2012 Youth Services Workshops

Today’s Agenda• YS resources• SRP overviews• Early literacy SRP• 12:15 – 1:00: lunch!• Venue tour/presentation• Children’s SRP• Teen SRP• Open idea exchange• Adult SRP

Today’s Goals

• Exchange ideas about the 2013 SRP & SRP in general

• Network with colleagues• Discuss other CO youth services programs• Learn from venue staff or volunteers• Have fun!• Your goals?

State Library YS Resources

• Website• CYS-Lib• YS News• One Book 4 Colorado—is ON for 2013!

Link to 6 skills & 5 activities

Why SRPs?

Youngest kids gain early literacy skills

Kids & teens select own reading materials

Kids & teens see adults reading

Kids & teens have fun reading

Kids & teens read more, do well in school, become lifelong readers

CSLP

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2013 Colorado SRP

Register for the 2013 SRP online!Children’s kits:• 5 small kids’ posters• 1 pack bookmarks (200)• 1 pack stickers (250)• 1 pack reading certificates (25)• 1 rubber stamp

2013 Colorado SRP cont.

Teen kits:• 5 small posters• 1 pack bookmarks (200)• 1 rubber stamp• 1 pack mini-buttons (5)

2013 Mini-Grants

New early literacy focus2 options:

1. SRP for 0-6: – Purchase books for 0-6, and/or– Purchase/print SRP logs for parents

2. 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten:– Purchase books for 0-6, and/or– Print reading logs for parents

Summer Food Service Program:Food that’s In when School is Out!

Partner with a SFSP in your area to help kids pair nutritious meals and reading this summer!

A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning

opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.

--Julie Andrews