This is a message from CTLS-L.
Selecting "Reply" will send a message to the originator.
Selecting "Reply to All" will send a message to the entire list.
---------------------------------------------------------
Here is the latest from Christine McNew about the Texas Reading Club.
Amanda
Dear Librarians,
The Texas State Library will mail the 2004 Texas Reading
Club manuals to participating libraries in early February. "Color Your
World...Read!" is this year's theme and the manual is filled with exciting
puppet plays, stories, reader's theater scripts, songs, fingerplays, and
other programming suggestions. For the first time, the manual is available
on CD-Rom and all libraries will receive a copy in this format. Librarians
who requested print copies will also receive those. We hope that you enjoy
the CD-Rom's many user-friendly features!
Award-winning children's book illustrator Diane Greenseid
created the posters, bookmarks, certificates, clip art, and reading logs for
this year's Texas Reading Club. Ms. Greenseid is the illustrator of When
Aunt Lena Did the Rhumba and many other delightful children's books. On the
CD-Rom, you will find downloadable color artwork and clipart that you may
use to promote your reading club. The clip art by Diane Greenseid is also
available on the Texas State Library web site at
www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/projects/trc/2004/manual/clipart/index.html
<http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/projects/trc/2004/manual/clipart/index.html>.
Please adhere to the statement concerning the "Acceptable Use of Artwork"
when using the clipart and artwork in the print, online, and CD-Rom versions
of the manual. The posters, certificates, reading logs, and bookmarks will
be mailed to participating public libraries by March 31, 2004.
Mark your calendars! The Children's Round Table will host
the Texas Reading Club program at TLA in San Antonio on Thursday, March 18,
2004 from 12:00-1:50 p.m. Come and be inspired by presentations by Diane
Greenseid and the talented authors of the 2004 Texas Reading Club manual.
We encourage librarians to reach out to children with
disabilities this summer! The Talking Book Program (TBP) at the Texas State
Library will be promoting the Texas Reading Club to young patrons and
encouraging them to contact their local public libraries to sign up. TBP
is a joint state and federal program that provides unabridged books in
alternate formats for Texans of all ages who are unable to read standard
print materials due to temporary or permanent visual, physical, or reading
disabilities. TBP will supply children's books on tape, in large print and
Braille directly to eligible patrons through the mail and can assist young
patrons in tracking the books they have read. Please review the section in
the manual on "Serving Children with Disabilities" and visit the TBP website
at www.TexasTalkingBooks.org <http://www.TexasTalkingBooks.org>. The web
site lists eligibility requirements and contains downloadable applications.
It also includes a training manual for librarians at
<http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/tbp/forlibrarians.html>. You may call TBP at
800-252-9605 if you need assistance in serving your young patrons with
disabilities.
Best regards,
Christine McNew
Youth Services Consultant
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
1201 Brazos
Austin, Texas 78701
512-463-6623
_______________________________________________
syscon-tx mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.tsl.state.tx.us/mailman/listinfo/syscon-tx
