Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Howdy y'all!

Howdy y'all!



School is wrapping up quickly and the new semester will start faster than expected, and I was hoping we could all take advantage of the few days we have free of school commitments to make some headway regarding our IMLS project due in May…. Please write back with input so that I can update this and post it on the blog for future reference and modifications. If you guys prefer I can make this into a Google Document so that we can all see things progress… Just let me know… Thanks!




Children’s Festival


Date: Early April (after TLA)


Location: Houston Public Library – Central


Time: ?? (Half day)


Audience: Children, Teens, Families




  1. Will we have a special author or guest? (I wasn’t able to find the list of authors attending TxLA…)
  2. Will there be a tour of the central youth services areas? (Children’s room and Teen room)
  3. What will we be doing?!?!?! (Crafts, story times, programming, advocacy, etc.)
  4. Do we want to have “community partners” present?
  5. How large is this going to be?
  6. Indoors vs Outdoors
  7. What will be our set up? (Stage, booths, stations, meeting rooms, etc.)
  8. How will we address the needs of our multiple audiences? (little folks, tweens, and parents)
  9. How will this be promoted? (Tammy is good… but she can only do so much…)
  10. **Once we have decided on what will be done, decide who will do what ….




Literacy Kits


Date: Continuous


Location: Head Start Locations


Audience: Preschoolers & Educators




  1. What is needed for each kit?
  2. Where will we obtain kit contents
  3. Who will receive them?
  4. Do we keep track of them?
  5. Are they replenished?
  6. How to measure progress…

Monday, December 8, 2008

Kits for the Headstart

I liked the bags that the Children's Museum used for the kids. I thing the cost would kill us in the long run. So my second choice would be chose an open style bag like the recycle one's we can purchase for $.50 at Wal Mart. Nice blue or "HPL Red" bags. The bag could/should have a HPL logo on the front. Small kids have trouble with zippers! What do you all think?

We should get together in January and start working hard on this project.

Melissa