Series Fiction Database

I don’t know about you, but sometimes you get someone who wants to know the order of series of books, and its hard to figure out.  This site was listed on a listerv for me, and I thought I would share.  Its pretty cool and it does printer friendly versions too!

http://ww2.kdl.org/libcat/whatsnext.asp

Thanks to Jennifer for sharing this GREAT resource! 

Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries

The State Library of North Carolina shared ALSC's new competencies for librarians serving children in public libraries on their Library Development blog this week.  Topics include reference services, programming skills, materials management, outreach and advocacy, management skills, and professional development.

Rowan Reads to Newborns - NEW library program

Be sure to read this article about our new Rowan Reads to Newborns program.  Special thanks to Jane Welch, Outreach Services Supervisor, who was instrumental in getting this program established and currently oversees this program for the library.

If you would like to see what a bag looks like, see Jane or Melissa.

Rowan Reads offers free books to newborns at Rowan Medical Center

Yesterday Photo from Salisbury Post features 1991 Bookmobile

Check out this picture of the bookmobile from 24 (!) years ago.

1991 Bookmobile gets back on the road

Stories by the Millstream

Thank you for helping out at the 16^th Annual Stories by the Millstream Festival.

Location:  Sloan Park, Mt. Ulla (Hwy 150 in western Rowan County)

In the event of rain we will meet in the Hurley Room at Headquarters. 

Arrival Time: Friday, September 18^th at 8:00 a.m.

Parking:  Enter the park and make the first available left into the parking lot. 

Dress Code:  Dress for comfort and weather appropriate.  Wear jeans or shorts and comfortable shoes.  If you are a guide we will provide a T-shirt for you to wear.  Please remember T-shirts need to be returned. If you prefer to wear your own T-shirt see below for your color. (Note:  Colors are subject to change as needed)

Wanda / JoEllen	Red
Emma / Marty	Orange
Shearin / Joan	Green
Vicki / Cindy	Yellow
Ashley B / Joyce	Brown
Pat / Barbara	Purple
Helen / Tara	Pink
Dusty / Tammie	White
Gordon / Mindy	Blue
Gretchen / Ashley H	Navy Blue
Cathy / Tina	Black
Nancy / Spencer	Grey

Dennis	Bringing Ice / Coolers / 2 Tables and 4 Chairs Help with Site Setup in the Morning / Floater
Beverly Gaston	Breakfast Food / Lunch Set-up
Marian, Charlene, Melissa	Bus check-in to greet classes
Jane, Pam	Distribute guide / storyteller packets and then to the amphitheater to direct classes
Paul (camera) and Erika	Help with Site Setup in the morning / Floaters

Guide Info: 

All guides will be given a packet with their responsibilities, storytelling schedule, and a park map at the festival. 

Please meet your assigned classes at the Bus Check-in located at the entrance.  Your primary responsibility will be to make sure your assigned classes get to the right shelter (the color of your shirt) to listen to two storytellers for 45 minutes – 50 minutes. 

You will stay with your assigned class group until their story session is over and then you will walk them to the amphitheater to listen to feature teller Tom Lee.  If you are assigned to two sessions report back to the buses after walking your group to the amphitheater to meet your next group 

If a group arrives to play or eat before their storytelling session meet them at the playground area at least 15 minutes prior to their designated time to escort them to their storytelling site.

Lunch:  Will be provided for staff, volunteers and storytellers at the park thanks to the Friends of the Library.

Let’s hope for a beautiful day!!!

Early Returns at Overdrive

Early Returns

Roary is a Super Reader

I hope all children's staff are ready for our kickoffs next week! Emma (me) & Tammie went to Faith Elementary yesterday to do a presentation about summer reading. I think my 1st time as Roary went well & I had a lot of fun! Good Luck to Everyone! See you next week!

Tumble Books Authentication

Tumble Books is now requiring that we do bar code authentication to access their site. From within the library there should be no change, the link will go directly to Tumble Books. Remote users will be required to enter their library bar code for access.

the logos are in!

The photos and designs above are from Emma’s Easel Art Program, held at East on Thursdays at 4:00 pm.  All library locations offer free weekly programs for children, including Art in the Afternoons on Thursdays at RPL Headquarters (Salisbury) and Art with Char on Wednesdays at South Rowan Regional (China Grove).  Visit www.rowanpubliclibrary.org for a complete list of special programs for children and adults.

1.  Karissa Wongjanarat
2.  Logo by Kaitlynn Wongjanarat

3.  Brooklyn Griggs 
4.  Logo by Timothy Roberts 

5.  Library books and handouts

6.  Logo by Brooklyn & David Griggs 

7.  Emma asking participants what Rowan County represents to them

8.  Logo by Buster Shoemaker

9.  Emma introducing other county logos

Looks like nature, parks, and agriculture were common themes throughout as Emma challenged participants to design a logo that represented Rowan County.

the votes are in!

The votes are in!  The reading log for tracking hours read has been dubbed “Hero Journal”.

Age Groups are identified as follows:

1s are called Wonders
2s are called Marvels
3-5s are called Mighty Readers
K-5 are called Super Readers

The book review is the “Super Reader Review”

Stay tuned for finalized booklets from Children's in the very near future.  Registration begins May 18th!

AR reading lists

The Library will not be renewing our Read The Books AR Reading service when the subscription runs out in July.  This means that after July 1st when you go to search the library catalog, you will no longer see “AR Reading List” on the top menu bar.  I have checked with the elementary school media coordinators to see if any schools utilize this list/service and no one has responded that they do.  I have not yet notified them that our subscription will end in July.

WHY?  Because…….

COMING VERY SOON:  when you search for books in the catalog, you will be able to see the books Lexile and/or Accelerated Reader (AR) number as part of the catalog record.

• Lexile/AR data will be based on the item’s ISBN number
• It appears that we will be able to search by AR Reading Level or Lexile Measure
• If an item does not have reading level data in the record, then it will not come up when if you are searching by AR Reading Level or Lexile Measure

- Melissa