Programming Librarian

April 2012

A Week of Great Stories: Library Media Specialist Francie Clinton
Francie Clinton | April 27, 2012
I have spent some time pondering the programming for our library at the Southwest Oklahoma Juvenile Center in Manitou, or should I say the lack of programming. When you are the library media specialist at a secure juvenile center, programming is not an easy task.

A Week of Great Stories: Tyrell Author Coe Booth
Coe Booth | April 26, 2012
A week after my ALA Great Stories CLUB visit to Green Oaks Juvenile Detention Center in Monroe, Louisiana, I met with the boys at the Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center in Austin, Texas. Librarians Heather Schubert and Kathleen Sullivan—and countless others, I’m sure—have put together a remarkable youth library.

A Week of Great Stories: The Brothers Torres Author Coert Voorhees, Part II
Coert Voorhees | April 25, 2012
A week after my ALA Great Stories CLUB visit to Green Oaks Juvenile Detention Center in Monroe, Louisiana, I met with the boys at the Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center in Austin, Texas. Librarians Heather Schubert and Kathleen Sullivan—and countless others, I’m sure—have put together a remarkable youth library.

A Week of Great Stories: The Brothers Torres Author Coert Voorhees, Part I
Coert Voorhees | April 24, 2012
Earlier this month I had my first visit to a juvenile detention center. As part of the American Library Association’s Great Stories CLUB, my novel The Brothers Torres was selected (along with Jennifer Brown’s debut Hate List and Dope Sick by the incomparable Walter Dean Meyers) for inclusion in this year’s theme “Second Chances.”

A Week of Great Stories: Hate List Author Jennifer Brown
Jennifer Brown | April 23, 2012
Last August, I learned that Hate List had been chosen for ALA’s Great Stories CLUB theme Second Chances. I was so thrilled about this, partly because the theme so perfectly fit what I believed the book to be about—healing and letting go of the past and moving forward into a bright future—but also because this program was going to be geared toward troubled teens.

Librarians Promote Reading by Participating in World Book Night
Steve Zalusky | April 19, 2012
Librarians are helping to spread the joy and love of reading by taking part in World Book Night (WBN) on April 23. WBN seeks out reluctant adult readers wherever they are, in towns and cities and in such public settings as nursing homes, food pantries, low-income schools, and mass transit centers, according to organizers.

Get Ready for Choose Privacy Week
Jennifer Peterson | April 17, 2012
With Choose Privacy Week (May 1–7) right around the corner, the American Library Association (ALA) is offering online resources for libraries who are interested in holding Choose Privacy programs of their own.

My Programming Wish List
Angela Hanshaw | April 12, 2012
Recently I found myself pondering what programs I wish I could attend at my local branch. If money and potential audience (and possible legal issues) weren’t a consideration, here’s the short list of what I would want to see.

New for April at EDSITEment
Angela Hanshaw | April 10, 2012
This month, EDSITEment celebrates poetry and jazz, compares giants of Hispanic literature, reads for civic reflection, looks back at the events of this month in 1968, discusses fairy tales and today’s youth, and shares some exciting news.

Librarians As Engineers: Robotics at Your Library
Michael Cherry | April 05, 2012
National Robotics Week (NRW) celebrates robotics technology development each April (this year it’s April 7–15). The NRW website advocates funding robotics programs while addressing its increasing use in healthcare, medicine, manufacturing, and other sectors.

Featured Library: New Bedford Free Public Library
Lauren Mueller | April 03, 2012
Inspired by Gary D. Schmidt’s young adult novel Okay for Now, the New Bedford (Mass.) Free Public Library, the Friends of the New Bedford Free Public Library, New Bedford Free Public Library Art Room, and the New Bedford Art Museum partnered to create Art in Words.