The sixth annual Read Aloud Picture Book Awards will be announced on Wednesday, May 19 at 1:30 p.m. at St. Joseph Catholic School, Moorhead. The two awards, the Comstock Book Award and the Wanda Gág Book Award, are part of the Livingston Lord Library’s Comstock Reading Aloud Initiative. Award books will be read aloud. All ages are invited to attend this one-hour presentation. For further information, contact Carol Sibley, sibley@mnstate.edu.
If you are a faculty member who has previously had materials on the Library’s electronic reserves system and would like to activate your reserve readings for summer classes, contact Jenny Jensen (jensnjen@mnstate.edu or 477-2342) in the library. For those faculty who are new to e-reserves, it is not to late to begin putting your materials in the library’s electronic reserves system (http://frylock.mnstate.edu/eres/default.aspx) for your classes. Click headline for more information.
The College Libraries Section (CLS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (a division of the American Library Association) recently elected Stacy Voeller, Library, as secretary for 2010-11. The purpose of the CLS is to advance college librarianship and encourage the development of library services in baccalaureate degree-granting institutions. Voeller was elected by a vote of the CLS membership.
Carol Sibley, Library, has recently worked with a committee of the American Library Association to develop two new bibliographies of children’s books. Oprah Kids’ Reading List will be posted on Oprah’s website and includes recommended books for toddlers through tweens. The sports booklist, developed for Up2Us, a national coalition of Sports-Based Youth Development organizations, lists recommended children’s books by sport. Click headline to see both reading lists.
Livingston Lord Library’s main elevator (the one that goes to all four floors), will be undergoing a major upgrade beginning April 26. The elevator will be out of service for approximately five weeks from April 26-June 1. Please be advised that there will be no elevator service in the Library during that time (this does NOT include Information Technology). Click headline for more details.