I spent the past few days at the ALA convention in DC, and I have a few interesting things to share with you.
I attended an early literacy panel called Babies & Books Beyond the Library: Developing an Early Literacy Campaign. The panel highlighted Brooklyn's early literacy campaign, Brooklyn Reads to Babies. That website describes their campaign, which has been very successful.
The other speaker was Susan Straub, founder of the Read to Me program. She has some useful materials on her website to share with parents and caregivers, including a dvd that I plan to purchase for the professional collection.
I also attended a really neat panel on the process of creating audiobooks. The speakers included Bruce Coville, Judy Blume, John Green, and Jack Gantos. A podcast of the program is available right here, on the PLA blog.
And just for fun, here's a funny mockumentary that someone made about the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle: March of the Librarians.
Anyone else who was in DC last weekend, please feel free to comment here with ideas, impressions, anecdotes, etc..
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