Please review a couple of important updates from our office:
Monday, February 18th, the CMLE office will be closed in observance of President’s Day. Normal office hours will resume on Tuesday.
Due to the short week and a number of other competing service areas, the CMLE Weekly Review will skip a week and be back in your in-box on Thursday, February 28th
Please feel free to send us your stories about what is cool in your library, or your other ideas for blog posts. Send all to cmle@stcloudstate.edu and use Subject Line: Possible Blog Post
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA, a division of the American Library Association (ALA), announced its 2013 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers selection list recently at the annual ALA Midwinter Meeting. The Quick Picks list suggests books that teens, ages 12-18, will pick up on their own and read for pleasure; it is geared to the teenager who, for whatever reason, does not like to read.
The complete list of 65 titles and 3 series, drawn from 217 nominations, can be found at http://tinyurl.com/aztxrlz
The Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers committee also selected a Top Ten list which can be found at http://tinyurl.com/a8gbuks
American Libraries Live is a free service that uses streaming video broadcasts to offer new and exciting ways to explore real issues in your industry. Watch broadcasts about library issues and trends in real time! You can view from home, library, or on the go.
This Thursday, February 14th at 1 p.m. (central time), librarian and gadget guru Jason Griffey will be joined by experts Maurice Coleman and Robin Hastings to discuss Mobile Services: The Library in Your Pocket. For more information click here. However, if you are not able to listen to this last minute broadcast listing, you might want to check out their list of upcoming streams.
If you are like me, magazines can reflect more of a love hate relationship. I love it when a new month of magazines arrive in the mail. However, after a few days of immersing myself within its pages, reading and then re-reading the articles, I am left with the question-what next? I had stacks of magazines formed by months and even years of filled subscriptions. So, two months ago I contacted my local librarian to see if the library would be interested in the publications. She instructed me on the types of magazines her customers would most likely be interested in. This left me with a smaller, but still sizable, stack of unwanted magazines. This month I found a site that gave me 100+ inspirational tips (decor, make your own supplies, accessories, crafts for kids, etc.) on how to re-purpose these once loved glossy pages. I found many applications for my personal collection, who knows what this article might inspire in you or for your library? Take a moment to search for some new ideas-just for fun!
In browsing the top 50 e-learning sites, FunBrain is a very simple website with both content and games for grade school children. The information is divided into basic categories for viewing books where you can sample a chapter or two online, follow comic strips and select from a variety of skill building games. It is just another tool that can be used to continue to facilitate learning. As a component of the Family Education Network, Pearson Education, it is a free resource that does not require registering a user name and password to access the online information.
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