iYouth Blog

Thank you to everyone who came to hear Ben Anderson talk about programming at his library.  We had a huge turnout and learned some great ideas for teen programming as well as working with library adminstration.

Our informal discussion: standing room only!

Ben Anderson, explaining what he does best- hosting teen raves at the library.

Join us for an informal discussion with Ben Anderson, the teen librarian at the Monroe branch of the Sno-Isle library system. Ben has been a medical librarian, children’s librarian, combined youth-services librarian and teen librarian. He found his passion working with at-risk teens in the Monroe Library and has orchestrated several non-traditional library programs including a rave and after-hours laser tag. Learn how these crazy ideas were inspired, developed and executed. Snacks will be provided. Bring questions!

Mon. Nov. 9th
5:30pm
MGH 420

Hey all!  Just a reminder that the Scrabble Tournament is coming up this
Friday at 5:00 PM in MGH 420.  If you are planning on coming, it’d be really
helpful for us if you could email ischoolscrabble@gmail.com and let us know
that you’ll be there, if you’re bringing anyone (you’re welcome to bring
significant others and friends not in the iSchool!) as well if you’d like to
play as an individual or as a team.  Here’s the email we sent out
originally, just in case anyone missed it.  We hope to see you there!

Who: iYouth
What:  Casual Scrabble tournament — come with just yourself, or play in
teams.  You don’t have to be good at Scrabble to have an awesome time.
There will be light snacks, beer, and wine provided.  There will also be
fabulous prizes for the best scores, and the best library related words!
Where:  Mary Gates Hall 420
When:  Friday, October 16th from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Why:   All proceeds will go towards Page Ahead (www.pageahead.org), a
non-profit that helps bring books to children across Washington State.  This
is a great organization, and it’ll be awesome to help them out.
How:  Bring $10 at the door in either cash or check form (make checks out to
iYouth).

If you are planning on attending, it’d be great if you could send an email
to ischoolscrabble@gmail.com with your name and email address.  It’d help us
a lot to have a general idea of how many people will be there.  We have also
created a facebook event (
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162844422593&ref=mf) where you can see
who else is going to be there (we also just created an iYouth facebook page,
so go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seattle-WA/iYouth/153542015722 and
become a fan!).

We hope to see you there — it’s going to be a lot of fun, and for a good
cause.  If you have any questions, feel free to email me at
saraml@u.washington.edu, or email ischoolscrabble@gmail.com

Sara Lachman
MLIS Candidate 2010
iYouth Co-Publicity Officer
saraml@u.washington.edu

On Saturday, January 30th, 2010 from 9am-3:30pm, iYouth will have its 2nd
annual conference for students, school librarians, public librarians,
authors, and anyone interested in children and teen librarianship.  The
conference will feature a keynote address with Nancy Pearl in addition to
sessions on storytelling, booktalking, radical change, a teen technology
panel, and more!  The price of admission is only $15 for students and $25
for professionals.

But we still need a name!  Come up with a name for the conference and e-mail
it to iyouthuw@u.washington.edu or esterlin@uw.edu by *Friday, October 9th
at midnight*. If we pick your suggestion, you will win free admission to the
conference. Notifications will be made on Monday night.

Go forth and create!

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Our next coming event is “Scrabble for Literacy”.

The tournament will be held Friday, October 16th, 2009 from 5-8 PM in MGH 420. Entry fee is $10 per person (cash or check made out to iYouth), and all proceeds will be donated to Page Ahead (an awesome literacy non-profit that helps brings books to children across Washington State – for more information about them, you can check out www.pageahead.org). Light snacks, beer and wine and FUN will all be provided!

–>RSVP HERE