ALAO Newsletter: Vol. 28 No. 2 (Jul 2010)

The most recent edition of the ALAO Newsletter Blog (July 2010) is now available. This issue introduces the new executive board and features the annual ALAO Leadership Retreat.

• President's Report (July 2010)
• Photos from the ALAO Board Retreat
• Library Legislation Day / Library Advocacy Day 2010
• Continuing Education Grants Award 2010
• Diversity Scholarship Awarded
• Spring Workshop: IIG
• Spring Workshop: CMCIG
• News from the Ohio Library Council

Interested in archived information? Previous issues of the ALAO Newsletter (vols 26 - 28) are available online.

ACRL: Cyber Zed Shed

Cyber Zed Shed wants your 20-min. presentation proposal for ACRL National in Philly.
Deadline Nov 1. http://j.mp/acrlczs

Are you a tech savvy librarian using new technologies in innovative ways? Adapting existing technologies to reach user needs? Here is an opportunity to share your innovations with your colleagues, library administrators, and others at ACRL 2011. The ACRL 2011 Cyber Zed Shed Committee is looking for proposals that document technology-related innovations in every area of the library.

Whether you are teaching in a classroom; answering questions from patrons; acquiring, cataloging, processing or preserving materials; or providing other services, we're interested. We invite you to submit your most innovative proposals to help us make Philadelphia the site of a truly groundbreaking conference.

Cyber Zed Shed presentations are 20 minutes, with 15 minutes to present a demonstration, and five additional minutes for audience Q&A. Presentations should document technology-related innovations in academic and research libraries. A computer, data projector, screen, microphone, and stage will be provided in the Cyber Zed Shed theater. You will be responsible for bringing all other equipment required for your demonstration, except as agreed to in advance.

The deadline for submission is November 1, 2010.

Questions about Cyber Zed Shed submissions should be directed to:
Kenley Neufeld, Santa Barbara City College, kenleyneufeld@gmail.com
Emily Rimland, Pennsylvania State University, erimland@psu.edu

CMCIG 2010: Show & Tell

"Show & tell" was one of several CMCIG spring workshop highlights; each attendee brought three - or more - favorite or new things from their collections to share. Items varied and included children's literature, regular collection, activity books, materials kits, and DVDs. One of the wonderful BGSU staff took notes during the session and the complete list shared at the end of the day.

Juvenile Literature

• Big Red Lollipop
• Fever Crumb
• Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
• Palazzo Inverso
• Chalk!
• Woolvs in the Sitee
• What the World Eats
• Ubiquitous
• The Hunger Games
• The Black Book of Colors
• Nevermore: A Photobiography of Edgar Allan Poe
• Here Comes the Big, Mean Dust Bunny!
• Rhyming Dust Bunnies
• What if?
• How Fast is it?
• How Strong is it?
• How Weird is it?
• How Big is it?
  

Activity Books

• 100 Games and Activities for the Introductory Foreign Language Classroom
• Activities, Games, Assessment Strategies and Rubrics:For Oral and Written Communication in the Foreign Language Classroom
• Magic Coloring book of Feelings
• The Music Teacher's Almanac: Ready-To-Use Music Activities for Every Month of the Year
• Moving and Learning Series: Preschoolers and Kindergartners
  

Library & Literature

• The Coretta Scott King Awards: 1970 - 2009, 40th Anniversary
• Reading Raps: A Book Club Guide for Librarians, Kids, and Families
• Virginia Hamilton: Speeches, Essays, and Conversations

Education Topics

• The Dyslexia Checklist: A Practical Reference for Parents and Teachers
• The RTI Daily Planning Book, K-6: Tools and Strategies for Collecting and Assessing Reading Data & Targeted Follow-up Instructions
• Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
• Science Formative Assessment: 75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning
  

General

• Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
• The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe

Materials Kit Resource Links

• Free Spirit Publishing
  Choices in a Jar
• Learning Resources
  Measurement Center
  Cross Section Plant Cell Model
  Lakeshore Learning Materials
  Go Away, Big Green Monster story kit
• Math4All
  Money-in-Mind (coins and cash)
• EnableMart
  Social Standards at School Program
• Folens Educational Publishers
  Influential Artists
• Delta Education
  Decimal Dog Game: Fast Food for Thought
• Educational Innovations
  Silver Spheres
• Folkmanis Puppets
  Peacock Puppet
• Thumball
  One Catch Starts a Conversation
• Ticket2Tagging
  Tags for puppets
  

DVD Resources

• Disney Educational Productions
  The Science of Disney Imagineering
  Bill Nye's Solving for X
• Learning Seed
  From paper to Practice Your Guide to Applying I.D.E.A. in the Inclusive Classroom
• Human Relations Media
  Service Learning: You Can Make a Difference
• PBS American Experience
  In the White Man's Image
• ASCD Store
  Differentiated Instruction in Action

*List originally posted on Library Cloud, 5/22/10

2010 CMCIG Spring Workshop

The CMCIG spring workshop, "Curriculum Materials Centers: What Works," is this Friday, May 21, 2010 at Bowling Green State University's Jerome Library. CMCIG co-chair Kathy Yoder sent out the following information to registered attendees. For those of us needing a refresher, here are a few quick reminders:

• Plan to arrive between 8:30 AM and 8:45 AM.
• New Books and Resources Roundtable: Bring up to three items to share that have been popular at your center. Categories include: juvenile literature, curriculum related titles, and teaching aids. We will share ideas and compile a master list of “must have” resources for everyone to take home.

BGSU sits just off Interstate 75 at Exit 181. From the highway take E. Wooster Avenue to the west.

• To Jerome Library: Turn north (a right from Wooster Ave) on Mercer Road followed by a left onto Ridge Street. Enter Parking Lot N to your left.
• Google Map: Jerome Library, Bowling Green, OH

The library is the interesting art-clad 8 floor building that looms above the others. I hope to have an assistant handing out parking tags in the parking lot. Otherwise park and come in and you can pick up the parking tag at the registration table. Enter the library at the west entrance at the lowest level.

Breakfast will be pastry, fruit, and coffee during the registration time. Lunch will be a soup and salad buffet at the Gardner Pavilion/Mazza Museum at the University of Findlay.

The University of Findlay is also off I 75 approximately 30 min south of Bowling Green.

• To Mazza Museum: Exit 159 off of I-75 left on to State Route 224. At first light turn right onto Broad Avenue. Turn left at second stop traffic light. Continue until College Street ends. Gardner Fine Arts Pavilion is on the right. Parking is available on both sides.
• Map: For a visual route to Mazza Museum.
  
  

CMCIG Workshop: Registration Deadline

Curriculum Materials Centers: What Works
ALAO-Curriculum Materials Centers Interest Group
Bowling Green State University
University Libraries Curriculum Resource Center
Friday, May 21, 2010 - 8:30 am to 4:00 pm

This workshop is for anyone interested in sharing and discussing CMC best practices on a shoestring budget. Workshop highlights include:

• Ohio Resource Center Ambassador, Debbie Reynolds.
• Guided Tour of Mazza Museum: International Art from Children’s Picture Books

Registration is $30 for ALAO/OCLIS Members and $60 for Non-members. Registration includes a continental breakfast, lunch, and Mazza Museum fees.

Deadline for registration is May 10, 2010. For more information, contact CMCIG co-chair Kathy Yoder, Curriculum Resource Center, University Libraries, Bowling Green State University Libraries.