Congratulations to Beth Puckett, Library Media Specialist at Johanna Perrin Middle School, on winning the RRLC 2019 Library All Star Award!
Beth will be recognized at the RRLC Annual membership Meeting on June 6th at Casa Larga. This is a well-deserved award!
Dr. Carla Hayden was interviewed in the NYPL podcast, “The Librarian Is In”, this past week. It was very interesting and informative. It’s about 40 minutes long. If you have the time, give it a listen:
Apple Podcasts: on.nypl.org/2Vs9ee8
Spotify: on.nypl.org/2H8TQsQ
Google Podcasts: on.nypl.org/2Vwq3o4
The New York State Regents Advisory Council is sponsoring the The Joseph F. Shubert Library Excellence Award, which is given annually to recognize the achievements of small, medium and large libraries and library consortia in New York State. This $1000 award honors libraries or library consortia that have improved the quality of library service to users within the past two years.
Applications must be sent in by August 1, 2019.
Click here for details and application.
Calling all Teen Film-makers!
The deadline for the Rochester Teen Film Festival is coming up on June 10th!
WXXI Public Broadcasting Council and the Little Theatre are proud to sponsor the 2019 Rochester Teen Film Festival, a collaborative, juried media competition for youth in the Rochester region.
The festival is set for Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 5:30 p.m., when the finalists’ films will be shown at the Little Theatre in downtown Rochester.
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The purpose of the festival is to honor the work of urban, suburban and rural teen filmmakers and give young people an authentic opportunity to participate in a real film festival. All submissions are judged by a jury and finalists have been elected to have their films shown at the Little Theatre.
This year, young filmmakers will again have a chance to earn the Philip Seymour Hoffman Award, which honors the life and legacy of the late Academy Award-winning actor and Fairport, N.Y. native. The annual award is given to the teen whose film is chosen by the judges as “Best of Fest” and was established in association with the Hoffman family.
To find the online entry form, and to see some films of past finalists, check out the website: www.wxxi.org/teenfilmfestival
This year, on July 20th, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing. WXXI is celebrating with a series of programs all about space.
Wednesday, June 5th and Friday, June 7th: “Chasing the Moon” (Watch the preview)
Tuesday, July 9th: American Experience “Space Men”
Tuesday, July 16th: NOVA “Apollo’s Daring Mission”
Wednesday, July 17th: NOVA “First Man on the Moon”
Tuesday, July 23rd: “A Year in Space”
Tuesday, July 30th: “Beyond a Year in Space”
Wednesday, July 31st: “The Farthest–Voyager in Space”
If you don’t get the AL Direct email from American Libraries, and if you don’t regularly check the Knowledge Quest blog, then you may not have seen this great article about Makerspace Made Easy. The author, an elementary librarian in Chesterfield County, VA, Colleen R. Lee, explains how she started small, with different kinds of building blocks and other easily acquired materials.
Not only does she talks about keeping it simple, she also explains how she ties her design challenges to literature. It’s a short and easy read that is sure to give you some great ideas.
Today is a perfect time to send this article around to the teachers in your building. Perhaps similar to what they say in the Kevin Costner movie, Field of Dreams, “If they [read] it, they will come.”
From edutopia: Collaborating With Your School Librarian by Jamie Gregory (July 30, 2018).
I don’t know who came up with it, but I have heard that today, May 6th, is No Homework Day. Sounds pretty fishy right? Trying to research this “holiday” I found the following sites that confirm it: Days of the Year, Checkiday, Happy Days 365, and What National Day Is It?.
While students everywhere are celebrating no homework today, teachers prefer tomorrow’s holiday, National No Grading Day.
We all know that school librarians make a huge difference for student achievement and well-being, but sometimes this fact gets overlooked. So for those moments when you need to prove your worth (hopefully these moments are few and far between), we’ve collected articles and impact studies so that you have them at your fingertips whenever you may need them.
We have housed them at our MonroeOneSLS libguide on the Professional Resources page. If you have any that you would like to add, please send the info my way at liesl_toates@boces.monroe.edu.
For additional lists of articles and studies, check out the Library Research Service and the Antioch University School Library Research LibGuide.
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