Please come to NYCSLA’s end-of-year party!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
5-6pm Tour of exhibitions and facilities of the CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor, bet 6th Avenue & Broadway
6-7pm Cocktails at GLASS BAR, the rooftop lounge of the Hotel Indigo
127 West 28th Street, bet. 6th & 7th Avenues
Door Prize: Gift Certificate for a class at the Center for Book Arts.
Free for members
$20 for nonmembers
Please r.s.v.p. acceptances only to Cheryl Wolf at mckinleylibrary@gmail.com.
This May we will be reading How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford, a quirky realistic fiction title for young adults that has been featured on many 2009 “best of” lists. Here’s a brief description of How to Say Goodbye in Robot from the starred review in Kirkus:
Surprising everyone at their private school, a sardonic loner befriends the new girl in this unusual story of an intense platonic relationship between two misfits. Dubbed a robot by her emotionally unstable mother after she fails to manifest sufficient heartbreak over the death of their gerbil, Bea meets pale, withdrawn Jonah, maliciously called “Ghost Boy” by their peers. Almost immediately, she realizes that she has more in common with Jonah than with the catty, insular girls that surround her and begins to rely increasingly heavily on him even as she discovers more about his tragically strange past.
Please add your comments about May’s pick here, and we welcome you to revisit past discussions of our other great reads to add your thoughts.
A group of librarians from NYCSLA and HVLA got together at the Collegiate School on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, to view a selection of talks from the recent TEDxNYED Conference. We watched presentations by Andy Carvin, Michael Wesch, and Dan Meyer. These and other talks can be accessed via tedxnyed.com. One of the questions posed was: How can the innovation and idealism espoused by these innovative educators exist within the tight constraints of accountability and assessment that are driving our profession? It was a great opportunity to have librarians from both the private and public education sectors together and concerned about many of the same issues. Thanks to librarian Maggie Dixon at Collegiate for hosting this great event.
