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Children's Services Round Table (CSRT)
Children's Services & Programming
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html
A site containing reviews of great books for kids, and ideas for activities about particular subjects, themes and professional topics.
The Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
Internet resources related to books for children and young adults, compiled by David K. Brown, Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature
http://www.dalton.org/libraries/fairrosa/
This site contains articles on youth literature, information on authors and illustrators, and links to book review sites and more. (Fairrosa, a.k.a. Roxanne Hsu Feldman.)
International Reading Association
http://www.reading.org/
A web site and association dedicated to promoting high levels of literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction, disseminating research and information about reading, and encouraging the lifetime reading habit.
Kay E. Vandergrift's Special Interest Page
http://scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/
A site devoted to sharing ideas and information with all those interested in literature for children and young adults, with a links to many different sites on literature and storytelling.
The Scoop
http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/main.html
An online newsletter created as a marketing tool for independent bookstores, but continues as a great resource for information on books, authors, illustrators, and more.
Trelease-on-reading
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/
A web site that covers the efforts of Jim Trelease, nationally-recognized authority on reading aloud to children. The site is filled with book reviews, recommended reads for different ages, and ideas for helping reluctant readers.
UCIRA (The Utah Council of the International Reading Association
http://catsis.weber.edu/ucira/
A web site and association devoted to promoting, strenthening, and extending language literacy throughout the state.
Related Bibliography
Benne, M. (1990). Principles of children's services in public libraries. Chicago: ALA.
Carlson, A. (1991). The preschooler and the library. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow.
Fasick, A. (1998). Managing children's services in the public library. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
Feinberg, S., Feldman, S. and Kuchner, J.F. (1998). Learning environments for young children: rethinking library spaces and services. Chicago: ALA.
Greene, E. (1991). Books, babies, and libraries. Chicago, ALA.
Steele, A. (2001). Bare bones children's services: tips for public library generalists. Chicago: ALA.
Walter, V. (2001). Children and libraries: getting it right. Chicago: ALA.
Programming
Babies' Lap Time (A programming sampler)
http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/people/mcdowell/laptime/index.html
A site filled with ideas, themes and sample programs for librarians serving children from ages 24 months to six years old, developed by a graduate student at the school of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.
NOLA Youth Services Programming Resource Collection
http://www.nolanet.org/kits.cfm
Browse these great ideas for your Children's program, from the NOLA Regional Library System. This site includes many storytime ideas with photographs and descriptions of puppets and flannelboards. Requests of these kits are limited to the use of NOLA members only.
Related Bibliography
Briggs, D. (1997). 52 programs for preschoolers: the librarians' year-round planner. Chicago: ALA.
DeSalvo, N. N. (1993). Beginning with books: library programming for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Hamden, CT: Library Professional Publications.
Fiore, C. D. and Nespeca, S. M. (1996). Programming for young children: birth through age five. Chicago: ALA.
Greene, E. (1991). Books, babies, and libraries: serving infants, toddlers, their parents and caregivers. Chicago: ALA.
Jeffery, D. A. (1995). Literate beginnings: programs for babies and toddlers. Chicago: ALA.
Marino, J. and Houlihan, D. F. (1992). Mother Goose time: library programs for babies and their caregivers. New York: H. W. Wilson.
Nespeca, S. M. (1998). Library programming for families with young children: a how-to-do-it manual. New York: Neal-Schuman.
Reid, R. (1999). Family storytime: 24 creative programs for all ages. Chicago: ALA.
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