State-wide reluctant reader expert, author and librarian Patrick Jones will lead this afternoon event!
Need a substitute to attend? Apply for a CMLE scholarship.
Food, Take A-Ways, Prizes
The Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals is co-sponsoring this year’s Minnetonka Institute, Essential Education in a Changing World; Empower educators with specific ways to integrate web 2.0, digital tool, and global portals into each classroom. Join keynote speaker, Heidi Hayes Jacobs, from Curriculum Designers, Inc., on November 8th, from 8:30- 3:00 pm, at Minnetonka Public Schools.
Conversations will be convened around;
How is your library engaging teen readers?
For the past 15 years, Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has sponsored Teen Read Week (TRW). It is a national adolescent literary initiative to sponsor continued readership. This year TRW will be held on October 13th-19th. The theme strives to encourage teens to discover the unknown and continue to explores mysteries, “Seek the Unknown @ Your Library.”
Click here for additional information about Teen Read Week from ALA.St. Catherine University, St. Paul Campus, is hosting an evening with Michael Gorman. Referred to as
The father of modern library science,” Michael will be talking about Enduring Values in LIS.
This event will be held on Monday, October 14th from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm with light refreshments at 6:45 pm.
Rauenhorst Ballroom
3rd Floor, Coeur de Catherine Bldg.
St. Catherine University St. Paul Campus
RSVP Deadline is October 7th. Click here to register.
Library Journal & School Library Journal are hosting a free online event, October 16th from 9-4 pm (CT). This event will be focusing on how libraries may be able to reinvent themselves in the midst of a growing shift towards digital devices and technologies.
Feature Presenters: Dan Cohen (DPLA), Susan Hildreth (IMLS), Mimi Ito (U of C), Deborah Jacobs (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Barbara Stripling (ALA) and John Price Wilkin (U of I.)
Program Tracks include: Community, Instruction and New Collections
Sessions Include: Learning 2.0 Meets MOOC, Flipped School Libraries and eCollections
Information and registration materials for the Digital Shift: Reinventing Libraries can be found here.