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| 2008 Focus on Children and Young Adults Institute |
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2008 Focus Institute Details
Dates: September 14--September 17, 2008
Fee: $90 (due August 25, 2008)
Location: Menucha Retreat and Conference Center in the Columbia River Gorge
Session topics:
- Early Brain Development
- Early Literacy Storytimes
- Children’s Programming
- Reference
- Readers’ Advisory
- Teen Services
- Book Talks
Special session:
- Building Early Literacy Skills through Music (Rosalie Karalekas)
Rosalie Karalekas, a music professor at Willamette University and Western Oregon University, will teach us how music fosters the development of early literacy skills, how to integrate music into storytimes, and ideas for creating musical instruments out of household objects. Learn how to use music as a soundtrack, rhythmic activities for transitions, integrate music when reading your favorite books, and other ways to enhance early literacy development through music in your storytimes.
2008 Focus Institute Registration
2008 Focus on Children and Young Adults Institute attendance is limited to 25 people, registrants will be accepted on a first come first serve basis. Registrants must be from Oregon, have no graduate level education in librarianship, and work in youth services or want to work in youth services at their library. Registrants who work in small libraries have priority. The 25 participants will be mailed a confirmation letter the second week in August, and details about the conference will be mailed to them the first week of September.
2008 Focus Institue Registion Form (download, print, and complete this registration form)
Registration is due August 4, 2008
Sumbit registration forms to Mary Mayberry at:
Email: mary.l.mayberry@state.or.us
Fax: 503-378-6439
Mail: Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301
Direct questions to Katie Anderson, katie.anderson@state.or.us, 503-378-2528.
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| About Focus on Children and Young Adults Institute |
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The Focus on Children and Young Adults Institute seeks to provide a foundation of professional knowledge about youth services necessary for the operation of small public libraries. Participants will attend several training sessions over the course of three and a half days. The sessions concentrate on the principles of public library services to children and teens, and how to put those principles into practice. Session topics may change from year to year based research, library practices, and trends which change and improve continually. Feedback from the previous Focus Instutite participants is also considered when planning session topics. Training sessions are presented by highly skilled, experienced Youth Services Librarians in Oregon. Presenters are typically active members of the Oregon Library Association's Children's Services Division (CSD) and Oregon Young Adult Network (OYAN).
The Focus Institute is held in September of even numbered years. Registration is limited to 25 participants. It is designed for library staff who serve children and teens, and have no graduate level education in librarianship. Staff from libraries that are not yet offering youth services programs constitute the highest priority for the Institute, if attendance will result in the library implementing programs for youth.
The Focus Institute is able to keep costs low for participants because it is primarily supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Oregon State Library.
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| About the Conference Site |
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Past the stone entry, a forest embraces travelers along a serpentine road. The destination: a one hundred acre sanctuary in the Columbia River Gorge. Seven hundred feet above one of the nation's epic rivers, this is a place where bald eagles float their shadows across old growth conifers; where trails may lead to heirloom gardens or perennial springs. It's called "Menucha " (Men-oo-ka), a Hebrew word meaning "ever-changing stillness."
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