ALA's ALSC Blog

 I'm not sure how many of you subscribe to this blog (http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/), but I would highly recommend it.  I think it's a little treasure.

At last Friday's YSS Spring Conference I attended a workshop on arranging the library's picture book collection & some of the "easy" non-fiction books into thematic collections (Nature, Transportation, Concepts, etc) rather than by author.  This is something I've read about and had been thinking about doing.  The workshop was very interesting and gave us a lot to think about.

Today, when I pulled up the ALSC blog there was a post about reorganizing the non-fiction collection in a similar way.  The poster had done this in her picture book collection and there was a link to a terrific slideshow on how they went about it, what categories they used etc.  If you're interested you can see it here: http://slidesha.re/5AMGhR

Talk about timely!  I looked back at some of the posts I hadn't seen lately and came across another by "Story Time Katie" and her "Picture Book City" project.   More things to look at and think about.

There were also posts on new ways to shelve board book collections, family crafting & writing for early literacy, lots of great stuff.

The thing I like about this blog is that the posts are short, to the point and written by lots of different folks with lots of great ideas.  I hope you'll check it out.

Cool ideas from YSS Workshop

Hello!
I enjoyed attending my first YSS conference on Friday. It was fun seeing so many PLS people there. One of the workshops I attended was by the children's librarian at White Plains, NY. She featured easy crafts to do with preschoolers. See above photo. The White Plains Library calls their children's area "The Trove" and on the back of the cutouts is their name, address and website.

She also uses teen volunteers to join the "Summer Trove Squad." Great way to get teens in grades 7 and higher chance to work with younger ones and earn service hours. She gives them the wrapped lifesaver as a thank you for being a "lifesaver."

I have more information on "The Trove" if anyone is interested.

Please post what exciting things you learned from attending the YSS Conference.

Pat

Readbox anyone?

I ran across this image when I was posting to our Pinterest page (btw....check out our PLS Pinterest boards. Heidi and I are always posting new things we run across that we think will be of interest to you). I thought this would make a fun youth display. If you do this in your library, take a pic and post it and let us know how it goes.