Children's Services

Executive Board

*The Children's Services Section is currently recruiting members to run for office on the 2010-2011 Executive Board. For more information, email member at large Kristen Kirk.

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Committees

Events

Garden State Children's Book Awards   

Links of Interest 

Observing or Shadowing a Librarian  

The Children’s Services Section is the second largest in the New Jersey Library Association and it is the most active. Our members can be involved in two major workshops as committee members and/or as program presenters.

The first program is called the Performer’s Showcase held in the fall. This CSS committee invites performers to audition with a performance so that youth services librarians can contact them about providing future programs at their libraries.

The second program, the Youth Services Forum Workshop is in the fall and is co-sponsored with the YA Section, NJASL and the New Jersey State Library. This is an all day annual event featuring eight programs highlighting hot topics to librarians serving children and teens. This committee plans the day and recommends the programs and presenters.

CSS also has a Garden State Book Award Committee that proposes potential nominee titles in four categories, publicizes the Award, compiles the voting results from young readers throughout New Jersey and presents the Award to the winning author at the Garden State Book Award Luncheon at the NJLA Conference.

Books for Kids is another CSS program. This committee sends out materials to libraries to enlist and encourage them to participate by serving as collection sites for donated books which the library then distributes and/or with the help of local community agencies “to less fortunate children throughout the state.”

Our members are frequently asked to present programs at various statewide conferences such as NJLA, NJASL and NJEA as well as local and regional workshops sponsored by the Regional Library Cooperatives. Professional opportunities abound for those youth services librarians who want to gain exposure to the New Jersey library community at large and to find new and challenging experiences in their chosen field of library expertise.