GREAT TRANSITIONS

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• GREAT TRANSITIONS
• BOOKTALK APPRECIATION EVENT
• FRIDAY
• MAY 23, 9-1030 AM

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AGENDA

• 900-915 Social Time
• 915-925 Welcome by Lin Maki, Hennepin County
  Library Corrections
• 925-930 Library Service at CHS by Terry Wise,
  CHS Superintendent
• 930-935 Minneapolis Public Library by Maureen
  Hartman, MPL Teen Specialist
• 935-940 Great Transitions by Roy Dennis
• 940-1000 CHS Library services update by
  Patrick Jones, Outreach Manager
• 1000-1015 Presentation of certificates by
  Charles Brown, HCL Director
• 1015-1030 Pictures and Social Time

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Great Booktalkers!
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Great Results

• 2001/2002 863 requests (Sept-June)
• 2002/2003 877 requests (Sept May)

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AGENDA

• With 28 requests the most popular CHS booktalk!

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Zachary, living with his divorced mother in
California, finds violence gradually invading his
day-to-day existence
A book of spooky short stories with a foundation
of African American culture
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A reprint of an 1861 slave narrative
An account of a death row inmates life
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Great Transitions

• If you want to save children in the juvenile
  corrections system, give them art, give them
  music, give them literature because their souls
  are dead.
• Hennepin County Juvenile Court Judge Isabel Gomez

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Goal

• To engage young people involved in the juvenile
  corrections system with the library and its array
  of resources and services in order to help them
  become avid readers and competent information
  seekers. Great Transitions shows adjudicated
  youth how the library can help as they struggle,
  learn to change and ultimately achieve.

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Partners

• Hennepin County Library
• Minneapolis Public Library
• Hennepin County Home School (CHS),
• Epsilon Program, Hopkins School District
• Hennepin County Juvenile Corrections/Probation
• The Library Foundation of Hennepin County
• Hopkins Schools Community Partnership

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Booktalking
• Booktalking is a research proven effective way to
  increase reading for pleasure among teenagers.
  Booktalks are advertisements for books. A
  successful booktalking program has been in place
  at CHS for years. Students rate the presentations
  highly and request copies of the titles
  presented.

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Library Card sign-up
• By increasing access to reading material by
  ensuring that every CHS students has the
  opportunity to obtain a library card, the library
  is increasing chances of school success.

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Adolescent Literacy _at_ home
• The Library delivers monthly to each CHS unit a
  collection of reading materials based upon the
  interests of residents and the input of CHS
  staff.

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Adolescent Literacy _at_ Girls Cottage
• The Library has helped the staff of the Girls
  Cottage to develop a full fledged lending library
  loaded with books of interest to young women.

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Adolescent Literacy at school - 1
• To increase access to reading materials, a small
  library was established to support the
  recreational and informational needs of students
  Library staff make a bi-monthly visit. Materials
  will reflect the diversity within the CHS
  residents.

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Adolescent Literacy at school - 2
• CHS teachers and paraprofessional staff
  communicate to the library materials requested by
  students which are delivered on a weekly basis.

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Author visit
• CHS students will have the opportunity on 13 June
  to interact with award winning Young adult author
  Will Weaver. Weaver will engage the students in
  discussion, provide them with information, and
  answer questions.

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Diverse City
• A student produced literary magazines containing
  the writings and drawings of CHS students will be
  published on 12 June. The purpose of the
  anthology is to provide CHS residents with a
  vehicle for creative expression and to build
  assets.

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Born to Read
• Helping parents raise children with healthy
  bodies and minds is the goal of Born to Read How
  to Nurture a Baby's Love of Learning. Born to
  Read is a national program sponsored by the
  American Library Association. Sessions were held
  in May for residents in both boys and girls
  cottages.

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Reading interest surveys
• Working with CHS and Epsilon staff, the Library
  conducts on-going surveys of the reading
  interests of residents to develop collections,
  plan programs, and select materials to booktalk.

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Classroom collections
• The library provided the Reading and English
  teachers in the Epsilon program with updated
  collections of recreational reading materials for
  their classroom collections

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Writing workshops
• In summer 2003, local writers will work with CHS
  students to develop their creative writing
  skills. Materials produced as part of workshop
  may serve as the foundation for another literary
  magazine or the annual CHS play

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Information Partnership
• The Library partnered with the Red Door Clinic to
  provide CHS residents with up-to-date materials
  regarding sexual health issues. Red Door Clinic
  staff were provided with reading lists to
  distribute to students materials will then be
  available to

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Book discussion group
• In summer 2003, a b bi-weekly book discussion
  group will let CHS students to interact with each
  other in a relaxed setting to discuss books
  relevant to their experience with a caring adult.

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Book reviews online
• In spring 2003, CHS residents began reviewing
  books. Their reviews were posted on the
  Librarys award winning Teen Links web page in
  the Read On Section.

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Building assets through literacy activities

• Information literacy workshops
• One of the keys to success in the "information
  age" is the ability to locate and use information
  resources. These workshops will provide CHS
  students with the skills they need to become
  information literate focusing on career info. .

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Thanks for teaching things about books. I never
knew reading could be so fun. When I was out, I
never did read a book. But now that you showed
me how fun it can be, Im going to read every
book I can, not just cause of you. But because
I really like reading and like to learn new
things. Things I never knew. Student,
Hennepin County Home School
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BOOKTALKERS AND SOME OF CHS RESIDENTS FAVORITE
BOOKS

• Anderson Lois
• Chapman Caron
• Cramer Gloria
• Fogelson Mechelle
• Hartman Maureen

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BOOKTALKERS AND SOME OF CHS RESIDENTS FAVORITE
BOOKS

• Holden Barb
• Johnson Penny
• Jones Patrick
• Kemp Roberta
• Kreuser Joni
• Lane David

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BOOKTALKERS AND SOME OF CHS RESIDENTS FAVORITE
BOOKS

• LeDuc Carol
• Long Jen
• Maki Lin
• Millea Smith Maureen
• Santos Rachel
• Severson Mary

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BOOKTALKERS AND SOME OF CHS RESIDENTS FAVORITE
BOOKS

• Turner Ali
• Wagoner Bethany
• Watts Emily
• Wentling Sarajo
• Wronka Gretchen

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NONFICTION FAVORITES
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BIOGRAPHIES
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FICTION FAVORITES
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MORE FICTION FAVORITES
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POETRY
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SCARY STORIES
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HUMOR
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What is next?

• Sign up with Patrick Jones (pjones_at_ hclib.org)
  for school year 2003 2004!