Fran Romer Workshop handouts

In case you missed the Fran Romer Workshop or wanted the information from another book group if you attended, here it is:

Living Dead Girl Censorship Guide

Living Dead Girl Bibliography

Living Dead Girl Book Talk and Program

Thirteen Reasons Why Book Talk Guide and Program

Thirteen Reason's Why Bibliography

Unwind Book Talk Guide

Unwind Bibliography 

Unwind Program Guide 

 

Will Grayson, Will Grayson Bibliography

Will Grayson, Will Grayson Book Talk Guide

Will Grayson, Will Grayson Program Guide

Join us for the Annual Fran Romer

 Memorial Booktalk Workshop!

CLICK HERE to print the PDF version of the registration form

Join us for our March Meeting!

Printable Registration Form

Suffolk and Nassau YASD annual joint meeting

PDF of Registration Form

Join us for our February meeting. Our presenter will be Maura A. Smale, PH.D, Associate Professor, Library Dept Head, Information Literacy and Instruction at the New York City College of Technology, CUNY. Maura will discuss how public librarians can use games to help strengthen the information literacy competencies of middle school and high school students, which will be of value to them in their college or university careers. Attendees will participate in hands on activities and will receive a resource packet. 

YASD January Meeting

The Young Adult Services Division of the Suffolk County Library Association is happy to be kicking off our 2014 program schedule with a visit from a few members of The Horror Writer's Association on Thursday, January 9th, from 9:30-12:00 pm at Sachem Public Library. YA authors Charles Day (Kyle McGerrt Trilogy, Legend of the Pumpkin Thief) and Tonya Hurley (Precious Blood, Ghost Girl Series, Passionaries of The Blessed Trilogy) will discuss the HWA and its many connections to young adult readers and the services it has available for the Young Adult Departments of public libraries in Suffolk County.

YASD's Third Annual Teen Librarian Awards_Nominate a Librarian today!

Thank your colleagues and fellow librarians for their service to teens and recognize their efforts by nominating them for a Teen Librarian Award!   

Each nominee will be recognized and the recipient of each award will be presented with a plaque at the YASD Annual Author Visit Thursday,December 12. 

The nomination form and a description of each award can be found at the links below.

Teen Librarian Award_Descriptions

Teen Librarian Award_Application

YASD Annual Author Visit_Thursday, December 12, 2013

Colleagues, please save the date for our Annual YASD Author Visit on Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 1:00pm at The Mansion at Timber Point Country Club. Our guest speaker will be award winning author E. Lockhart (also known as Emily Jenkins). Please see the attached Registration Form for details.

Registration Form

Nassau YASD's December Brunch and Installation of Officers

Please see the attached flyer for Nassau YASD's December Brunch and Installation of Officers. It will be held on Thursday, December 5, 2013 at the Hofstra University Club.

Lit-Fest 2013

Lit-Fest is an annual event presented by Nassau Library System, and co-sponsored by the Long Island School Media Association and Adelphi University, with the cooperation of the Children’s Services Division of Nassau County Library Association.

  

It will be held on Friday, October 18, 2013 at 8:30am-3:30pm and the two guest speakers are Tom and Margaret Peterson Haddix.

See the Lit-Fest website for more information: http://litfest.nassaulibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/LitFestBrochure-FINAL.pdf

RASD's Annual Dinner_Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Please see the attached flyer and join the Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD) of the Suffolk County Library Association on Wednesday, September 18th at John Harvard's Brewery and Ale House for their Annual Dinner. The guest speaker will be Art Donovan, author of "The Art of Steampunk."