Education Services News

ALA Book Awards 2012

2012-01-23T10:01:00.002-05:00

(Note- Starred books are in the Guarini Library, others are on order. )

Coretta Scott King:
Illustrator Award Kadir Nelson Heart and Soul:The Story of America and African Americans*
Illustrator Winner: Shane W. Evans Underground:Finding the Light to Freedom

Author Honor: Eloise Greenfeld Great Migration: The Great Migration: Journey to the North
Author Honor: Patricia McKissack Never Forgotten
Author Award: Kadir Nelson Heart and Soul*

Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Award: Ashley Bryan*
May Hill Arbuthnot Winner: Michael Morpurgo*

Pura Belpre:
Illustrator Honor: Samantha R, Vamos Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred*
Illustrator Honor: Monica Brown Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match
Illustrator Winner: Duncan Tonatiuh Diego Rivera : His World and Ours

Author Honor: Xavier Garcia Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel:A Lucha Libre Mystery
Author Honor: Margarita Engle: Hurricane Dancers
Author Award: Guadelupe Garcia McCall Under the Mesquite Tree

Printz Award:
Honor:
Daniel Handler & Maira Kalman:Why We Broke Up
Christine Hinwood: Returning
Craig Silvey Jasper Jones
Maggie Stiefvater Scorpio Races
John Corey Whaley Where Things Come Back

Newbery Award:
Honor:
Thanha Lai Inside Out and Back Again
Eugene Yelchin Breaking Stalin's Nose

Medal:
Jack Gantos Dead End in Norvelt

Caldecott
Honor
John Rocco Blackout
Lane Smith Grandpa Green
Patrick McConnell Me -Jane

Medal:
Chris Rachska Ball for Daisy

Complete list at http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/american-library-association-announces-2012-youth-media-award-winners)

Newark educators, parents-Abbott Leadership Institute

2012-01-18T10:37:00.001-05:00

The Abbott Leadership Institute Presents: Series 21 Moving Newark Schools Forward With Community Power and ParentLeadership

Series 21 Begins: January 28, 2012

The Return of Local Control of Newark's Schools toNewark's Citizens

Where do we stand?

The Newark Public Schools (NPS) has been under statecontrol since 1995. As a result the people can no longer determine the schoolbudget, and the Board of Education was changed to an Advisory Board. In June of2011, NPS's QSAC scores met the criteria for return of local control to Newark;the state says it will maintain control. The Coalition for Effective NPS andNPS Advisory Board both filed an appeal. What will the court decision mean forNewark, and how will it change the operation of the Board of Education?

Guest Speakers:

Carl Sharif, Past President, Newark Board of Education

Richard Cammarieri, Former NPS Advisory Board Member

Sat., Jan. 28th, 2012

10am-1pm

Rutgers University-Newark

Conklin Hall Room 100

175 University Ave. Newark, NJ 07102

All classes are free, and children are welcome. We eat,discuss the issues, and have fun! Contact Kaleena Berryman with Questions 973.353.3560or kaleenab@rutgers.edu.

About the Abbott Leadership Institute:

The Mission of theAbbott Leadership Institute is to develop community leaders by empoweringparents, students, educators and community advocates of Newark Public Schoolswith information about public school reform, and knowledge of effective methodsof education advocacy and family engagement in schools. Since its inceptionalmost ten years ago, the Abbott Leadership Institute (ALI) has been verysuccessful in its strategy to establish a regular gathering place where peoplecan discuss education policy and practices, as it relates to Newark andsurrounding communities. ALI classes have grown from 20 participants in thefirst series (2002), to 323 participants in the 19th series (2011). Today, ALIclasses are generally attended by parents, educators, high school students,college students studying to become teachers, political officials, NewarkPublic Schools Advisory Board members, community leaders (many of whom were NPSparents at some point in recent time), and city residents looking for ways tobecome involved in, or better understand, urban school reform.

Save the Dates! ALI Series 21

All classes begin at 10am, Rutgers Newark, Conklin Hall

Jan 28th, 2012

Feb. 11th, 2012

Feb. 25th, 2012

March 10th. 2012

March 31st, 2012

April 14th, 2012

April 28th, 2012

May 12th, 2012 Graduation

Support School Libraries-Sign the Petition Now!

2012-01-06T09:34:00.000-05:00

From Carl A. Harvey II, AASL ( American Association of School Librarians) President

Dear Friends -

I am writing to you today to share that this morning I have posted a newWhite House petition about requesting funding and recognition for schoollibraries in the re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary EducationAct. It is easy to sign the petition. You will need to createan account (if you don’t already have one) to be able to sign thepetition.
The URL for the petition is:
http://wh.gov/Wgd
We have until Feb. 4th to 25,000 signatures inorder to get a reply from the White House. I appreciate your support ofschool libraries.
Thank you,
Carl

For more information go to :
http://carl-harvey.com/libraryties/2012/01/05/white-house-petition-in-support-of-school-libraries-its-posted/

and read this:
http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2011/12/start-holidays-right-support-school.html

Walter Dean Myers named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

2012-01-04T10:41:00.000-05:00

The January 3, 2012 issue of the New York Times reported that ..on Tuesday January 3, 2012, Mr.[Walter Dean] Myers, 74, will be named the national ambassador for young people’s literature, a sort of poet laureate of the children’s book world who tours the country for two years, speaking at schools and libraries about reading and literacy"

According to the New York Times article,January 3, 2012, C1 of the New York edition with the headline: "Children’s Book Envoy Defines His Mission"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/books/walter-dean-myers-ambassador-for-young-peoples-literature.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

Mr. Myers is the third person to hold this post awarded by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, and Every Child a Reader, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the Children’s Book Council, a trade association for children’s book publishers. Katherine Paterson, young adult novelist, and children's author Jon Scieszka were previous holders of this position.

Mr. Myers, a young adult and children's author highlights the lives of urban teens in many of his books. His books are often considered edgy due to their realistic situations and characters, but also uplifting.

Mr. Myers will be touring schools and libraries in the next two years speaking about reading and literacy. As quoted in the article, Myers maintains that:
“I think that what we need to do is say reading is going to really affect your life,” he said in an interview at his book-cluttered house here in Jersey City, adding that he hoped to speak directly to low-income minority parents. “You take a black man who doesn’t have a job, but you say to him, ‘Look, you can make a difference in your child’s life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.’ That’s what I would like to do.”

Mr. Myers, a Jersey City resident, also serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the M. Jerry Weiss Center for Children's and Young Adult Literature (http://web.njcu.edu/programs/mjwc/).

Start the holidays right-Support School Libraries!

2011-12-23T09:19:00.000-05:00

Take Action

School Libraries and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) why YOU should care and what YOU can do!

The Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations (ALTAFF) and the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), along with the American Library Association’s Office for Library Advocacy and the Washington Office, is asking that every single person in the country who cares about libraries contact their U.S. Senators in Washington at 202-224-3121 or at their local offices in your state about the importance of including school libraries in the reauthorization of ESEA. Please let us know when you’ve made your call by emailing altaff@ala.org.
Background: ESEA reauthorization, currently known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), will determine federal education policy for the coming decade. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee marked-up (voted out of committee) ESEA on October 20, 2011 without including school libraries! While no date has yet been set for a Senate vote, the American Library Association believes that it may come up after January 23, 2012.
What It Means for School Libraries: Ensuring that school libraries are included in ESEA reauthorization means that federal funding for schools would also include school libraries. But, more importantly, having school libraries included in ESEA is a strong statement that school library programs are considered an important part of the learning environment. This will make it harder for local decision makers to de-professionalize or cut school library services.
Why YOU Should Care: As library supporters, it probably goes without saying that you value libraries at all levels. But if you are not directly associated with a school library, it may well be that you really haven’t thought much about them and their contribution to every school, community, and even your own library! Because of the pending vote on ESEA – which does not now include school libraries – it’s time for you to focus your library love on school libraries.
Studies have shown categorically that children who go to school without libraries and, importantly, school librarians, fare worse in academic achievement than those who have them. Professionally staffed school libraries are a very small investment to raise academic achievement. And we all know that kids who read succeed!
We all pay the price of the academic failure of our youngsters. Crime rates, unemployment, social service costs, prison stays all go up when kids don’t succeed in school. We pay dearly for that. Not only are taxes higher as a result, but human potential is lost.
When school libraries are shut down or certified librarians are eliminated, public libraries and academic libraries also pay a price. Children without access to instruction by school librarians will miss out on learning how to find, identify and use information appropriately. Public libraries, community college libraries, and even four year colleges and universities see an immediate influx of new users (school children) when area school libraries are closed down.
This means more materials and staffing are needed for public libraries (whose budgets are also being challenged across the country) and they often lack the curriculum-related materials the students need. In addition, one of the greatest effects on the public library from underfunded school libraries is the demand from school librarians themselves and classroom teachers for materials to use in the classroom.
When one type of library is threatened, all libraries are threatened.
What You Can Do: It is imperative that every library supporter in the country call or email both of their Senators now! Let them know that ESEA must include a specific authorization for an effective school library program. Senators can do this by telling both Senator Tom Harkin and Senator Mike Enzi that they support including an effective school library program in ESEA.
In addition, we ask that you spread the word. Ask your spouse, your friends, and your acquaintances to act now. Facebook, twitter, and email about this. Let’s start a school library movement! Your voice counts – please use it on behalf of professionally staffed school libraries.
ESEA Talking Points

Since 1965, more than 60 education and library studies have produced clear evidence that school library media programs staffed by qualified school librarians have a positive impact on student academic achievement.
Spending for school library programs is the single most important variable related to better student achievement.
At the elementary level, four out of five schools (over 80%) with full-time librarians had more students who earned proficient or above proficient test scores on the CAT5 tests for reading, language arts, and mathematics. In schools with no librarian at all, only about half had more high-achievement students.
At the secondary level, nine out of ten schools (over 90%) with full-time librarians had more students who earned proficient or above proficient test scores on the CAT5 tests for reading, language arts, and mathematics. In schools with no librarian at all, only about half had more high-achievement students.
Based on analysis from its first year of funding, 95% of local education agencies that received funding from the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries program have reported increases in their reading scores. In its second year of funding, grantees reported access during non-school hours increased in just one year from 30% in 2005 to 72% in 2006.
This is the information age. Our leaders are starting to understand it’s not enough for kids to know how to read – they must also be information literate.
Family literacy activities are supported by 42% of public school libraries strengthening the entire network of support for student learning and achievement.
Students visit school libraries almost 1.5 billion times during the school year – about one and a half times the number of visits to state and national parks.
Funding for school libraries comprises a very small portion of a school library’s budget but studies show that the return on this investment in terms of student achievement is high.

Call your U.S. senators today and ask them to include School Libraries in ESEA!

Tweet for School Libraries- Thursday-12/8/11 at 3pm

2011-12-07T12:44:00.001-05:00

As Congress continues to work on appropriation bills for FY2012, we want to make sure they keep school libraries in mind. The SenateAppropriations Committee voted out of committee a bill that included $30million for literacy, at least half of which must go to school libraries. Butthe fight for this money is not over.

In order to keep support for school libraries going, we arescheduling another Twitter Bomb for Thursday, Dec. 8, at 3pm EST.

Please tweet the following message at both of yoursenators and your representative.

INSTRUCTIONS

Below is an example of the tweetdirected at Rep. Denny Rehberg of Montana:

@DennyRehbergKeep $30 mil for #literacy and school #libraries in this year's federal funding!

To find out if your Congressional representatives are onTwitter and what their handles are, visit this website: http://classic.tweetcongress.org/officials/states.

If you find that your representative is on twitter,click their image on the left and that link will take you to his/her acct.

Once on your representative’s page, click the silhouetteicon, and enter the message in the field below the ‘Follow’ button.

If your representatives aren’t on Twitter yet, please tweetthe message out anyway, to keep the echo chamber going.

Jersey City Schools Need Your Input Now-11/22/11

2011-11-17T18:17:00.001-05:00

What:
Public Forum Public Forum to announce Board process and seek community input on the Superintendent Search- both Interim and National.

When:
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 6pm

Where:
PS #30/ Alexander D. Sullivan Elementary School
171 Seaview Avenue,Jersey City, NJ 07305

Your questions or comments will be encouraged so we can move forward in a transparent and inclusive manner in this vital mission to find new leadership in Jersey City Public Schools.

National Gaming Day, November 12th

2011-11-09T21:07:00.001-05:00

Gamers invade libraries on November 12, 2010 for the 4th annual National Gaming Day

Is your public library taking part? Check here http://batchgeo.com/map/ngd11map
The American Library Association sponsored event has participating libraries offering kids and families a chance to meet and play classic boardgames such as Connect Four and Scrabble or dabble in an international Super Smash Bros. Brawl video game tournament!

Children's Authors present at Raritan Valley Community College 11/15-17/11

2011-11-01T21:22:00.000-04:00

You're invited to theBaker & Taylor CATS Publisher Presentations Winter-Spring 2012

November 15-17, 2011 (Tuesday - Thursday)
at Raritan Valley Community College
118 Lamington Road
Branchburg, NJ 08876
Directions to Raritan ValleyCommunity College

Presenters include: K.K. Ross/Kate Klimo, Doreen Cronin and Laura Cornell and Michael Dahl
Visit the PublishersPresentation page for the complete event schedule and details on our featuredguest speakers

Please RSVP to CATSevents@baker-taylor.com. When you respondinclude:

Your first and last name
Library or business name
What days you will be attending (Tuesday, Wednesday and/or Thursday)
If you will be staying for lunch

Feel free to pass this invitation along to your colleagues andBaker & Taylor customers.

KNUFFLE BUNNY- The Musical 2/26-2/27/12

2011-10-29T09:03:00.001-04:00

Knuffle Bunny: the Cautionary Musical returns to the Skirball Center, NYC in February 2012.

KNUFFLE BUNNY: A CAUTIONARYMUSICAL
Skirball Center, 566 LaGuardia Place, NY

Feb. 26, 2011 – Feb. 27, 2011

PERFORMANCE TIMES:	February 26, 11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm February 27, 11:00am, 2:00pm
TICKET PRICES:	$15-$25

Knuffle Bunny: ACautionary Musical returns to NYC with the story of a littlegirl, her daddy and her favorite stuffed animal. If you've ever felt lost, thenyoull know just how Trixie's favorite stuffed Knuffle Bunny feels when left allalone. If you've ever felt loved, then you'll know just how Trixie, KnuffleBunny, and their family feel when they're together. This 50 minute longperformance is recommended for ages 3 and up.

"It is one of Mo Willems' many achievements to be, if not the first, thencertainly the best author to present the dread heartbreak of the lost stuffedanimal." — The New YorkTimes on KnuffleBunny Free

Reward an outstanding NJ Black History educator

2011-09-19T16:52:00.000-04:00

Do you know a New Jersey teacher, librarian or other educator who has done an outstanding job in creating black American history curriculum materials or teaching black American history for grades K-12?

Here is your chance to nominate them for an award!

DEADLINE for submissions is 10/6/11

The Commission is Accepting Nominations for the

MILDRED BARRY GARVIN PRIZE

The Mildred Barry Garvin Prize is an award of $1,500 to a New Jersey teacher, guidance counselor, or school librarian for outstanding teaching of black American history in kindergarten through high school or outstanding performance in a related activity such as developing curriculum materials. One prize is awarded annually.

Nominations for the 2012 prize must be postmarked by October 6, 2011. Nominees must be a New Jersey teacher, guidance counselor, or school librarian engaged in teaching of black American history at any grade level between kindergarten and high school. Individuals may be nominated by others, or they may self-nominate.

To nominate an educational professional, submit the nomination form, and a 500 word essay describing the nominee’s qualifications and why he or she should receive the Garvin Prize. You may access the nomination form at http://www.state.nj.us/state/historical/dos_his_grants.html#capes.

Postmark and submit the nomination form and essay no later than October 6, 2011 to:

Niquole Primiani
Chief Programs Officer
New Jersey Historical Commission
225 West State Street, PO Box 305
Trenton, NJ 08625-0305
(Please use the P.O. Box for U.S. Mail and the street address for courier service.)

Education/ Curriculum Librarians Group (Metro NY/NJ) visit the Keats exhibit at the Jewish Museum

2011-09-13T14:51:00.001-04:00

Please join the Education/ Curriculum Librarians Group (Metro NY/NJ) as we go to the Ezra Jack Keats Librarian Workshop at the Jewish Museum on September 23, 2011 at 10am. We will also be having a luncheon meeting (either at the Jewish Museum Café or at a nearby restaurant) after the program.

PROGRAM INFO

Please register by calling 212.423.3225. registration deadline 9/16/11

Ezra Jack Keats: Author and Illustrator
A Workshop for Librarians
Friday, September 23
10:00 am–Noon

Program fee: FREE
Refreshments will be served. Please register by September 16.

Join Leonard Marcus, renowned children’s book historian, author and critic, in a discussion celebrating the legacy of Ezra Jack Keats. Designed specifically for school and public librarians, this workshop also includes an opportunity to view the special exhibition The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats.

To register, please call 212.423.3225.
Program information
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/EducatorWorkshops
General Exhibit Information http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-snowy-day-and-keats-exhibition

Please also RSVP to this blog in the Comment section, and tell us if you will attend the luncheon meeting (pay your own way).
Amy and Sheila
Co-chairs Education/ Curriculum Librarians Group (Metro NY/NJ)
Education/ Curriculum Librarians Group (Metro NY/NJ)

Our description: We discuss issues that relate to our duties as subject specialists in the discipline of K-12 Education, and teacher preparation. We meet 2-3 times a year at locations in the metropolitan area.

Our mission: In the spirit of collaboration, we join together to discuss common issues related to the discipline of education in colleges and universities, children and youth literature and curriculum materials.

AND DON’T FORGET TO SAVE THE DATE:

Lit-Fest: A Celebration of Books for Children and Young Adults

Co-sponsored by the Nassau Library Systems, Youth Service Office and Adelphi University’s Ruth S. Ammon School of Education.

When:
Friday, October 14th8:00 am to 3:00 pm

Where:
Adelphi University
UC Ballroom
Garden City, NY
http://education.adelphi.edu/events/lit-fest-a-celebration-of-books-for-children-and-young-adults/
Lit-Fest - Nassau Library System: www.nassaulibrary.org/litfest/

Abbott Leadership Institute classes-Fall 2011

2011-09-13T14:18:00.001-04:00

Abbott Leadership Institute- Parent/Educator/Community Worker Classes

For the past 9 years, the Abbott Leadership Institute has taught education advocacy, policy and practice to parents, educators, community members and students of Newark and neighboring communities. The primary goal is to improve the education of children in Newark, and that goal is possible only with informed parent and community engagement. After attending an ALI Series, parents will know the right questions to ask and how to influence school and education policy at the local, state and national level. Our parents are able to navigate the system and build relationships with people who can help them ensure their child receives a quality education. ALI Parents are Empowered Parents!

Series 20 - Making all Schools Work: Equal Opportunities, Equal Resources
Class One:
What every parent should know:
Updates: Changes in Newark Public Schools School Co-location or Shared Campuses , Return to Local Control, New Leadership & Your Child's Education
Sat., September 17, 2011
10am-1pm
Rutgers University-Newark
Conklin Hall Room 100
175 University Ave. Newark, NJ 07102

Top 5 Reasons you should spend your Saturday mornings with the Abbott Leadership Institute:

1. GREAT BENEFITS: Classes are informative, free, fun, and there is always food! :)
2. CERTIFICATION: You receive a certificate of completion if you attend at least 4 of the 7 classes.
3. PROFESSIONAL CREDITS: You can receive professional credit hours for every class you attend.
4. MOVING NPS FORWARD: You will have a better understanding of Newark Public Schools and school reform, which means you can be more engaged in making our schools better.
5. PLAY A ROLE IN THE PROCESS: You will be able to work with parents, educators, students, politicians and community members who share your love for NPS and our children!

Series Continues, Saturdays:
October 1, 2011
October 15, 2011 - not an ALI event, but will count for a class
October 29, 2011
November 12, 2011
November 19, 2011
December 3, 2011
Schedule Subject to Change

All classes are Free, and children are welcome. We Eat, Discuss the Issues, and have Fun!
Contact Kaleena Berryman with Questions 973.353.3560 or kaleenab@rutgers.edu.

Website : http://www.abbottleadership.org/

Also see what the The Abbott Leadership Institute Youth Media Symposium accomplished this summer:

The Abbott Leadership Institute Youth Media Symposium was selected as the first and second place winners from numerous applicants from around the country. The ALI Youth Public Service Announcements entitled, “Cutbacks & Taking a Stand” premiered at the Save Our Schools March Workshop on Friday, July 30, 2011 in Washington, DC and was received by the audience with an engaged and warm response."

To view the winning videos, click on the links below:
1. "CUTBACKS" PSA; producer: William Rodriguez link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7xCNfvpkis
2. "Take a Stand" PSA; producer: Alonzo Hamlett link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whEVkqnLMTk

JCPL Tale of Our City Book Festival-9/10/11

2011-09-07T15:56:00.001-04:00

Jersey City Public Library

4th Annual "

A Tale of Our City Festival"

Saturday, September 10, 2011

at Van Vorst Park

from

10AM - 4PM.

A Tale of Our City book festival offers authors, new and established, of all genres and ages, a venue where they can showcase their works and bring it to the reading and buying public in a neutral and inspiring setting. All authors' books will be available for sale.

Author’s Reading Schedule:
10:30 am Thomas Belton – Protecting New Jersey’s EnvironmentPublished by Rutgers University Press, 2010
10:45 am Cherese Bracey – The Case of the Withering Books Self-Published by Xlibris, 2010
11:00 am Elijah M. Brown – Missing Pages, Out of My Life Self-Published by Realism 101, 2011
11:15 am Charles Caldes – Jersey City’s Hudson Waterfront, Books 1 & 2 Self-Published by Journal Square Publishing, 2010
11:30 am John E. DeJesus – TACO Self-Published by CreateSpace, 2010
12:00 N Cynthia Fabian – Those Sweet Nothings Self-Published by PublishAmerica, 2008
12:15 PM Eunie Guyre – Happy Victory: Celebrating a Jersey City Childhood Self-Published by Xlibris, 2011
12:30 PM Chrissy Roberts
Chrissy Roberts, who donated six performances this July for the children participating in the Library’s Summer
Reading Program, offers her acoustic guitar and originally written songs again, leading the audience-participation
performances that galvanize both children and adults.

Ms. Roberts is a singer/performer from Jersey City and her program, incorporating music and movement together, is targeted toward younger children. “Kids love music! As an occupational therapist, I enjoy using music as a tool to encourage kids to learn, move and grow.”

12:45 PM Sandra Guzmán – The New Latina’s Bible Published by Seal Press – Perseus Books, 2011
1:00 PM Jacqueline Hallenbeck – Poem-atic Self-Published by PublishAmerica, 2009
1:15 PM Judith Natelli McLaughlin – Poems on Fruits & Odes to Veggies Self-Published by AimWrite Communications, 2008
1:45 PM Clarence Matthews – Jacob’s Rite of Passage & Teen Jacob Self-Published by deeClare Publishing, LLC, 2010-2011
2:00 PM Valerie A. Mitchell – Emotional Rollercoaster: A Depicted Mind Self-Published, 2010 / Available through Author
2:15 PM Peter O’Reilly – Oh Really, O’Reilly Self-Published, 2008 / Available through Author
2:30 PM Alina Oswald – Vampire Fantasies Self-Published by Blurb.com, 2011
2:45 PM Jane Pedler – Wisteria Rose Self-Published, 2011 / Available through Author
3:00 PM Alyssa Pierce – Caroline & Rebecca’s Day at the Beach Self-Published by Xlibris Corporation, 2011
3:15 PM Keith Smith – Men in My Town Self-Published by BookSurge Publishing, 1st Edition, 2009
3:30 PM Jim Waltzer – The Battle of the Century: Dempsey, Carpentie and the Birth of Modern Promotion Published by ABC-CLIO – Praeger, 2011
3:45 PM JoAnne Williams – Escaping From the Victim or Volunteer Role in Your Relationship Self-Published, 2010 / Available through Author
4:00 PM Maureen Wlodarczyk – Young &Wicked: The Death of a Wayward Girl Self-Published by Ultra Media Publications, 2011

see http://jclibrary.org/libinfo/events/taleofourcity11/BookFestivalProgram.pdf for Author Biographies
Contact Info – Sonia Araujo / Chair / A Tale of Our City / 201-547-4549

Teaching 9/11- 10 years later

2011-09-07T15:34:00.003-04:00

This is an update to two older posts

Teaching 9/11
http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-9ll.html

Lesson Plans for 9/11
http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2010/09/lesson-plans-for-911.html

New Resources

(from Leslie Kahn, NPL)
Ground Zero Now
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/30/us/sept-11-reckoning/ground-zero.html?nl=multimedia&emc=focusemb1

(from Leslie Kahn, NPL)
Larry Ferlazzo's The Best Sites To Help Teach About 9/11
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/08/13/the-best-sites-to-help-teach-about-911/
(excellent resources specifically for English Language Learners and others. Includes videos )

(from Julie Greller)
Media Specialist's Guide to Sharing 9/11 with your Students
http://mediaspecialistsguide.blogspot.com/2011/09/sharing-9-11-with-your-students.html
includes a link to What Happened? The Story of September 11, 2001".
and
the Curriculum guide "What Happened? The Story of September 11, 2001."
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/nick-news.pdf

(from Leslie Kahn, NPL)
9/11 +ME
http://www.usatoday.com/news/911/plus_me/index.html
Interactive graphic of events that resulted from 9/11

Princeton Book Festival 9/10/11

2011-09-01T11:55:00.000-04:00

6th Annual Princeton Children’s Book Festival

Saturday, September 10, 2011
11:00-4:00
Princeton Public Library
65 Witherspoon Street
Princeton, NJ 08542.

This event will feature over 60 talented and amazing, award winning authors and illustrators of children’s and young adult literature joining us for a fun filled afternoon.

We are pleased to announce that artist and illustrator Sophie Blackall has created unique artwork for our Book Festival featuring the characters Ivy and Bean from the series she illustrates. Sophie has also illustrated many other books and is the author and illustrator of Are You Awake?

Also attending is 2011 Pura Belpre’ award winning illustrator Eric Velasquez, Bill Thomson (Chalk), John Bemelmans Marciano (Madeline), Will Hillenbrand (famed picture book author and illustrator), Brett Helquist (Lemony Snicket), John Rocco (Blackout), Alyssa Capucilli (Biscuit), Debbie Dadey (Bailey School Kids)and Dan Yaccarino (All the Way to America). For a full list of authors and illustrators please visit the Festival’s website at: http://www.princetonlibrary.org/children/festival/authorsandillustrators.html

In addition we will have live entertainment throughout the afternoon. Kenn Kweder, a Philadelphia guitar legend will be playing for the grown-ups and Mr. Ray will be performing for children. Authors and illustrators will be reading or presenting their work throughout the afternoon. Books will be available for sale and autographing by a local bookseller; JaZam’s of Princeton.

William Sleator , YA Novelist

2011-08-08T15:01:00.002-04:00

William Sleator, the prolific and incisive YA fantasy, science fiction and horror novelist novelist passed away last week (August 3, 2011).

He was the author of classics like the House of Stairs, Interstellar Pig, Singularity, The Green Futures of Tycho and the semi-fictional memoir, Oddballs.

Sleator was able to combine his many passions such as science and music, and to convey very succinctly and directly in his stories how it felt for his protagonists to to be outsiders in their family, school and the larger world.

For those who wish to leave a personal note you may post to the blog erected in his honor:
http://williamsleator.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/hello-world/

(Picture credit: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/billy/index.html.)

Harlem Book Fair 2011-7/23/11

2011-07-21T20:13:00.003-04:00

The Harlem Book Fair will take place on Saturday, July 23, 2011, 11am-6pm, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,515 Malcolm X Boulevard @ West 135th Street. (See http://www.qbr.com/ for a downloadable program and event descriptions.)

If you can't make it you can watch the QBR/C-Span Panel Discussions on C-SPAN (http://www.c-span.org/) The list of events includes http://www.booktv.org/Program/12674/2011+Harlem+Book+Fair.aspx

Book TV will be LIVE from the 13th annual Harlem Book Fair from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Our schedule of coverage includes:

11:00 AM ET - Michael Lomax, President of the United Negro College Fund, "The State of African American Literacy"
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/StateofAfr

11:40 AM ET - Panel: Manning Marable's Malcolm X
Herb Boyd, co-author, Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today
Peniel Joseph, Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
Zaheer Ali, former associate director of Columbia University's Malcolm X Project
Sonia Sanchez, author and activist
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Marabl

1:05 PM ET - Panel: African American Economic History
Carol Jenkins, co-author of Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Julianne Malveaux, Surviving and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/BlackEc

2:30 PM ET - Panel: History of African American Humor
Larry Wilmore, I'd Rather We Got Casinos...and Other Black Thoughts
Mel Watkins, On the Real Side: The History of African-American Comedy
Sabrina Lamb, A Kettle of Vultures...Left Beak Marks On My Forehead
Jam Donaldson, Conversate Is Not A Word.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/BlackHu

3:55 PM ET - Panel: African American History and Biography
Carla Peterson, Black Gotham: A Family History of African-Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Gregory Jones, Job: A Man for His Time, A Man for Our Time, A Man for All Time
Craig Williams, The Olympian: An American Triumph
Mark Johnson, Basketball Slave: Andy Johnson Harlem Globetrotter/NBA Story
Dan Charnas, The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/HistoryandB

5:20 PM ET - Panel: Obama Administration
Wornie Reed, Yvonne Newsome, Hayward Derrick Horton, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, and Deobrah King, contributors to Research in Race and Ethnic Relations, Vol. 16: Race in the Age of Obama
Johnny Hill, The First Black President: Barack Obama, Race, Politics, and the American Dream.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/AdministrationPa

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In addition to panel discussions, there will be book readings, author signings and a Young Reader's Pavilion with authors Sylvia Kinard, Jerry Craft, Cassandra Ulrich, Ty Jackson and Deborah Gregory.

Free Film series for Children 7/1-3/11 (NYC)

2011-06-29T11:03:00.001-04:00

" YOUNG ACHIEVERS" FILM SERIES"

Entertaining and Educational Films for the Entire Family!

JULY 1 - 3, 2011

Since 1993, the African Diaspora International Film Festival has showcased films for the entire family. As part of its ongoing ADIFF Spring and Summer Film Series at Teachers College, Columbia University, ADIFF and the Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Community Affairs are presenting a selection of films showcased in the African Diaspora International Film Festival School Program.

From July 1 - 3, the "Young Achievers" Film Series will bring you amazing stories of young people with a mission who stop at nothing to achieve their goal !
ALL SCREENINGS ARE FREE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

ALL DAY, JULY 1, 2011 - FREE PROGRAM FOR ALL

6PM NIGHTJOHN by Charles Burnett (USA)

Nightjohn is a powerful and soul-stirring drama set on a nineteenth century Southern plantation.
Twelve-year-old Sarny (Allison Jones) is an orphan being raised by the resourceful Delie (Lorraine Toussaint). Their lives are changed when John (Carl Lumbly), a new slave, arrives to work the fields of the owner (Beau Bridges). He has returned from the north where he was a free man in order to teach his people how to read. "You get some words for yourself and you be free," he tells Sarny.

She is an industrious little girl who practices her letters in the dirt and secretly reads the papers of the slave owner's wife. And by learning numbers, Sarny grasps the economics of slavery. Although the whites rejoice when this black girl consents to be baptized, she is really "saved" the moment she realizes the numbers on display in the church refer to hymns. John expresses what literacy means when he says, "My lesson's got no bottom."

SATURDAY, JULY 2, 2011 -

FREE FOR YOUTH 18 YEARS OLD or YOUNGER

11AM Africa United (UK/Rwanda) - Opening Night film ADIFF 2010

Africa United is a fun road movie through the heart of Africa for the entire family to enjoy. Three Rwandan children set off from Rwanda's Capital City, Kigali, to audition for the opening ceremony of the 2010 World Cup. The Children are Rwandan football prodigy Fabrice, his best friend and 'manager' Dudu, and Dudu's little sister Beatrice. Armed with ingenuity, determination and blind optimism, they defy all dangers so that Fabrice can finally be part of the "team for the dream". Their travels through Rwanda, Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa reveal a side of Africa few people ever see. Africa United is a story of joy, laughter, hope and generosity -the 'ubuntu' spirit in which the children make this incredible journey together. Rwanda/Uk/South Africa, 2010, 90mins, road movie, English, Gardner-Paterson, dir.

1PM Masai: The Rain Warriors (Kenya)

A story of initiation, friendship, teamwork and sacrifice set on the vast ochre savannah of Kenya. A group of boys must grow up quickly as they are the only ones who can save their village, confront the Red Lion, and bring back the rain. France/Kenya, 2005, 94 min, drama, Masai with English Subtitles, Pascal Plisson, dir.

3PM Sho'Nuff (USA)

Shot in New Orleans before Katrina, Sho'Nuff follows 13 year old Labi who, in this age of Hip Hop, strives to play the traditional New Orleans music of his father and grandfather, by organizing a brass band of his peers. Join the excitement and suspense as he hurdles on obstacle after another to fulfill his dream. Q&A with filmmaker R.E. Henry, a native of New Orleans displaced to NYC since Katrina. USA, 2001, 90 min, drama, English, R.E. Henry, dir.

5PM The Great Bazaar (Mozambique)

In the suburb of an African city, 12 years-old Paito sells fritters outside his house. One day, a band of young robbers takes his money. He decides he's not going to go home until he recovers what he lost. With this in mind, he heads out for the big city on the same train as the thieves. Looking for work, he begins to live in a market square that at night becomes a dormitory for homeless vendors. There he meets Xano, a boy his age, whose insolent behavior and fearlessness attract him. Unlike Paito, Xano despises work and he steals. Despite their differences, they become friends. Together, they reinvent the world. Mozambique, 2005, 58 min, comedy, Portuguese with English Subtitles, Licinio Azevedo, dir.

SUNDAY, JULY 3, 2011- FREE FOR YOUTH 18 years old or younger

11AM Kirikou and the Sorceress (France/Senegal)

This animated film exquisitely recounts the tale of tiny Kirikou, born in an African village in which Karaba the Sorceress has placed a terrible curse. Kirikou sets out on a quest to free his village of the curse and find out the secret of why Karaba is so wicked. France/Senegal, 1998, 74 min, animated feature, English, Michel Ocelot, dir

1PM Good Bye Momo (Uruguay)

Obdulio is an 11-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy who lives with his grandmother in Montevideo. He sells newspapers in the streets to help out with the household expenses and has no interest in attending school. One night he meets the "Maestro," a charismatic watchman who possesses magical gifts at a newspaper building. Through poetry and the lyrics of the "Murgas" (Carnival Pierrots) during the mythical nights of the irreverent and provocative Uruguayan carnival, the magician introduces Obdulio to a world of literacy and a different perspective about the meaning of life. Uruguay, 2005, 100 min, drama, Spanish with English Subtitles, Leonardo Ricagni, dir.

3PM Short Program

THE CHOICE (USA)

Micah, a teen in Pensacola, FL raps about the struggles he faced growing up. He felt like a "street soldier" and that he couldn't be worth anything. He found an outlet for his energy and anger through volunteering to make his community a better place. USA, 2010, 5 min, music video, English, Mirah McDonald, dir.

WHITE LIKE THE MOON (USA LATINO)

A Mexican-American girl struggles to keep her identity when her mother forces her to bleach her skin white to fit into "Anglo" society in the 1950's.

USA, 2001, 23 min, drama, English, Marina Gonzalez Palmier, dir.

MOTHER OF THE RIVER (USA)

In this poignant story set in the 1850s, a young slave girl befriends a magical woman in the woods called Mother of the River. Through their friendship the young girl learns about independence, honor, humility and respect for others. MOTHER OF THE RIVER is a rare portrayal of slavery from a young woman's perspective. USA, 1995, 28 min, drama, English, Zeinabu Irena Davis, dir.

TICKETS:
Program on Friday is Free of Charge and Open to the public.
For Saturday and Sunday for adults only: Weekend pass $20; Day pass $15; $6 per show.
ALL SCREENINGS FREE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 18 years old or younger.
PLEASE NOTE WE ACCEPT CASH ONLY AT THE DOOR.

WHERE:
Teachers College, Columbia University
525 West 120th Street - "The Chapel" in Zankel building
Take train 1 to 116th street and walk uptown four blocks. Entrance between Broadway and Amsterdam. Picture ID requested to enter building.

DVDs of films from this program will be on sale at the venue. $15 per DVD; $25 for 2 DVD; $30 for three DVD and $10 for each additional DVD.
PLEASE NOTE WE ACCEPT CASH ONLY ON SITE.

IFLA Satellite Meeting in Barbados-8/9-10/11

2011-06-21T09:06:00.004-04:00

"Building Cross Cultural Capacities in LIS:

African and Caribbean Reflections"

August 9-10, 2011.

The Main Library of The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, in association with IFLA’s Africa Section, is sponsoring an IFLA satellite meeting which will be held in Barbados at the Blue Horizon Hotel, August 9-10, 2011.

Theme
Building Cross-Cultural Capacities in LIS: African and Caribbean Reflections

Topics to be covered include
Advocacy
Copyright
Electronic resources
Indigenous collection issues
Marketing library services
Open access

Registration
The registration fee is US$120 which includes, lunches, coffee breaks. The registration form is attached. Please return to e_f_watson@yahoo.com or by fax to 246.417.4460 by July 21, 2011.

Accommodation arrangements
Overseas participants will be based at the Blue Horizon Hotel, Christ Church, Barbados 246.435.8916 (t) 246.435.8153 (f).
Room rates:
Single US$110 per night includes breakfast, taxes and Internet connection
Double US$140 per night includes breakfast, taxes and Internet connection

Reservations: Please contact Elizabeth Watson (contact details below) to secure a room at this special rate

Travelling arrangements
Barbados has direct flights to international cities such as Miami, New York and London. Persons travelling via these cities will need an entry visa even for transiting purposes. Please check in your countries about US or UK visa regulations with respect to your country. Participants will be responsible for their own travel arrangements to Barbados.

An alternative is to arrive in Puerto Rico on August 7th and take what is called a side trip between Barbados and Puerto Rico between August 8-11th on LIAT, a regional airline. LIAT would give you the opportunity to stop for a day in another Caribbean island at your own cost before returning to Puerto Rico.

A valid passport with at least 6 months before its expiry date is required to enter all these countries.

Visas
Please visit http://www.barbados.org/docs_requirements.htm to find out if nationals of your country need a visa to enter Barbados.

Further details can be had from

Elizabeth Watson
Campus Librarian
The University of the West Indies
Main Library
P. O. Box 1334, Bridgetown, Barbados
246.417.4444 (t) 246.417.4460 (f)
e_f_watson@yahoo.com

Lindy Nhlapo
IFLA Regional Manager for Africa
IFLA Regional Office for Africa
Tel: +2712 429 6374 +2711 471 2826
Fax: +2712 429 6130
Mobile: +2772 7145 125
lnhlapo@unisa.ac.za

REGISTRATION FORM

Building Cross-cultural Capacities in LIS: Caribbean and African Reflections
Blue Horizon Hotel, Christ Church Barbados
August 9-10, 2011

Personal information (Please print)
Title (Prof./Dr./Mrs./Ms/Miss/Mr.) _________

Surname _____________________________ First Name ____________________________

Badge name (if different from above) ______________________________________________

Position ___________________________________________________________________

Institution ________________________________________________________________________________

Address ______________________________________________________________________________________

Suburb/City ________________________ State ___________ Postcode ____________________

Country __________________________

Phone (W) _____________________________ Phone (H) ________________________________

Mobile___________________________________________________

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Conference registration fees (All costs are in US dollars)

Full registration $120.00 – includes lunch and breaks for 2 days.

Arrival information: Flight no and airline:___________________ Date:________________________

Departure information: Flight no and airline:___________________ Date:________________________

Blue Horizon Hotel rates:
Single: $110 per night (breakfast and Internet access included
Double: $140 per night (breakfast and Internet access included)

IFLA Satellite Meeting in Barbados

Juneteenth in New Jersey

2011-06-16T17:58:00.002-04:00

What is Juneteenth?
Juneteenth” originated on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger delivered the news that the Civil War ended and that slaves were now free. But the news arrived two-and-a-half years after the Jan. 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation, which announced the freedom of the nation’s slaves.

“The inhabitants of Galveston, Texas, were still being held in bondage, and they received this news with a great celebration,” Brown stated in the release. “This event has now become a national day of celebration and remembrance of our suffering, revelry in our accomplishments and plan for our future, all in an atmosphere of joy, fun and jubilation.”
http://teaneck.patch.com/articles/juneteenth-celebration-to-honor-history-culture-of-african-americans

Juneteenth Urban Arts Festival at Brookdale Community College
Brookdale, The County College of Monmouth
765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ 07738-1543
Telephone 732-224-2345

June 7 – June 18, 2011

A platform for theatre people, filmmakers and writers to share their work with a community of fellow artists and patrons eager to discover original stories from unexpected African American voices.

Plays, films and literature all have a place, but the artists themselves will be celebrated above all else. Starting Tuesday, June 7th, hundreds of theatre, film and literature patrons will gather in our Long Branch venue to share what is truly a communal experience. Learn more about Juneteenth, An African American Celebration!

Signature Event: The World Premiere Of Bronzeville Gold
A new play by Anetria Cole, directed by Darrell Lawrence Willis, Sr.
Bronzeville Gold, set in 1933 Chicago, is a powerful African American family saga, that revolves around a “gambling numbers wheel”, and a young Mississippi newcomer, as he and the entire African American community, chase the ever elusive American dream.

Where: Long Branch Higher Education Center, 213 Broadway at Third Ave, 732-224-2315.

Prices: Tickets are $15 General Admission; $12 Seniors (62+); $9 for BCC students with valid ID

Juneteenth Celebration"- Leonia NJ

June 18, 2011 at 10:00am–6:00pm
Fort Lee Rd & Station Pkwy, Leonia, NJ

Celebrating freedom and unity and promoting the history and culture of African Americans will take center stage at the “Juneteenth” event Saturday at Overpeck Park in Leonia.

From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (rain or shine), visitors to the “Great Lawn” portion of the park will be treated to free entertainment that includes artistic performances, historical and cultural displays, speeches from government officials and a concert.

There will be activities for children, such as face-painting and pony rides, and various vendors will be selling jewelry and food. In the afternoon, attendees can take one of two guided bus tours to Gethsemane Cemetery, which is an African-American burial ground in Little Ferry.

Leading the bus tours will be Bergen County historian Arnold Brown, of Englewood, who is co-chairing the Juneteenth Celebration with Teaneck resident Theodora Lacey.

Englewood New Jersey- Juneteenth Celebrations
Jabari Society of Bergen County
The International Association of Black Professional Firefighters

Juneteenth Carnival- June 16-19, 4-8pm, Mackay Park130 W. Englewood Ave

Dinner Dance, Saturday, June 18, 2011, Hasbrouck Heights Hilton ($60)

Juneteenth Parade on June 19, 2011.
Palisades& Tenafly Road
1:00

Theme: “We Stand On the Shoulders Of Our Ancestors”

Juneteenth Festival
Mackay park
3;30pm
http://jabarisociety.com/

Elizabeth, New Jersey- Juneteenth Parade June 19, 2011
Float parade featuring PAUL MOONEY, DEBORAH GREGORY &
Actress TANYA WRIGHT
2PM
Starting point New Point Road and Elizabeth to Broad Street
ending at Elizabeth City Hall
Call 908-451-1460 for more information

Celebrate!

Multicultural Films That Celebrate Strong Women

2011-06-02T10:08:00.000-04:00

WOMEN WHO FIGHT BACK FILM SERIES
JUNE 3 - 5, 2011
From Mali to the USA, from Colombia to Canada, there are Black women everywhere fighting to defend women's rights .
ADIFF has compiled a few powerful films that tell the stories of women who fight to keep their family, their culture and their integrity alive and strong.
WHEN: JUNE 3 - JUNE 5, 2011
WHERE :
Columbia University
525 West 120th Street
Room 263 Macy

DIRECTIONS:
Take the #1 train to 116th street and walk uptown four blocks. Entrance between Broadway and Amsterdam. Picture ID required to enter building.

PROGRAM:
FRIDAY, JUNE 3 @ 6PM

Faraw, Mother of Dunes by Abbdoulaye Ascofaré (Mali, 90mins)

Zamiatouis the mother of two quarrelsome boys and a depressed teenage girl. She is also the wife of a man arrested for political reasons who returns from prison mentally and physically destroyed. She struggles hard to survive in a poor and desolate area. She is ready to face anything to keep the family alive except prostituting her beautiful daughter. Her determination will take her far from her family. FREE SCREENING

FRIDAY, JUNE 3 @ 8:30PM

Josephine Baker- Black Diva in a White Man's World- by Annette von Wangenheim (Germany/USA, 45mins)

A tender, revealing documentary about of the most famous and popular performing artists of the 20th century. Her legendary banana belt dance created theatre history; her song "J'ai deux amours" became a classic, and her hymn. The film focuses her life and work from a perspective that analyses images of Black people in popular culture. It portrays the artist in the mirror of European colonial clichés and presents her as a resistance fighter, an ambulance driver during WWII, and an outspoken activist against racial discrimination involved in the worldwide Black Consciousness movement of the 20th century.

SATURDAY, JUNE 4 @ 2PM

Family Motel by Helene Klodawsky (Canada, 88mins)

Raising teenaged daughters is not easy, especially for Ayan, a Somalian refugee living in Canada who also supports a husband and two sons left behind in Somalia. Living in her small Vancouver apartment with her daughters -- Nasrah, 17, and Leila, 15 -- Ayan is trying to keep everything together, but is evicted from her apartment for late payment. Because Ayan is unable to afford the soaring rents her two service jobs, and the Canadian social services are unable to assist in placing her, she and her two daughters must move into a Family Motel. Ayan keeps her faith and dignity throughout these challenging times and, with great fortitude, strives to make the best of her difficult situation.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4 @ 4PM

Soraya, Love Is Not Forgotten by Marta Rodríguez and Fernando Restrepo (Colombia, 52mins)

In the violent and complex conflict that has racked Colombia, the most vulnerable are always the most affected. Soraya Palacios' story is that of many Afrocolombian peasants displaced from their land in the armed conflict between the national army, Colombian guerillas, and the right-wing paramilitary. Soraya has to abandon her homeland after her husband's assassination by paramilitaries. As a mother of six children, she does her best to provide as much as she can for them. Likes many other Afro-Colombian women displaced from Choco, her daily struggle reflects her desire to resist for getting her culture and history.

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Susana Baca : MemoriaViva by Mark Dixon (Peru/Belgium, 54mins)

Susana Baca is not a champion in the performance and preservation of Afro-Peruvianheritage, but also an elegant singer whose shimmering voice sings of love, loss and life. Susana and her husband Ricardo Pereira have founded the Instituto Negrocontinuo "Black Continuum" in Lima, a spirited facility for the exploration, expression, and creation of Black Peruvian culture. While Baca has dedicated herself to researching and performing virtually all forms of Afro-Peruvian folklore, it is the lando that has become her trademark. This slow to mid-tempo, highly evocative mix of Spanish, Indigenous and African rhythms has become what the son is to Cuba, or the samba to Brazil--the lando is the sound of Black Peru.

SATURDAY, JUNE 4 @ 7PM

Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story by YousryNasrallah (Egypt, 134 mins) Hebba Younisis a contemporary, fiercely independent talk-show host. She is married to Karim Hassan, an opportunistic newspaper editor for a government-owned daily. Hebba is asked to forfeit the success of her career for the professional ambitions of her husband. She must soften the critical tone of her reports governmental affairs. As Hebba finally complies and shifts away from hard politics to devote her program to social issues - the so-called "women's stories," she discovers lives and struggles that may be even more damaging to reveal. Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story is a surprising, engrossing and thoughtful film about modern gender politics in Egypt.

SUNDAY, JUNE 5 @ 1PM

Hearing Radmilla by Angela Webb (USA, 82mins)

This film is a portrait of Radmilla Cody, who was Miss Navajo Nation from 1997 to 1998. It follows her reign as the first biracial Miss Navajo, then explores her pursuit of a singing career, and finally addresses the cruel realities that led to serious legal consequences for her.

SUNDAY, JUNE 5 @ 3PM

Umoja- the village where men are forbidden by Jean Crousillac and Jean-Marc Sainclair (France/Kenya, 52mins)

The film tells the story of brave Samburu women who were raped by British soldiers based in Northern Kenya between 1970 and 2003. Dishonored, the women were beaten and renounced by their husbands. In 1990, a few of those women gathered and created Umoja, a village forbidden to men, which rapidly became a refuge for those in a similar plight. Since then, jealous men have frequently attacked Umoja and causing trouble and harassing its founder and matriarch, Rebecca Lolosoli.

SUNDAY, JUNE 5 @ 4:30PM

Compensation by Zeinabu irene Davis (US, 92mins)

Compensation the first feature by award-winning filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis (Cycles and A PowerfulThang), presents two unique African-American love stories between a deaf woman and a hearing man. Inspired by a poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, this moving narrative shares their struggle to overcome racism, disability and discrimination. An important film African-American deaf culture, Davis innovatively incorporates silent film techniques (such as title cards and vintage photos) to make the piece accessible to hearing and deaf viewers alike, and to share the vast possibilities of language and communication.

SUNDAY, JUNE 5 @ 7PM

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks by Lisa Gay Hamilton (USA, 90mins)

Beah, A Black Woman Speaks, the directorial debut of actress Lisa Gay Hamilton, celebrates the life of legendary African American actress, poet and political activist Beah Richards, best known for her Oscar nominated role in
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. While Richards' struggled to overcome racial stereotypes throughout her long career and in Hollywood and New York, she also had an influential role in the fight for Civil Rights, working alongside the likes of Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois and Louise Patterson. Enlightening and moving, the film is a fitting tribute to Richard's life of integrity, leadership and service to the two cultures she loved so deeply-the arts and the African American community.

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FREE 6PM FRIDAY SCREENING

FRIDAY @ 8:30pm, SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Weekend pass $20; Day pass $15; $6 per show.

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Keep Jersey City Children Reading this summer, Support the JCPL Summer Reading Program!

2011-05-26T11:00:00.000-04:00

Message from: Ms. Sonia Araujo, Assistant Library Director
Jersey City Free Public Library
472 Jersey Avenue
Jersey City, New Jersey 07302
201-547-4549

Greetings:
It is with much expectation and enthusiasm, the children of Jersey City are invited each year to participate in the annual Jersey City Free Public Library Summer Reading Program, one of the most successful and rewarding programs the Library offers to the public. The program runs for 8 weeks from end of June to August and is offered in the Bonetti Children’s Room at the Main Library and in all library branches throughout the City, it includes children from public, charter, parochial and home-schooled children. The Bookmobile is also on hand to fill in any gaps at local parks, festivals, and summer schools sessions. This program attracts over 500 children each year, who collectively read over 2,000 books every summer!

This year, the New Jersey Statewide Summer Reading Program (SRP) theme is "One World, Many Stories" for children in grades K-5. Imagine all the wonderful places children can read about! The accompanying activities – crafts, movies, and participating in educational/recreational trips – punctuate the theme, while creating lifelong friendships in a safe environment. A separate program theme, "You are Here," which is for young adults in grades 6-8 and up, is specially geared to bring in those hard-to-reach, “too old to read” young adults by offering them special performers, movies, trips and crafts, while encouraging them to read to the top of the charts!

The Library provides a warm, supervised and welcoming environment, surrounded by their peers, where they can listen to, discuss and read books on topics they select, and the program encourages continued reading independently in the future. Students participating in public library summer reading programs scored higher on reading achievement tests at the beginning of the next school year, and were more motivated and confident in their reading.

The Library is eager to start preparations, for we want parents and children alike to know the Library will be available to them, again, this coming summer. However, due to massive cuts in the Library’s budget t your help is needed to implement the program. All contributions are tax deductible and can be made out to the Jersey City Free Public Library Foundation / 2011 Summer Reading Program.

Please contact me at (201) 547-4549, or by email, saraujo@jclibrary.org, with your desire to help the Library’s Summer Reading Program in 2011!

Respectfully,

Sonia Araujo

P.S. Your monetary or in-kind contribution can assure the safety and happiness of Jersey City children this summer by helping them gain access to a world of learning through reading at their local library, along with access to a summer of fun! The Gold Coast can be made more golden if the opportunity to achieve is open to everyone, especially to our children. Please check out the attached Wish List to see how you can help!

Here are a few of the expenses that we will incur for the 2011 Summer Reading Program. We understand the economy is hard for everyone; however, you can make the difference. The following is a breakdown of expenses:

Incentives: T-Shirts, bookmarks, key rings, erasers, pencils& certificates for Children &YAs -
$ 1,200.00

Children’s Trip: 80-90 children, with chaperones, to Keansburg Amusement Park - $ 1,600.00

YA trip: 80-90 Young Adults, with chaperones, to Great Adventure - $ 2,500.00

One day @ Camp Liberty in Liberty State Park for 125-150 children, transportation & snacks included: Children are able to swim, play ball, do crafts, and experience camp for a day, free of charge $ 2,000.00
Transportation: Four buses @ 500.00 each - $ 2,000.00

Craft Materials: Paper, glue, glitter, magic makers, paints, brushes, and other art supplies for 500 participants - $ 1,600.00

Movies/DVDs: Purchase on themes for both Children/YAs - $ 1,740.00
Refreshments:
Participants are awarded a Certificate of Achievement at culmination parties, whether they read one or 100 books. All children/YAs from branches /departments participate in their achievements! -
$ 3,300.00

Total Expenses for SRP 2011
$ 1,200.00 Incentives
$ 1,600.00 Children’s Trip
$ 2,500.00 YA Trip
$ 2,000.00 Camp Liberty admission, transportation & food
$ 2,000.00 Trip Transportation
$ 1,600.00 Craft Materials
$ 1,740.00 Movies/DVDs
$ 3,300.00 Refreshments
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$15, 940.00 GRAND TOTAL

Please make your tax-deductible donations payable to: Jersey City Free Public Library Foundation, Inc. / 2011 Summer Reading Program. Please send to: 472 Jersey Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey 07302,
ATTN: Priscilla Gardner, Executive Director

The Jersey City Free Public Library Foundation, Inc. is chartered in Jersey City as a 501(c)(3) organization to receive charitable gifts. Benefactors can contribute to the foundation with gifts of cash, property, securities or real estate, trust arrangements, bequests in wills and by naming the foundation as beneficiary of a life insurance policy. The JCFPL Foundation hopes to encourage individuals and organizations to make financial contributions to the Foundation to assure that the library can continue its exceptional service far into the future. The Jersey City Free Public Library Foundation, Inc. was established on January 27, 2004 to support the mission of the library: to provide services and materials for the education, enrichment and entertainment of the people of Jersey City. http://www.jclibrary.org/libinfo/libraryfoundation.php

Thank you! During SRP 2011, please drop by the branches or the Main and see what your contributions have made possible.

Teachers' Alert-A conversation on Multicultural education and curriculum

2011-05-15T13:27:00.015-04:00

Like It Is with Gil Noble and Adelaide Sanford- May 15, 2011

This episode of Like It is of interest to all educators especially those in urban and multicultural education. It provides a history of parallel cultures in the United States, a viewpoint on the difficulties of curriculum reform and strategies to be used to overcome disparities in education.

If you missed it, please use this link http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=resources/lifestyle_community/community&id=6650885

Jersey City Girls Talk Back on Monday, May 9, 2011

2011-05-06T11:08:00.007-04:00

JERSEY CITY GIRLS!
LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW WHO YOU ARE,
WHAT YOU HAVE ACHIEVED,
WHAT CHALLENGES YOU HAVE OVERCOME,
AND HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT BEING LABELED “THE COMMUNITY’S WORST ENEMY”
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/04/jersey_city_schools_chief_says.html

The Community's Worst Enemy?
Jersey City Girls Talk Back!
Monday, May 9th , 2011
6pm-8pm
Gothic Lounge ( Hepburn 202)
New Jersey City University

2039 Kennedy Boulevard

Jersey City, NJ 07305

http://www.njcu.edu/i2e/visit/directions.asp

A forum facilitated by: Dr. Jacqueline Ellis, Dr. Ann Wallace, and Dr. Antoinette Ellis-Williams
Featuring: Patricia Bombelyn, Lawyer and social activist; Nathaniel Briggs, Vice-President, New Jersey NAACP; Barbara Milton, Ph.D., LCSW, author of “Our Pride and Joy: Stories about Hudson County Teens” blog.

Sponsored by the Black Alumni, Administrators, Faculty, Staff and Students Organization, the Lee Hagan Africana Studies Center, Women’s and Gender Studies.

AND
Tell our Young Women Stories of Those Female Teens Who Have Proceeded Them:

Melba Patillo Beals
Warriors Don’t Cry: a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High
Juv. 371.97 .B366w 2002

Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
Juv. 323.0The Community's Worst Enemy?
Jersey City Girls Talk Back!

Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
Juv. 323.092 .H789c

Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice
E185.61 .A69 2006

Defying the odds : triumphant Black women of Newark
F144 .N653 K85 2005

Learn What Can Be Done

Urban girls revisited : building strengths HV1431 .U734 2007
Beyond appearance : a new look at adolescent girls F144 .N653 K85 2005
Coming into her own : educational success in girls and women LC1503 .C65 1999
Stand by Me: the risks and rewards of mentoring today’s youth HV 1431.R48 2002

Watch

The souls of Black girls: a documentary film V3088

http://www.soulsofblackgirls.com/

Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 6pm (H202, NJCU ) Stand Up for our Young Women as they Speak Up for Themselves!

For more information call: Dr. Jacqueline Ellis, (201) 200 3170 or Dr. Ann Wallace, (201) 200 2015

Free Comic Book Day- 5/7/11

2011-05-06T10:50:00.002-04:00

It is the 10th anniversary of Free Comic Book Day!

Where can you get your free Comic Book?
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/fcbd_locator.asp

Where can you attend Creator Signings of Comic Book Writers and Illustrators on Free Comic Book Day?
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/signings.asp

For more information see
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/

New Jersey School Board Elections-4/27/11-VOTE

2011-04-26T11:17:00.002-04:00

VOTE

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Annual School Board (and School Budget) Elections

Call your School BOARD for Polling Times

More Information at http://www.vote411.org

Don’t forget to Vote on the Public Questions TOO!

JERSEY CITY RESIDENTS

VOTE

7am-9pm

Information for Jersey City Residents

Candidate Links

http://www.hudsoncountyclerk.org/elections/default.htm

( Scroll down for Jersey City )

Six 2011 Board of Education candidate interviews from Talking
Politics
http://www.channel125.com/tp12.htm

JCBOE forum at Historic Paulus Hook Association April 7, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/user/followjcboe

Jersey City Independent

http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2011/04/19/meet-the-school-board-candidates-amanda-khan-and-suzanne-mack/

http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2011/04/18/meet-the-school-board-candidates-vidya-gangadin-and-carol-harrison-arnold/

http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2011/04/21/meet-the-school-board-candidates-aury-masa-nunez-and-frances-o-thompson/

http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2011/04/22/meet-the-school-board-candidates-hiral-patel-and-nabil-youssef/

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/04/meet_the_hudson_county_school.html

All of the candidates are on Facebook

AND READ A FEW BOOKS on NEW JERSEY EDUCATION

Framing equal opportunity : law and the politics of school finance reform / Michael Paris.
KFN2190 .P375 2010

Other people's children : the battle for justice and equality in New Jersey's schools / Deborah Yaffe.
KFN2190 .Y34 2007

Church and school in the immigrant city : a social history of public education in Jersey City, 1804-1930/ Barbara Burns Petrick.
LA333.J4 .P48 2000

Putting the children first : the changing face of Newark's public schools / edited by Jonathan G. Silin, Carol Lippman ;foreword by Gloria Ladson-Billings.
LA333 .N4 P88 2003

The wasted years : American youth, race, and the literacy gap / James McCabe.
LC151 .M274 2003

In plain sight : simple, difficult lessons from New Jersey's expensive efforts to close the achievement gap / Gordon MacInnes.
LC213.22 .N5 M33 2009

2010 ALA "Banned Books List"

2011-04-14T17:38:00.002-04:00

The ALA’s Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2010 include the following titles; each title is followed by the reasons given for challenging the book:

1. "And Tango Makes Three" by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
Reasons: Homosexuality, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group

2. "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: Offensive language, Racism, Sex Education, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group, Violence

3. "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Reasons: Insensitivity, Offensive Language, Racism, Sexually Explicit

4. "Crank" by Ellen Hopkins
Reasons: Drugs, Offensive Language, Sexually Explicit

5. "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group, Violence

6. "Lush" by Natasha Friend
Reasons: Drugs, Offensive Language, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group

7. "What My Mother Doesn’t Know" by Sonya Sones
Reasons: Sexism, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group

8. "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Reasons: Drugs, Inaccurate, Offensive Language, Political Viewpoint, Religious Viewpoint

9. "Revolutionary Voices" edited by Amy Sonnie
Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit

10. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
Reasons: Religious Viewpoint, Violence

For more information on book challenges and censorship, please visit the Office for Intellectual Freedom’s Banned Books Week Web site at www.ala.org/bbooks.

Jersey City Library featured on Wendy Williams and Who Do You Think You Are? faces 800K budget cut, Happy National Library Week!

2011-04-07T12:27:00.014-04:00

National Library Week will be celebrated April 10-April 16, 2011

Jersey City Public Library in New Jersey may not be celebrating.

The Jersey City Public Library is facing $800,000 in budget cuts.

This would mean:-

closing branches

laying off staff

termination of the Bookmobile program

no computer access for teens, seniors, and the unemployed

no new books

Interested Jersey City Public Library supporters are asked to call the City Clerk at 201-547-5150 to go on the speakers list for the next City Council Meeting, April 13, 2011, at 6pm at 280 Grove street.

Suggested talking points:

Why do you oppose Jersey City Public Library budget cuts?

Why is the Jersey Public Library important to you?

Please support the Jersey City Public Library ( and all public libraries) during NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK.

(Note to fans of Who Do You Think You Are?- The main branch of the Jersey City Public Library has been featured on several episodes, especially the Rosie O'Donnell episode. http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/episode-guide/

The staff of the library was featured on the Wendy Williams show. http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/jersey-city-public-library-staff-on.html

It was also featured in the movie, Party Girl http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114095/)

Sister Souljah at Newark Public Library, 4/19/11-6:30pm

2011-04-05T11:12:00.003-04:00

Sister Souljah

Newark Public Library

5 Washington Street

Newark , NJ

Tuesday, April 19, 6:30pm

(Booksale begins at 5:00 pm,

Book Purchasers get Priority seating!

General Searing begins at 6:15pm)

Free and Open to the Public)

Teachers, Librarians apply for NJ Council for the Humanities 2011 seminars

2011-04-05T10:59:00.003-04:00

From: NJ Council for the Humanities

Attn: School Librarians and K-12 Educators in NJ

Each year the NJ Council for the Humanities offers school librarians and K-12 educators in NJ the opportunity to earn professional development and graduate credit by attending a six-day residential seminar exploring a humanities topic.

Held on the campus of The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, this year’s seminars are :

Race in American History and Culture: New Perspectives, lead by Dr. Clement Price (July 10-July 15);

Narratives of Immigration: Latino/a Lives, lead by Dr. Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui (July 17-July 22);

Poverty, Affluence and the American Dream, lead by Dr. Matt Ruben (July 24-July 29); and,

Adolescent and Young Adult Literature, lead by Dr. Cheryl McClean (July 31-August 5).

These seminars provide a stimulating immersion experience with ample time for discussion, writing and curriculum workshops, field trips, and conversation with colleagues. These summer courses in the humanities are designed to inform teachers about recent scholarship in their fields and to help them incorporate new knowledge into their classroom teaching.

Books, materials, and room and board are included in this tuition-free program. A $100 registration fee is required of all accepted applicants

In addition to the possibility of earning 45 hours of professional development credit, $250 for completing a curriculum project, or 3 graduate credits and $250 stipend for completing a research paper, teachers and librarians leave the seminar invigorated and inspired. As one participant from last year’s Teacher Institute raved, “This seminar is just like other NJCH seminars: wonderful! It is a shame that I can’t find other workshops like these. NJCH knows the recipe for exceptional PD – please keep offering them!” Applications are due by June 1, but admissions are on a rolling basis, so please apply as early to possible to insure that you will be able to have a space in the seminar of your first choice. For more information about the Teacher Institute, contact NJCH at (888) 394-6524 or e-mail njch@njch.org. Information is also available at www.njch.org/teacher.html.

NJ Center for the Book honors Walter Dean Myers

2011-04-04T19:02:00.004-04:00

Walter Dean Myers honored by the NJ Center for the Book

2:30 to 4:30 pm

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Rutgers University Zimmerli Art Museum

New Brunswick campus

Walter Dean Myers will receive the Rutgers School of Communication and Information Award for Distinguished Literature for Children and Young Adults at an open event, free to the public, on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, from 2:30 to 4:30 pm in the Rutgers University Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick campus. The award ceremony commemorates the tenth anniversary of the New Jersey Center for the Book. Mr Myers is considered a towering presence in service to youth who has, through his fiction, nonfiction and poetry, redefined young African American males in literature by opening their confrontation with urban life and their survival with pride and belief in the future. Mr. Myers is called, “one of today’s most important authors of young adult literature,” “a giant among children’s and young adult authors,” and "one of the most important writers of children’s books of our age.” Mr. Myers' work has earned many accolades. His first book, “Where Does the Day Go,” was selected by the Council on Interracial Books for its Children's Award. Other works have also won on seven occasions a place among the American Library Association (ALA) Notable Books for Children and five times among the ALA Best Books for Young Adults. The Child Study Association of America has twice awarded his fiction the Children’s Book of the Year. He has six times received the Coretta Scott King Award, was a Newbery Honor Book recipient twice; and, with his illustrator son Christopher, a Caldecott Honor Book recipient twice. The author was honored with two Lifetime Achievement Awards for the entire body of his work, the first sponsored by School Library Journal, and the second by the Margaret A. Edwards Foundation.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory-100 Years later at NJCU

2011-03-19T16:54:00.003-04:00

100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire” Presentation,

10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

New Jersey City University

2039 Kennedy Blvd.

Jersey City, NJ 07305

Gilligan Student Union Building 129

Program:

Prof. Tim White, History Department: 3/25/1911: Understanding the Triangle Fire.

Dr. Jason Martinek, History Department: “The Rebel Girls”: Immigrant Women, the IWW, and the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913.

Dr. Jacqueline Ellis, Women's and Gender Studies: History Repeating: Women Workers and Sweatshop Labor.

Commemorative songs by Musical Theatre Studies students, directed by Marc Dalio:
“‘Til We Reach That Day” by Ahrens & Flaherty
“Someday” by Steven Schwartz

Sites of interest:

http://rememberthetrianglefire.org/

Weiss Center Spring 2011 Events

2011-03-07T14:41:00.010-05:00

M. Jerry Weiss Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature http://web.njcu.edu/programs/mjwc/Content/announcements_and_events.asp New Jersey City University 2039 Kennedy Boulevard Jersey City, NJ 07305 is sponsoring/co-sponsoring the following programs: Tuesday, March 22, 2011,Tonya Bolden, author of Finding Family, Time: Thursday, March 22, 5-7 pm Location: Gothic Lounge (Hepburn Hall 202) (click here for campus map) Lecture, panel discussion, book signing, and reception

See http://www.tonyaboldenbooks.com/ to view books.)

(Attention teachers: Finding Family study guide http://www.bloomsburykids.com/node/8664)

Monday, April 4, 2011, University Lecture Series, Walter Dean Myers, Time: Monday, April 4, 4pm, Location: Gothic Lounge (Hepburn Hall 202) (click here for campus map) Lecture Tuesday, April 5, 2011,William Low, Author/Illustrator, Old Penn Station, Machines Go To Work , Henry and the Kite Dragon . Time: Tuesday, April 5, 1:30 pm, Location: TBA. Lecture Wednesday, April 13, 2011,Yvonne Thornton, author of Something to Prove and The Ditchdigger's Daughters, Time: Wednesday, April 13, 5-7 pm, Location: Gothic Lounge (Hepburn Hall 202) (click here for campus map),Lecture, panel discussion, book signing, and reception

Graphic NOvelist wins Academy Award

2011-02-27T21:16:00.005-05:00

Shaun Tan author of The Arrival (Juv.T1617a) and Tales from Outer Suburbia( Juv. T 1617t) won an OSCAR for best animated short for "The Lost Thing"!

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Tan is in discussions to make a movie out of the Arrival.
(http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/underdog-aussies-oscar-triumph-20110228-1bb1l.html)

Copyright Law and Fair Use Don't Copy That-2

2011-02-25T10:51:00.005-05:00

Don't Copy That Floppy-2

updated for Schools!

Don't Copy That 2 - School Version from SIIA Video on Vimeo.

A new video for on Copyright and fair use is now available for classrrom use

For classroom resources and more information see http://dontcopythat2.com/

For Fair Use resources

See the comment by Chris

and this older blog entry

http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2008/11/copyright-law-and-fair-use.html

Calling Newark-Teen Girls -Apply NOW for the SNLP Summer Institute

2011-02-25T10:16:00.005-05:00

Sadie Nash Leadership Project's Summer Institute

is a 6-week program for young women housed at Rutgers University!***

Please visit us on our website - http://www.sadienash.org/

SADIE NASH LEADERSHIP PROJECT

Frequently Asked Questions

What do we do?

SNLP is a unique educational leadership program that is made up of young women ages 14-21 in New York City and Newark, NJ. We are currently recruiting for our Summer Leadership Institute for 2011. SNLP gives young women a chance to meet amazing peers and accomplished leaders (like filmmakers, activists, scientists, artists, writers); take fun exciting courses (about things like human rights, creative writing, medicine, sociology, the environment); and to develop unique ways of leading with your peers and with our support. SNLP is about young women, run by young women and for young women.

Why do we do it?

The Sadie Nash Leadership Project is designed to guide young women through a process in which they come to understand the importance of their life experiences, and how these experiences can be applied to taking action and making change. We believe young women have the ability to change the world, now and in the future. The Sadie Nash Leadership Project is their opportunity to take some time and look at their own leadership, their potential leadership, and the leadership of the women around them.

How does it work?

The Sadie Nash Leadership Project requires an initial commitment of six weeks. The summer program lasts for six weeks from July 5th to August 12th, Monday through Friday from 10am until 4pm (on Fridays, we have special events and the hours are different). The summer program will be located in downtown Newark which is accessible by bus and train. There will be required pre-session orientation meetings in early June to prepare you for the summer, and to provide an opportunity to meet the staff and to get to know each other. During the summer you and your peers will take classes, meet women involved in different forms of leadership, take workshops on issues that are important to you, and explore your own and others' leadership. The program is FREE, and in fact you will receive a weekly stipend to attend.

What is the stipend? To help you cover your expenses (food and transportation) during the summer you will receive astipend during the program for everyday you attend. You only receive the stipend when you are at the program because it covers those two direct costs that come with attendance

Application Deadlines

Sadie Nash Newark:

Friday, February 28th

Monday, April 29th

If you would like a presentation at a Newark school please contact Tynesha at tynesha@sadienash.org

Garden State Teen Book Award Winners-2011

2011-02-01T16:08:00.002-05:00

From NJLA

The Young Adult Section of NJLA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011

Garden State Teen Book Award!For a full listing of annotated nominations and more information on how the GSTBA works, check out our wiki page: http://njla.pbworks.com/w/page/12189805/Garden-State-Teen-Book-Awards.

Fiction:

Grades 6-8

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The boy, Nobody, has been raised by gentle ghosts in a graveyard following his escape from his family’s murderer. What will happen when the murderer returns for him?

Fiction:

Grades 9-12

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
In Panem, winning the lottery changes the lives of 24 children each year, but not for the better. These girls and boys become contestants in The Hunger Games, a televised battle to the death.

Nonfiction:

Grades 6-12

Eminem : The Way I Am by Eminem
One of the most influential rappers of all time allows readers to gain insight into his life and his emotional struggles. The book is as raw and personal as his music.

The 2012 Garden State Teen Book Award ballot will be available May 2011. (Print copies will be available at the NJLA Conference!) In the meantime, click here to view the 2011 ballot, current and past annotated lists of nominated titles, and past winners documents

No Name calling Week-1/24-1/28/11

2011-01-25T15:17:00.002-05:00

There is still time to celebrate No Name Calling Week- Jan. 24-28.2011
No Name-Calling Week is coordinated by GLSEN in collaboration with over 40 national education organizational partners, No Name-Calling Week is an annual week of educational activities aimed at ending name-calling of all kinds and providing schools with the tools and inspiration to launch an on-going dialogue about ways to eliminate bullying in their communities.
For more information about No Name-Calling Week, click here:
History of No Name-Calling Week
National partners
Resources (including lesson plans)

For more info see http://www.nonamecallingweek.org

No Name-Calling Week 2011 Creative Expression Contest
The Creative Expression Contest is an opportunity for students to submit essays, poetry, music, original artwork, or other pieces that convey their experiences and feelings about name-calling, and their ideas for putting a stop to verbal bullying in their schools and communities.

The goal is to have students working on their art pieces during the week as a way to learn about and deal with name-calling and bullying.

THREE ENTRY CATEGORIES: The contest is divided into three different judging categories.
It is open to all individual students in grades K - 12.

Click on the category you wish to enter for specific guidelines and entry forms:
Primary School (Grades K - 5)
Middle School (Grades 6 - 8)
High School (Grades 9 - 12)
In the High School category to the contest short-film submissions that focus on anti-LGBT name-calling and bullying in school can be submitted.
Only U.S. residents are eligible to apply. Students may work in groups, as long as an entry form is submitted for every student that worked on the artwork.

DEADLINE: Monday, February 28, 2011
All entries must be postmarked on or received via fax or e-mail by 6pm Eastern time on Monday, February 28, 2011. Winners will be notified by telephone, mail, or e-mail by April 2011.

HOW TO ENTER: Download the appropriate rules and guidelines and the corresponding entry form.
Fill out the form and send (along with your entry) to GLSEN:

Via fax: 646-388-8060

Via mail:
No Name-Calling Week Creative Expression Contest
c/o GLSEN Education Department
90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10004

Via email: contest@nonamecallingweek.org
Please note that all electronically submitted work must be accompanied by an electronically signed entry form.
Alternately a hard copy of the form, with signature, may be mailed or faxed simultaneous to electronic submission.

ALA Book Awards 2011

2011-01-10T14:32:00.012-05:00

American Library Association Announces Youth Media Award Winners

View announcement webcast http://alawebcast.unikron.com/__view2011.php?

John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature

2011 Newbery Medal
"Moon over Manifest," written by Clare Vanderpool, is the winner. The book is published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc. ( Juv.V2393m)

2011 Newbery Honor Books
Turtle in Paradise," by Jennifer L. Holm and published by Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc. (Juv.H7474t)

Heart of a Samurai," written by Margi Preus and published by Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS ( Juv.P934h)

Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night," written by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen and published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;

(Juv.811.54.S568d)

One Crazy Summer," by Rita Williams-Garcia and published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. (Juv.W729o)

Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children

2011 Caldecott Medal
"A Sick Day for Amos McGee," illustrated by Erin E. Stead, is the winner. The book was written by Philip C. Stead, and is a Neal Porter Book, published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing. (JuvS7995s)

2011 Caldecott Honor Books
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave," illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.; (Juv.738.09.H645d)

Interrupting Chicken," written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein and published by Candlewick Press. (Juv.S8194i)

Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults

2011 Printz Award winner
Ship Breaker," written by Paolo Bacigalupi, is the. The book is published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. (Juv.B1255s)

2011 Printz Honor Books
Stolen, by Lucy Christopher and published by Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.; (Juv.C5566s)

Please Ignore Vera Dietz," by A.S. King and published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc.; (Juv.K522p)

Revolver," by Marcus Sedgwick and published by Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of the Macmillan Children's Publishing Group; (Juv.S4486r)

Nothing," by Janne Teller and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division.

Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African American author of outstanding books for children and young adults

2011 Coretta Scott King Author Book winner
"One Crazy Summer," written by Rita Williams-Garcia is the winner. The book is published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. (Juv.W729o)

2011Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books

Lockdown," by Walter Dean Myers and published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; (Myers is a Jersey City resident and a member of the Advisory Board of the M. Jerry Weiss Center at New Jersey City University.) (Juv.M9967L)

Ninth Ward," by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.; (Juv. R4767n)

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty," written by G. Neri, illustrated by Randy DuBurke and published by Lee & Low Books Inc. (Juv.305.89.N445y)

Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award recognizing an African American illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults

2011 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Book winner

"Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave," illustrated by Bryan Collier, is the 2011 King Illustrator Book winner. The book was written by Laban Carrick Hill and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. (Juv.738.09.H645d)

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book

Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix," illustrated by Javaka Steptoe, written by Gary Golio and published by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. (Juv.927.84.H4989)

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent (Author) Award
"Zora and Me," written by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon, is the 2011 Steptoe author winner. The book is published by Candlewick Press. (Juv.B7117z)

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent (Illustrator) Award
"Seeds of Change," illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler, is the 2011 Steptoe illustrator winner. The book is written by Jen Cullerton Johnson and published by Lee & Low Books Inc.

Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Practitioner Award for Lifetime Achievement
Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith is the winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Practitioner Award for Lifetime achievement. The award pays tribute to the quality and magnitude of beloved children's author Virginia Hamilton's contributions through her literature and advocacy for children and youth.

Pura Belpre Awards honoring a Latino writer/illustrator whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience.

2011 Pura Belpre Illustrator Award
Grandma's Gift," illustrated and written by Eric Velasquez, is the 2011 Belpre Illustrator Award winner. The book is published by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., a division of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc. (Juv.V434gg)

2011 Pura Belpre Illustrator Honor Books

Fiesta Babies," illustrated by Amy Cordova, written by Carmen Tafolla and published by Tricycle Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.;

(Juv.T1246f)

Me, Frida," illustrated by David Diaz, written by Amy Novesky and published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS; (Juv.927.59.K12n)

Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin," illustrated and written by Duncan Tonatiuh and published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS

Pura Belpre (Author) Award honoring a Latino writer whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience

2011 Pura Belpre Author Award
"The Dreamer," written by Pam Munoz Ryan, is the winner. The book is illustrated by Peter Sís and published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.

2011 Pura Belpre Author Honor Books

Ole! Flamenco," written and illustrated by George Ancona and published by Lee & Low Books Inc

The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba," written by Margarita Engle and published by Henry Holt and Company, LLC (Juv.E585f)

90 Miles to Havana," written by Enrique Flores-Galbis and published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing. (Juv.F6344n)

Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience

Children
The Pirate of Kindergarten," written by George Ella Lyon, illustrated by Lynne Avril and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, wins the award for children ages 0 to 10.

Middle School
After Ever After," written by Jordan Sonnenblick and published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., is the winner of the middle-school (ages 11-13). (Juv.S6994a)

Teen
The teen (ages 13-18) award winner is "Five Flavors of Dumb," written by Antony John and published by Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. (Juv.J651f)

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.

The 2011 winner is Tomie dePaola, author and illustrator of over 200 books, including: "26 Fairmont Avenue" (Putnam, 1999), "The Legend of the Poinsettia" (Putnam, 1994), "Oliver Button Is a Sissy" (Harcourt, 1979) and "Strega Nona" (Prentice-Hall, 1975).

Margaret A. Edwards Award honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.

Sir Terry Pratchett is the 2011 Edwards Award winner. His books include: "The amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents," "The Wee Free Men," and "A Hat Full of Sky" published by HarperCollins Children's Books; and "The Color of Magic," "Guards! Guards!," "Equal Rites," "Going Postal," "Small Gods," and "Mort" all published by HarperCollins Publishers.

May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizing an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children's literature, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site

Peter Sis will deliver the 2012 lecture. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1949, Sis attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. He has lived in the United States since 1982. Sis was awarded the 2008 Robert F. Sibert Medal and has illustrated three Caldecott Honor books. Sis' work is admired throughout the world, and in 2003 he was named MacArthur Fellow, an honor bestowed by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children's book translated from a language other than English and subsequently published in the United States

2011 Mildred L. Batchelder Award
A Time of Miracles" is the 2011 Batchelder Award winner. Originally published in French in 2009 as "Le Temps des Miracles," the book was written by Anne-Laure Bondoux, translated by Y. Maudet, and published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc. (Juv.B7118t )

2011 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Books

Departure Time, published by Namelos, written by Truus Matti and translated by Nancy Forest-Flier;

"Nothing," published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, written by Janne Teller and translated by Martin Aitken.

Robert F. Sibert Medal for most distinguished informational book for children

2011 Robert F. Sibert Medal
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot," written by Sy Montgomery, is the 2011 Sibert Award winner. The book features photographs by Nic Bishop and is published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

2011 Robert F. Sibert Honor Books

Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, written by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Brian Floca, a Neal Porter Book, published by Flash Point, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing; (Juv.792.8G798b)

"Lafayette and the American Revolution, written by Russell Freedman and published by Holiday House.

Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Award
The award is given annually to English-language children's and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered experience.

2011 Children's and Young Adult Literature Award
Almost Perfect," written by Brian Katcher, published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc. (Juv.K1945a)

2011 Children's and Young Adult Literature Honor Books

"will grayson, will grayson," written by John Green and David Levithan,published by Dutton Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.; (Juv.G7955w)

Love Drugged," written by James Klise and published by Flux, an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.;

Freaks and Revelations," written by Davida Willis Hurwin and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.;

The Boy in the Dress," written by David Walliams, illustrated by Quentin Blake and published by Penguin Young Readers Group.

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book

2011 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Bink and Gollie,written by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee and illustrated by Tony Fucile , published by Candlewick Press. ( Juv.D545b)

2011 Theodor Seuss Geisell Honor Books

Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same!" written and illustrated by Grace Lin and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.; (Juv.L7353L)

We Are in a Book!" written and illustrated by Mo Willems and published by Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group. (Juv.W699w )

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults during a November 1 – October 31 publishing year.

2011 YALSA Award Excellence
Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing," written by Ann Angel, is the 2011 Excellence winner. The book is published by Amulet/Abrams.

2011 YALSA Award Finalists

"They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group," by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; (Juv.322.42 .B292t)

Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement," by Rick Bowers and published by National Geographic Society;

The Dark Game: True Spy Stories," by Paul Janeczko and published by Candlewick Press;

Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates," by Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw and published by Charlesbridge.

Recognized worldwide for the high quality they represent, ALA awards guide parents, educators, librarians and others in selecting the best materials for youth. Selected by judging committees of librarians and other children's and young adult experts, the awards encourage original and creative work. For more information on the ALA youth media awards and notables, please visit the ALA website at http://www.ala.org/.
Complete award list at http://bit.ly/ffjfd5
SOURCE American Library Association

International Film Festival in Jersey City- 1/14/11-1/16/11

2011-01-10T09:33:00.003-05:00

African Diaspora International
Film Festival - Jersey City 2011
Jan. 14 to Jan. 16
The 7th Annual African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) in Jersey City will be held this year at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, presenting an exciting selection of films from around the world including Ghana, Brazil and the U.S., to coincide with the Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend.

WHAT: 7th Annual African Diaspora International Film Festival in Jersey City

WHEN: January 14-16, 2011

WHERE: St. Paul's Episcopal Church

38 Duncan Ave.

Jersey City, NJ 07304

(201) 433-4922

TICKETS: $15 Opening Night (includes reception )

JAN. 14-16, 2011

$9 Regular per film

$7 Seniors/Students per film

$35 Weekend Pass

$20 Saturday all day

$15 Sunday all day
More information here

Please click for Google Map to get to church
SECURE YOUR SEAT TODAY! CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS ONLINE
CASH ONLY Accepted at the Door.

Films

FRIDAY, JAN 14
6PM Opening Night Reception
7PM
WHITE BOY BROWNJersey City PremiereArmed with only a very important letter, Curtis Brown, a young black man embarks on the most difficult journey of his life, a journey that will force him to confront his own demons of hatred and prejudice, while rediscovering a love, long lost for his adopted white brother Johnny. Through a series of flashbacks and stories, Curtis learns of the life of a brother he once knew, a life of a brother who, although being white, experienced the same racism he himself experienced, ultimately binding the two together. USA, 2009, 88 min, drama, English, Sean Sawyer dir.Q&A WITH DIRECTOR AFTER THE SCREENING.

SATURDAY, JAN 15 @ 3PM
NO TIME TO DIEJersey City PremiereA hearse driver meets and falls in love with a young, beautiful dancer who is planning an elaborate homegoing celebration for her mother. This comedy follows the hearse driver as he does everything to win the affection of the young woman. Ghana/West Germany, 2006, 95 minutes, Comedy (English), King Ampaw, Director

SATURDAY, JAN 15 @ 5PM
SHADOWS OF THE LYNCHING TREEJersey City PremiereThe shrouded history of lynching in America is the subject of a powerful new documentary from producer/director Carvin Eison. During the late 19th and much of the 20th century, countless numbers of African-Americans were murdered at the end of a rope. In the age of Obama, have we reconciled this misshapen history or does its legacy live on? “Let sleeping dogs lie…” is a way of saying leave that certain thing alone, it could hurt you. Shadows of the Lynching Tree kicks the sleeping dog and awakens a troublesome past. The dog is awake, will we finally confront the beast or does it return to an uneasy slumber?” USA, 2009, 60 minutes, Documentary (English), Carvin Eison, DirectorQ&A WITH DIRECTOR AFTER THE SCREENING.

SATURDAY, JAN 15 @ 7PM
YOUSSOU N'DOUR: RETURN TO GOREEA musical road movie, Youssou N'Dour: Return to Gorée follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail left by slaves and the jazz music they created. Youssou N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire of his own songs to perform a concert in Gorée, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to honor its victims. Senegal/Switzerland/Luxembourg, 2006, 108 minutes, Musical Documentary (English and French with English subtitles), Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, Director

SUNDAY, JAN 16 @ 3:00PM
AFRICAN LEADERS PROGRAM
FRANTZ FANON: HIS LIFE, HIS STRUGGLE, HIS WORKJersey City PremiereFrantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, originally from Martinique, who became a spokesman for the Algerian revolution against French colonialism. Embittered by his experience with racism in the French Army, he gravitated to radical politics, Sartrean existentialism and the philosophy of black consciousness known as negritude. His 1952 book, Black Skin, White Masks, offers a penetrating analysis of racism and of the ways in which it is internalized by its victims. While secretly aiding the rebels of the Algerian anti-colonial war as a doctor in Algeria, Fanon cared for victims and perpetrators alike, producing case notes that shed invaluable light on the psychic traumas of colonial war. Expelled from Algeria in 1956, Fanon moved to Tunis where he wrote for El Moudjahid, the rebel newspaper, founded Africa's first psychiatric clinic, and wrote several influential books on decolonization. The film traces the short and intense life of one of the great thinkers of the 20th century. Martinique/France/Algeria/Tunisia, 2001, 52 minutes, Documentary (French with English subtitles), Cheikh Djemai, Director

Followed byAMILCAR CABRALJersey City PremiereAmilcar Cabral was the leader of the Liberation Movement of Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau and the founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC). He was born in Guinea in 1924 and assassinated in Conakry in 1973. Regarded as a true icon of African history, this documentary provides considerable background to this revolutionary giant and reveals Cabral in several dimensions: as a man, a father, politician, humanist and poet. The documentary is skillfully produced and uses a wealth of rare archive footage, balanced inclusion of varied testimonies of important African personalities and the credible recreation of notable episodes of Cabral's life. Cape Verde/Portugal, 2001, 52 minutes, Historical Documentary (Portuguese with English subtitles), Ana Ramos Lisboa, Director

SUNDAY, JAN 16 @ 5PM
ALEIJADINHO: PASSION, GLORY AND TORMENTSet in 19th century Brazil at a time when slavery was still at the foundation of the Latin American economy, this fascinating historical drama is loosely based on the life of sculptor Antonio Francisco Lisboa ("Aleijadinho"), one of Latin America’s greatest sculptors. Brazil, 2001, 100 minutes, Drama (Portuguese with English subtitles), Geraldo Santos Pereira, Director
Screening followed by a DVD launch reception: Come celebrate with us the launching of the 2-DVD set:RACE AND HISTORY IN BRAZIL.

AND FOR THOSE IN NYC

Sunday, January 16, 2011
WNYC Presents
MADE IN AMERICA: KING'S DREAM IN TODAY'S ECONOMY
A Martin Luther King Day Celebration

WNYC's fifth annual Martin Luther King Day celebration explores the contemporary lessons of King's work for economic justice and equal access to the American dream. Join us as WNYC's Brian Lehrer, WQXR's Terrance McKnight and Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Perry host an afternoon of spirited discussion and performance.

Panelists include:
Natalia Aristizabal
Obery Hendricks
Roy Innis
Peniel Joseph
Jeanne Theoharis
Barbara Young

Live performances by
Christian McBride with Melissa Walker
Maya Azucena

Sunday, January 16, 2011
3:00 PM
Cantor Auditorium
Brooklyn Museum

Admission is free but reservations are required.
RSVP at rsvp@wnyc.org

KNUFFLE BUNNY-The Musical

2011-01-08T08:44:00.005-05:00

You read the book-see the musical

KNUFFLE BUNNY: A CAUTIONARY MUSICAL
SKIRBALL CENTER,
566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square, NYC"

Based on Mo Willem's bestselling book, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, this brand new musical is presented with the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour as part of the Skirball Center's Big Red Chair Family Series.

The musical, an adaptation of Mo Willems’ Caldecott Honor-winning picture book, is full of adventure, song and gigantic, dancing laundry that come to life as a little girl, her father, and her favorite toy take a trip to the laundromat in Brooklyn. A co-presentation with the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour, the show will run for five performances at the Skirball Center’s 860-seat theater onWashington Square Park.

Performances Times

Saturday, February 26 11:00 A.M., 2:00 P.M. and 5:00 P.M.

Sunday, February 27. 11:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M.

Tickets

$15—$25

and can be purchased online at http://www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu/,

or by phone at 212.352.3101 (toll free at 866.811.4111).

The show runs approximately 50 minutes and is appropriate for ages 4 and up.

NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is located at 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square.

ALA Book Awards -1/10/11-Live broadcast!

2011-01-07T14:37:00.003-05:00

Live Webcast
Link to webcast http://alawebcast.unikron.com/__view2011.php?
The American Library Association (ALA) will provide a free live webcast of its Youth Media Awards. The number of available connections for the Webcast are limited and the broadcast is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Online visitors can view the live Webcast the morning of the announcements. Those interested in following the action live should bookmark http://alawebcast.unikron.com/ . The Youth Media Awards will begin at 7:45 a.m. PST on Jan. 10, 2011, but visitors should be able to begin logging on to the Webcast at 7:30 a.m. PST

2011 Youth Media Award announcements include:

Alex Awards
Andrew Carnegie Medal
Coretta Scott King Book Awards
Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
John Newbery Medal
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Margaret A. Edwards Award
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
Michael L. Printz Award
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Odyssey Award
Pura Belpré Awards
Randolph Caldecott Medal
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
Schneider Family Book Award
Stonewall Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award
Theodore Seuss Geisel Award
William C. Morris Award
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

Help NJ Libraries Today-Vote for Technology Catch-Up

2011-01-07T10:13:00.004-05:00

From New Jersey Library Association:

Help the New Jersey State Library and the New Jersey Library Association bring the latest technology to EVERYONE by voting at http://www.refresheverything.com/technologycatchupatyourlibrary

The goals of the program are to distribute 150 "Technology-Catch-Up"
sets to NJ's public libraries in order to offer access to the newest technology to everyone. The "Technology Catch-Up" sets will include an iPad, a Kindle, a Nook, & a Flip Ultra Camcorder. This will offer access to the newest in technology, for free, through public libraries to help erase the digital divide by enabling economically disadvantaged individuals to learn about the latest in technology. Further, it will help the unemployed by teaching them about these new tools, and help parents feel as comfortable using new technology as their "digital native" children.
The project coincides with our goal of making libraries community centers and with making our residents a society of lifelong learners.

PLEASE HELP US RAISE THE PROFILE OF LIBRARIES EVERYWHERE BY VOTING FOR OUR PROJECT!

Register today and vote EVERY day from now through January 31, 2011.

Questions? Contact Peggy Cadigan, pcadigan@njstatelib.org

NJ School Librarians ALERT -Have Students VOTE for GSTBA NOW!

2010-12-15T13:20:00.003-05:00

New jersey School Librarians Alert
It's time for your students to vote for their favorite books!

The Garden State Teen Book Award Committee would like to remind librarians to have your students get out the vote!
http://njla.pbworks.com/w/page/12189805/Garden-State-Teen-Book-Awards

Garden State Book Awards
Each year, New Jersey teens vote for their favorite books in three categories.The ballot lists twenty nominees for each category, based on teen appeal and quality of writing.

Follow these links to on-line ballots listing all 60 nominees:

Follow this link for a listing of fiction books for Grades 6 to 8. http://www.bccls.org/gstba/2011/fiction6to8.shtml

Follow this link for a listing of fiction books for Grades 9 to 12 http://www.bccls.org/gstba/2011/fiction9to12.shtml

Follow this link for a listing of non-fiction books for Grades 6 to 12
http://www.bccls.org/gstba/2011/nonfiction6to12.shtml

Voting for the 2011 Garden State Teen Book Award will run through January 8, 2011

The winners will be announced in February 2011.
The Garden State Teen Book Award, first presented in 1996, is a project of the Young Adult Section of the New Jersey Library Association.

Teens can vote online at: http://www.bccls.org/gstba/2011/ or use a paper ballot.

Send your ballots or vote totals to:

Laura Leonard
Hillsdale Public Library
509 Hillsdale Ave
Hillsdale, NJ 07642
Region H 1147
leonard@bccls.org

Ballots must be received by Saturday, January 8, 2011.

Paper ballots, past winners, and information about the award can be found at:
http://njla.pbworks.com/w/page/12189805/Garden-State-Teen-Book-Awards

National Book Awards (2010) Announced

2010-11-18T20:26:00.003-05:00

Jersey City's Walter Dean Myers is a finalist in the National Book Awards for his young adult novel , Lockdown!

The other winners and finalists are:

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

WINNER: Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird (Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group) -

Finalists:Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker (Little, Brown & Co.) -
Laura McNeal, Dark Water (Alfred A. Knopf) - (Juv.M1693d )
Walter Dean Myers, Lockdown (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) -
Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) -

http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2010.html

Other winners and finalists were

FICTION

WINNER: Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Co.)

Finalists:
Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America (Alfred A. Knopf)
Nicole Krauss, Great House (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Lionel Shriver, So Much for That (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel (Coffee House Press) -

NONFICTION

WINNER: Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)

Finalists:
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea(Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group)
John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq(W.W. Norton & Co/The New Press )
Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War(Doubleday)

POETRY

WINNER: Terrance Hayes, Lighthead (Penguin Books)

Finalists:
Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City (Princeton University Press)
James Richardson, By the Numbers (Copper Canyon Press)
C.D. Wright, One with Others (Copper Canyon Press)
Monica Youn, Ignatz (Four Way Books)

Romeo and Juliet at NJCU and in library books

2010-11-04T14:32:00.005-04:00

The ASC’s production of Romeo and Juliet begins this month, http://www.ascnj.org/seasonandtickets.php and this production will depart from traditional costuming of its actors in authentic Elizabethan dress, and will be featuring a blend of Renaissance and contemporary costumes, music and style.

Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare - Craig Colfelt, Play Master

Actor's Shakespeare Company

West Side Theater

285 West Side Avenue

Jersey City,NJ 073055

November 5-21, 2010
7:30 p.m. Fridays
3:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays
201-200-2390/ visit http://www.ascnj.org/ for reservations
Tickets:

$30 general admission,

$15 for students and seniors,
children under 15 pay their age

Some Romeo and Juliet library resources include:

Graphic Novels
Manga Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Juv. 822.33 .A647r
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Juv.822.33.P1335r

Juvenile Books
Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet Juv. 822.33 .R814sr

Romeo and Juliet Themed Young Adult Novels
If You Come Softly/Woodson Juv. W898i

Romeo's ex : Rosaline's story/Fiedler Juv. F4524r

Romiette and Julio/Draper Juv. D765r

Street Love/Myers Juv. M9967sl

Teacher Resources
Shakespeare Made Easy: Romeo and Juliet

CMC PR2831 .G76 2006
Shakespeare set free : teachingRomeo and Juliet, Macbeth, A midsummer night's dream

CMC PR2987 .S483 1993
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

CMC PR2831 .P34 2005
Gifted books, gifted readers : literature activities to excite young minds (pp.138-142)

CMC LB1575.5.U5 P64 2000

Bernardsville NJ Children's Book Festival

2010-11-03T15:03:00.001-04:00

Children’s Book Festival at
Bernardsville Public Library

1 Anderson Hill Rd

Bernardsville, NJ 07924-2351

(908) 766-0118

Sunday, November 7
2:00pm—5:00pm

Meet children’s book authors and illustrators:
Danny & Kim Adlerman
Pat Cummings
Doris Ettlinger
Megan Halsey
Dar Hosta
Trinka Hakes Noble
Lena Shiffman
Javaka Steptoe
A variety of books will be available for purchase and signing. Great holiday gift idea!
No sign-up is needed.

YA National Book Award Finalists announced

2010-10-16T12:25:00.006-04:00

National Book Award Finalists Announced

From School Library Journal

By SLJ Staff October 14, 2010

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi's debut YA novel, Ship Breaker (Little, Brown), a fast-paced postapocalyptic adventure set on the Gulf Coast, is one of five nominees for the top prize, presented annually to authors to celebrate the best of American literature.
"Ship Breaker was a chance for me to write a high-octane adventure story while still touching on themes like peak oil and global warming that fascinate me," wrote Bacigalupi on his blog.

Dark Water by Laura McNeal

After several collaborations with husband Tom McNeal, Laura McNeal went solo with Dark Water (Knopf), which tells the story of a forbidden romance with tragic consequences set against the backdrop of catastrophic wildfires that ravaged Southern California in 2007.

Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine

Kathryn Erskine thanked the National Book Foundation for naming Mockingbird (Philomel) as a finalist, posting comments on her blog at 9:11 a.m. PDT this morning. "I'm so grateful for the National Book Foundation, whose wonderful mission it is to 'celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America,'" she wrote. "What an honor."She also told SLJ that she feels "particularly honored because the judges for these awards are our peers, and I think it's often the case that it's harder to impress another writer than it is to impress a reader."

Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers, who was nominated for a National Book Award in 1999 for Monster—which won the first Michael L. Printz Award and was named a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book—is nominated again. This time for Lockdown (HarperCollins), a moving story about a kid who may have made a mistake but still deserves the modest future he seeks. (Myers is a Jersey City, NJ resident!)

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

Meanwhile, SLJ gave a starred review to Rita Williams-Garcia's One Crazy Summer (HarperCollins), set in 1968 and about three black sisters from Brooklyn who spend a month in California with their mother, a poet who ran off years before and is living in Oakland.

The winner in each category—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature—will be announced on Wednesday, November 17, at the 61st National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

Newark, NJ Literature, Literacy, History Symposium-10/22-10/23/2010

2010-10-15T10:46:00.007-04:00

Bethany Baptist Church
Book Club & Youth Council
Present
Sharing Our History and Celebrating Our Stories
Friday, October 22, 2010
6:15 PM to 8:30 PM
&
Saturday, October 23, 2010
8:15 AM to 2:00 PM
*
Bethany Baptist Church
275 W. Market St. * Newark, New Jersey 07102
973 623-8161

Please join the Bethany Baptist Church Book Club and Youth Council as they celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Dr. M. William Howard and Ms. Barbara Howard as Pastor and First Lady of Bethany Baptist Church.
This two-day Symposium will explore the importance of reading and literacy in the urban community using the Civil Rights Movement as its theme. The Symposium is free and open to the public but advance registration is required.

Please fill out the attached form and mail to the church or you may register on line at http://www.bethany-newark.org/

Registration Deadline is
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

PLEASE FILL OUT A SEPARATE REGISTRATION FOR EACH ATTENDEE

You may register on line at http://www.bethany-newark.org/ or fill in the information below and send to Bethany Baptist Church, BBC Book Club, 275, West Market St., Newark, NJ 07102

Name:

Address:

Telephone Number:

Email Address:

Please circle your answer:

I will attend Friday Night Program (A light supper will be served): YES NO

I will attend Saturday Plenary Program and Continental Breakfast: YES NO

I will attend Saturday Ending Session and Lunch YES NO

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Please Indicate Your Workshop Preference:

Session I: 9:30 – 10:30 ________________________________________________

Session II: 10:45 – 11:45________________________________________________

Session III: 12:00 – 1:00_______________

Workshop Titles
Presenter
9:30-10:30 a.m.
America Through the Eyes of Langston
The Poet Laureate of Harlem, this workshop will include a short talk about the issues of Langston Hughes’ times (Jim Crow laws) and literature he wrote about the tribulations of the day.
Sandra L. West

9:30-10:30 a.m.
Black Leadership and the Black Church
Jeopardy Answer: White Men, African American Females and the Black Church
Question: What are the only free entities in the United States of America?
Workshop presentations will underline the importance of literacy, encourage an interest in understanding our community and motivating us to continue the fight for justice.
Thomas L. Puryear

9:30-10:30 a.m.
Learning from Our History: Financial Choices that Matter Most
Contrary to popular belief, many African American institutions and individuals have a long history financial responsibility. Learn about responsible investing and money management techniques that have been part of our history. Discuss ways to keep your financial perspective during good times and when the economic climate is challenging.
George R. Barnes

9:30-10:30 a.m.
Love Supreme
A free flowing multi media exploration of the impact of what some claim to be the greatest album in jazz (A Love Supreme). We will look at the spiritual, musical and cultural impact of this important work. “Tranes” search for spiritual and musical freedom, through polyrhythmic, modalities will serve as our portal to a greater understanding of one of the most important jazz artists of our time.
Philip Easton

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10:45-11:45 a.m.
Boondocks: Because I Know You Don’t Read the Newspaper
Session will review satirist and author Aaron McGruder”s “Boondocks, because I know you don’t read the newspaper” a compilation of comic strips that has often irked many in the African American community. Author Aaron McGruder thinks frankness in racial matters makes better punch lines. His commitment to candor in comedy makes for a comic strip and subsequent books attractive to white critics, who feel McGruder is the best satirical writer since Gary Trudeau and Doonesbury. What does this work reveal about contemporary culture in black America?
Bryan Epps

10:45-11:45 a.m.
Called to Write – How to Write Effectively for the Kingdom
Many people believe that they have been divinely given a vision to write a book or to be a writer. Unfortunately, they don't know what that really entails. Do you feel that you have been called to write one book or many books? Do you feel led to write only as a supplement to your primary work/ministry or are you being called to a career as a writer? This workshop will assist participants in understanding the CALL of a writer and the connection between a person's ability to understand the vision and their ability to write the vision.+
Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts

10:45-11:45 a.m.
Claudette Colvin: No Ordinary Woman
The Claudette Colvin story is representative of so many men and women who challenged the unfair civil rights practices against African Americans and other disenfranchised people. Come share your reflections of Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice and other civil rights warriors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Discuss Newark's own struggle to ward off segregation practices against African Americans during the Civil Rights era..
Linda Caldwell Epps

10:45-11:45 a.m.
Frances E. W. Harper: The Undisputed Dignity of Her Womanhood
Participants will read and discuss Frances E. W. Harper’s short story, “The Two Offers,” in the context of the 19th century women’s movement and how free black women articulated their position within that movement. “The Two Offers” is considered the first African American short story to be published, appearing in 1859 in the Anglo-African Magazine.
Note: An e-mail address is recommended so that the story can be sent in advance

10:45-11:45 a.m.
A Special Kind of Love - Grandmothering” (or Grandma’s Hands)
Grandmothers who are raising or have raised Grandchildren and people who are “Grandmother- raised” reminisce and acknowledge their struggles, sacrifices and triumphs.
Niyonu Boateng

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12:00 noon-1:00 pm
Filming the Black Woman’s Joy
Filmmaker Nicole Franklin presents work from a career that began with The Double Dutch Divas! and continues with Little Brother, a conversation on Love. Nicole Franklin's Filmography may be seen at: http://www.nicolefranklin.com/, http://www.littlebrotherfilm.com/.
Nicole Franklin

12:00 noon-1:00 p.m.
From Spirituality to Sex and Everything in Between."
Here from the mouths of musicians, how they approach their craft and manage day-to-day life. The connection between belief in a higher power and the effects of music derived from the words of musicians and those who are affected by music.
Sheila Anderson

12:00 noon-1:00 p.m.
The Harlem Renaissance – America’s Golden Literary Age
A rich discussion of the literary jewels of an era that heralded Black America's age of enlightenment and an exploration of the era's timelessness and relevance to today.
Joyce Wilson Harley

12:00 noon-1:00 p.m.
Paying Homage: Arthur A. Schomburg, a Distinguished Black Bibliophile and Historian
The presenter will illustrate Arthur Schomburg’s travels from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Harlem, New York and the sociological impact of Black Bibliophiles, librarians, and historians on the Negritude Movement and Harlem Renaissance during the Progressive Era in the United States. During the 1920s and 1930s, Schomburg befriended many Caribbean and African American intellectual giants. The presenter will correlate the Black bibliophiles, librarians, and historians of the Progressive Era to Afrocentric academicians and librarians today.
Timur Davis

12:00 noon-1:00 p.m.
To Kill A Mockingbird-A Reflection of Contemporary America
The workshop will explore and compare sociological context of American racism in the 1960’s of “Scout Finch” of To Kill a Mockingbird and in the so-called “post-racial era of the Obama presidency. The discussion will also include excerpt from an article citing the experiences of a white southern-born college profession that agrees with the premise of the story.
Margaret E. Hayes, PhD

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WORKSHOPS FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART 9:30am-12:30pm

Workshop Title
Presenter
I Am My Own Second Opinion

This workshop is designed to direct youth to think outside of the box as a way to access the road to self-discovery to live up to their greatest potential. It is not about being famous but being GREAT!
Gilda Rogers

Incorporating Comprehension in Young Readers
Participants will learn how to increase reading comprehension by learning how to read for meaning. Workshop will practice making predictions and asking questions based upon prior knowledge.
JoAllyn Henry

Let’s Make a Quilt
Under the guidance of an experienced quilter, participants will decorate a fabric square for inclusion in a commemorative piece to be presented to the Rev. M. William Howard upon completion.
Kelli Puryear

Music in the Movement
In this workshop the participants will have hands on experience with a variety of instruments, learn about Freedom songs during the Civil Rights Movement, create their own instruments out of recycled materials, learn to compose their own songs while singing along to some of their favorites and widen their knowledge about the basics of music and instruments.
Amber Bryant

Storytelling Techniques
Effective storytelling can turn an ordinary story into a fantastic experience. Key elements to successful be demonstrated. Participants will have the opportunity to demonstrate various techniques
JoAllyn Henry

S.T.R.O.N.G.- Striving To Reunite Our New Generation
S.T.R.O.N.G. will present to some and introduce to others the richness of black history and identity by highlighting the wealth and simultaneous lack of knowledge of black intelligentsia and juxtaposing that against the prevalence and corresponding awareness of high profile athletes, entertainers, celebrities. The goals of this exercise is to increase awareness of higher education as an option for young people of color and present education as a primary means of preparing one for the never-ending struggle for civil rights.
Onaje Crawford

We Beat the Streets – How a Friendly Pact Led to Success
Literature Circle I Grades 3-5
Using the children’s book “We Beat The Street” How A Friendship Pact Led To Success by The Three Doctors we will role play, read aloud, have some fun, and perhaps even identify our own career paths as we look at the lives of three young men from our city.

Literature Circle II Grades 6-8
Participants will be assigned Literature Circle Roles in this interactive workshop. We will use the children’s book We Beat The Street by The Three Doctors from Newark. Join us for this skill building workshop for what is sure to be a lively discussion and time of discovery.
Vanessa Freeland Thomas

October 2010 book events

2010-10-13T16:33:00.007-04:00

David Lubar
Paramus Library
116 E. Century Road, Paramus, NJ 07652

7PM

October 15, 2010

David Lubar (http://www.davidlubar.com/), author, all around funny guy, video game designer and lover of libraries, will be visiting the Paramus Public Library, 116 E. Century Road, Paramus, NJ 07652 on Friday, October 15 at 7:00 pm.

Mr. Lubar will talk about writing, his books and mostly like tell jokes. He will be available following his talk to sign books. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

A flier advertising this event can be found at http://paramus.bccls.org/2010%20Lubar.pdf

For grades 3 and up. Please encourage all of your young readers to come meet David Lubar and have a fun evening!
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Celebrate. Discover. Discuss.
Bank Street College of Education is pleased to announce

BookFest @ Bank Street!
Saturday, October 30, 2010
9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p .m.

Speakers scheduled to appear:
Laurie Halse Anderson
Mac Barnett
Leonard Marcus
Stephen Savage
Jon Scieszka
David Yoo . . . and more!

BookFest @ Bank Street 2010 is the 39th year of the program previously hosted by New York Public Library, Teachers College, and Columbia University. Bank Street is proud to be part of this tradition and thanks everyone who has produced this program in the past. BookFest @ Bank Street is intended for adults who love literature for children and teens.

For more information about Book Fest @ Bank Street and to register, please click here. www.bankstreet.edu/library/bookfest.html Space is limited; registration closes Friday, September 10.
Thanks to our sponsors for their support of BookFest @ Bank Street: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; School Library Journal; EarlyWord.com; ShelfAwareness.com; and Scholastic, Inc.

Bank Street College of Education 610 West 112 Street New York, New York, 10025 (212)-875-4400

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and

coming to New Jersey City University, November 2nd-ERIC VELASQUEZ!

Eric Velasquez will intoduce his new book Grandma's Gift.

Event info:

Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 ( Election Day)

Time: 5-7 pm

Place: Gothic Lounge, Rm H-202

New Jersey City University

2039 Kennedy Boulevard

Jersey City, NJ 07305-1597

Note: Professional Development Hours will be available

BookFest Bank Street 10/30/10- Authors in NYC

2010-09-30T12:11:00.005-04:00

Celebrate. Discover. Discuss.
Bank Street College of Education is pleased to announce

BookFest @ Bank Street!
Saturday, October 30, 2010
9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p .m.

Speakers scheduled to appear:
Laurie Halse Anderson
Mac Barnett
Leonard Marcus
Stephen Savage
Jon Scieszka
David Yoo . . . and more!

BookFest @ Bank Street 2010 is the 39th year of the program previously hosted by New York Public Library, Teachers College, and Columbia University. Bank Street is proud to be part of this tradition and thanks everyone who has produced this program in the past. BookFest @ Bank Street is intended for adults who love literature for children and teens.

For more information about Book Fest @ Bank Street and to register, please click here. www.bankstreet.edu/library/bookfest.html Space is limited; registration closes Friday, September 10.
Thanks to our sponsors for their support of BookFest @ Bank Street: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; School Library Journal; EarlyWord.com; ShelfAwareness.com; and Scholastic, Inc.

Bank Street College of Education 610 West 112 Street New York, New York, 10025 (212)-875-4400

Jersey City Public Libraries hours and services cut-Speak Out Now

2010-09-22T17:26:00.004-04:00

THE BAD NEWS

Source: Jersey Journal

Author: Melissa Hayes

Date: September 9, 2010

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A19

The Jersey City Free Public Library is scaling back hours and closing most of its branches on Saturdays due to budget cuts.
Library Director Priscilla Gardner says more service cuts could be in the offing pending possible further layoffs and furloughs, noting that a staff reduction plan submitted to the state Civil Service Commission awaits approval.
The city is expected to provide the library $6 million this year, down from $7.7 million last year.
The Main Library, at 472 Jersey Ave., which had been open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., is now closing at 6 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The library will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
Gardner said hours at other branches have been staggered to minimize the impact on library patrons. Those libraries will be closed on Saturdays with the exception of two Saturdays between now and the end of the year when each of the branches will be open.
The Glenn D. Cunningham Branch, at 275 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, will be open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday; noon to 8 p.m. Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday; with Saturday hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 9 and Nov. 20.
The Miller Branch at 489 Bergen Ave. will be open the same hours at the Cunningham branch, but with Saturday hours Sept. 25 and Dec. 18 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Five Corners branch, at 678 Newark Ave., and Pavonia Branch, at 326 Eighth St., will be open Monday from noon to 8 p.m.; Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Five Corners will have Saturday hours Oct. 16 and Nov. 27 and Pavonia will have Saturday hours Oct. 2 and Nov. 13, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Heights Branch, at 14 Zabriskie St., will be open Monday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday, noon to 8 p.m.; and Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with Saturday hours Sept. 18 and Dec. 11 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Greenville Branch, at 1847 Kennedy Blvd., will be open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday; Tuesday, noon to 8 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and will be open this Saturday and Dec. 4 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Lafayette, West Bergen and Marion neighborhood libraries will remain open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

SPEAK OUT
Send the following letter or call :

Office of the Mayor
City Hall - 280 Grove StreetJersey City, New Jersey 07302Tel: (201) 547-5200Fax: (201) 547-4288/5442
Mayor Jerramiah Healymailto:HealyMayorHealy@jcnj.org

Council President Peter Brennan
City Hall, 280 Grove StreetRoom 202Jersey City, NJ 07302Tel: (201) 547-5319Fax: (201) 547-4678email: BrennanP@jcnj.org

Councilwoman-at-Large Willie Flood
City Hall, 280 Grove StreetRoom 202Jersey City, NJ 07302Tel: (201) 547-5134Fax: (201) 547-4678email: FloodW@jcnj.org

Ward A (Greenville) Councilman Michael Sottolano
City Hall, 280 Grove StreetRoom 206Jersey City, NJ 07302Tel: (201) 547-5098Fax: (201) 547-4678email: SottolanoM@jcnj.org

Ward B (West Side)Councilman David Donnelly
City Hall, 280 Grove StreetRoom 202Jersey City, NJ 07302Tel: (201) 547-5092Fax: (201) 547-4678email: DonnellyD@jcnj.org

Ward C (Journal Square) Councilwoman Nidia Lopez
City Hall, 280 Grove StreetRoom 202Jersey City, NJ 07302Tel: (201) 547-5159Fax: (201) 547-4678email: NLopez@jcnj.org

Ward D (The Heights) Councilman William Gaughan
City Hall, 280 Grove StreetRoom 202Jersey City, NJ 07302Tel: (201) 547-5485Fax: (201) 547-4678email: bgaughan@hcnj.us

Ward E (Downtown) Councilman Steven Fulop
City Hall, 280 Grove StreetRoom 202Jersey City, NJ 07302Tel: (201) 547-5315Fax: (201) 547-4678 (fax)FulopS@jcnj.org

Ward F (Bergen/Lafayette) CouncilwomanViola Richardson
City Hall, 280 Grove StreetRoom 207Jersey City, NJ 07302Tel: (201) 547-5338Fax: (201) 547-4678email: RichardsonV@jcnj.org

THE LETTER

Dear Mayor and Councilperson:

This video is funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AhSxoVmZQs

But the news about the reduction in hours and funding of our public libraries is not!

Please think of the services our public libraries provide and their importance to students, job-seekers and other residents of Jersey City, and please restore funding for library services. Each dollar in funding you provide lessens illiteracy, juvenile delinquency, unemployment and provides research resources and educational support for our students and citizens.

Sincerely yours,

Lesson Plans for 9/11

2010-09-09T19:16:00.002-04:00

9/11 Lesson plan Sources

Elementary

Mr. Donn's Pages has lesson plans on major religions including Islam. (Scroll down on the page)
http://www.mrdonn.org/religions.html

Teaching 9/11 has elementary K-5 lesson plans as well as other grade levels
http://www.teaching9-11.org/categories.cfm?16

Middle/Secondary

Teaching Tolerance has lesson plans for Confronting Islamophobia
http://www.tolerance.org/blog/commemorate-911-confronting-islamophobia
(There is also an note on book burning, even through the scheduled book burning by a pastor in Florida has been cancelled, it may be a worthy classroom discussion. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/US-Church-Cancels-Quran-Burning-102571464.html)

Teachable Moment has a classroom discussion guide on theNew York City Community Center controversy.
http://www.teachablemoment.org/high/communitycenter.html

Please reply with other useful sites!
See http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2011/09/teaching-911-10-years-later.html and http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-9ll.html
for more resources

Newark Public Library READ-IN-8/31/- 9/1/10 to save the library

2010-08-31T08:55:00.004-04:00

HELP SAVE THE NEWARK PUBLIC LIBRARY

24-HOUR READ-IN

Noon-to-Noon (Tuesday, Aug. 31-Wednesday, Sept. 1)

City Hall Steps
920 Broad Street, Newark

Bring a book to read aloud!
Join the campaign to restore devastating budget cuts!
Help re-open two closed branches!
Reverse two-day-a-week Main Branch closing!
Restore full-time hours for our hard-pressed employees!
Demand immediate action from our elected “leaders!”
Don’t let the mayor and council off the hook!
When you vote, think about the consequences!
Call and keep calling:

Mayor’s Office: 973-733-6400
Ronald C. Rice, West Ward 973-733-6427 ricero@ci.newark.nj.us
Darrin Sharif, Central Ward 973-733-5870 sharifd@ci.newark.nj.us
Anibal Ramos, North Ward 973-733-5136 ramosa@ci.newark.nj.us
Ras Baraka, South Ward 973-733-6563 barakar@ci.newark.nj.us
Augusto Amador, East Ward 973-733-6571 amadora@ci.newark.nj.us
Donald Payne, Jr, At-Large 973-733-3753 payned@ci.newark.nj.us
Mildred Crump, At-Large 973-733-8043 crumpm@ci.newark.nj.us
Luis Quintana, At-Large 973-733-5882 quintanal@ci.newark.nj.us
Carlos Gonzalez, At-Large 973-733-6425 gonzalezc@ci.newark.nj.us

For more information about rallies and events: www.savenewarklibraries.org email: info@savenewarklibraries.org

DON'T LIVE IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY ?

CHECK WITH YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY TO SEE IF THEY NEED HELP FIGHTING DRASTIC BUDGET CUTS NOW!

Authors Speak in New Jersey in September 2010

2010-08-26T10:28:00.014-04:00

Mark your calendars:

Princeton Public Library Children's book festival- 9/11/2010-11am-4pm

Venue: Alfred E. Hinds Plaza adjacent to the Princeton Public Library.
Princeton Public Library 65 Witherspoon St.Princeton, NJ 08542
Tel: 609-924-9529

The 5th Annual Princeton Children’s Book Festival is Sept. 11 from 11 am- 4pm. Over 50 nationally acclaimed authors and illustrators of Children's and Young Adult books will be meeting their fans, discussing their work and signing books on the Alfred E. Hinds Plaza adjacent to the the Princeton Public Library.Books will be available for purchase through Barnes and Noble's satellite book store located in the library's Community Room. Live entertainment throughout the afternoon Alfred E. Hinds Plaza adjacent to the the Princeton Public Library.Books will be available for purchase through Barnes and Noble's satellite book store located in the library's Community Room.

Live entertainment throughout the afternoon.

Jersey City Public Library A Tale of Our City- 9/18/2010, 11am-4pm

Venue: Van Vorst Park adjacent to the Main Branch of the Jersey City Public Library,
Montgomery Street and Jersey Avenue, Jersey City
Tel (201) 547 - 4500

Jersey City’s annual book festival, will feature 18 established and up-an-coming authors in the bucolic Victorian setting of Van Vorst Park, on Saturday, September 18.

Some authors will be very familiar… Al Sullivan, Senior Staff Writer for the Hudson Reporter weekly newspaper chain… Bob Leach, Director of the Jersey City Historical Project, with his latest on Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague… NJ Room Manager Cynthia Harris of the Jersey City Free Public Library, with her photo and postcard book on Changing Jersey City… others will be known for their works, such as John B. Wefing, Seton Hall law professor whose book is on NJ Governor Richard J. Hughes… or Adeyinka Makinde, for his book on Jersey City boxer Frankie DePalma… and others, such as novelist Shobhan Bantwal, will be known within certain communities (for this author, India).

T. A. Barron-9/23/2010-4:30 PM -7:00PM at NJCU

Date and Time: 9/23/2010, 4:30-7:00 pm (including reception)
Venue: Hepburn Hall 202 (Gothic Lounge) on the campus of New Jersey City University (NJCU) , 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305,
Note: The event includes professional development hours.

T.A. Barron , award-winning and bestselling young adult author the highly acclaimed epic -- and soon to be major motion picture -- The Lost Years of Merlin. Mr. Barron will speak on his books, writing process, and passion for conservation and children’s literature.

Mr. Barron will be awarded the 2010 M. Jerry Weiss Book Award by the New Jersey Reading Association for his book Merlin’s Dragon.This prestigious Award honors authors of outstanding children’s and young adult literature. Candidates for the Award are chosen by teachers and librarians and voted on by New Jersey children. Past recipients include Walter Dean Myers, Mo Williams, Doreen Cronin, and Betsy Lewin.

Books will be available for purchase and signing. Professional Development Credits are available for educators.

Please contact Victoria Thompson at (201)200-2472 or vthompson@njcu.edu
for more information. This event is sponsored by the M. Jerry Weiss Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature.

Pre-K Teachers, Braille Books and Summer Reading Contests

2010-07-29T10:07:00.006-04:00

FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHERS:

Zero to Three Project
(Courtesy Saroj Ghoting who posted to the ALSC listserv)

What has a more powerful influence on how parents raise their young children: the way they were raised or their faith? What roles do professionals and friends play in shaping parents’ views on childrearing? What impact is the economic downturn having on child care arrangements for young families?

These questions and more are some of the issues addressed in a new national parent survey of 1,615 parents of children from birth to 3 years conducted for ZERO TO THREE by Peter Hart Research. The survey was designed to explore the issues and challenges that parents of young children confront today, gaps in knowledge about early development, sources of information and support to which parents turn, and factors that influence their approaches to parenting.

The survey was conducted between June 4th and 11th 2009 and was funded by MetLife Foundation. The research includes an oversample of 200 African American and 200 Hispanic parents.

See http://www.zerotothree.org/about-us/funded-projects/parenting-resources/parenting-survey.html for the full report, webinar and other resources.

BRAILLE BOOK RESOURCES
(courtesy Shonda Brisco, Oklahoma State University)

Seedlings
http://www.seedlings.org/
(twin vision books)

National Braille Press
http://www.nbp.org/
great resources, as well as hand-outs for instructional courses with teachers on the use of Braille with K-12 students

WonderBaby
http://www.wonderbaby.org/articles/braille-resources.html

American Printing House for the Blind
http://www.aph.org/

New Jersey State Library for the Blind
http://www.njstatelib.org/LDB/Disabilities/dsresrcs.php

New Jersey State Library Talking Books
http://njsltbbc.org/

AND ATTENTION NJ YOUTH READERS!

A SUMMER READING CONTEST! (you can win concert tickets and a signed jersey)

The Statewide Summer Reading Program is partnering with the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority (owner and operator of the IZOD Center at the Meadowlands Sports Complex) to encourage reading and readers

Join the Statewide Summer Reading Program at your local public library and you can win
4 tickets to select family events at the Meadowlands Sports Complex.

Just enter the name of a book read at the njlibrarychampions.org website (http://www.njlibrarychampions.org/) under the link to “contest and events.”

Then enter the contest by filling out the entry form using Survey Monkey!

PRIZES:
Wiggles Concert
Sesame Street Live
A signed jersey from NJ Devils player Zach Parise

Harlem Book Fair 2010

2010-07-19T19:51:00.004-04:00

The 2010 Harlem Book Fair took place this past weekend at the NYPL Schomburg Branch

If you missed it, some of the events are archived on C-SPAN's Book TV.

The most important message from the panel discussions for librarians, teachers and parents was that if we want to see an increase in quality youth materials, representative of peoples of African descent and their history and culture, then we must SEEK OUT these materials at book fairs, libraries, and book stores; PURCHASE these materials and DEMAND that our SCHOOL LIBRARIES and CLASSROOMS contain these materials. These materials are not just for African American youth but contain universal themes for all readers. To prepare our youth for a diverse world, we have to provide them with materials that reflect that diversity.

The Program included some very stimulating and revealing panel discussions of interest to librarians and teachers. I have included both the descriptions and links to the archived videos.:

2010 HARLEM BOOK FAIR PROGRAM & SCHEDULE

SCHOMBURG C-SPAN PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Complete Saturday program
http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/07/17/HP/A/35566/Harlem+Book+Fair.aspx

Of particular interest

White and Whatever: Diversity in Children’s & Young Adult Book Publishing
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294543-5

The United States is an extremely diverse nation. But books for children and young adults hardly reflect that diversity. Only a small percentage of the books published every year are written and or illustrated by people of color. Many of these don’t make it to the market place. Why, in 2010, when the nation has elected its first African American president, is the book publishing industry still not meeting the need and demand for books that explore the width and breathe of our country’s multicultural experiences? This panel will explore the complex issues and suggest solutions to a problem that is garnering a lot of attention.

MODERATOR: Wade Hudson, Publisher, Just Us Books

PANELISTS: Jerry Craft, Mamma's Boyz; Zetta Elliott, Bird; Cheryl Willis Hudson, My Friend Maya Loves to Dance; Vanesse Lloyd Sgambati, Publicist; Director, African American Children's Book Project

From Digital Divide to Digital Inequality: Bridging the Market-driven Literacy Gap
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294543-7

The advent of digital technology has redefined the very scope of literacy. While African American literacy rates are statistically on par with national averages, the advent of the market-driven digital age threatens timely access to information to the most economically disparaged...less a 'digital divide' than a 'information access' divide. Inequality of bandwidth; autonomy of use; skills level; quality of support; and purpose (whether the Internet is used for increase of economic productivity and improvement of social capital or for consumption and entertainment) are the current pressing concerns. These authors believe that visual representation is the one critical element that will balance the impact of these emerging issues and drive a new generation of readers successfully into this brave, new world.

MODERATOR: John Jennings, Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture (Mark Batty Publisher/Random)

PANELISTS: Damian Duffy, Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics (Krannert Art Museum), Dawud Anyabwile, Brotherman; Alex Simmons, DarkJACK; Gregory Walker, ZM1

Test Preparation help for NJCU students

2010-06-24T12:37:00.007-04:00

New Jersey City University Students

PRAXIS/GRE ANXIETY???
Have no fear
LEARNING EXPRESS IS HERE!

Follow these steps:

Just go the Guarini Library Home Page http://www.njcu.edu/guarini/
2 Click on Databases by Title http://www.njcu.edu/guarini/databases/Alpha.htm
3 Click on Learning Express
4 SET UP AN INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNT (6 character min. for username and password)

(Click on Admissions and Placement Preparation for CLEP, GRE, TOEFL)
(Click on Skills Improvement for Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary, Spelling, etc)
5. Click on Jobs & Careers. Scroll down for Teaching.
6. Click on Teaching for Praxis /
or Nursing and Allied Health for NCLEX-RN practice tests
7. Scroll down to choose the test that you need.

8. Click Add to My Center box on the right.

Problems ?

Currently enrolled NJCU students only

Call the Guarini Library Reference Desk for assistance.

http://www.njcu.edu/guarini/ASKA.htm

NYC Multicultural Film Festival-6/23-6/27 2010

2010-06-22T12:51:00.004-04:00

RACE, PRIVILEGE AND SOCIETY

Film Series and Panel Discussion -

NYC

JUNE 23 - 27, 2010
As part of its ongoing ADFF Spring and Summer Film Series at Teachers College, Columbia University, ADFF and the Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Community Affairs are presenting the "RACE AND PRIVILEGE IN SOCIETY" film series on June 23 to 27, a selection of documentary and fiction films that explore issues around race and privilege.

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2010 FREE PROGRAM
4 PM TIM WISE: ON WHITE PRIVILEGE (USA)

THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2010 FREE PROGRAM
6 PM WHAT'S RACE GOT TO DO WITH IT? (USA)
7 PM PANEL "RACE, PRIVILEGE AND SOCIETY"

FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2010 FREE PROGRAM
6 PM THE GLASS CEILING (France)

SATURDAY, JUNE 26 , 2010

3 PM WHITE LIKE THE MOON & DENYING BRAZIL (USA & Brazil)

5 PM BURN: THE EVOLUTION OF AN AMERICAN CITY (USA)

SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010

2 PM CONGO: WHITE KING, RED RUBBER, BLACK DEATH (Congo/Belgium)

4 PM PLACIDO (Cuba)

TICKETS:

Wednesday through Friday are Free of Charge and Open to the public.

Saturday and Sunday only: Weekend pass $15; Day pass $10; $6 per show;

PLEASE NOTE: CASH ONLY AT THE DOOR.

WHERE:

Teachers College, Columbia University

525 West 120th Street -

Room 263 Macy

Take train 1 to 116th street and walk uptown four blocks.

Entrance between Broadway and Amsterdam.

Picture ID requested to enter building.

DVDs of films from Africa and the African Diaspora will be on sale at the venue.

$20 per DVD; $35 for 2 DVD; $45 for three DVD and $15 for each additional DVD.
PLEASE CASH ONLY ON SITE.
See http://www.nyadff.org/June_10.html for more information

Splash into Reading at NJ libraries

2010-06-22T12:41:00.005-04:00

New Jersey public libraries have water-related summer reading programs for each age group!

The themes are:

Children: "Make a Splash",

Young Adults:"Make Waves"

Adults :"Water Your Mind"

Parent/Educator Alert

Check out the summer reading website at http://www.njsummerreading.org/

for prograns, reading lists, film and movie lists, and web resources for each age group.

Don't forget to become a New jersey library supporter at http://www.savemynjlibrary.org/!

JUNETEENTH-June 19th- Celebrations

2010-06-16T19:32:00.004-04:00

Juneteenth

The celebration of the belated news of the abolition of slavery in Texas in 1865 has been transformed into celebrations throughout the United states and the world. It is now a state holiday in 36 states.

Celebrations in New Jersey

WOODBURY
June 19, 2010 - Greater Woodbury Arts Council -
Wing Dickerson Park, Allens Lane and Carpenter Street,
from 11 am to 4 pm.
Activities will include Park Dedication, live music, food, vendors, children's activities and more.

ELIZABETH
June 19, 2010 - Juneteenth Planning Committee of Elizabeth, New Jersey - Mt. Teman AME Church160 Madison AvenueElizabeth, NJ
June 19, 2010 12 Noon - 4 P.M.
Program, Speakers, Storytelling, Black History Trivia,Praise Dancers, Games and More

Also on June 26, Games such as softball, kick ball, horseshoes, double dutch, basketball gameLocation:
Bayway Community Center, 513-515 Richmond Street, Elizabeth, NJ

June 26, 2010 - City of Elizabeth Juneteenth Committee -
Fred Erxleben Recreation Center 513-515 Richmond St. Elizabeth,
NJ Softball Tournament, Bingo, Checkers, Juneteenth All Stars Basketball Game, Free Food and MORE!

BEVERLY
June 19, 2010 -
Silver Set with Rubies Chapter, Red Hat Society -
BEVERLY CITY JUNETEENTH 2010:
A Celebration of History through Music, Poetry and Prose.
June 19th from 12-4 PM.
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,
158 Warren Street, Beverly, NJ.
Call 609-387-1259 for info about tickets.

Keynote address by Burlington County Historian, Joseph Laufer -

Burlington County: Cradle of Emancipation - The Vision, the Determination, the Legacy. Historical reenactment of Harriet Tubman by actress, writer, griot Alma Day.

Presentations of poetry, music and prose;

Black History photographic exhibit;

Riverfront Historical Society display.

Vendors, door prizes, soul food luncheon.

Presented by the Silver Set with Rubies Chapter,

Red Hat Society as a benefit for the Beverly Free Library.

To find events in other locations:

http://www.juneteenth.com/worldwide.htm

Curriculum and Lesson plans

Links: http://www.lessonplanet.com/curriculum_connections/social_studies_lesson_plans/17_June_2009/59/juneteenth_lesson_plans?utm_source=article&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=0900618

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLACIEndOfYearJuneteenthEndOfSlaveryResearchCelebrationPresentationIdeaMO.htm

http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/detail/juneteenth-proclamation-jubilation-lesson-plan/

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/celebrate-juneteenth-20547.html

Juneteenth Books

Branch, Muriel Miller.

Title: Juneteenth : freedom day

Juv. 394.263 .B816J

Jordan, Denise.

Title: Juneteenth

Juv.394.26 .J82j

Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux.

Title: Juneteenth

Juv.394.26 .N424j

Weatherford, Carole Boston,

Title: Juneteenth jamboree

Juv. W3625j

See http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2011/06/juneeteenth-in-new-jersey.html for 2011 New Jersey events

Save NJ Libraries and Services-ACT NOW!

2010-06-09T20:01:00.002-04:00

New Jersey Library Association -- Legislative Action Center:
"Last Push to Restore Library Funding
Thank you all for your support over the last 3 months. Your letters and phone calls have demonstrated to our elected officials how valuable library services are to the people of New Jersey. Now, as the final budget is being negotiated, we ask that you reach out one more time. These last days before the budget is approved are very important and we need to ask all elected officials to restore funding to the NJ Library Network, the NJ Virtual Library, public library state aid and the NJ Knowledge Initiative. Please send your message today."

Click here to act!

http://capwiz.com/ala/nj/home/

Holocaust Seminar-5/21/10-Queensborough Community College

2010-05-20T13:47:00.002-04:00

Seminar –
Teaching the Holocaust, Genocide and War: Resources and Services

The Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives of Queensborough Community College,
City University of New York
Friday, May 21 – 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon – Breakfast

Speakers will include:
Dr. Arthur Flug, Executive Director, QCC, Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives
Dr. Susan Jacobowitz, Associate Professor, QCC, City University of New York, English Dept.
Ms. Sylvia Karges, Curatorial Assistant, American Numismatic Society
Dr. Anne Kirschner, University Dean, Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York

Sponsored by --
ACRL/NY - New York City Section
and
Friends of the Kurt R. Schmeller Library
"Providing Knowledge, Promoting Understanding"
QCC, City University of New York
RSVP Dr. Barbara Bonous-Smit
bbonoussmit@qcc.cuny.edu

Budget Cuts-NJ/NY

2010-05-20T13:25:00.005-04:00

The New York Public Library used an innovative method to garner library support with the use of "Ghostbusters" and its "Don't Close the Book on Libraries" Campaign

Read more about it here
http://news.suite101.com/article.cfm/new-york-public-library-calls-in-ghostbusters-for-resurrection-a238868?sms_ss=email

http://improveverywhere.com/2010/05/18/who-you-gonna-call/

On May 22, 2010, New Jersey residents and supporters can march to protest budget cuts

Massive May 22nd Rally in Trenton to Protest Budget Cuts

A massive rally in Trenton is planned for Saturday, May 22, 2010, starting at noon at The State House (125 W. State St, Trenton NJ 08625).

This is a community rally to protest NJ’s proposed cuts in the state budget. Over 100 community groups are participating in this event which could draw up to 50,000 people. Workers, family, and friends are invited to attend this rally and the speakers will be coming from community groups. The sponsors of the rally include the major unions of public service employees although union officials will not be speaking. Participants are urged to wear red, white, or blue clothing.

Free buses are available to attend the rally and you can sign up for these at various union web sites including AFT: see http://www.aftnj.org/ You can also take NJ Transit trains to Trenton.

Update:

Articles, photos, and video are available at:
http://njculibrary.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/coverage-of-may-22-trenton-rally/

Free Comic Book Day is May 1st, 2010

2010-04-30T09:25:00.004-04:00

May 1st is Free Comic Book Day!

What is Free Comic Book Day? Free Comic Book Day is a single day - the first Saturday in May each year - when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely FREE* to anyone who comes into their stores. *Check with your local shop for their participation and rules *

Official Site and Store Locator
See http://www.freecomicbookday.com/ for more information
See http://www.freecomicbookday.com/comics.asp for comic previews

Study Abroad in Madrid for Bilingual University Students

2010-04-25T16:07:00.005-04:00

CHLI AND PROMOMADRID SEEK BILINGUAL UNIVERSITY APPLICANTS FOR THE CHLI-MADRID PROGRAM: GATEWAY TO MADRID

Summer Madrid Program Aims to Provide Global Leadership Experience for American Students from Diverse Backgrounds

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS:

Monday, May 3, 2010.

The Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute (CHLI) and PromoMadrid invite qualified students who are currently in their last year of their undergraduate or studying a Post Graduate Program in an accredited four year University, from throughout the United States and Puerto Rico , to apply for the 2010 CHLI-Madrid Program: Gateway to Madrid Summer Internship Program.

Seven to ten students from diverse backgrounds will be selected to become part of this intensive six-week summer internship program in Madrid , Spain . Successful interns will first participate in a one week immersion course that will focus on Spanish culture, economy, and politics which will then be followed by a five week placement with a sponsoring Madrid-based company. The CHLI-Madrid Program aims to provide a unique and enriching practical work experience for bilingual American student leaders in one of Europe 's main economic hubs, the Regional Community of Madrid.

This initiative is financially backed by PromoMadrid and managed by CHLI, who will be responsible for all aspects related to the students' internship, training, housing & travel while living in Madrid .

The application deadline is Monday, May 3, 2010.

The program begins June 14 and ends July 30, 2010.

Applications can be downloaded from the CHLI website at http://www.chli.org/.

To apply, applicants must:

Be U.S. citizens, bilingual in English and Spanish.
Have a valid U.S. Passport.
Be enrolled in an accredited four year college/university.
Submit a completed application form, personal statement in English and Spanish, curriculum vitae, two letters of recommendation and official transcripts.

Compensation:

Airfare and housing accommodations in Madrid , Spain .
Stipend for living expenses
Health insurance

For more information please contact Yisel Cabrera, Director of Programs and Operations, Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute at ycabrera@chli.org or at 202-347-8280 Ext. 303.

About CHLI:
The Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute (CHLI, pronounced "chili”) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization, based in Washington , D.C. , that advances the diversity of thought in U.S. Hispanic community in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, as well as in the international community. For more information, please visit www.chli.org. You may also connect with us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

About PromoMadrid:
PromoMadrid, Desarrollo Internacional de Madrid, S.A. is a regional government-owned company, incorporated in 2004 with the purpose of promoting and developing the Region of Madrid internationally from an economic perspective. PromoMadrid acts under the authority of the Madrid Regional Ministry of Economy and Finance Affairs. Visit http://promomadrid.com/

Mel Glenn at NJCU today!

2010-04-22T16:21:00.005-04:00

MEL GLENN, AUTHOR/POET

Thursday, April 22
4:30–6:00 p.m.
New Jersey City University
Hepburn Hall, Room 202
(2039 Kennedy Blvd., Jersey City, NJ 07305)

Mel Glenn, acclaimed author of 12 young adult books and retired high school teacher, has been writing since 1980. His first book, Class Dismissed! High School Poems, which was published in 1982, was named a Society of Children’s Book Writers Golden Kite Honor Book and an American Library Association (ALA) Best Book for Young Adults, and was included in the ALA’s Best of the Best Books 1970-1982.

Mr. Glenn’s characters are urban teens who reveal their fears, joys, conflicting feelings, concerns, and hopes through poetry. Using multiple narrators, his poems provide readers with broad and thought-provoking perspectives about school life, basketball, poverty, violence, love, friendships, and family relationships.

Mr. Glenn will speak about his writing process, books, and experiences as an author and educator.

Professional Development Credits are available for educators.

Please contact Victoria Thompson at (201)200-2472 or vthompson@njcu.edu for more information.

The Cartel-Documentary about NJ education premieres

2010-04-16T18:34:00.003-04:00

The Cartel Movie - A Film by Bob Bowdon - Screenings: "April 2010 Friday, April 16 - The Cartel will premiere in New York at the Quad Cinema, Each theater will be showing the film for a week (Friday, April 16 through Thursday, April 22). The documentary is about New Jersey schools and education.

New York premiere: Showtimes are at 1:10pm, 3:10pm, 5:10pm, 7:10pm, and 9:30pm. At the 7:10 showing on April 16 there will be an Education Reform Panel Discussion and Q&A with Director Bob Bowdon; Derrell Bradford, Executive Director of Excellent Education for Everyone; Carlos Lejnieks, President of the NJ Charter Schools Association; and Marcus Winters, Education Scholar at the Manhattan Institute.

See the movie website, http://www.thecartelmovie.com/ for more information.

NJCU celebrates National Day of Silence- 4/15/10

2010-04-13T12:53:00.006-04:00

On the National Day of Silence hundreds of thousands of students nationwide take a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in their schools.

New Jersey City University will prepare its students for the National Day of Silence with a series of workshops on Thursday, April 15, 2010.

THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010 WORKSHOPS

Why Choose to be Gay?

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: GSUB 129

Do LGB people choose to be gay or is it predetermined at birth? It is an age old topic of debate that no one seems to have a definitive answer to. Is there an answer? Come find out!

Speaker: Dr. Hoch, Biology Department

What’s the deal with Gender Roles?

Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm

Location: GSUB 129

Is an effeminate man gay? Is a masculine girl a lesbian? Where do these gender roles come from and how do they tie into sexuality? In a world where we tend to assume so much about people based on their physical appearance and actions, how can we tell who's gay from someone who's somewhat effeminate or masculine?

Speaker: Tracy Riley, English Department/Women and Gender Studies Program

LG...BT?

Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm

Location: GSUB 129

What exactly are the B and T and how do they fit into the LGBT equation? What is their interaction within the community and why are they excluded from many constituencies? Where do these prejudices start and where are they seated? More importantly, how do we dispel them?

Speaker: Liza Fiol-Matta, Women’s & Gender Studies Program

“Shut yo’ mouth!”

Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm

Location: GSUB 129

We hear them every day: "faggot," "dyke," "tranny"-- “oh, that’s so gay.” How do the words we say and use affect our every day lives, our self-esteem and self-worth? Do they box people into various stereotypes?

Speaker: Dr. Silvia Pastor, Psychology Department & Peers Educating Peers, Counseling Center“

Breaking the Silence”

MIXER – 7:00 – 10:00 P.M.

Come Break the Silence at Hepburn Hall’s Gothic Lounge (H202). Guest DJs, refreshments and snacks will be served. Come out to show your support in the fight against discrimination.

For more information, please contact Ms. Moreira, LGBTF Alliance Advisor, at (201) 200-2269 or email njculgbtfa@gmail.com

See http://www.dayofsilence.org/ to register and for materials.

School Board Elections in New Jersey

2010-04-12T16:10:00.004-04:00

On April 20th, New Jersey voters will have an opportunity to vote for members of their school boards and the school budget in their districts.

You can vote by mail! Fill out the application. It has to be received by the Board of elections by tomorrow! http://www.hudsoncountyclerk.org/elections/default.htm

Locally, Jersey City voters will elect three new Board of Education members.

All Jersey City residents and taxpayers, parents and caregivers are welcome to learn about the issues and meet the candidates at two free Board of Education forums.

The candidates will present their platforms after which audience members will have an opportunity to ask questions directly to the candidates.

First Forum
Date: Tuesday April 13th, 2010
Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: PS16 Auditorium – 96 Sussex Street
Hosted by: The HPHA

Second Forum
Date: Thursday April 15th, 2010
Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: PS11 Auditorium – 886 Bergen Avenue
Hosted by: JCFBS and JC PTO Coalition

and you can check:
http://www.talkingpolitics.net/
for streaming videos of some of the Jersey City candidates

Results can be found here
http://njculibrary.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/2010-new-jersey-school-boardbudget-elections-results/

Curious George and the Holocaust

2010-04-11T09:18:00.004-04:00

Today, April 11, 2010 is Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Currently until August 1, the Jewish Museum at 1108 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New York, NY is hosting an exhibit, Curious George Saves the Day, the Art of Margaret and H.A. Rey.

The Reys were German-born Jews who escaped from Paris just before the Nazi Occupation. They carried their manuscripts which were later published as the Curious George books with them during the escape. The story has been told in the imaginative picture book, The Journey that Saved Curious George: the True Wartime Adventures of Margaret and H.A. Rey by Louise Borden ( Juv. 928.1 H249b). The exhibit follows the lives and work of the Reys from their childhoods, their lives in Europe and Brazil and the United States.

There are several educator and family workshops offered by the museum and a curriculum guide will soon be available on the museum site, http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/.

NLW: National Library Week 2010- 4/11- 4/17-Save Libraries

2010-04-07T11:03:00.006-04:00

What is the best way to celebrate National Library Week?
Work to save our local libraries!

In New Jersey
go to http://www.savemynjlibrary.org/
There you can find out about proposed state legislation that endangers library funding.

You can also click on Contact Legislators with 1 click
and
Scroll to the bottom of the page
to immediately contact the Governor and your state legislators!

and then tell others to take Action

ALSO

Honorary Chair of National Library Week,Neil Gaiman, the 2009 Newbery Medal winner for “The Graveyard Book,” will speak to his lifelong love of libraries and the role they play in a democratic society by supporting intellectual freedom and privacy.

Library lovers and Gaiman readers across the country who are interested in watching are encouraged to join in the event live via UStream.tv and will need a 1 Mbps Internet connection and Flash player. Internet2 will also multicast the event on its national network enabling any of its connected research and education members that are multicast-enabled to broadcast the event to their campuses. Multicast information can be found at http://www.internet2.edu/k20/gaiman.html.