If you're a Vermont librarian who serves children and teens, this toolkit is for you!

Connect

• Sign up to receive the Department of Libraries Newsletter!
  • Each month you'll receive news about the department, partner organizations and local libraries. 
• Sign up to join a library listserv!
  • Start with VTYAC to ensure that you get all the Youth Services news from VTLIB.
• Check out the Facebook pages!
  • VTLIB Facebook Page
  • Vermont Youth Services Roundtable
• Join a Professional Organization!
  • Vermont Library Association (VLA), Vermont School Library Association (VSLA) and New England Library Association (NELA) are good bets.

Learn

• Public Library Statistics
• Continuing Education
  • You'll find workshops, webinars and information about certification.
  • Self-paced learning modules
    • Passive Programming
    • Dumping Dewey
    • Maker Spaces
    • Weeding
    • Easy Readers
    • Library Programming and the Developing Brain
    • Programs for Everyone
    • We Need Diverse Books
    • Teen Services
      • Teen Volunteers

Plan

• Letters About Literature - A Writing Contest for Grades 4-12
  • 2018-2019 Vermont LAL Competition
• 2018 Agricultural Literacy Week
• Center for Cartoon Studies Workshop Scholarship
• Vermont PBS Kids Writing Contest
• Vermont Authors & Illustrators
• Youth Discussion Sets
  • Instructions on How to Reserve Discussion Sets (new process as of August 2018)
  • Searchable Spreadsheet of Discussion Sets
• Programming information
  • This page includes Pinterest Pages and a link to the latest Performer Directory.
  • Drag Queen Story Time Resources
  • Good Ideas Blog
• Readers Advisory & Collections information
  • This page includes links to Sharon's monthly book review videos and review sources available through the Vermont Online Library.
  • Other stuff you can borrow from the state!
    • Flannel Board Kits
• Take Your Child to the Library Day!
• Vermont Book Awards
  • Red Clover is our picture book award and is coordinated in partnership with the Vermont Center for the Book.  There is a conference associated with this award each fall.
    • Order Red Clover Spine/Winner Labels
  • The Dorothy Canfield Fisher award is the second oldest child-voted book award in the country.  The award is for grades 4-8.  There is a conference associated with this award each spring.
  • The Green Mountain Book Award is our teen book award.
    • Order GMBA Spine Labels
• Summer Reading

Partner

• Partner Organizations
  • Vermont Center for the Book
    • The Center for the Book runs the Vermont Early Literacy Initiative (VELI).
  • Hunger Free Vermont
    • Presentation video 2015
    • Presentation handout 2015
  • Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF)
  • The Center for Cartoon Studies
  • Vermont PBS
  • Vermont Public Radio (VPR)
    • Dorothy's List
  • Let's Grow Kids
  • Building Bright Futures
  • Vermont Afterschool
  • Vermont State Parks
  • Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing

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