YALS Fall Conference

When: 
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Where:
Local Government Center
25 Triangle Park Drive
Concord, NH   03301
800-852-3358

Cost:  
$20 YALS Members $30 Non-Members

*Please make checks payable to NHLA-YALS and send check and registration form to Ann Hoey at the NH State Library. We cannot accept purchase orders for payment.

Registration Form
(Registration deadline is Monday, September 17, 2012)

All registered attendees may submit a teen programming idea to earn a raffle ticket in a drawing for an e-reader. The raffle winner will be selected at the conference. For each submission, the registrant will receive one raffle ticket.

Raffle prize:

NOOK Simple Touch™ with GlowLight™

These program idea templates must be e-mailed to Ann.Hoey@dcr.nh.gov by September 17, 2012. Please indicate in the body of the email the name of the librarian submitting the program idea.

Agenda
8:45 a.m.
Registration and Morning Refreshments

9:15 a.m. Teen Programming Panel–Jenn Hosking, Nashua Public Library; Lori Shalin, Pelham Public Library; and Kathy Watson, Kimball Library.

10:15 a.m. How do I get teens into my library?–Shelly Angers, Public Information Officer for the NH Department of Cultural Resources

11:00 a.m. Break*

11:20 a.m. 2013 Flume Booktalks –Kirsten Corbett, Lane Memorial Library; Lisa Houde, Rye Public Library.

12: 30 p.m. Lunch

Featured Speaker:

Sarah Smith
, author of a three-novel mystery series set in turn of the century Boston and Paris and the YA novel The Other Side of Dark.

Book Selling & Signing with Sarah Smith following her talk0

1:30 p.m. YALS Business Meeting and Election of Officers

*A Teen Book Review will be available during the non-program times at the conference. All registrants are invited to look at the books, read reviews of the titles, and select a book or more to bring back to their library collections.