System Youth Services Liaison Postings

1. Coming Up This Month
2. SLP Update

2a. State Superintendent's Web Message about the Summer Reading Program
2b. State Park Passes Remain Available
2c. Two Rivers SLP Decorating Ideas
2d. Site for Bug Stuff

3. Teen Services

3a. Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium
3b. Copyright Issues Regarding Video Game Tournaments
3c. New Pew Report on Teens and Writing Released
3d. Podcast on How to Start a Student Advisory Committee
3e. AskAway sponsors YouTube Video Contest for Teens and Young Adults
3f. 5th Edition of Excellence in Library Services to Youth Adults is Released
3g. Great Interactive Software for Kids (ages 14 and younger)
3h. Todd Wehr Library in DePere Part of an ALA Study on Gaming
3i. Wisconsin Council on Children and Family Offers Adolescent Brain Training Workshops

4. Grants and Scholarships

4a. Libri Foundation Grants
4b. Dollar General Literacy Grants
4c. WLA Library Continuing Education Scholarships
4d. 2009 National Library Week Grant
4e. Disney Minnie Grants
4f. Lois Lenski Covey Foundation Grants
4g. Barbara Bush Foundation Family Literacy Grants

5. Kid!@Your Library Promotion Adds Updates
6. Tasha Tudor Dies
7. Libraries and Autism: We're Connected Video
8. Highlights of the New Scholastic Reading Survey
9. Dog Days of Summer
10. Monthly Postings are Archived on the Youth Services Web Page
11. Upcoming Events in 2008

1. Coming Up This Month and Next
2. SLP Update

2a. Reminder about State Park Pass Use
2b. Collaboration with American Family Children's Hospital
2c. Safety Checks on CSLP Products
2d. Reproducible Reading Certificate

3. Teen Services

3a. Most Frequently Offered Services or Activities Involving Teens
3b. YALSA Young Adult Literature Symposium, November 7-9, 2008
3c. New ALA Publication on Teen Girls and Technology
3d. YALSA Electronic Resources

4. Picturing America Awards
5. UW-Madison, Continuing Education Office Offers Summer Courses
6. Shawn Brommer Congratulated on the Arbuthnot Lecture
7. KT Horning and Marge Loch-Wouters Acknowledged for their Service to ALSC
8. New Group List for Families of Visually Impaired Children
9. President's Program to Focus on Literacy Efforts for Native Children at ALA Conference
10. American Girl Movie to Debut
11. Monthly Postings are Archived on the Youth Services Web Page
12. Upcoming Events in 2008

1. Coming Up This Month and Next
2. SLP Update

2a. 2010 CSLP Themes Announced
2b. General Reminders about Summer Reading Programs
2c. Google Gadget Spider
2d Optical Illusion Monarch Butterfly Activity
2e.Vermont Center of the Book and the National Science Foundation Manual--"Catch the Reading Bug"
2f. System Liaisons will Receive Contact Information for County Fairs

3. Teen Services

3a. Adolescent Literacy Leadership Conference
3b. Regional Training Sessions in Adolescent Literacy Issues

4. Jane Addams Children's Book Awards Announced
5. Free Educational Resources for Prince Caspian Film
6. Three Wisconsin Students Among Top Braille Users in the U.S.
7. First Lady Doyle's Recommended Children's Titles for this Month
8. Monthly Postings are Archived on the Youth Services Web Page
9. Upcoming Events in 2008

1. Coming Up This Month
2. SLP Update

2a. Map Added to the Performer Web Page
2b. CSLP Annual Meeting
2c. ALA's Summer Reading Program
2d. ALSC Preconference Focuses on Challenges of SLP
2e. Copies of Past Wisconsin Manuals Available
2f. Some 2009 SLP Resources

3. Teen Services

3a. Adolescent Literacy Leadership Conference
3b. YALSA Summer Courses
3c. AskAway YouTube Contest for Teens

4. CCBC Publications

4a. 2008 CCBC Choices

5. UW-Madison Summer Courses
6. Libri Foundation Grants
7. El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day)
8. ALA Step Up to the Plate Promotion
9. Children's Book Week
10. First Lady Doyle's Recommended Children's Titles for this Month
11. Monthly Postings are Archived on the Youth Services Web Page
12. Upcoming Events in 2008

1. Coming Up This Month
2. SLP Update

2a State Park Passes
2b. Video PSAs Now Available
2c. Video to Feature Tips on Using Sign Language with the Bug Theme
2d. Two "Catch the Reading Bug" Songs and "Newspapers in Education" Ads Available on the CSLP Web Site
2e Insect Bingo Cards
2f. Web Based Bug Resources for Children Who are Blind about Bugs
2g. Free Puppet Tales Newsletter from Mr. Anderson's Company

3. Teen Services

3a. Adolescent Literacy Initiative Leadership Conference
3b. YALSA Offers ALA Conference Scholarship

4. Monthly Postings are Now Archived on the Youth Services Web Page
5. Additional Children's Book Award Winners

5a. The Schneider Family Book Award
5b. American Indian Youth Literature Award
5c. ALA Notable Lists
5d. Additions to ALSC's Great Web Sites for Kids

6. El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day)
7. Children's Book Week has been Moved to May
8. Lena and Oneida Public Libraries Win DPI "Standing Up for Rural Wisconsin" Awards
9. Lena Public Library Wins ALSC Bookapoalooza Program Award
10. First Lady Doyle's Recommended Children's Titles for this Month
11. Upcoming Events in 2008

1. Coming Up This Month
2. SLP Update

2a. 2008 PSAs
2b. State Park Passes
2c. U.S. Postage Insect and Spider Stamp Images Made into Stickers and Clings
2d. LibraryPalooza Resources
2e. Page 212 Is Missing from the 2008 Children's Manual

3. Teen Services

3a. Adolescent Literacy Initiative Leadership Conference
3b. Teen Tech Week, March 2-8, 2008
3c. Teenagers are Abandoning their Yahoo and Hotmail Accounts. Do the Rest of Us Have To?
3d. Develop Proficient Adolescent Readers

4. Children and Teen Book and Media Awards Announced
5. 2007 WisKids Report is Available
6. Free Publications from the National Institute for Literacy
7. Teaching Book Resources
8. Rhinelander Children's Book Fest, March 11-12, 2008
9. First Lady Doyle's Recommended Children's Titles for this February
10. Upcoming Events in 2008