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rachel Kerala Tour- Delightful and Memorable Tour of Lifetime

Some people say it is heaven on earth, some say it is the God’s Own Country, Some people say it is the must visit top 10 tourist destination of the world. What makes people to say all these about Kerala- God’s Own Country? Really it is one of the most beautiful tourism destinations of India endowed with scintillating natural beauty and scores of unparallel beauty. It state is decorated with palm fringed beaches, emerald paddy fields, bewitching backwaters, cascading waterfalls, whistling rivers,… Continue

Added by rachel on November 15, 2009 at 4:43am — No Comments

rachel Celebrate Honeymoon in Kerala- Romantic Honeymoon Holidays

Honeymoon the word itself seems to be so romantic and for honeymoon couples it deserves a great respect and meaning. Couples to make the honeymoon vacation a lifetime experience they choose for a place were the beauty of nature and the environment is full of romance. Well if you too are looking to celebrate you honeymoon vacation nothing seems better than taking a Kerala honeymoon tour after your wedding. Come and celebrate your once in a lifetime vacation and give a great new beginning to your… Continue

Added by rachel on November 15, 2009 at 4:43am — No Comments

Debby Merritt YALSA 2009 pre-conference

NEWS For Immediate Release May 12, 2009 Explore teen reading at YALSA’s 2009 preconference CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest-growing division of the American Library Association (ALA), will offer a preconference on connecting teens with reading materials using specific genres. Attendees will learn about new literacy activities and hear about sample programs based on teen books, as well as find out how to create a solid school or public library teen col… Continue

Added by Debby Merritt on May 14, 2009 at 3:12pm — No Comments

Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast Swamps, Chainsaws & Solipsism: Fiendish Deeds (The Joy of Spooking)

Fiendish Deeds (The Joy of Spooking)Author: P.J. Bracegirdle (on JOMB) Published: 2008… Continue

Added by Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast on May 13, 2009 at 7:34pm — No Comments

Natalie Layne My profile picture

This is a shot of my Children's Room! B-E-A-U-tiful! :-) Continue

Added by Natalie Layne on May 11, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast Of Cancer & Community: Win Mark Blevis's audio brain

Author and librarian Bridget Zinn had an eventful February. She found an agent for her YA novel, she got married and she was diagnosed with stage four cancer. Mark met Bridget at… Continue

Added by Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast on May 2, 2009 at 8:57am — No Comments

Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast Video Documentary Rock Stars of Reading Part 3: Lane Smith

Author/Illustrator Lane Smith (on JOMB) walks us through his thought process and style decisions for two books he's working on that will be published in 2009 -- Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated) with Florence Parry Heide due out September 22, 2009; and The Big E… Continue

Added by Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast on April 5, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast Rock Stars of Reading video series

Finally!!! Mark has produced more than half of the videos from our six-day holiday to Connecticut and North Hampton -- our November 2008 Rock Stars of Reading road trip. This means we'll begin publishing the video series, one video at-a-time, beginning on March 31; filling up the "off-days" in the Just One More Book!! publ

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Added by Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast on March 26, 2009 at 3:21pm — No Comments

Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast Super-Hero Teachers and the Super-Power of Writing: Perfect Man

Perfect ManAuthor: Troy Wilson (on JOMB) Illustrator: Dean Griffiths (… Continue

Added by Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast on March 6, 2009 at 9:52am — No Comments

Lacey Teen Ink

Hi everyone! I'm new here, and I'm pretty excited about reaching out to this community. I work for Teen Ink Magazine, now in its 20th year of publishing works for teens, by teens. We want to hear from teen and YA librarians across the country about how we can better serve you and your teens. Visit our site to read all of our content online. Like it? Follow our simple linking instructions to put a link to TeenInk.com on your library's teen page by visiting http://www.teenink.com/About/link.php!… Continue

Added by Lacey on June 30, 2008 at 3:29pm — No Comments

Josh Jubinsky Children's Storytime

Hey everyone, I'm new here.

I've recently started an online resource for Youth Services Librarians. Notably a site dedicated to programming material for Children's Librarians. Pleas check it out and let me know what you think.

http://librarystorytime.wordpress.com

Thanks,
-Josh

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Added by Josh Jubinsky on February 4, 2008 at 5:26pm — No Comments

Polly Farrington Summer reading programs - new ning group

If you're interested in sharing ideas for summer reading programs, please take a look at (and join!) the Summer Reading ning group at: http://summerreading.ning.com/ Continue

Added by Polly Farrington on January 12, 2008 at 5:58pm — No Comments

ozlibrarian Hello

Hello everyone, I've just joined up today, and am also new to youth services as well. I'm looking forward to networking and sharing ideas. Continue

Added by ozlibrarian on August 18, 2007 at 12:38am — No Comments

Kate Warren Scooter, The Library Hamster

Hello everyone,

So I mentioned that my icon is a pic of our dwarf hamster, Scooter. Scooter lives here in the Children's Room and has quite the following among our patrons. However, some people were shocked (rather impolitely, I might add) that Scooter is a DWARF hamster. Several responses to that fact have been : "Really? Are you sure???" or "Wow, that's a big dwarf hamster" or "That's one fat dwarf hamster!".

Let's be clear: perhaps I've been a little overzealous with her… Continue

Added by Kate Warren on July 27, 2007 at 3:45pm — No Comments

Kate Warren Hello!

Hello!

This isn't my first time blogging, but it is my first time finding a community of youth services librarians on the web! I'm always looking for new ideas on how to integrate technology into the Children's Room as well as ways of solving problems. So let me know what you're up to at your library!
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Added by Kate Warren on July 26, 2007 at 7:41pm — 1 Comment

Bonnie Global Youth Culture...Business Week Article

Anyone get a chance to read Business Week's articles about 'Children of the Web'?

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_27/b4041401.htm

I'd love to exchange thoughts/ideas/etc. with anyone interested in emerging global youth culture and what it might mean for libraries...

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Added by Bonnie on July 4, 2007 at 10:10pm — No Comments

Rhonda Hello

I have been offline for a while, and I just wanted to say a big Hello to all my new firends that have been added and to let them know I welcome them and this is for all my firends

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Added by Rhonda on June 24, 2007 at 7:01am — No Comments

Jody Wurl Summer Blog Blast Tour (SBBT)

Colleen Mondor came up with a fabulous idea -- have prominent bloggers interview YA authors in a frenzied week of virtual touring. Here's the schedule -- take a look! Mitali Perkins, Justine Larbalestier, Brett Hartinger, Chris Crutcher, Holly Black, Eddie Campbell, and Cecil Castellucci are just some of the people being interviewed. Continue

Added by Jody Wurl on June 22, 2007 at 10:42am — No Comments

Bonnie Beth Kanter- Presentation and Wiki Resources

For those of you who won't be in Boston this week...here's a link to Beth Kanter's upcoming presentation at Making Media Conference on Friday...if you are in the Boston area...come and share your ideas at Boston Media Makers on Sunday...

http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com/Making+Media+Conference

Making Media Now Con

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Added by Bonnie on May 29, 2007 at 10:01am — No Comments

Bonnie Podcorps- Recording Spoken-Word Events Worldwide

Ok, I'm spending the afternoon working on making our library-sponsored events reach a wider audience and allow for greater interactivity with whatever public connects to them...have any of you ever used Podcorps? Recording Spoken-Word Events Worldwide - http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/podcorps. Is anyone a stringer? Any experiences out there with this type of thing? Continue

Added by Bonnie on May 17, 2007 at 2:11pm — No Comments

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