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.
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!
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.
