CYA: Children & Young Adults

Is your Oklahoma library Gaming? The OLA Children and Teen’s Committee (CATs) would like to know.

• Is your library the host and the kids bring in their games, or if you’ve started your own programming.
• What systems and games are you using?

You can contact:

Carla Hickey at chickey AT stillwater.org or

Adrienne Butler at abulter AT oltn.odl.state.ok.us.

Dear Librarian,

As you probably know, Oklahoma won the First Book contest and will win 50,000 books for Oklahoma pre-school children. The big book giveaway is scheduled for September 19 (yes, this is a new date) at the Oklahoma City Omniplex.

Those libraries and organizations that have registered with First Book will receive an email some time tomorrow. The email will include an application for books and related information.

If your program intends to apply, you need to respond to the e-mail immediately! Books will be given away on a first come, first served basis. If you wait to respond, it could be too late. We were advised that on some occasions the books are obligated in an hour!

Leslie Gelders

Literacy Coordinator

Oklahoma Department of Libraries

Meet author Kate DiCamillo winner of the 2007 Tulsa Library Trust’s Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers’ Literature and the 2006 Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award.

• Friday, August 24, at 7 p.m. the author will receive the Zarrow Award and discuss her books.
• Saturday, August 25, 10 a.m. the author will present awards to the winners of the 2007 Young People’s Writing Contest (pdf).

Both engagements will be at the Central Library (Google Map), Fourth Street and Denver Avenue, on the 2nd Floor.

Visit the Tulsa City County Library System web site or call for more information:

http://www.tulsalibrary.org,

918.596.7977,

or view the flyer, http://teens.tulsalibrary.org/virtual/ZR_poster_07_sm.pdf (pdf).

Thanks to Darla at TCCL for the invite!

FYI…

…take a moment to consider applying for money to go to the 2008 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California! Download an application for a Penguin Young Readers Group Award and see just how easy it is to apply. Managers and Professors: please take the time to spread the word about this opportunity!

These awards, made possible by an annual gift from the Penguin Young Readers Group, are administered by a committee of ALSC. They enable up to four children’s librarians to attend the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, June 26-July 2, 2008. Four librarians working directly with children in an elementary, middle school, or public library setting will each receive $600.

Requirements for application are:

ALSC membership (applicant must be a member by the application deadline)
One to ten years experience as a children’s librarian
No previous attendance at an annual ALA Conference
The deadline for applications is Monday, December 3, 2007. For more information and to download an application, for the Penguin Young Readers Group Award, visit:

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/profawards/
PenguinYoungReadersGroupAward/PenguinYoungReadersGrp.htm

Penguin Award Flyer (pdf)

Sincerely,

Alison O’Reilly

Penguin Young Readers Group Award Committee, Chair

Alison O’Reilly
512-462-1452
alison.oreilly AT ci.austin.tx.us