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SC Children’s and Picture Book Awards Nominee Brochures Posted
Children’s Book Award Brochure —> 2013-2014 SCCBA Brochure
Picture Book Award —-> 1314SCPBAbrochurePDF
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SCASL 2013 Conference, It’s in YOUR bag!
How many conference bags do you have already? Put one of those old bags to good use again by bringing it to conference.
This year’s SCASL Conference will not include a bag, participants will BYOB, Bring Your Own Bag!
It’s an earth friendly idea. Which bag will you bring? Start digging into those bags now.
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2013-2014 SC Book Award Nominees Announced
Click to download the complete list of titles chosen as the 2013-14 SC Book Award Nominees!
ALL VOTES MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA SURVEY MONKEY.
Use the links below to submit your school’s votes:
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Notes from ALA Midwinter, Seattle, WA January 2013
From SCASL President Heather Loy:
Anne Lemieux, SCASL President-Elect, and I had the privledge of attending ALA Midwinter as the SCASL AASL Affiliate Assembly deligates. For those of you who may not know how Midwinter works, it is a “working” event, not a conference with “learning” workshops, but still with an awesome exhibit hall. The “sessions” are all discussions, committee, meetings, and other such events.
We arrived in Seattle Friday, January 25th at around noon west coast time (after a 5 and a half hour flight from Atlanta!!) We were pleasantly surprised to find unusually sunny and mild weather (52 degrees!!) After checking into the hotel and we walked down to Pike Place Market (http://pikeplacemarket.org/) to find some lunch. Pike Place Market was only four blocks from the hotel! After a wonderful lunch, we went the two blocks up from our hotel to the Washington State Convention Center (http://www.wsctc.com/) to register. We joined a local who was on her lunch break from the Information Booth at a table so we could go through our program books and the handouts in our conference packet.
While Anne went back to the hotel prior to the exhibit hall opening, I decided to attend the ERT/Booklist Author Forum (http://alamw13.ala.org/
Our first AASL Affiliate event was a Discussion Group from 10:30 am to 12:30 am. For this discussion group we were divided into groups to discuss how we as affiliate organizations and individuals could advance the partnership and promotion of: NCLE; The Whole Child, and Digital Learning Day. This link has the links to each of these programs and the compilation of respones to our brainstorming group discussions. https://www.dropbox.com/s/
Unlike the beautiful weather of Friday, it wasn’t so nice Saturday – rain, rain, rain. But then again, we were in Seattle!! So since I couldn’t do any sightseeing, I spent the afternoon in the exhibit hall with Buffy Hamilton meeting new people and catching up with Buffy’s change from school librarian to working at the Cleveland Public Library. Anne spent the rest of the day with an army buddy she hadn’t seen in years. They braved the rain and played tourist while catching up.
Sunday saw our second and last AASL Affiliate Assembly event from 7:30 to noon. Items shared with us (my notes):
AASL’s National Conference “Rising to the Challenge”, Hartford, CT November 14-17, 2013. http://national.aasl.org/ Proposals will now have a common core strand. AASL @ ALA Annual Conference “Transforming Our Libraries, Ourselves”, Chicago, IL June 27 – July 2, 2013 – The AASL President’s Program will feature nationally awarded education writer Jonathan Kozol. It was shared that his normal fee is out of AASL’s price range, but Kozol was so excited and wanting to speak to us that he cut his fee to just 10% of his normal fee! In the exhibit hall will be a “model school library” – a 50×50 space that will showcase: a social space, global space, and versatile learning space. Don’t worry, I plan to take LOTS of pictures when Anne and I go!AASL Blog has a monthly feature of short synopsis of recent research efforts. Be sure to subscribe.Freedom to Read Foundation: new website (http://ftrf.org)ALA Digital Content Working Group: recently released the ebook Toolkit (mostly aimed at public libraries) http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/ ebooktoolkit Christopher Harris also mentioned that schools that are using/circulating readers need to be aware that only the iPad is ADA compliant. Nook Color/tablet and Kindle Fire are iffie. There have been libraries that have been sued for using non ADA compliant eReaders! AASL Essential Links (http://aasl.ala.org/essentiallinks) – wiki that includes resources on specific topics of interest for school librarians. There are links to books, journal articles, websites and more. On the table with the agenda were copies of How Do School Libraries Help Pennsylvania Students Achieve Academic Success?: What School Library Associates Need to Know and Creating 21st-Century Learners: A Report on Pennsylvania’s Public School Libraries. Both can be found here: http://paschoollibraryproject.org/ home Definitely worth taking a look at along with the other excellent resources on the site. Copies of the January 2013 Issue of School Library Monthly were also provided. Inside is “A Matrix for School Librarians: Aligning Standards, Inquiry, Reading, and Instruction.” The matrix includes CCSS, AASL Standards, Inquiry Process, Reading Comprehension Strategies, and Learning Applications. I highly recommend you try to pick up a copy!Colorado Association of School Libraries: Strive and Thrive! An Advocacy Toolkit for School Libraries - https://sites.google.com/site/caslsurvive/ Concerns from last year: Genrefication Concerns: There was a midwinter panel and a working group is being formed; Communication concerns: revised Affiliate Handbook; Research Portal for AASL: wanted a one stop shop for research, but there ISN’T empirical research (scientifically based) to warrant it yet.Can*Teen - http://www.canteengirl.org/PA Library Model Curriculum - http://www.pdesas.org/module/sas/ curriculumframework/ librarymodelcurriculum.aspx Empire State Information Fluency Continuum: Benchmark Skills for Grades K-12 Assessments/Common Core Alignment - http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/AB2C57CF-180F-47B2- A337-84F761F0EDD6/134355/ EmpireStateIFC.pdf During the caucus portion of the meeting where our Region IV delegates discuss the dates for our conferences and share/raise concerns from our states, we spent the bulk of our time talking about membership. I mentioned that membership was one of the items shared at the discussion portion of ALA Midwinter in Dallas 2012 – (https://www.dropbox.com/s/lc0tl95exy12llk/2012% 20Midwinter%20Discussion% 20Group%20Notes.pdf Some items shared from TN that Anne and I think we should explore for SCASL include:Flipsnack (http://www.flipsnack.com/) for publishing our MCM online.Guidebook (http://guidebook.com/) a mobile app for conference.Memberclicks (http://memberclicks.com/) website management/design TN uses http://www.tasltn.org/
Since the weather Sunday wasn’t as bad as Satuday, and since we’d wiped out the exhibit hall of freebies <grin> I thought I was okay to play tourist (finally!). April Dawkins, NC School LIbrary Media Association President, Joann Absi, NCSLMA President-Elect, and I went to the Space Needle. Also, since they hadn’t been to Pike Place Market, I went with them and ended up seeing more of the market than Anne and I had seen on Friday. That evening, Anne and I waked BACK down to the waterfront to have the most expensive crab I’ve ever paid for in my life. After climbing the MILLIONS of steps back up (slight exageration, but it sure felt like it!) I thought I was going to die by the time we got back to the hotel!
We’d planned to attend the Youth Media Awards, but since ALA was live blogging the event, there was no pressing need for us to try to rush our checkout process and trip to the airport. Anne ended up attending (she is so much better at getting up early and out). I’d attended the awards last year, so the experience was one I felt I could miss. Anne Tweeted out some of the winners and brought back a copy of the Monday Cognotes for me (it lists all of the winners and honor awards.) Then it was checkout and the airport we went. The return flight twas shorter by at least an hour (still haven’t figured that one out. I guess since it was a bigger plane it could go up higher, meaning it could cover miles faster???) It was still 9:30 pm before we got home.
So ends another adventure! I’m so looking forward to Chicago in June. It will be the last time I represent SCASL as President and an AASL delegate. My photos can be found on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/
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Invite your Legislator to the SCASL Conference.
Use the links below to download a letter that you can customize and send to your legislator. Be a ninja librarian and invite your legislators to conference and advocate for your library program at the same time!
SCASL Legislator Letter revised PDF
SCASL Legislator Letter revised
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