CMRLS Youth Services Page

If your library uses our Ellison dies to prepare crafts, displays or bulletin boards for summer reading programs, please request the ones you will be using immediately. We anticipate that we will disband our die collection and distribute them out to libraries sometime later this spring. If there is anything AT ALL that you want to cut out, please request your dies now!

It's not too early to request fall/holiday dies so you can cut those items too! Once the collection is disbanded, it may be difficult or impossible to find the ones you want.

The link to the Ellison die form is:

http://www.cmrls.net/forms/die_request.htm

Don't forget to request a machine if you need to borrow one.

Please contact Maureen Ambrosino at CMRLS, 508-757-4110 x309, if you have any questions.

Summer Reading 2010

It may feel like summer is far away, but it will be here before we know it! Get ready to "Go green" with a ton of materials on our Summer Reading page.

E-vanced Solutions system

Did you know that you have access to our online reading program all year round? Our ReadsinMA.org web page stays up past summer, too, to hep patrons find your program.

Here are some innovative ways libraries are using the software:

Massachusetts Children's Book Awards programs
Tracking volunteer hours
Collaboration with school librarians for programming
Readers' advisory/collection development tool

Don't forget, it's not just for kids! Get your Adult Services staff and show them how this software would be a huge hit with adult patrons too.

If you're not using the software, and would like a demo or to get set up to use it, contact Maureen at CMRLS.

Useful links

We have a lot of great resources to help you with youth services programming in your library. Check out some of these:

Youth Services Notes blog - comments and postings welcomed and encouraged! (external link)

Massachusetts Statewide Performers' Directory (external link)

Central Massachusetts Year of the Teen: workshop handouts

Year of the Teen blog - comments and postings also welcomed and encouraged! (external link)

Nine to Nineteen, a manual for serving youth in libraries and museums. It's a publication of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. (pdf, 36 pages)

Multiple copy sets

Did you know that we have multiple copy sets of books that you can borrow for storytimes, readalouds, or other programs? Check out the list! Just contact the owning library to request them.

Resources for school librarians

Membership Eligibility Requirements

Massachusetts School Library Association (external link)

School Library Media Center Long Range Planning Guide (external link, Word document, 85 pages) - Print copies of this document are available from CMRLS. Contact Maureen Ambrosino for a copy.

Standards for 21st Century Learning (external link)

NEASC Standards for Accreditation (external link)

National Center for Education Statistics (external link)

AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner
(external link)

Massachusetts study on the link between school librarians and MCAS results. (pdf, 57 pages)

CE for 2010!

You don't want to miss the great lineup of workshops we have planned for you. There's lots of what you need to keep up-to-date with everything in a library.

You have lots of options, too, from attending in person to telephoning in to a meeting to working at your own pace.

Check out our Course Listings catalog or sign up now!

Need temporary help?

BiblioTemps is your staffing solution!

Temporary workers needed!

We're looking for a few good people - catalogers, circ staff, children's librarians, reference librarians and more. Apply now!