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YOUTH SERVICES FORUM – WORKSHOP XXII: “PUSHING THE ENVELOPE”A DAY OF HOT TOPICS AND ISSUESIN LIBRARY SERVICES TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS February 7, 20138:45 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.Coffee 8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.Monroe Township Public Library4 Municipal Plaza, Monroe Township, NJ 08831Phone: 732-521-5000Directions: by:The Children’s Services and Young Adult Sections of the New Jersey Library AssociationThe NJ State Library and the NJ Association of School LibrariansPlease Print Clearly and Legibly!Name: __________________________ Phone (with Area Code): _____________E-mail ________________________________________Title:_____________Library:________________________________________Address:________________________________________________Circle Affiliation: NJLA NJASLChoose Member, Non-Member or Student:$35.00 (Member of NJLA or NJASL)__ $52.50 (Non-Member)__ $17.50 (Student)__To join NJLA go to: join NJSLA go to: Please check here if you expect to take the vegetarian option at lunch: ______Registration (including breakfast and lunch) in advance only. Deadline January 28.Make check or voucher payable to NJLA and enclose this form.Send to: NJLA, ATTN: Youth Services Forum, PO Box 1534, Trenton, NJ 08607Phone: (609) 394-8032 Program ChoicesPlease return this sheet with your registration.Within each time slot: (10:15, 11:30 and 1:30), number your session choices 1, 2, 3.Efforts will be made to place registrants in sessions on a first-come, first-serve basis. 10:15 amChoice #Building Excitement: Lego in the LibraryUsing Technology for Inspiration and Collaboration and Promotion of Youth ServicesScience, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) Programming at the Library11:30 amChoice #Reaching Out! – In and Out of the LibraryGet Ready to Get That GrantGaming at the Library: Beyond Jenga and Playstation1:30 pmChoice #Garden State Book Awards – In your Library and BeyondPreschool PanelOtaku Unite - Meeting the Demands of Your Japanese Cultural Obsessed TeensPROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS9:30 amKey Note – Policies that Serve our PatronsPolicy can be seen as a hindrance rather than a help, especially when serving children and teens. Marna Elliott will discuss how library polices can help us serve our young patrons and their parents more effectively. She will cover some of the most common issues that occur in Youth Services as well as some new challenges and will address how to create effective policies in your library.Dr. Marna Elliott is currently the Branch Manager of the Bridgewater Branch of the Somerset County Library System. She has worked as the Youth Services System Coordinator for the Somerset County Library System, Youth Services District Consultant for Montgomery County, PA, Program Coordinator for the Early Childhood Education Program at the Community College of Philadelphia, and a children's librarian for the Free Library of Philadelphia. Library Policies, especially those policies that affect children and youth, have been a long-term interest of hers.Contact Information: melliott@10:15 amBuilding Excitement: Lego in the LibraryLego clubs are popping up at libraries across the country. Get practical tips for starting a Lego enthusiast group at your library and watch the excitement build. We will look at various ways to incorporate the Lego world into public libraries, from collections to competitions.Laura Hunter is the Manager of Children’s Services at Mount Laurel Library, where she has worked for seven years. She’s been playing with Lego in the library since 2010.Contact Information: labutler@mtlaurel.lib.nj.usUsing Technology for Inspiration and Collaboration and Promotion of Youth ServicesSocial media sites like Pinterest can be excellent resources for librarians.??This presentation will provide information on the many ways to use social media accounts for collaborative planning and programming and the ways to use these tools to share ideas with the greater library community.-11430-127000Camille Thompson is the Head of Youth Services at the New Brunswick Free Public Library, where she has worked since 2006.? She is a member of the NJLA YA section and has served on the NJLA Summer Reading Committee and Honors & Awards Committee. Rosy Henderson has been a Teen Librarian for over two years in multiple NJ libraries. Currently she is working for the New Brunswick Public Library, where she has a great time throwing programs, working with city organizations, and getting toknow the local teens and tweens. Contact Information: thompson@, rosyh@Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) Programming at the LibraryMary Nunn has offered monthly afterschool science programs at the Hillsborough Public Library since 2007. This program grew to include children?ages 4-6. Stations, books and technology?are used to demonstrate the various topics. In 2009 Laura Mellor began offering a monthly Math program for ages 4-6. Books are read in addition to stations with activities related to the theme and a craft at the end. Mary and Laura have used activities from "What's the Big Idea? Making Math and Science Come Alive for Children and Families in Your Library" along with other resources. They have partnered with the Hillsborough High School Robotics team and offered robot demonstrations and a science fair.Mary Nunn has been with the Hillsborough Public Library (a branch of the Somerset County Library System) since 2005, beginning part-time in the Children's Department, and then becoming full-time as a Library Assistant II in 2007. Laura Mellor has been at the Hillsborough Public Library since 1990. Laura?became head of the department in 1991 and works with various age groups.?Contact Information: lmellor@, HYPERLINK "mnunn@" mnunn@“I knocked down all the blocks! I’m this many fingers old!” Children can have fun with math concepts long before they are ready for formal instruction. Librarians can have fun, too! Math based programs for toddlers and preschoolers are filled with stories, finger plays, and games—and planning and leading these programs utilizes the same skills librarians draw upon to create literacy based story times.Jennifer Salt has an M.L.I.S. from Rutgers University and has studied early childhood education at Brookdale Community College. She is a member of NJLA, ALA and NAEYC (National Association for Education of Young Children). Jennifer draws upon research in both fields in her job as youth services librarian at the Middletown Township Public Library and is committed to increasing communication between professionals in both fields.Contact Information: jsalt@mplmain.11:30 amReaching Out! – In and Out of the LibraryOutreach begins at home. Homeschooling families are often heavy users of the library. How can we reach out to this special category of patrons? How do you start a group? Is the librarian needed? Resources found through patrons and LibraryLinkNJ will be shared.Keisha Miller is the teen librarian and volunteer coordinator at South Orange Public Library. Contact Information: Twitter handle: @thatlibrarychic Email: kmiller@-107952540We all run afterschool programs at our libraries that primarily serve children with parents who can easily get them there. However, many more children are in an afterschool care program of some kind and have a much harder time getting to the library. Bring the library to them! It's easy and cheap!Karen Bilton has been a public librarian for 17 years with 11 years experience serving children and teens. She has worked at urban and suburban libraries on both coasts. Karen enjoys working with elementary age children and teens, and extending library services outside the library walls with booktalks and afterschool program visits.? ?Contact Information: kbilton@ ? ? ??Partnering with after-school sites is a great way to reach many students who aren't able to come to the library.?Carol Simon Levin will share descriptions of?the programs she has taken "on the road" as well as a few tips for success when planning these programs.762026035Carol Simon Levin is a Youth Services Librarian at the Bridgewater Branch of the Somerset County Library with more than 20 years experience in Children's Services.Contact Information: clevin@We have two programs we created at the Middletown Township Library to balance our desire to do outreach to schools and child care centers with the limitations of staff time. We simply don’t have the staff to travel to all the schools located within the township (over 20 childcare centers and preschools, 15 elementary schools (including two K-8 Catholic schools), 3 middle schools, and 4 high schools (2 public and 2 Catholic), but we have created two programs that allow us to partner with schools within our limitations of staff time: “Books in Schools” allows us to partner with elementary, middle, and high schools while “Camp Connection” allows us to partner with child care centers.Jennifer Salt has an M.L.I.S. from Rutgers University and has studied early childhood education at Brookdale Community College. She is a member of NJLA, ALA and NAEYC (National Association for Education of Young Children). Jennifer draws upon research in both fields in her job as youth services librarian at the Middletown Township Public Library and is committed to increasing communication between professionals in both fields.Contact Information: jsalt@mplmain.Get Ready to Get That GrantLibraries of all sizes benefit from grant funding. Where to find the opportunities and how to proceed with the proposals can be daunting questions. Panelists will discuss their experiences and share what they have learned: from finding grant (and award) opportunities, writing proposals, and administering grants.Mary Piekarski has worked at Piscataway Public Library for over 25 years. She has held several positions in the Adult/Young Adult Services Department: twice as Teen librarian, twice (including currently) as Head of the Department. For 13 of these 25 years plus, she worked part-time. She especially enjoys collection development and programming for teens and adults. She has written numerous grant proposals and has received all but two of them.Contact Information: mpiekars@Heidi Lynn Cramer coordinates Central Library Services at the Newark Public Library where she's worked for 17 years.? In addition she has responsibility for programming, public relations, and special events.? She has worked closely with the Development Department on major fundraisers and co-authored a successful grant for over $300,000 for preschool financial literacy. She is a past president of the New Jersey Library Association, current chair of the NJLA Publications Subcommittee, and co-chair of NJ’s Snapshot Day.6277610-765810Contact Information: hcramer@Lynnette Fucci graduated with her M.L.I.S and B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University. She is currently the Youth Services Librarian at the Monroe Township Public Library and is President of the Children's Services Section of NJLA. Contact her at lynnettefucci@, on twitter @lynnettef, or friend her on Facebook at lynnette.fucci.Gaming at the Library: Beyond Jenga and PlaystationMany libraries have experimented with board game nights and Playstation tournaments but how can we go beyond programs and build a community at our libraries? Presenters from a variety of libraries will share their experiences with Collectible Card Games (CCG) such as Magic and Pokemon and Role Playing Games (RPG) such as Dungeons and Dragons as well as other tabletop miniature games. Game on!Natalie Niziolek has been a librarian in the Ocean County Library system for over two years, working with children and teens. In her previous life, she worked at and then owned a gaming store that sold card games, tabletop miniatures games, role-playing games, and comic books.Contact Information: nniziolek@-49530135890Robert Huber slayed his first dragon at the age of four. At the age of 13 he discovered his Planeswalker spark. By the age of 16 he had built his first mechanical army and decided to settle down in the land of Catan. And finally at age 18, he created his first world. An avid gamer and reader since he was in a playpen, Robert has worked in the library field for over eight years. A large part of that time has been spent running various forms of gaming in the library. When not at the Bergenfield Public Library, you can find Robert at his local game store, always ready to play a game or talk about books.Contact Information: robert.huber@1:30 pmGarden State Book Awards – In your Library and BeyondLearn how you can easily use the book awards in your library to hook kids into some great books and make connections with your school library. This year, we are promoting how school librarians can use the book awards in their curriculum with?grade level lesson plans suited to meet Common Core Content Standards.Karen Bilton has been a public librarian for 17 years with 11 years experience serving children and teens. She has worked at urban and suburban libraries on both coasts. Karen enjoys working with elementary age children and teens and extending library services outside the library walls with booktalks and afterschool program visits.? ?Contact Information: kbilton@6227445-3175Emily Chornomaz is head of Youth Services at the Vogelson Branch of the Camden County Library System. She earned her MLS from Pratt Institute in 2009 and has worked in Teen Services as the Brooklyn Public Library and the West Orange Public Library. She is the President of NJLA's Young Adult Section for 2012-2013.Contact Information: chornomaz@ Kate Vasilik is a librarian in the Adult/Young Adult Department at Piscataway Public Library. Since earning her MLIS in 2005, her primary professional experience has been in teen services and advocacy, and she has been involved with the state association on a wide variety of levels, including serving as President of the NJLA Young Adult Section, 2010-2011.-49530-415290Contact Information: kate_thelibrarian@Preschool Panel Early Learning Adventures for PreschoolersWe’ve all done crafts for preschoolers but in this era of pushing children to excel at early ages, parents may be looking for a little something extra. Early Learning Adventures is a story and craft time that incorporates math and science curriculum as laid out in NJ Preschool Teaching and Learning Standards.Tamara Richman has been a Youth Services Librarian for 10 years and currently works at the Mary Jacobs Library in Rocky Hill, part of the Somerset County Library System. Tamara has presented extensively on a variety of subjects including using non-fiction with preschoolers, Fantasy Readers Advisory and Ready Reference for Kids. Tamara has 2 sons both of whom are extremely reluctant readers so reader's advisory is a way of life for her!Contact Information: trichman@Best Practices in Early Literacy – Winners!Sing , Dance & Play - Gloucester County Library – Swedesboro BranchIn 2008, to both provide a fun and new way of promoting literacy and to meet the needs of our youngest population, birth to 18 months, Gloucester Library initiated a baby music program. Swedesboro doesn’t offer any free music programming for children five years of age or younger and kindergarten classes were cut to half days. Local teachers asked the library for assistance. Learn how Gloucester expanded their successful baby music program to toddlers and preschoolers.Marge Dombrosky is the Branch Manager for the GCLS Swedesboro Library Branch. Marge has been with the Swedesboro Library for 24 years. Swedesboro Branch is proud to have good rapport with the Swedesboro schools, municipality and community. Contact Information: mdombrosky@6227445-633095Teresa Carlton has been with the Swedesboro Library Branch for 14 years. She is the Youth Services Coordinator and is responsible for a story time program, two music programs, a tween book club, a tween/teen writers’ club, Meet the Artist, reading buddies, and the Teen Advisory Board. Teresa is completing her Masters in Library Science from Clarion University.Contact Information: tcarlton@Math and Science Program –Parsippany-Troy Hills Public LibraryThe Math and Science program for ages?3-5 is run throughout the school year, biweekly on Thursday afternoons.??Each 30 minute program starts off with a short book related to the topic followed by demonstrations and lots of hands on activities.? The program ends with a craft or activity related to the topic, ? such as building with blocks if we are discussing the "building" topic, or gluing textured materials to a cardstock hand when we are discussing the "sense of touch and feel".? I try to use as many visual aids that are commonly seen by?many of the children so they can see how our topic relates to everyday life!Karen O’Malley began her professional career as a classroom teacher with a Masters in Education. Later she transitioned to working circulation and is presently a Library Associate.? Currently she is responsible for children's programs and book purchasing at the Mount Tabor branch of the Parsippany Troy-Hills Public Library. 6075045-461645Contact Information: karen.omalley@Family Reading Incentive Programs – Watchung Branch, Somerset County Library SystemReading and parental involvement provide the foundation for meeting the challenges of school – and life beyond. Watchung Library’s Family Reading Incentive Programs provide children with opportunities to develop their reading skills and interests, and to share these with their families and the community. As an ongoing project for the past five years, Watchung Library has created a series of Family Reading Incentive Programs specifically designed to encourage families to read, promote the public library as a resource for families, and motivate families to visit the library regularly.Sharon Orlando is Youth Services Librarian at Watchung Library branch of the Somerset County Library System. With her background as an early childhood educator and project manager of regional libraries within the NJ Department of Education, she’s been working for years creating opportunities for communities to engage children and their families at the library. Contact Information: sorlando@Dress for Mess!?– Middletown Township Public LibraryThe process centered approach to arts and crafts is developmentally appropriate, research based, actively teaches language and literacy skills, saves staff time, and is loads of fun for everyone involved. Unfortunately, most of the existing information on the topic focuses on school/childcare based projects that do not easily translate to public library settings. This presentation will give a brief overview of the fundamentals of process centered art and offer suggestions for carrying out process centered art activities in a public library setting.-5905586360Jennifer Salt has an M.L.I.S. from Rutgers University and has studied early childhood education at Brookdale Community College. She is a member of NJLA, ALA and NAEYC (National Association for Education of Young Children). Jennifer draws upon research in both fields in her job as youth services librarian at the Middletown Township Public Library and is committed to increasing communication between professionals in both fields.Contact Information: jsalt@mplmain.Otaku Unite – Meeting the Demands of Your Japanese Cultural Obsessed TeensHave a group of teens who are obsessed with Japanese animation and you just don’t know what to do with them? Let us tell you about our Anime Clubs, programs, and collections. Want to know what Otakon is and how you can have your very own cosplay convention @ your library? What is the difference between “regular” anime groups and hetalia anime groups? You will find out here. J-Pop and J-rock are the newest things springing up in the US, and we can tell you all about it! Also, we will provide suggestions on Anime to show, manga to buy, and licensing you need to know about.589407078105Jen Schureman, aka Schuwey, has been a YA Librarian for 4 years.? She is currently the head of the youth services department at the Gloucester County Library System. ?Jen, along with Clearview HS librarian Arlen Kimmelman, won the NJLA/NJLSA Amy Job Partnership Award for their work with their Anime and Manga Clubs.? Jen holds a MLIS from Drexel University.Contact Information: jschureman@jschureman@jschureman@5894070113030Lanora Melillo has been the youth services librarian at the Secaucus Public Library since January 2011. In 2011, she discussed crime manga at the 2011 NJLA Conference, she co-led a panel about specific programs used for her Tween Tech Club during the 2011 Youth Services Forum, and in 2012 she discussed online gaming, manga and anime at the 2012 NJLA Conference. In addition, she has also done a Scratch workshop for LibraryLinkNJ. Lanora holds a MLIS from Drexel University.Contact Information: SPLYouths@ ................
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