Picture book selections for older readers

As I sit here charged with the task of writing about picture books in the older grades, I am reminded about a phone call I received last year questioning why 10% of my order was Easy Fiction. I have always loved picture books in the classroom. When I taught English I was constantly walking over to the elementary school to get picture books. As a librarian, I am now collecting picture books for the IMC. I am lucky in that I have a couple of social studies teachers and language arts teachers that love picture books too. I also have teachers that use them for advisory and the ELL program uses them to give beginning language learners backgrounds they need. The best part about my job is now the Curriculum Director and the RTI/Literacy person are introducing picture books with the 6 Traits of Writing. This means that the higher ups are actually pushing for them to use picture books. So now I get to order a bunch of new picture books for the IMC.

The other really cool thing is that I am working on an opening day collection for a new Jr. HS and will be justified in putting a large picture book collection. As with other topics, there never seems to be enough money to buy what is needed. In fact if you searched my collection you would see that I don’t own some of the things that follow or that my teachers use.

Now for the good stuff……

Books for the collection.

Anything by Peter Sis. In fact, I would not read his The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain to anyone younger than middle school. Tibet: Through the Red Box is an honor book but holds so much information and insight.

Picture books are good for introducing time frames in our history, take for example The Bobbin Girl by Emily Arnold McCully. This is a great book for introducing the labor movement with the Lowell Massachusetts mill girl. Or events in our history: What about civil rights with A Taste of Colored Water by Matt Faulkner, or The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson. Everybody loves Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine to talk about slavery and the Underground Railroad. I challenge any of you to try to read Faithful Elephants by Yukio Tsuchiya out loud without crying! (Don’t worry,  the students will be too!)  It is a great introduction to the human side of war. There are some great biographies in picture book format to read aloud as an introduction too.

A great new book is Crow Call by Lois Lowry. This is great for introducing biographies, narrative writing or other language arts topics.

I have an art teacher that uses the Caldecott Medal winners and honor books for introduction to line, shapes, texture, etc. She also uses them to show specific mediums such as print making. A good place to add these to your collection is the Scholastic book orders or warehouse sales. Many are available in paperback.

Math teachers often uses the David Schwartz books on a million or the Sir Cumference books by Cindy Neuschwander. Don’t forget about Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith with Math Curse or Grapes of Math and others by Greg Tang. This area is becoming more and more vast in books everyday as publishers see that math topic books that are not just counting do actually sell. There is also a great series, MathStart, that includes Math skills in stories. What a great way to review or introduce concepts!

Science teachers love Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet and What Do You Do With a Tail Like That. One teacher introduces her hurricane unit with Two Bobbies. What about a weather unit with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. During an unit on the environment everybody is familiar with showing The Lorax, but I have a teacher that reads it too!

Just today the ELL teacher came and I gave her picture books on historical subjects. They were looking at all the ways history could be recorded and told! I also just finished a lesson with a 7^th grade social studies teacher. We used John, Paul, George, and Ben by Lane Smith as an introduction to the Revolutionary War. (Don’t forget to play some Beatles during a transition time).

Where do you find these? Check out displays of new books at your local book store or one of the chains. We have Borders and Barnes and Noble and I always buzz through and see what is new. If you don’t have a book store, use the chains websites. Both Borders and Barnes and Noble offer new releases and coming soon type sections.

If your school is using the 6 Traits of Writing, this website is great for lesson connections: http://writingfix.com/

For teachers, Read Write Think has some great upper grade lesson plans that incorporate picture books too. http://www.reading.org/General/Default.aspx

Several schools have databases of picture books. One that is good because you can search by theme is http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/welcome.php from the Miami University, Ohio.

Do you need backing from a scholarly journal to add books to your shelf? Check out this article from NMSA http://www.nmsa.org/Publications/MiddleSchoolJournal/Articles/September2006/Article4/tabid/1017/Default.aspx

Don’t forget your ISLMA peers or Elementary Teachers and Librarians in your town, school district or at the public libraries.

Kari L Hennenfent is National Board Certified teacher and the media specialist at Kingsly Junior High in Normal.

 

23 Things Get Schooled

My name is Alicia Duell and I am one of two library media specialists at Riverside Brookfield High School in Riverside, IL, a near west suburb of Chicago. I love technology, especially when it makes things I already have to do so much easier and look a lot cooler. I first heard about Helene Blowers’ 23 Things program through School Library Journal.

For the uninitiated, Helene Blowers is the Public Services Technology director of The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County. She was faced with teaching thousands of librarians and staff in her library system how to use some of the new Web 2.0 tools that were becoming increasingly available. Learning these types of applications didn’t seem to lend themselves well to traditional classroom settings, however, not to mention the countless hours that would need to be devoted to on-site training and assistance, so Blowers thought outside the box and, in a stroke of genius, created a completely online learning program called Learning 2.0. The hallmarks of her original program are that it was voluntary, it provided incentives for all participants who completed the program, there were no formal classes or tutorials, and it emphasized having FUN while exploring what for many was a brand new and often challenging learning experience. Blowers’ program has since exploded, popping up in library systems around the world as a successful means for teaching valuable technology applications.

I was intrigued by the program, so I attended Blowers’ 23 Things breakout session at last year’s ICE conference in St. Charles and also last spring attended an online presentation about the program, which was presented by other librarians who had run 23 Things-style programs at their libraries. I became more and more excited about the idea, but I wanted to make it available to our entire school. After countless hours of planning, brainstorming and talking to my administrative higher-ups, I rolled out the program (known at our school as 17 Things to Chew On- we’re the Bulldogs- get it?) at our November District Institute Day and am now counting 50 teachers, staff and administration as active participants, including the principal and assistant principal, out of a total faculty and staff of approximately 165. It has been and continues to be A LOT of work, but the response among participants has been incredible. Teachers and staff who were very uncomfortable with technology are now blogging, using Delicious, and creating Google Documents! These teachers will then be able to take what they’ve learned and help others in the building.

Here are a few things about the program that I think have helped it to succeed:

• presented the program to the entire staff using a Zoho.com-created slideshow
• included a student’s “testimony” about why it would be valuable for her to have teachers learn Web 2.0 tools
• introduced my presentation with a 3-minute video starring 8 teachers and administrators, and featuring the Web 2.0 Fairy!
• held three back-to-back breakout sessions during the afternoon session of Institute Day, where teachers could immediately get started with their first “Thing” (a blog)
• chose 17 “Things” (Web 2.0 applications) that I thought would be MOST helpful and relevant to our teachers’/administrators’ jobs
• gave the program a school-specific title (bulldog reference)
• created a program logo
• communicated with participants via email and with posted signs, not just through the blog
• used my blog as the program’s “home”, and link all participants’ blogs from there
• offered incentives to all who completed 17 Things to Chew On (everybody gets an mp3 player AND will be entered into a drawing for a Sony e-Reader)
• kept track of everyone’s progress using a spreadsheet linked off the “home” blog
• “followed” and commented on all participants’ blogs as much as possible
• kept the tone lighthearted and fun

We are about 1/3 of the way through the program (it’s 9 weeks of posting, spread out over about 12 weeks from start to finish), and I do have high hopes for its success as a whole. It has really allowed me to help the school learn the technologies without strong-arming people into attending professional development workshops! For anyone interested, here is the link to the 17 Things to Chew On blog, which has the video, my slideshow presentation, and spreadsheet tracker, and of course feel free to email me (duella@rbhs208.org) any questions (or comment here).

 

To weed or not to weed?

I am the librarian at a middle school in Central Illinois. My school district is changing library automation providers—a big step as the current system is the first one we’ve ever had and has been around since the early nineties. Although I am a fairly conscientious weeder, the last few months I have gone into overdrive, figuring why carry excess baggage over to the new system. So in the past month, I have tackled all of the 900s.

The 900s have always been the hardest for me to weed—history doesn’t change all that much does it? And, yes, I know that perspectives and interpretations change, but it’s hard to toss the gorgeous civil war book with Matthew Brady photographs no matter how many others are on the shelf.
And then there are the books about countries. I have dutifully purchased all the updates to the Enchantment of the World series as they have been published. I am fine with taking the old copy of Switzerland off the shelf and putting the shiny new one in its place. I have noticed that the old country books have rarely been checked out—and wonder if the new ones will be either. You see, our sixth grade social studies curriculum focuses on ancient civilizations. Seventh and eighth graders study strictly U.S. History. So we rarely use our country books. Why do I buy them, you might wonder? Because fortunately, in this time of shrinking library budgets, I have seen an increase in my own funds, so I don’t need to cut anything out to get them. But even more so, because I can’t imagine a “real” library without a set of country books… or a set of state books… or a set of books about the systems of the human body.

How many of us buy things so that we “cover all the bases” even if our school curriculum doesn’t address the subject at all? How many students would come in looking for a book about Zimbabwe… or philosophy… or [insert your own non-curriculum topic here]? Are we better off leaving things out of our collection and directing the one-in-a-million student who asks for that topic to the public library so we can buy our 7th copy of Twilight or Diary of a Wimpy Kid or The Clique or the Eyewitness book, Ancient Egypt, that all the sixth grade teachers seem to need at the exact same time? Or is it more important to be able to provide at least one book on almost every subject at a moment’s notice? These are the choices that we make every day that have nothing to do with review sources or the current buzz-word, self-censorship.

Thinking I might wrap it up with a definite answer—even for just for me? Not a chance.
In fact, a colleague and I have been recently charged with selecting an opening day collection for a currently-being-built junior high school. With the perfect opportunity to start from scratch and what seems like an unlimited amount of funds which path do we choose?

I think I’ll prop my feet up on a couple of print volumes of the World Book Encyclopedia and have a good think on it.

Michelle Glatt is the the librarian at Chiddix Junior High in Normal.

 

2009 Conference a Success

The strength of this year’s conference was in the wealth of time it gave us with authors. I had breakfast with 2 authors on Friday, heard two authors speak at breakfast on Saturday and had several authors speaking at sessions I attended. I bought books by two of the authors I met and got them signed. All were memorable experiences. The exhibits were small but of a more manageable size. It wasn’t so difficult to find the vendors I was interested in seeing. Many sessions were devoted to technology. Kudos to the conference planning committee for a job well done!

Gayl Dasher Smith is a National Board Certified Teacher and the Library Media Center Director o Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora.

 

Looking back…. and forward.

You might think that after 20 plus years of being in education, one might be apathetic or even act a bit curmudgeonly regarding workshops. However, after 24 years of teaching and being a school librarian, I’m excited to attend workshops and conferences; I’m especially excited to be at the ISLMA conference.

I remember my first ISLMA conference in 1999. The conference was held in Decatur; I had just left the classroom and was a school librarian for the first time. My library director encouraged me to attend the conference. My first thought was “Are you kidding me?” I didn’t know where Decatur was (I had only lived in Illinois a couple years at this point), and I couldn’t imagine hanging out with librarians for three days. But I attended and was greeted by some of the friendliest folks I’d ever met. I’ve never looked back, attending the conference every year since then.

I warmly welcome the new ideas, techniques and friends I know are waiting for me. I look forward to reconnecting with old friends, revisiting those tried and true ideas and remembering why I became a school librarian in the first place. I’m so glad my library director encouraged me to attend all those years ago. (Thanks JY!)

I’m so thrilled I don’t have to wait any longer. The excitement has started! It’s Thursday morning and the friendly folks at the conference registration are starting to greet people. The exhibitor’s hall is buzzing with activity, getting ready for all the vendors. The coffee is percolating and I’m perusing the conference program, circling the sessions I want to attend, noticing that it’s hard to choose between them. I’m eager and ready to jump into the middle of it all!

See you there!
Patti Fleser

 

Authors, Authors, Everywhere!

Last year, I was waiting (and waiting) for the elevator at the ISLMA conference in Arlington Heights, shouldering a bag full of freebies when Jordan Sonnenblick, last year’s winner of the Rebecca Caudill Award for his book Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie, stepped up next to me.

Suddenly, I was tongue-tied. I had seen him around the conference. He was talking with other librarians. He looked nice. But I couldn’t say anything.

Then the elevator doors opened and the two of us were in the elevator. Alone. I tentatively eked out—“Mr. Sonnenblick… I loved your book. I’m so glad it won.” And instead of hurrying off at his floor, he noticed that I had just bought his book in the bookstore and offered to sign it for me. He might have even cracked a joke. I was officially star-struck.

And it wasn’t just his cute smile. The year before, it had been Sarah Weeks. After reading So B. It and meeting her at the conference, I thought she had hung the moon.

This year’s conference, “Embracing Change,” is the perfect opportunity to meet and mingle with some of the best authors publishing right now. Some of the authors who will be featured are:
• Stephanie D. Vance is the keynote speaker and is scheduled to speak at Friday night’s banquet. She is the author of Government by the People: How to Communicate with Congress and the fabjob.com guide, Get a Job on Capitol Hill.
• Ellen Hopkins, this year’s Abraham Lincoln Award winner for her book Crank, will be addressing attendees at the Author Awards breakfast on Saturday morning. Although she is most well-known for five young adult books, she is also the author of twenty non-fiction books for children.
• Kevin O’Malley, author and illustrator, will receive the 2009 Monarch Award for his book Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude. He has contributed artwork to many other children’s books and has several original titles.

And for the truly gluttonous, Friday morning, dozens of authors will mingle with conference attendees at their tables. They will rotate between tables, answering your questions about writing and illustrating. What a great opportunity to really connect to these illusive creatures!

If you haven’t signed up for this year’s conference, there’s still time. Go to http://www.islma.org/ for more information. You can even register at the door.

 

PALS Workshops

The Prairie Area Library System (PALS) is sponsoring workshops this summer that are open to all school librarians. They will be held in the three PALS service centers (Coal Valley—Quad Cities area; Rockford, and Shorewood—Joliet area) on different days so attendees may choose whatever is most convenient. There is no charge for these programs.

I-SAIL: Illinois Standards Aligned Instruction for Libraries and Other Hot Topics. ISLMA has adopted a new K-12 library media curriculum that utilizes skill sets aligned to the AASL and Illinois Learning Standards. Attendees will be introduced to I-SAIL and other related resources on the I-SAIL wiki. Time will also be allowed for participants to share information on their Internet Safety Curriculum, Top Tech Trends, and other items of interest.

From That State Report to College-Level Research Readiness: Preparing Young People for College Research. Haven’t you always wondered what information literacy skills will be expected of students when they leave you? How does knowing how to evaluate a website turn into knowledge of APA or MLA style? You taught them Ebsco, but now they need peer-reviewed/referred journals and primary/secondary sources. Of course they still want to know “What is wrong with Wikipedia?”, “Why can’t I use just the web?” and “What is paraphrasing anyway?’ Charlet Key, director of Black Hawk College Library, will discuss strategies and tactics for preparing students to be research-ready when they arrive on their college campuses. No matter what level of students you work with, learn how that fits into the end product.

Monday, July 20, Coal Valley Service Center—Preparing for College Research- 9:00 a.m. – noon; I-SAIL- 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, July 21, Rockford Service Center — Preparing for College Research- 9:00 a.m. – noon; I-SAIL- 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, July 28, Shorewood Service Center– I-SAIL- 9:00 a.m.-noon; Preparing for College Research- 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Please register on L2 at http://www.librarylearning.info/?LibSys=PALS.

Other topics offered this summer include booktalks on the Monarch, Caudill, and Abe nominees and a workshop on finding funding in your community and beyond. For information on these or other workshops, please contact Jane Lenser (janel@palsnet.info) or Norma Applegate (normaa@palsnet.info).

 

ISLMA Summer Professional Development

Summer Professional Development Opportunities – Watch the ISLMA website for registration materials.

This summer, as a response to our survey and to provide professional development opportunities for our members throughout the state, we are holding workshops all over Illinois. Most of these are sponsored by the systems and registration is on the statewide L2 site. One session is sponsored by ISLMA and will be held at North Suburban Library System in Wheeling on July 23rd. Registration information will be on the ISLMA website. At that workshop, there will also be an afternoon session on Web 2.0 tools for school librarians to use. The cost for both workshops is $50 or you can attend only one session for $30. Lunch would be on your own. CPDUs will be available, 2 for each session at NSLS for a total of 4 for the entire day.

July 23rd I-SAIL workshop 10a.m.-12:00 p.m.:
The Illinois State Library Media Association (ISLMA) has adopted a new K-12 library media curriculum that utilizes skill sets aligned to the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and Illinois Learning Standards. Attendees will be introduced to I-SAIL and other related resources on the I-SAIL wiki. Presenters for I-SAIL sessions will include Angela L. Green, Library Development Consultant, Alliance Library System, Christy Semande, District Librarian, Canton CCSD #66, and Becky Robinson, School Library Media Specialist, Galesburg High School.

Web 2.0 Workshop 1:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.
Everyone is talking about the Web 2.0 tools, what are they? Which ones work best for school librarians? Do I have time to do this too? Come and see what two of our members have found useful and successful in their school libraries. Our presenters are Katie Kirsch, the Media Specialist at Lake Bluff Middle School and Erin Wyatt, the Media Specialist at Highland Middle School in Libertyville.

There are several other Summer professional development opportunities that are offered by the library systems.
Registration for the following is available on the statewide L2 calendar located at http://www.librarylearning.info/
Other I-SAIL workshops are as follows:
June 16 Quincy Alliance Library System Summer Camp 2 CPDUs

June 23 East Peoria Alliance Library System Summer Camp 10:00 am-12:00 pm
2 CPDUs

July 7 Decatur Rolling Prairie Library System SummerCamp 1 CPDU

July 20 V-TEL Prairie Area Library System 1:00-3:00PM 2 CPDUs

July 21 V-TEL Prairie Area Library System 1:00-3:00PM 2 CPDUs

July 28 V-TEL Prairie Area Library System 9:00-11:00AM 2 CPDUs

August 5 Edwardsville Lewis & Clark Library System 1:00-3:00PM 2 CPDUs

Web 2.0/Technology Training
June 23 East Peoria Alliance Library System Summer Camp 1:00—3:00 2 CPDUs Presenter: Amy Oberts

Summer Camp for School Librarians: Put the Pieces Together at Your Library
Create, Collaborate, Communicate: Integrating Technology in Your School Library
July 7 Decatur Rolling Prairie Library System 8:15 am – 4:30 pm
Presenter: Ruth Shasteen
School libraries can connect students, faculty, and community in a collaborative environment to learn and integrate 21st century technology and information literacy skills. Ruth Shasteen will demonstrate strategies implemented at Central A & M High School and discuss the technology used. The strategies are applicable for all grade levels.
Google for Librarians
Presenter: Doris McKay
There is more to Google than meets the eye. Hidden behind the familiar search engine are free tools that can help get you organized and make your life easier. RPLS Consultant and Webmaster Doris McKay will introduce you to Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Notebook, Google Calendar, iGoogle and more. Learn how these Google applications can work for you.

 

National-Louis University Summer 2009 School Library Program Graduate Courses

NORTH SHORE (SKOKIE) CAMPUS

RLS 513 Organization of Knowledge of Library Materials for Children and Adolescents (Cataloging). Taught by Kathryn Miller CRN: 60373 (2SH)

Class meets FRI. 5:30PM-9:30 PM on July 10. The remainder of class is online.

RLL 585J Storytelling Workshop. Taught by Susan Stone. CRN: 60564 (1 SH Workshop) M 9:00AM – 5:00PM June 29 & July 13

WHEELING CAMPUS

RLS 511 School Library Collection Development. Taught by Linda Diekman. CRN: 60617 (2 SH)

SA 8:30AM – 12:00PM June 27. The remainder of the class is taught online.

RLS 512 Administration and Advocacy of School Libraries. Taught by Liz Broemmelsiek. CRN: 60614 (2 SH)

MTWTF 9:00AM – 4:00PM July 13 – July 17.

RLL 520 Survey of Literature for Children and Adolescents. Taught by Linda Bliss. CRN: 60705 (2 SH)

TU TH 1:30 PM-04:00 PM June 30 – Aug. 9.

TIE 542 Designing Internet Resources. Taught by Tracy Radzik-Murdach. CRN: 60319 (2 or 3 SH)

TU TH 4:30PM – 7:20PM June 30 – Aug 6.

HYBRID (ONE FACE-TO-FACE CLASS SESSION – REMAINDER ONLINE)

RLS 511 School Library Collection Development. Taught by Linda Diekman. CRN: 60617 (2 SH)

SA 8:30AM – 12:00PM June 27. The remainder of the class is taught online.

RLS 513 Organization of Knowledge of Library Materials for Children and Adolescents (Cataloging). Taught by Kathryn Miller CRN: 60373 (2 SH)

F 5:30PM-9:30 PM July 10. The remainder of the class is taught online.

ONLINE

RLS 514 Teaching Research to Children and Adolescents. Taught by Kathryn Miller. CRN: 60679 (2 SH)

TIE 535 Instructional Design. Taught by Randall Hansen. CRN: 60661 (3 SH)

For course descriptions and campus locations visit www.nl.edu

For information about the Language & Literacy Master’s Degree or CAS Degree, contact Dr. Ruth Quiroa: RQuiroa@nl.edu

For information about the School Library Program visit www.nl.edu/graduate/slis.cfm – for more information contact Dr. Gail Bush: Gail.Bush@nl.edu

For information about the Technology in Education Technology Specialist Program, contact Dr. Randall Hansen: Randall.Hansen@nl.edu

For information about enrollment, admissions, financial aid, contact Graduate Enrollment Representative Marci Mazza: MMazza@nl.edu 224/233-2743

Join us on Tuesday, June 23, 4:30pm – 5:30pm, North Shore Campus, to learn more about the upcoming 2009-2010 course sequences. RSVP with Marci Mazza, mmazza@nl.edu or 224/233-2743.

We thank you all for your continued support and for sharing this information with your networks of colleagues and friends.

 

Center for Teaching through Children’s Books Summer Institute 2009

The Center for Teaching through Children’s Books (CTCB) will be offering four workshops for teachers and librarians in its Summer Institute 2009. Workshops will meet at National-Louis University’s North Shore campus in Skokie, IL.

For further information please contact Ann Speltz at ctcb@nl.edu

Techniques for Successful Inquiry-Based Discussion: Exploration and Practice (1 s.h.)
June 29 – July 3, 2009 (14 contact hours)
Providing students with inquiry-based discussions that develop their critical thinking skills, and instill a love of reading, and allow for sustained practice of good oral communication skills is an ongoing process of discovery for even the most seasoned leaders. In this workshop (14 contact hours), participants will explore four proven discussion methods, implement specific discussion techniques, and ultimately draw upon the various elements of these methods to construct an inquiry-based discussion model for use with their own students. Grade level focus: 2-8.

Using Picture Books for Interpretive Discussion (1 s.h.)
July 20 – 24, 2009 (14 contact hours)
Picture books, increasingly popular with even the most sophisticated readers, offer rich and rewarding opportunities for interpretive discussion. In this workshop (14 contact hours), participants will acquire the skills to evaluate the merits of a wide range of picture books for use with K-4 students for inquiry-based discussion. Participants will learn and practice a variety of approaches in using picture books to develop critical thinking skills, and return to the classroom with ideas of picture books—and prepared discussion materials—for use in their own curricula.

Creating Curriculum Units for Interpretive Reading, Writing, and Discussion (2 s.h.)
July 20 – 31, 2009 (28 contact hours)
One of the great strengths of Junior Great Books (JGB) and other inquiry-based reading programs is that teachers are provided with a full complement of interpretive reading, writing, and discussion activities for each of the selections included in a given program. In this workshop (28 contact hours), participants will learn how to create their own JGB-style interpretive activities, and in the process expand and refine their personal repertoire of critical reading and questioning skills. Grade level focus: 2-8. Strategies acquired in this course can be used for working with at-risk students at a higher level.

Creating Children’s Picture Books (2 s.h.)
August 3 – 7, 2009 (28 contact hours)
Have you always wanted to create a picture book? Come explore this fascinating art form in a hands-on workshop (28 contact hours). Participants will create a picture book dummy using their own unique blend of story creation, illustration, and book design. Participants will learn how to transform the written word into visual poetry, using cut-paper collage, watercolor, and pen and ink, as well as how to bring these activities back to their own classrooms to enrich their students’ explorations in creative writing and art.


The Center for Teaching through Children’s Books is dedicated to excellence in teaching with quality literature for children and adolescents.

Junko Yokota & Gail Bush, directors; Toby Rajput, librarian; Deana Greenfield, program manager; and Ann Speltz, development specialist.

For further information contact Ann Speltz at ctcb@nl.edu