tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225008642011-07-15T14:08:08.352-07:00The Southeastern Massachusetts Librarians 2006 Summer Reading Blog for all things Buggy!Vickie Beene-Beavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070281310106814607noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22500864.post-1158006998726520932006-09-11T13:28:00.000-07:002006-09-12T13:45:42.356-07:00

Well, now that Summer Reading is over I suppose we should end it with an official evaluation. So for those of you who have buzzzed, popped, whistled your way through programs and crafts, please do the same on the online summer reading survey.The date for completing the survey is Friday, October 13th 2006. In fact, both the survey and summer reading orders for 2007, ie. posters, reading logs,

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Yippee-Yi-Yay! The Big Eastern States Exposition tickets are on their way to those libraries who claimed a pair as part of their Summer Reading prize incentive offering. For those of you who missed that June email, we have eight(8) more pairs of tickets to giveway if you are interested. Just call or write me an email to claim them!Our thanks goes out to Janet Eckert, Youth Services Consultant

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Gather around the "Tube" folks for an entertaining spectacle of statewide collaboration and the use of the latest social-networking technology. Using the skits that Amesbury and Springfield children's librarians created in celebration of SRP 2006, Lee Parker of Norton recorded a video clip with the help of her Junior Friends and Teen Advisory Group to produce two ads to be broadcast on their

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The MBLC Toolkit Summer Reading Toolkit has been prepared for all who would like to share the great news of the 'what's buzzin' at your library' and 'tune in at your library' ad campaigns with your local radio, newspaper or cable tv outlets. We have both a 30-second radio script for teens and children, and of course color and black & white ads for the media. For a listing of all the billboards

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As of today, July 12, the SEMLS office has the following supplies available on a first-come, first-served basis:3 packs of certificates plus 73 individual sheets (100 per pack.)7 packs of bookmarks (100 per pack.)16 postersPlease call 508-923-3531 or email semls@semls.org, and we will be glad to send these supplies to you!

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Drum roll please........We now unveil the summer reading ad for 2006...dah...da-da-da-dah.....There will be five locations in the Southeastern Region for which the ad will appear. Weymouth, New Bedford, Fall River, Stoughton and Wareham will have roadside high postings. For the specific street locations and information on the other 31 sites throughout the state, MBLC will post them as soon as the

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In a few more weeks, summer reading will officially begin.YEAH! I'm sure many of you have plans to do something special to announce to the world that 'the party is over here' this summer. I'd like to ask, how many of you have plans to celebrate in a big way? If you have a press release or flier readily available feel free to send me a copy at vbeenebeavers@semls.org. Or if you'd like to just

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Just in case you did not receive the announcement regarding our Museum of Fine Arts Summer Reading visit invitation--here's the April 25th mass email from Kenneth Peterson of Boston Region. Check if there is any availability or cancellation if you are still interested in attending:Dear Region Members,The Museum of Fine Arts and Boston Regional Library System invites you to Massachusetts Statewide

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What a great way to celebrate this years What's Buzzin' at your library theme by hosting a spelling bee! Huh? You ask. According to the film and publishing industry this seems to be the season of Bees. Some of you may have read Myla Goldberg's 2001 novel THE BEE SEASON or viewed the 2005 movie. Others may have seen the 2003 Oscar-nominated documentary SPELLBOUND that profiled the lives of 1999

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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

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I am exceedingly pleased that our April 11th summer reading roundtable was a great resource of craft and programs ideas, book suggestions and resources that could be shared by all! I would be remiss in not sharing the information with those who were not in attendance. So I am happy to be able to share this en mass on our SRP blog. Our crafty participants offered several titles that were perfect

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What do you get when you cross one Alka-Seltzer tablet, water and an empty film roll bottle? One heck of an idea for a summer reading program activity that's what! Last Thursday, we had an EGGSellent time building space capsules and rockets using household products in the Explore! Fun with Science workshop facilitated by Central Region's Youth Consultant Maureen Amborosino. As a NASA trained

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Yeah! The final part of our orders came yesterday afternoon and the office has finished packing and sorting the certificates, bookmarks, posters and reading logs to be shipped through delivery just an hour ago. Most bins weigh at forty lbs., if not more. Now our driver's vehicle can only take so much weight per delivery. So as you may have guessed, it will probably take at least a week before

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Michelle Tapper-Racine of (Joseph H. Plumb Library in Rochester) sent me a link from the Pottery Barn Kids to share with you all in case you are looking for Bug-like images to place in your walls. Thanks Michelle! If anyone else would like to share information, feel free to post. Just offer a quick title to your message and type away. *-)

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The best way that we can thank our sponsors is to acknowledge them in print on all the publicity that is used to promote SRP. Be sure to include this credit line whenever you send out press releases, fliers, brochures--essentially anything that whistles, buzzes or flies. The actual credit line should read:What's buzzin' at your library, the 2006 Statewide Reading Program, is funded by your local

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I was trying to hold off and submit this information to offer the news about last year's participation figure as we drew closer to Summer but I guess now is as good a time as any. Just for your information, you guys rocked! I don't know if it was the gnome, a train, movie ads or just great activities planned for last year's SRP but the numbers demonstrated a large increase in participation.

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Hello all. I hope you had a great week following the holiday. We've been busy at work negiotating the performance times for the March 28th Performer's Showcase and it's been finalized today. Yeah! See, the benefits of participating in our Summer Reading blog is paying off already. *-) You get a sneak peek of the day's performance schedule. It is as follows:9:00 Judith Black--Storyteller9:30

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This is the meeting space for all things Buzzing! We've been stirring up a little activity in our latest workshop as we prepare to add new crafts ideas to our storytime repertoire. Last week, a few members participated in our So, You Want to Make a Puppet workshop in Fall River. Joyce Pinnosault and David Mello graciously entertained as well as (patiently) instructed us on the tips and tricks of

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