Thanks to Denise!

Denise, I saw your comment on here and tried to email you but maybe it went to spam! I will call this week! Thank you so much!

:)

Happy New Year!

Here is to an exciting year ahead! Best wishes to all of you!

This week I'd like to give an update on the 2008 Carolyn Field Committee.
The list of publishers has been cleaned up and updated - just finished last week! Many thanks to Nancy McLaughlin from the Bethel Park Library for checking all of the publishers and their current addresses, phone numbers, etc. This will help in the future.

If you have served on the Carolyn Field Committee in the past, would you please send me an email: kalchthaleri@einetwork.net or post your name on here? I would like to keep a list of those who have served. Also to help out the future Field Chairs, please send me an email if you would like to serve on the committee in the future.

The 2008 Chair is Dolores Colarosa, Head of Youth Services at Brentwood Library. Serving with her on the committee are: Clio Hathaway, Martin Library; Andrea Mandel, Marple Public Library; Karen Payonk, Lititz Public Library; Nell Redhage, Chester County Library.
If I got any of this info wrong, please let me know and I will edit.

Please pass on Dolores' name to any authors or publishers you know if they wish to submit a book for consideration. These would be books published in 2007. Her contact info is: Dolores Colarosa, Head of Children's Services, Brentwood Public Library, 3501 Brownsville Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15227, 412-882-5694. Her email is: colarosad@einetwork.net.

Blessings,
ing :)

More on Spring Workshops

Thanks to even more of you who wrote offering to host a spring workshop at your library! Still looking to fill some geographic holes so please let me know if you are still interested and able!

I emailed Kim Snyder and got some more information about what it would take to get this all up and running and it looks great. It may even help with this issue of fundraising, depending on how many register for the workshop (non-PaLA members would pay a bit more, Kim suggested).

Those who have volunteered to present at the workshop will be fully reimbursed for travel and overnight (when needed) expenses. If you are still thinking about volunteering to present, just let me know!

Blessings,

ing

Thank you!

I received offers from Linell Mankey, Director of Chartiers-Houston Library, Penny Talbert, Community Relations Coordinator at Ephrata Public Library and Dolores Colarosa, Head of Children's Services at Brentwood Public Library to host a spring cont. ed. workshop. If anyone else is interested in hosting, please email me, I hope to set up workshops so that easy travel is possible. Possible topics for the workshops include a C.S.I. mystery that attendees will participate in and then be able to set up at their own libraries, a homeschooling workshop that was presented at PLA in Boston this past spring and teen programming on a shoe-string budget.

Thank you also to the folks who have sent in Bios. Check the Links list to see them and look for more, as many of you wrote and said your bio is forthcoming. No need for a picture if you don't have one available or if you would rather not post one.

Blessings,
ing

Looking forward to 2007!

The workshop in Gettysburg was a wonderful introduction to PaLA. Janice Trapp, incoming PaLA President said that a couple of the goals for this year will be to increase communication and membership. She encouraged all of us to ask all of the people that we know if they are members of PaLA. If they aren't, then we should encourage them to join.

A major portion of the workshop centered around the 2007 PaLA Conference. Soon you will be getting emails soliciting program proposals. I encourage all of you to consider a program for the conference. There is SO MUCH TALENT OUT THERE! We just need to share it! Start thinking about what you would like to share with your collegues this fall.

I would very much like to hold continuing education workshops in various places around the state this spring. If your library would like to host one of these, please email me: kalchthaleri@einetwork.net or comment on here. We're looking for locations to host a 1/2 day workshop. I'm hoping to have them in the western, middle and eastern parts of the state. Let me know if you are interested and/or able to host such an event.

Please know I am here if you have any questions about getting more involved in PaLA. You can always call me at 412-835-2207 ex. 267.

Blessings,

ing

December Greetings

Off to the PaLA retreat tomorrow, so next week's entry will have a lot of information for you all!

I am also including a link on the side bar ---> to the Allegheny County Youth Services Wiki, maintained by Allegheny County Youth Services Coordinator, Kelley Beeson. This site has wonderful information regarding grant opportunities and other information of interest to youth services professionals. If you have a site from your county association, or another site that you think would be valuable, please send it to me by either commenting here or in an email: kalchthaleri@einetwork.net

In the meantime I would like to create a listing of members with a short introductory bio and a picture (if you wish) so that we can get to know one another better. Please send me a little bio and a picture if you wish to be included.

I hope that you will be able to take some time off, or at least move a little slower some time this month!

Take care,
ing