[OPLINLIST] Call for Ideas! "Literary Elements" 2014 Adult Summer Library Program Manual

[Janet Ingraham Dwyer]

>From the Collaborative Summer Library Program.  The CSLP is soliciting
program, decorating, and outreach ideas for the 2014 "science" theme.
The slogan for the adult program will be "Literary Elements".  Send all
ideas to Patti Sinclair at trishsinclair at sbcglobal.net by November 15.
Patti is also actively soliciting ideas for the 2014 "Fizz Boom Read"
(children's and early literacy) and "Spark a Reaction" (teen) programs.
More details about those programs will be posted to the Library Youth
Services listserv
<http://library.ohio.gov/youthservices/youth_services_listserv> .  Thank
you!

 

 

 

 


Call for Ideas!


Literary Elements


2014 CSLP Adult Summer Library Program Manual


 

Deadline: November 15, 2012

Send to Patti Sinclair

trishsinclair at sbcglobal.net


 


Below you'll find some of the ideas percolating so far for our "science"
theme Literary Elements. I'm sure you can come up with other ideas!
This theme is very broad.

If you have presented a program on one of these topics, or have ideas
for other programs, send them in.  Portable program ideas, ideas for
reaching underserved populations are needed.

Also Decorating ideas.  Please help!

 

Science Fiction programs:  book club; discussion; sci fi author visit;
booklist; Dr. Who, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,

Mad Scientist Trope in TV, Movies, literature.  Discussion, film series,
etc.

Investigative science:  Sherlock Holmes, House (TV program) and other
spinoffs; forensics

Science Issues of the day:  Displays, Discussion, Speakers, films.  What
would be good topics? Disease? Climate? Pollution?

Great Scientist series:  Biographies, booklists, documentaries?, women
in science

Literary nonfiction: authors who write eloquently about science: Steven
Jay Gould, Edward O. Wilson, Carl Sagan, Rachel Carson, Steven Hawking,
Lewis Thomas, James D. Watson, etc.

Inventions:  Invent-o-rama. Invite "makers" to your library to create
something awesome

Science and Art/Science of Art. Photography contest, color, 

Cookin' Up Some Science.  Reading is easy as Pi.  Cooking program?  Home
remedies: why/how they work.

Science Gone Wrong

History of Science

Discover __________.  Topics of your choice, 

Family Program ideas?

STEM Grant program for libraries?

Programs on new technologies, software, or devices for seniors or
persons with disabilities

            

            

 

 

 

Janet Ingraham Dwyer 
Library Consultant 
State Library of Ohio 
jdwyer at library.ohio.gov <mailto:jdwyer at library.ohio.gov>  

614.644.6910 
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<http://library.ohio.gov/youthservices>  

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state government and libraries in providing the best service to all.

 

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