Living Libraries: Remembering our Past-Planning our Future
by Michele, Children's Librarian
The Librarians from the Brigham City Library attended 2 days of the conference, May 17-18. The Keynote speaker was Rivkah Sass director of the Omaha Public Library system, Library Journals' 2006 Librarian of the Year. She spoke on the needs of library users and how libraries can respond.
Training included topics from Sci-Fi/Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson's(pictured at left) Evil Librarians who rule the world to Salt Lake County Library staffs', Vampire in Outerspace? Exploring the Supernatural in Fiction Genre. Tamer topics included, Family History resources, graphic novels, copyright issues for librarians, legal issues for libraries, health information, technology and gadgets for librarians and patrons, Latino community services, readers advisory, digital collection development, teen literacy, baby storytime, and puppeteering.
My personal favorite was presented by modern-day minstrel Tom Hunter.
Tom travels the country speaking (and singing) about literacy. For thirty years he has explored how songs help us celebrate and grieve, tell stories and play games, learn language and history. The wisdom that I took away from his presentation is that before children learn to read they live in an oral world. We need to speak to our children, sing with our children and use oral storytelling to teach our children. That is why we sing at story time, why we play guessing games and tell nursery rhymes and why if given the right tools a child can begin to decode the written word. Visit his website at www.tomhunter.com You can order cd's of his wonderful music there and read more about using music to teach children. Listen to the sample song Lots of Little Squiggles!
The Librarians from the Brigham City Library attended 2 days of the conference, May 17-18. The Keynote speaker was Rivkah Sass director of the Omaha Public Library system, Library Journals' 2006 Librarian of the Year. She spoke on the needs of library users and how libraries can respond.
Training included topics from Sci-Fi/Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson's(pictured at left) Evil Librarians who rule the world to Salt Lake County Library staffs', Vampire in Outerspace? Exploring the Supernatural in Fiction Genre. Tamer topics included, Family History resources, graphic novels, copyright issues for librarians, legal issues for libraries, health information, technology and gadgets for librarians and patrons, Latino community services, readers advisory, digital collection development, teen literacy, baby storytime, and puppeteering. My personal favorite was presented by modern-day minstrel Tom Hunter.
Tom travels the country speaking (and singing) about literacy. For thirty years he has explored how songs help us celebrate and grieve, tell stories and play games, learn language and history. The wisdom that I took away from his presentation is that before children learn to read they live in an oral world. We need to speak to our children, sing with our children and use oral storytelling to teach our children. That is why we sing at story time, why we play guessing games and tell nursery rhymes and why if given the right tools a child can begin to decode the written word. Visit his website at www.tomhunter.com You can order cd's of his wonderful music there and read more about using music to teach children. Listen to the sample song Lots of Little Squiggles!
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