Butterfly, Dragon and Wikis...OH MY!

There have been a few requests to recreate the window butterfly & dragon craft templates so we'd like to post these here for interested folk to download. *-) Our thanks to Carver public librarians Melissa Mcleod & Connie Kelly for offering these to the group.

We'd also like to thank Beth Gallaway of Metrowest and Janet Eckert of Western Region for creating an experimental summer reading wiki for all librarians to view or contribute. Here's the email from MassYac that announces the colloborative project:

For those of you looking for ideas for the MA 2006 Statewide Summer Reading Program, what's buzzin' at your library/tune in @ your library (TM), check out our statewide collaborative WIKI, with librarian-compiled booklists, model programs, a downloadable credit logo, customizable documents like press releases, links to craft projects and regional blogs, and more! We have storage space to host documents like storytime outlines or original templates as well. Thanks for not posting scans of copyrighted materials without permission, and for crediting sources!

To VIEW or ADD TO the wiki,
1. Email your consultant to receive the password.
2. Go to http://whatsbuzzinma06.pbwiki.com
3. Enter your first name: i.e."Beth"
4. Enter your email address: i.e. bethg@mmrls.org
5. Enter the password.
This allows us to track the changes made to the pages.

NOTE: If you log in to view or add anything, please make sure you LOG OUT when you are finished.

If you need help, scroll down to the bottom of the first page and click "WikiBasics. " Don't stress over formatting - someone will come along and make it pretty - that's the beauty of wikis!

Sincerely,
Beth Gallaway
For the Massachusetts Regional Library Systems


By all means, visit the Wiki! We are experimenting a little more this year and we would like to see how useful(or not) it may be all for future summer reading projects. If you want to know more about WIKIS, register for the Wednesday, June 7th Wild World of Wikis workshop at the SEMLS office at 10 a.m. To register, click here.