KCMLIN Professional Development Workshops

Session Descriptions:

2009 Helbie Award: Do you want to participate in choosing the 7th Annual Helbie Award? Helbies are awarded for the best use of humor in illustrations in a picture book. Join Debbie McLeod and Helma Hawkins as they lead the group in the evaluation and selection process.

What's New and Hot: Debbie McLeod will share her top 10 list of the Best of the Best new children's materials.

Kids on the Internet:
A-out sessionto inform librarians about what pre-teen kids are doing on-line these days, with an emphasis on how to promote internet safety and prevent cyber-bullying. We will also explore age-appropriate alternatives to such things as World of WarcraftMySpace.

Sounds Good: Evaluating and selecting quality music for children
Learn about the many types of music available for children and how to evaluate and select a variety of quality recordings for your circulating collection.Samples of musical selections will be played and a brief overview of the importance of music in child development will be included.

Google Tools:
Use free online tools from Google to create and share information easily! Communicate quickly and efficiently with anyone online.

Elements of good graphic design:
You create posters for your programs, you post them, and then you see people walk right by them. Could it be the style of the posters that is causing that? Come learn what good design looks like so that you can make your posters more appealing.

Reading with your ears: Audio books for Kids:
This breakout session will feature hot titles from recent years as well as must-haves from years past. Clips will be utilized so that participants can experience the books for themselves. Reader's advisory tips specific to audio books will also be discussed.

Have a "Creative" Summer Reading Program:
Summer Reading program is fast approaching. Have you got your bulletin board ideas ready? How are you going to get into the schools to promote summer reading? Should you do a skit, booktalks, what? What about programming ideas for the summer? Hear our panel discuss some great ideas.

Keynote:

Jay and Leslie have been professional variety performers based in Kansas City for 25 years. As "Jay & Leslie's Laughing Matters" they have give over 6000 performances in 33 states and 7 foreign countries. They use juggling, mime, and other skills for schools and libraries. Every year they develop a program to go with the Summer Reading program theme. For the 2009 theme "Be Creative @ Your library" their show will be "Jay and Leslie's United Imaginations."

For us, Jay and Leslie will do a short performance followed by a discussion of how to design activities to integrate with a Summer Reading Theme. They will show how to use an art form without being an expert in it. They will also share techniques on tapping the creativity of children and letting them be the stars of the show.

Agenda:

8:30 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 - 9:10 Opening Remarks

9:10 -10:00 Keynote Speaker-Jay & Leslie Cady

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-11:15 Morning Breakout Sessions

Google Tools
Reading with your ears: Audio books for Kids
Elements of good graphic design

11:15-12:00 What's New and Hot-Debbie McLeod

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:15 Afternoon Breakout Sessions

2009 Helbie Award
Kids on the Internet
Sounds Good: Evaluating and selecting quality music for Children

2:15 - 2:30 Break

2:30 - 3:45 Have a "Creative" Summer Reading Program
Panel Discussion

Speakers:

Helma Hawkins, Director of Youth Services at the Kansas City Public Library

Debbie McLeod, Youth Collection Specialist, Johnson County Library.

Joshua M. Neff is a Web Content Developer for the Johnson County Library. He oversees the JoCoTeenScene and JoCoKids Web sites.

Clare Hollander is a Children's Librarian with Kansas City Public Library. She recently transferred from the North-East Branch to the Central Library downtown.

Will Stuck works for St. Joseph Public Library and is involved with children's programming. His high energy style of programming has made him popular with local parents and teachers alike. Will serves as a Summer Reading Workshop presenter for the Missouri State Library.

Kate Capps is a Children's Librarian at the Indian Creek Branch of the Olathe Public Library as well as the School Liaison for the Olathe School District.

April Roy is the Children's Services Supervisor at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library.April is a presenter at the Summer Reading Program workshops for the Missouri State Library.

Kate Pickett is the Young Adult Librarian for the Johnson County Library. Kate's favorite part of her job: reading books, watching movies, and playing Wii while calling it "important professional research."

Erin Howerton is the School Liaison for the Johnson County Library. She enjoys making life easier by inventing new uses for fun tech toys!

Jim Staley is the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Mid-Continent Public Library.

Jamie Mayo is the manager of the Central Youth Services Department of Kansas City Public Library. She has been an avid book listener for over 10 years and love to introduce readers (and non-readers) to the wonders of this whole "new" world of reading. She is a member of Ale's 2008-09 Odyssey Award Committee, an award for the best audio book for children and/or young adults, and is serving on the Amazing Audio Books for Teens Committee for 2009-10.

Carol Gard founded Kids & Company Music in 1992 with the wish to bring high-quality and age-appropriate music into the lives of as many children as possible.

Cost:

KCMLIN Member: $60
Non-Member: $120

Miscellaneous: Lunch will be served at this workshop

THREE EASY WAYS TO REGISTER:

E-mail: marypuhr@kcmlin.org
Fax: (816) 461-0966
Phone: (816) 521-7257

Registration Form

Refund & Credit Policy:

Full refunds or credits are available for cancellations made a minimum of seven days prior to the workshop minus a $5.00 administrative fee. You can transfer to another workshop a minimum of seven days before the workshop with no administrative fee. Cancellations made less than seven days prior to a workshop receive no refunds or credits.

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