Related Links and Websites
INFORMATION: Library Services
Cavan Libraries Children’s Services
Cork County Libraries, Young Members
Cork City Libraries Children’s Services
Donegal Libraries Children’s Services
DLR Libraries : 200 great reads for young people
Kildare Libraries Children’s Service
Clare Library Children’s Services
Dublin City Library Children’s Services
South Dublin Library Children’s Services
Mayo Library Children’s Services
Offaly County Library Children's Service
Kilkenny Library Children's Services
Tipperary County Library Just For Kids
INFORMATION: Read a story
StoryPlace Digital Library for Children
INFORMATION: Support Resources for Reading and Creative Writing
Fingal County Council Public Libraries development plan – includes three brochures for 0 – 18 months, 1 – 3yrs and 2.5 – 6 yrs
South Dublin County Council Public Libraries – brochure and video for Ready to Read, description of e.g. Bedtime Reading Club
Aistear, the early childhood curriculum for children aged1 – 6 – includes reading lists and tips for parents.
Centre for Effective Services – evaluations of cross sectoral, disadvantaged children community based interventions.
Department of Education and Science, Junior Cycle English Literature course materials – Start with the known and challenge their imaginations from there!
Children's Books Ireland -- Information, resources, supports and activities to encourage children's reading.
The Reading Agency [UK] is a charity dedicated to inspiring more people to read more, to share their enjoyment of reading and celebrate the difference that reading makes to their lives. The Agency offers an extensive range of programmes for various sectors and age-groups.
The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards [CILIP] has a shadowing site with a range of resources and supports for activities supporting reading development in libraries. The longlists are significant in breadth, ideas and materials are useful.
Storybird is a digital writing and reading support resource. US creation. Children are encouraged to write by populating illustrations [great selection] provided, to create books & picture books & poems. This link brings you straight to the explanatory video. This could be a very attractive product to engage older children where access to library IT suites is a service to children. Books created can be shared on Facebook.
ABRACADABRA is a Canadian resource which offers supports to [1] teachers, [2] parents and [3] children to help develop reading & writing skills to young children. A series of digital books can be read and there are exercises and games that develop vocabulary, understand the story and encourage children to write. Printable resources and explanations of the purposes behind various activities.
www.jbrary.com – tune in for storytime success. Lindsey Krabbenhoft and Dana Horrocks are two children’s librarians in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, who created Jlibrary from a MLIS course project. It has grown into a blog and YouTube channel that participates in the virtual youth services world. It includes very basic but effective videos of some of the songs and play games they use throughout their sessions.
INFORMATION: Learning to read and write
Woodlands Junior Literacy Zone
FreeRice Vocabulary Games (Every time a question is answered correctly, FreeRice donates ten grains of rice to the World Food Programme)
INFORMATION: Other Resources
Accelerated Reader Bookfinder: Enables a blank search according to criteria such as Age, Ability (book level from – to), Theme, Sub-topics etc.
Ask about Ireland Learning Zone: Provides a broad range of on-line information, maps, images and games to young students.
Books for Keeps: a UK independent children’s book magazine
Getting boys to read: a community based blog for parents, librarians, and teachers providing information and support through articles, videos, interviews, and a forum.
Guys Lit Wire: Bloggers, writers, and readers helping teenage boys find the books they want to read.
How to Be An Advocate for Teens (by Gretchen of Librarified) is an excellent primer to advocating for teens within your library and community.
Kirkus Reviews: Upcoming pre-publication reviews and thousands of archived reviews oc children’s books that are freely available to non-subscribers.
Lifesteps Guide: Using the Internet for reading for young people and parents: a listing of websites for publishers, readers and authors
New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship: published biannually, is multidisciplinary in nature, providing opportunities for the ‘pure’ discussion of children’s literature, and of issues relating to one of the key places in which to find such literature—libraries for young people.
Readergirlz: the cutting-edge literacy and social media project for teens, awarded the National Book Award for Innovations in Reading. It is a nonprofit volunteer organisation. The readergirlz mission is to promote teen literacy and corresponding social service.
Using Blogs for collection development: Abby the Librarian’s handout from her presentation at the Illinois Library Federation Children’s & Young People’s Division conference.
What Kids Need: The Building Blocks for Children and Youth: Providing an insight into the complexity of the physical and mental development of teenagers.
“‘You’ve changed my life’: teenagers, reading and libraries” is an article by Anne Harding about how libraries can support and encourage reading among teens (especially disadvantaged teens).