Two YALSA programs at Annual Conference are geared to helping librarians think about and plan for how to connect with teens within the mobile and digital reading environments.
On Sunday, June 23, from 1:30 to 3:30, YALSA will sponsor the program Teens Reading Digitally Going Handheld and Mobile. The focus of the program is on how teens read, write, and learn using digital devices. Speakers include:
- Me, Linda Braun, who will provide an overview of the digital reading environment, what’s available for teens within that environment, and how teens are reading digitally and via mobile interfaces and devices.
- Supervisor of Library/Media Technology at Pinellas County (FL) Schools Bonnie Kelley, who will discuss how one visionary school district in Florida has created a buzz around the world by implementing the first one-to-one Kindle ebook reader initiative in K-12 public education, including digital textbooks, newspapers, and novels.
- Jacob Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Figment, who will discuss how technology enables communities of readers and writers to be participants in the life of a story. Lewis will frame his discussion around the Japanese cell phone novel phenomenon and has lots of information about digital and mobile reading habits and preferences of teens.
- iDrakula author Bekka Black, who will join the panel via Skype and is going to cover why she wrote iDrakula so it would look as if the reader were reading the story on stolen cell phones, how she got the idea for the novel, and how it ended up being available in a variety of formats and for a variety of platforms.
On Monday, June 24, from 10:30 to noon, YALSA is sponsoring the program titled, Trends in YA Services: Using Mobile Devices to Serve Teens. The focus of this program is on how libraries are meeting the needs of teens using mobile devices. The panel of speakers is made up of:
- Jennifer Velasquez, Coordinator of Teen Services for the San Antonio Public Library System, who will start the program with a portrait of how teens are using mobile devices.
- Students at the Patrick F. Taylor Science Academy, Enjoli Gilbert and Courtney Beamer, who will talk about how they use mobile devices as a part of their daily lives and will discuss ways in which librarians might use the devices in order to work with teens successfully.
- Kerrilyn Hurley, Young Adult Librarian at the Mastics-Moriches-Shirley (NY) Community Library, who will cover the ways in which she connects with teens no matter where they are by using mobile technologies.
- Renee McGrath, Manager of Youth Services at the Nassau Library System in Uniondale, NY, will discuss development of a mobile site for providing access to booklists for teens.
- The NYC Haunts project is the topic that Jack Martin, Assistant Director of Public Programs/Lifelong Learning for Children, Teens and Families at The New York Public Library, will cover. This program gives teens the chance to research important places in New York City and then use iPads and the Scavngr platform to take part in a mobile scavenger hunt.
Each program is going to be full of useful content and attendees
Like the wind! Faster than lightning! Lots of news and no time to tell it. In brief . . .
Oh, how cool! This is not to be missed. For those of you with an interest in children’s literature around the globe, the blog Playing by the Book offers this fantastic view of children’s literary destinations in Denmark. That Little Mermaid statue is worth the price of the flight alone.
Travis Jonker of 100 Scope Notes was kind enough to stop by my library the other week to say howdy. He recounts his time near the library lions in the post Fuse Live! Cheers, mate!
I was pleased to see James Kennedy post a new entry for the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival that will be held at New York Public Library this November. Of course we need more, people. MORE! If you know any creative kids who would be interested in distilling a Newbery winning book down to 90 seconds, please do not hesitate to read the rules here and have them submit. We must have more!
- A similar article pointed out that the number of characters with disabilities as portrayed in Newbery books is not equal to the number of children in the real world who “attend special education classes”. The report appears to look at the whole of Newebery winners from the past to today. It does acknowledge that things have gotten better, though, so I’m a bit confused about the point of it all. If books today do a much better job than books in the past, isn’t that the point?
- In other news, the picture book is not dead. Nor is it about to be supplanted by apps or anything with spangles and whizzbangs. Allyn Johnston and Marla Frazee explain more.
- The Detroit Public Library recently came under fire for its new renovation. The concern is how much was spent on a single library wing ($2.3 million) while neighborhood branches close. More info here. Thanks to Aunt Judy for the link.
Author of the Year: Rick Riordan for The Lost Hero
Illustrator of the Year: David Wiesner for Art & Max
K-2nd Grade Book of the Year: Little Pink Pup by Johanna Kerby
3-4th Grade Book of the Year: Lunch Lady and the Summer Camp Shakedown by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
5-6th Grade Book of the Year: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
Teen Choice Book of
By: Beth,
on 11/29/2012
By: Betsy Bird,
on 5/8/2011
Like the wind! Faster than lightning! Lots of news and no time to tell it. In brief . . .
Aah Peter and the Wolf! I reviewed several picture book versions here: http://www.playingbythebook.net/2010/03/18/peter-and-the-wolf/ I can’t recommend Susie Templeton’s animated version of Peter and the Wolf enough (http://www.peterandthewolffilm.co.uk/). It completely revived the piece of music for me. Thanks for linking to Playing by the book – have you seen my “visits” to the other Nordic countries?
Nay, but I will now. A collected list would be superb. It’s all theoretical for most of us here in the States, but for those who travel it might prove invaluable. Cheers!
Funny. that’s the exact cover on my copy of “Starring Sally J. Freeman As Herself.”
Karen, mine too! (And it took me till I was an adult to notice/get the Jewishness of the whole Freedman family. Sometimes we white Midwesterners are slow.)
That’s the cover I had too. And I liked this because this was about as contemporary as a Jewish family got in the books I had growing up (compared to All-of-a-Kind Family) and the family sounded like people I knew.
As Karen and EM says, that’s the cover that was on my copy of Sally J. Freedman too! I think mine even has the same wrinkles.
Thanks for putting up the entry I received for “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon”! (In fact, just today I received ANOTHER entry for Grace Lin’s book — done entirely with shadow puppets — I’ll share it soon!)
Today I put up 2 more 90-Second Newbery entries I’ve received — a really great “Witch of Blackbird Pond” and another rendition of “A Wrinkle in Time.” I’m getting really excited for this festival!
http://jameskennedy.com/2011/05/09/90-second-newbery-the-witch-of-blackbird-pond-1959-and-a-wrinkle-in-time-1963/