Join NYCSLA for a holiday celebration at City Tavern on Thursday, December 8th from 6-8. NYCSLA will provide appetizers. We think it will be a wonderful way to relax and get together to celebrate the holidays. You may also join NYCSLA for the year at the gathering!
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NYCSLA at Fall Library Conference
November 7, 2011Going to the Office of School Library Services fall conference on Election Day? Stop by the NYCSLA table to renew your membership or join us for the first time and find out about our upcoming meetings and new award opportunities for members.
Lastly, hang out NYCSLA and your fellow librarians to unwind after the fall conference… or maybe keep the excitement and energy going? Relax with your colleagues for an informal happy hour at Moe’s Bar & Lounge, around the corner from Brooklyn Tech at 80 Lafayette Ave. (at S. Portland) in Fort Greene. Join us around 3:30 immediately following the conference.
Save the Date! Fall 2011 Meetings
September 22, 2011I am so thrilled to invite all of you to the New York City School Librarians’ Association first meeting of the 2011-2012 school year! Please join us on October 5th from 4:30-6:30 at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Educational Campus Library. There will be time set aside to join NYCSLA, network with colleagues, and to enjoy some refreshments. Around 5pm, we will spend some time discussing library advocacy and the current state of libraries in our schools. The remainder of the evening will be spent in small groups, focusing on grant writing. NYCSLA Board members (past and present!) will share their tips and winning applications for the Library REACH grant, the Laura Bush grant, Reso A grants and more.
With library budgets diminishing, grant funding and fundraising has become more and more necessary in maintaining a functioning library media center. Applying for and receiving grants for your school is also a way to show initiative and make yourself an indispensable part of your school community. Please RSVP to nycsla.librarians@gmail.com so we can provide enough snacks for everyone.
Make sure you also visit us at our table at the Office of Library Services fall conference at Brooklyn Technical High School on Tuesday, November 8, and join us for a post-conference happy hour nearby!
P.S. Join now by visiting http://nycsla.org/membership (you can mail your dues or bring them on Oct. 5th!).
P.P.S. You can get to the MLK Campus by taking the N, R,Q, train to 57th and 7th, the A, C, B, D to 59th-Columbus Circle or the 1 to 66th St.
Cheers,
Teresa Tartaglione
NYCSLA President
Join NYCSLA at our end-of-the-year party!
May 10, 2011
Join us for our end-of the-year party!
The details:
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
5-7 p.m.
Radegast Hall & Beer Garden
113 N 3rd Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Board games! Replay the highlights of your year with fellow librarians! A roving accordion player! We will announce new 2011-2013 board members and vote on changes to our by-laws.
Members will receive one complimentary drink if they r.s.v.p. to nycsla.librarians at gmail.com by Wednesday, May 25.
March 9 Meeting Recap & Resources
March 15, 2011
Jesse Karp got everyone thinking visually at NYCSLA’s March meeting, which focused on using graphic novels in the library. Karp stated that, now that the resistance to graphic novels has somewhat leveled off and they do get shelf space in libraries, it is time to focus on doing some research to measure their ability to teach comprehension and raise students’ reading levels.
Participants had the opportunity to do some hands-on activities featuring literacy skills that graphic novels teach so well: interpretation, context, perspective and collaboration. In his upcoming ALA Editions book, Graphic Novels in your School Library (October 2011), Karp promises even more activities and a list of best titles.
In one of these activities, for example, Karp asked NYCSLA members to draw three interpretations of “sad” told in two panels each. NYCSLA President Sara Paulson said, “Everything I knew about the art form came flying out of my head and in spite of my rather poor drawing skills, I used perspective and the trope, ‘Three hours later..’ to get my ideas across. We all enjoyed it.”
NYCSLA also welcomed three new board members for 2011-13: Teresa Tartaglione as our new President, Kathleen Tarbell, and Jen Abounader. All members are welcome to come to our April 7th board meeting when the executive board will be editing our decades-old by-laws. Email nycsla.librarians@gmail.com for details. Thanks to everyone who came and made it a special evening!
March 9 Meeting: Graphic Novels with Jesse Karp
February 10, 2011
The New York City School Librarians’ Association (NYCSLA) is happy to announce our March 9 meeting, featuring guest speaker Jesse Karp, author of Graphic Novels in Your School Library. The meeting will include a presentation by Jesse and focused discussions of graphic novels by age level.
For more than 10 years, Jesse Karp has been a school librarian at LREI (Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School), one of Manhattan’s oldest independent schools and a long-standing leader in progressive education. He works with students across the curriculum, from beginning readers to high school students with all kinds of material, including graphic novels. He is a graphic novel and picture book reviewer for Booklist, as well as contributor to Book Links and American Libraries. He has delivered seminars on the sequential art form at Pratt Institute and Queens College and, as of May 2011, will be teaching a course about the history and analysis of the form at Pratt. He has been a graphic novel panelist at Book Expo America for two years running and currently serves on YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens committee. In addition to the forthcoming Graphic Novels in Your School Library, he is also the author of the YA novel Those That Wake. Visit him online at http://beyondwhereyoustand.com.
Details
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Time: 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Place: P.S. 89 Library, 8528 Britton Avenue, Elmhurst, NY (Queens)
Cost: Free to NYCSLA members!
Directions for PS 89: The school is located at 8528 Britton Avenue, between Hampton Street and Gleane Street. Nearby buses include the Q29, Q32, Q33, and Q52. By train, take the 7 to 82nd St – Jackson Heights. Head east on Roosevelt for one block, turn right onto Gleane Street, and walk for one block to Britton Avenue. Or take the M or R to Elmhurst Ave, walk northeast on Britton Avenue for 6 blocks, and the school will be on your right. There is free but limited street parking in the surrounding blocks, as well as meters nearby on Gleane Street and a parking garage on Roosevelt at Elbertson Street.
SPACE IS LIMITED! RSVP to reserve your space. Please send your RSVP to nycsla.librarians@gmail.com. Please bring titles of your favorite graphic novels for kids and teens.
Work on Your Web Site with NYCSLA
January 18, 2011Does your web site need some spiffing up? Is it one of your New Year’s resolutions to get a web site off the ground for your library? Or to transform your current site into something better?
NYCSLA President Sara Lissa Paulson is hosting a series of hands-on sessions for members to get together to improve or create their web sites. Why a series? Because, as you know, it will take a few sessions to get your site going, or to make improvements to your existing site.
If you want the camaraderie and discipline (not to mention hot tea and chocolate and expertise of your peers!) to work on your web site, join us at PS347 in Manhattan every Wednesday starting Jan. 19 until midwinter break from 4:00-5:30 p.m. P.S. 347 is located at 225 East 23rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Ave.) in Manhattan. The closest trains are N, Q, R, 4,5,6, F, D, and B lines.
If you are working on your web site virtually, let us know and we will feature your site on the NYCSLA web site. We want to inspire each other!
Wireless is available if you want to bring your own laptop. RSVP to reserve one of the iMacs or Dells to work on. Sara has experience with Destiny, GoogleSites, Blogger, Wikispaces, WordPress, iWeb, Netvibes, and Ning sites so there will be live help!
Also, NYCSLA is still accepting 2010-2011 membership applications, so become a member today! Save the date: Our next meeting will be in Elmhurst, Queens on March 9th at PS89.
Appeal Terms Workshop with Olga Nesi
November 30, 2010
On a cold and crisp Saturday in November, an intrepid band of librarians passed a lovely day with NYCSLA’s own Olga Nesi, middle school librarian and appeal terms guru. Materials from the presentation were available here until December 17, 2010, for all NYCSLA members; workshop participants may email nycsla.librarians@gmail.com to receive copies after December 17th. Thank you so much to Olga and all our participants!
Saturday Workshop with Olga Nesi
November 12, 2010The New York City School Librarians’ Association (NYCSLA) is happy to announce our Saturday workshop with Olga Nesi, “Going beyond “Interesting”: Giving Students Vocabulary to Talk about Reading” on Saturday, November 20.
If you…
- Heard Olga Nesi at last spring’s conference, and were intrigued by the idea of teaching students vocabulary to talk about books…
- Read her article “It’s all about Text Appeal” in the August issue of School Library Journal…
- Or attended her session, “Getting beyond interesting: Giving Students a vocabulary to discuss their reading” at the conference at Brooklyn Tech last week…
and were excited about what you heard or read, this workshop is for you!
At this hands-on workshop, we will:
- practice working with “appeal terms”
- practice writing and critiquing book “hooks”
- discuss the challenges of teaching appeal terms to our students
Details
Date: Saturday, Nov. 20
Time: 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Place: Library, East Side Community High School, 420 East 12th Street, New York, NY
Cost: Free to NYCSLA members, $20 for non-members
Note: This workshop is NOT an introduction to appeal terms. Before attending, if you did not attend her workshops at this or last year’s Fall Conference, please make sure to read her School Library Journal article.
SPACE IS LIMITED! RSVP to reserve your space. Please send your RSVP to nycsla.librarians@gmail.com. Hope to see you there.
NYCSLA at the Fall Conference
November 1, 2010Going to the Office of School Library Services fall conference on Election Day? Stop by the NYCSLA table to renew your membership or join us for the first time and find out about our upcoming meetings and new award opportunities for members. Come to our networking session from 2-3 led by our president Sara Paulson to find out more about what NYCSLA can do for you professionally.
Lastly, hang out NYCSLA and your fellow librarians to unwind after the fall conference… or maybe keep the excitement and energy going? Relax with your colleagues for an informal happy hour at Moe’s Bar & Lounge, around the corner from Brooklyn Tech at 80 Lafayette Ave. (at S. Portland) in Fort Greene. Join us immediately following the conference.
