary War through the infamous Cold War era. Delve into stories about the Choctaw Code Talkers of WWI, Soviet moles, Mata Hari and more as you uncover just how they changed the course of history.


Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates
By Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw, published by Charlesbridge

Through fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and scientific debate, the bones of Turkana Boy, Lapede Child, Kennewick Man and Iceman are used to tell the fascinating stories of four member of the human family tree. Maps, photographs, and news headlines add to our understanding of archeology's cutting edge science.


LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS ARCHIVE

The Racine Public Library is starting an archival collection of Little Golden Books for their new Racine History Room. Racine was the home of Western Publishing (which produced the Little Golden Books) for many years. If anyone has items they would like to donate to RPL’s collection, please contact Darcy Mohr at 262-636-9247. Here is a link to a recent article in the Racine Journal Times regarding the collection: http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/article_98786ede-05ab-11e0-8b0d-001cc4c002e0.html


SOUTH CAROLINA’S DAY BY DAY CALENDAR
www.daybydaysc.org

The South Carolina Day by Day Family Literacy Calendar is designed to be a tool that families, caregivers, educators and librarians can use at home and in the classroom to further develop early literacy skills that help young children become prepared for school or do better in school. The calendar has been updated since it was previously featured in the newsletter and now includes PDFs of the calendar by month and PDFs of the calendar in Spanish.

The Calendar is a project of the South Carolina State Library, working in partnership with many agencies and organizations, and primarily funded by a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). (thanks to Denise Lyons, consultant at the South Carolina State Library)


YOUTH MEDIA AWARDS

It’s the equivalent of the Academy Awards to anyone with a passing interest in children’s books and publishing. To allow as many interested people as possible the opportunity to hear the winners of the Youth Media Awards on Jan. 10, during the American Library Association’s (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, the ALA will provide a free live webcast. The number of available connections for the webcast are limited. Online visitors interested in following the announcements live can bookmark http://alawebcast.unikron.com. Visitors can begin logging in to the webcast at 7:30 am PST; the Youth Media Awards will begin at 7:45 AM Pacific Standard Time (9:45 for those of us in the Midwest). You should also be able to see results early in the morning on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alayma), on the Web (www.ala.org/yma), and Twitter (www.twitter.com/alayma) along with many blogs and media outlets.


ALA OFFERS TRAVELING EXHIBIT GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

Public, academic and special libraries, including museum libraries, and Jewish community centers are reminded to apply by January 24 to host one of three new traveling exhibits focusing on Jewish artists who have contributed to the culture of America and the world through their lives and work. More information about the exhibitions, including the online application, is available at www.ala.org/jewishartists.

The exhibits were developed by Nextbook, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Jewish literature, culture and ideas, and the ALA Public Programs Office, with funding from Nextbook. The national exhibit tours have been made possible by grants from the Charles H. Revson Foundation, the David Berg Foundation and the Nash Family Foundation, with additional support from Tablet Magazine: A New Read on Jewish Life.

Libraries are invited to apply to host a traveling exhibition on one of three subjects:

1. In a Nutshell: The Worlds of Maurice Sendak
Based on a major retrospective exhibition created by the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, this exhibit reveals the push and pull of New and Old Worlds in Sendak’s work and shows how Sendak’s artistic journey has led him deeper into his own family’s history and his Jewish identity.

2. Emma Lazarus: Voice of Liberty, Voice of Conscience
In this exhibit, a vital woman is brought to life in all her fascinating complexity. Viewers see Lazarus’s place in history as a poet, an activist and a prophet of the world we live in today. The exhibit traces her life, intellectual development, work and lasting influence.

3. A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965
Illustrated with colorful posters from Broadway shows and photographs of composers, singers and the casts of hit musicals and films, this exhibit highlights the lives and works of Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern and a host of other Jewish songwriters who wove the American songbook deep into the fabric of American culture.

Successful applicants will host one traveling exhibition for a six-week period between April 2011 and February 2012 and receive programming and technical support from the ALA Public Programs Office. Participating libraries are expected to present at least two free public programs for adults on themes related to the exhibitions. All showings of the exhibition must be free and open to the public. Each of the exhibits requires at least 200 square feet of display space.

More information about the exhibitions, including guidelines and the online application, is available at www.ala.org/jewishartists. With questions, contact the ALA Public Programs Office at publicprograms@ala.org.


DATES TO REMEMBER

January 6-11 ALA Midwinter meeting, San Diego (Rhonda out of the office)
January 10 Youth Media Awards Announcements, will be approximately 10 AM CST
January 28 2011 Summer Reading Program workshop, Country Springs, Waukesha
January 29 Diva Quest, Kenosha
February 22 Library Legislative Day, Madison
March 3 MWFLS Youth Services Meeting, Horicon (tentative)
April 5-8 CSLP Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ
May 4-6 WAPL conference, Madison
May 20 Special Needs Consultants Meeting, Madison
June 22-29 ALA Annual conference, New Orleans


WEBSITE FAVES

Airline History Museum
http://www.ahmhangar.com/

The Airline History Museum (AHM) in Kansas City, Missouri has a blog with such a tremendous selection of video, photographs, and updates about what's going on at the museum that visitors will feel like they have already been to the museum. "The Beginning" link, at the top of the homepage, will lead visitors to a few paragraphs about the birth of the museum along with a seven-minute documentary. The menu on the left side of the homepage has links under "Aircraft", to "Our Planes", "AHM Movies" and "Photo Albums". Visitors can see under "Our Planes" that the Museum has a Lockheed Constellation (Connie), DC-3, Martin 404, and an L-1011, and each plane featured has many photographs to illustrate the story of how the Museum got each plane, and what each had to go through before being displayed. The arrival of their L-1011-100 even has photos of the engines being removed prior to its arrival at the Museum. One of the most recent blog entries allows visitors to watch video of their DC-3 engine run in Arkansas, which is a pretty great find. (From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2010 http://scout.wisc.edu/, 12/10/10)


Think Green
http://www.thinkgreen.com/

Thinkgreen.com offers teachers and students, as well as the environmentally conscious public, information and resources related to many environmental topics. These topics include recycling, land reuse, and the conversion of waste to energy. The site also offers resources and classroom tools, such as puzzles, worksheets, and lesson plans. (Education World Site Reviews, 12/21/10)


AND FINALLY………

Hope to see some of you at the ALA Midwinter conference!