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<p class="MsoNormal">No need to travel, our winter webinars are in full swing and here are a few geared towards youth services! If you can’t make the live webinar, you can always sign up and receive the recorded version to watch at your convenience.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>1,000 Books Before Kindergarten<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Presented by Rena Wright, Assistant Manager of Youth Services, Orrville Public Library<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rena will discuss the details of this program, the challenges and successes she’s had at her library and ways you can implement it at your library. 1,000 Books before Kindergarten is an initiative to promote early literacy and reading
to parents and caretakers of infants and very young children. The goal is to encourage parents to read one thousand books with their children before sending them to kindergarten. Reading together builds the necessary early literacy skills every child needs
in order to learn to read. Listening to books and reading together with parents and caretakers nurtures childhood brain development and builds the necessary early literacy skills every child needs in order to learn to read and be prepared for school.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Event Date: 12-06-17<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Event Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Eastern<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Location: Online<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sign up <a href="http://mms.neo-rls.org/Calendar/moreinfo.php?eventid=45574">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Boys, Books and Libraries: Making the Connection<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Presented by Michael Sullivan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Boys and books, boys and reading, boys and libraries, these are sometimes complicated relationships. How do we welcome boys into our libraries, engage them in reading, and connect them with the books that can make them avid, lifelong readers?
Hear why this is sometimes so hard and what we can do about it from the librarian who has been at the front of the Boys’ Reading Movement for twenty years.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Michael Sullivan is the author of Raising Boy Readers, Connecting Boys with Books, Connecting Boys with Books 2: Closing the Reading Gap, Fundamentals of Children’s Services, the Escapade Johnson series of children's books, and The Sapphire
Knight. Along with being an author, Michael also hosts a popular and informative website “Boys & Books”. He is a former president of the New Hampshire Library Association and was the 1998 New Hampshire Librarian of the Year. He has been awarded the U.S.
Conference of Mayors City Livability Award and the Mom’s Choice Award for juvenile fiction. He is currently the Director of the Weare Public Library in New Hampshire.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">School Library Journal writes that, “Sullivan… offers practical and reassuring advice on a range of topics, including how fathers influence what their sons read, what kind of physical environment fosters reading, and why reading large numbers
of titles—even below grade level—is essential to making boys lifelong readers.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Event Date: 12-13-17<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Event Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Eastern<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Location: Online<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sign up <a href="http://mms.neo-rls.org/Calendar/moreinfo.php?eventid=45573">
here</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Girls Who Code: Free Introductory Webinar<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Girls Who Code, the national non-profit dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology, is partnering with NEO-RLS Libraries! Join Hannah Simon Goldman, Ohio Regional Partnership Coordinator for GWC, for a quick half-hour webinar on
Thursday, January 11th at 2:00p.m. to learn all you need to know about how to launch your own FREE after-school coding Club. In GWC Clubs, 6-12th grade girls use computer science skills to impact their community as they join our sisterhood of supportive peers
and role models. Clubs are led by Facilitators, who can be volunteers from any background or field. Many Facilitators have NO coding experience and learn to code alongside their Club members! Come learn how easy it is to start your own Club, and ask questions
to Ohio's GWC Regional Partnership Coordinator.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Clubs that sign up under the NEO-RLS partnership gain access to benefits like extra money from Clubs Fund grants, priority access to engagement opportunities like field trips and speakers, and more! Sign-up for Spring 2018 is open until
the end of February, and sign-up for the 2018-19 school year will open mid-summer.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Note: This webinar is FREE, however, you must register to receive the link. If you cannot attend the live webinar, it will be recorded and you can watch at a later date at your convenience.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sign up <a href="http://mms.neo-rls.org/Calendar/moreinfo.php?eventid=46445">
here</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Gadgets and Gizmos: Exploring Technology for Youth<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Want to engage children with the latest technology but don’t know where to begin? Interested in using technology in your programming but you’re on a tight budget? Join us for the third annual Gadgets and Gizmos webinar. This popular,
detailed webinar presentation will showcase some cool new tech gadgets (such as Star Wars Droid Inventor Kit, Cloud Rover, Lego Boost and Circuit Scribe), websites and resources you can incorporate into your youth services programs! You will also have an opportunity
to share your technology successes and challenges with other attendees.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Presenters:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Holly Klingler, Research and Innovation Coordinator and Rachelle Perry, Youth Services Education and Events Coordinator, Northeast Ohio Regional Library System<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Event Date: 01-17-18<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Event Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Location: Online<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sign up <a href="http://mms.neo-rls.org/Calendar/moreinfo.php?eventid=45861">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Rachelle Perry<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Youth Services Education and Events Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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