PLA Virtual Spring Symposium

Cost: Free to SALS member library staff
$10: everyone else
Please RSVP to sals58@gmail.com
http://www.ala.org/pla/education/springsymposium

This is what it looks like we will be watching:

11:15 am to 12:15 pm: Hands on! Innovative YA Programming (Steve Teeri)
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm: A Novel approach to Giving Bad News (Stacy Schrank, Raquelle Solon)
2:30-3:30 pm: Marketing Trends and Innovations for Libraries (Alison Circle, Jim Staley)
3:45 pm to 4:45 pm – Customer Service Challenges: When Tensions Run High (Cheryl Gould)

Live from the Youth Media Awards

Greetings from Seattle. The tweets probably beat this blog post, but it is pretty cool to be able to share this with you.  The big book winners are Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz – 2 awards and 1 honor and  BOMB : the race to build  and steal the world’s most dangerous weapon by Steve Sheinkin.

Alex Award: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/alex

Schneider Family Book Awards:

Back to front and upside down by Claire Alexander

A dog called homeless by Sarah Lean

Somebody please tell me who I am by Harry Mazer and Peter      Lerangis

Stonewall Book Awards:

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Coretta Scott King awards:

Virginia Hamilton  Award for Lifetime Achievement- Demetria Tuck

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