Cosplay Programs for Your Library: WNYLRC Webinar

WNYLRC Winter Webinar: Cosplay Programs for Your Library

Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2016; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Description: Cosplay, comics, anime, and geek culture have exploded into the mainstream over recent years and have resulted in a thriving community of costume enthusiasts and pop culture fans. Today’s cosplayers find inspiration in the pages of comics, classic literature, and even history, as well as in film, television, and video games. They utilize many materials and techniques, including 3D printers, thermoplastics, craft foam, and fabric to design their costumes and props.

Whatever your level of experience with cosplay and event planning, whether or not your library is new to fandom-style programming, you’ll learn something new, fun, and interesting. Learn all about the world of cosplay and how libraries can host cosplay events, workshops, makerspaces, clubs, and more!

Location: webinar – login information will be provided

Speaker: Ellysa Kroski is the Director of Information Technology at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 35 books including Law Librarianship in the Digital Age for which she won the AALL’s 2014 Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award. Her ten-book technology series, The Tech Set won the ALA’s Best Book in Library Literature Award in 2011. She is a librarian, an adjunct faculty member at Pratt Institute, and an international conference speaker. She blogs at Cosplay, Comics, and Geek Culture in Libraries, and has published Cosplay in Libraries: How to Embrace Costume Play in Your Library

Register by clicking here

Price (Other NY 3Rs Library Member):  $10

Blending Scholastic GO! with Common Core, Social Studies Framework, and the C3 Inquiry Arc

April 28, 2016, 3:30pm

Blending Scholastic GO! with Common Core, Social Studies Framework, and the C3 Inquiry Arc

Scholastic is hosting customized NOVELNY training sessions to help NOVELNY users optimize their use of Scholastic GO!’s resources to best support their Common Core, Social Studies Framework (SSF), and Inquiry instruction with students and in support of teachers. The session will focus on Common Core’s key aspects, ranging from Primary Resources, Information Text and Vocabulary to Deeper Evidenced Based Research, Text Complexity and Point of View, SS Framework, C3 Inquiry Arc, and how best to incorporate these core objectives via Scholastic GO! into schools and public libraries.

Please register at https://scholastic.webex.com/scholastic/onstage/g.php?d=620541439&t=a
Event password: spring

Call in number: 1-866-422-5206
Participant code: 6183780556

Beyond the Intro to GO!

April 7, 2016, 3:00pm

Beyond the Intro to GO!

Now that you know how to use GO – let’s learn how to utilize and elevate learning in your libraries. Learn how to promote the regular use of Scholastic GO with parents, teachers, students, all the communities you serve. Activities that will help create and build digital reading stamina as well as promote the regular use of Scholastic GO in the lives of your teachers, students, and library patrons.

Please register at https://scholastic.webex.com/scholastic/onstage/g.php?d=627417374&t=a
Event password: spring

Call in number: 1-866-422-5206
Participant code: 2238180846