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PLA Kits for Young Readers Sale
Save up to 50% on kits for young readers. Help parents foster reading at home by offering these engaging kits at your library. Each publication below is 40% off through August 31, 2011. Combine it with your 10% ALA discount and … you get 50% off! Just use the promotion code “sale11″ when you place [...]
Active Learning Environments for Children
If you are looking to expand your library’s educational services by creating interactive learning environments for children of all ages, then you won’t want to miss this PLA 2010 preconference program. This program will be held on March 23, 2010, from 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Interactive learning environments promote skills in areas such as [...]
Designing Children’s Spaces w/ Early Literacy In Mind
I attended this preconference on Tuesday and absolutely LOVED most of the ideas presented. It was well organized and the day seemed to fly by! This presentation gave me bunches of ideas for use in my library. I work for the Henderson Public Libraries in Henderson, NV as a Youth Services Librarian. Next year we [...]
Children’s Spaces, Family Places preconference
You never know what the actual take-aways from a conference will be. For example, the last time I attended PLA (in Charlotte) I attended a session about serving coffee in the library. The speakers presented everything from the FOL serving coffee from a book truck to, I think it was Chicago PL (? the conference [...]
