Connecting Young Adults and Libraries Patrick Jones http://www.connectingya.com

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Connecting Young Adults and LibrariesPatrick
Joneshttp//www.connectingya.com

• Information, Please! Great Books that Inform
  and Inspire

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• Nonfiction books keep me grounded, says high
  school senior Laurel Twombley, Reading
  nonfiction gives me a realistic look at what is
  going on in the world around me. From a book
  about a teen cancer survivor (tough) to a quickie
  biography of the Backstreet Boys (fluff),
  nonfiction is the real stuff that excites teens
  about books, about learning, and about
  libraries.

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Connecting Young Adults and LibrariesPatrick
Joneshttp//www.connectingya.com

• For the power point, visit
• www.connectingya.com and click on presentations
• For more info, email me patrick_at_connectingya.com
  

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Connecting Young Adults and LibrariesPatrick
Joneshttp//www.connectingya.comGetting started

• HOW?
• Lecture
• Handouts
• Question and answer
• Power Point
• WHY

• WHO?
• Audience
• Nonfiction readers
• Presenter
• WHAT?
• WHEN?
• WHERE?

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FACTS ABOUT NONFICTION

• Some facts about nonfiction are
• it reaches reluctant readers,
• it reaches non-readers,
• it reaches new or poor readers,
• it reaches at-risk kids
• it reaches boys

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• Rethinking our role, our priorities, and our
  outcomes while remembering our core values about
  lifelong learning and reading motivation

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 1. Advising readers isnt always fiction
  librarians are getting back into the readers
  advisory business in a big way, but were learned
  a few things
• 2. Author studies on nonfiction authors

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 3. Booklists online, in-print, and kid created
• 4. Booktalking and storytelling, in particular
  cultural diversity tales, scary stories/urban
  legends/tall tales, and stories of courage

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 5. Boys matter / www.guysread.com it is in most
  schools boys who are bring down reading scores,
  so lets look at what boys like
• 6. Brands matter and motivate kids into the tent
  Star Wars for example

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 7. Diversity matters nonfiction is often more
  inviting to diverse populations, easier to find
  themselves and stories in, and often easier
  vocabulary matched with illustrations
• 8. DK rules!

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 9. Displays / Merchandising / Inviting spaces
  libraries are realizing its about the experience
  as much as the service or product. Put the books
  where the kids are!
• 10. Engaging after school / weekend programs that
  inform, entertain, and enrich kids based on facts
  not fiction

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 11. Extending the due date / teacher cards
  making it easier for teachers to use our
  materials with their students
• 12. Extending the unit if you want to know more,
  then read

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 13. Getting crafty focusing on books that
  inspire kids to create / draw / design
• 14. Getting facts fix

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 15. Linking with fiction double plays
• 16. Linking with media pop goes the culture
  triple plays

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 17. Linking with teachers the prime directive
  of school librarians is collaboration
  (www.ala.org/aasl)
• 18. Linking with computers this is the draw for
  many kids, especially new users.

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 19. Magazines ARE nonfiction, and lots of
  nonfiction look/read like magazines, as well as
  tie-ins (Sport Illustrated for Kids books/
  American Girl books)
• 20. Nonfiction series just for libraries are
  getting better in content and presentation
  (Lerner Books)

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 21. Partners in the community that we support,
  for example Scouts
• 22. Reaching out school visits with content

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 23. Reading aloud great lives and times
• 24. Reforming collection development its is
  about The Rock, not Plymouth Rock

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 25. Starting early easy nonfiction and early
  literacy model
• 26. Teaching information literacy using
  nonfiction as examples

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 27. Understanding the obstacles to reading time
  / focus / skills / learning styles
• 28. Using the books contents the Amazon model

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• HOW do librarians promote nonfiction?
• 29. Buying books kids will read. We are focusing
  on books that emphasize to our younger customers
  that reading non-fiction can be a pleasurable
  experience that it is not just dry, stale text
  books and a running list of facts.

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• The Dog from Arf! Arf! to ZzzzzzArf! Arf! Take
  a peek inside -- the dogs in this book are unlike
  any dogs you have ever seen. This noisy alphabet
  book of dog sounds and commands will appeal to
  the dog lover in everyone.c2004

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• Denton, TerryIt's True! Pigs Do FlyThe It's
  True! series of nonfiction feature breezy writing
  and quirky cartoons designed to capture and hold
  your interest. Pigs Do Fly is a history of flight
  -- all types from birds to kites to modern day
  jets.88 p. 2006

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• Jenkins, SteveActual SizeWith stunning
  illustrations, the author discusses and gives
  examples of the actual size and weights of
  various animals and their body structures,
  including the eye of a giant squid and the teeth
  of a great white shark.2004

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• Morrison, ToniRemember The Journey to School
  IntegrationToni Morrison has included
  unforgettable images of archival photographs that
  depict the historical events surrounding school
  desegregation. The accompanying text includes a
  fictional dialog between children who lived
  during that emotional era and factual information
  that ties the book tightly together.78 p. 2004

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• Crowe, ChrisGetting Away with Murder The True
  Story of the Emmett Till CaseThe author presents
  a true account of the murder of
  fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till in 1955
  Mississippi. With vivid narration and detail, the
  author examines the murder, the following trial,
  and the importance of these events to the civil
  rights movement.128 p. 2003

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• McWhorter, DianeA Dream of Freedom The Civil
  Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968McWhorter,
  writing from the pespective of a white,
  privileged child growing up in Birmingham in the
  early 1960's, offers readers an emotional and
  personal look at the civil rights movement.
  Liberally Illustrated with photos and enhanced by
  many extra resources. Ages 10 to 14.160 p. c2004

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• Bolden, TonyaThe Champ The Story of Muhammad
  AliThis picture book biography covers the most
  fasinating aspects of his exciting life, from Ali
  the fighter to Ali the activist. The playful and
  lively text reflects the illustrations as well as
  the Ali's personality.32 p. 2004

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• Nelson, PeterLeft for Dead A Young Man's Search
  for Justice for the USS IndianapolisRecalls the
  sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of
  World War II, the navy cover-up and unfair court
  martial of the ship's captain, and how a young
  boy helped the survivors set the record straight
  fifty-five years later.201 p. 2002

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• Newcomb, RainThe Master Spy Handbook Help Our
  Intrepid Hero Use Gadgets, Codes and Top-secret
  Tactics to Save the World from EvildoersLearn
  the fine art of tailing, writing secret messages
  in invisible ink, setting up a secret rendezvous,
  or changing the size and appearance of your
  face.96 p. 2005

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• Platt, RichardForensicsThis book looks at the
  fasinating topic of collecting and analyzing
  evidence. Close-up color photographs illustrate
  several examples from ballistics to counterfeit
  money. Many current uses of this science are
  discussed. A few examples include the use of DNA
  to identify victims of the December 2004 tsunami
  in the Indian Ocean.63 p. 2005

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• Ripley's believe it or not! encyclopedia of the
  bizarre, amazing, strange, inexplicable, weird,
  and all true! / by Julie Mooney Amazing, strange,
  inexplicable, weird- and ALL TRUE! 6,000
  absolutely REAL oddities, facts, and records.

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• Things Change
• (Walker and Company, April 2004)

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• nailed
• by
• Patrick Jones
• (April 2006)

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Connecting Young Adults and LibrariesPatrick
Joneshttp//www.connectingya.com

• Consulting, training, and coaching for providing
  powerful youth services including library card
  campaigns and web projects
• patrick_at_connectingYA.com