Starting+and+Running+a+Student+Service+Club+to+Support+Your+Library

Saturday, November 12th Concurrent Session (11:30am - 12:30pm)

Advocacy • All //Room 208//
 * Join The Club: Starting And Running A Student Service Club To Support Your School Library**

[[file:The Library Club.pdf]]**<---Click Here for the .pdf of my PowerPoint from 11/12/11. **

 * Session description:** If you sometimes wish there were a way to do more library outreach on your campus, but feel overwhelmed and isolated, a libary club may be for you. Involve your students as your ambassadors! This session will demonstrate how one high school has utilized a campus service club format to become an integral part of campus activities and events while enabling students to benefit from leadership experience. **The Library Club (TLC) is NOT a book club; it's a fun (and powerful) advocacy tool!**

and what has been discovered through trial and error over the past several years!
 * Expect to glean ideas for:**
 * starting your club
 * attracting members
 * running meetings
 * planning events that draw students to the library

====TLC -- The Library Club as a service club on campus to connect with the greater school culture -- was recognized with the 2010 Highsmith Innovation Award at last year's CSLA Annual Conference. ====

master of arts degree in library and information technology at Fresno Pacific University. She is a past recipient of two CSLA Good Ideas! awards (2007, 2009) as well as the 2010 Highsmith Innovation Award. She has conducted "Best New Books" and best school library practices presentations and trainings in Nevada and California.
 * Presenter information:** Amy Linden has been a classroom teacher and teacher librarian in Northern California for almost 20 years. She is currently the teacher librarian at Bear River High School in Grass Valley. Amy earned her teaching and librarianship credentials at CSU Sacramento and is currently finishing her

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