Take a look at this link for a peek at the article!

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42339223/ns/today-books/?GT1=43001

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
 
Oakland Main Library
125 14th Street (between Oak and Madison)
Oakland, CA 94612
 
Agenda
 
■9-9:30am - Arrival and Networking
■9:30-10am - Book and Program Sharing Round-Robin
■10-11am – Challenges to YA Materials, presentation by Amy Sonnie (librarian and author of a banned YA book) and Beth Wrenn-Estes (librarian and lecturer at San Jose State University)
■11-11:15am - Break
■11:15am-Noon - BAYA Business
 
No host lunch at nearby restaurant
 
Directions:
 
BAYA members should go to the back entrance on 13th Street.  The back door will be propped open, walk in and make a left, and follow the signs to the West Auditorium in the basement.   
 
http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/Seasonal/Sections/mainhrs.html
 
By Car: 

*HWY. 80 (from Bay Bridge, or heading South):

Follow 80 to 580 East to 980 (toward Downtown) to 880 South; take Jackson St. exit as 980 becomes 880. Turn left on Jackson, then right on 14th.
(NOTE: Do NOT get onto 880 South directly from the Bay Bridge - you will miss the Jackson St. exit.)

* HWY. 880 (heading North) :

Take Oak Street exit. Turn right on Oak, then left on 14th.

By Bus & By BART:

* By Bus:
 12th and Oak: Bus #1, #1R, #14, #18, #40, #58L, #88, #618, #801, #840
 11th and Madison: Bus #1, #1R, #14, #18, #40, #58L #88, #618, #801, #840
 

* By BART:
Lake Merritt Bart Station: Bus#11, #62 (in front of Oakland Museum and across from Laney College)
 
    * If bus schedules or bus maps are needed, you can contact Dennis Lim, Marketing Intern dlim@actransit.org. The website for AC Transit is www.actransit.org or you can also go to www.nextbus.com.
 

This is Brandi Bette. I am just wondering who will be monitoring these questions?

Hi Brandi,

I will be monitoring these questions, I approve them before they are posted.

~Yesica

Tuesday March 22nd, 2011

Milpitas Library  
160 North Main Street
Milpitas, CA 95035  Map
408-262-1171

Agenda

• 9-9:30am - Arrival and Networking
• 9:30-10am - Book and Program Sharing Round-Robin
• 10-11am - Summer Reading Program Planning Presentation by Amanda Jacobs-Foust (Marin County Free Library), followed by program sharing Round-Robin
• 11-11:15am - Break
• 11:15am-Noon - BAYA Business (including on voting for the winner of the BAYA Logo Contest!)

Directions from the library website are at http://www.santaclaracountylib.org/milpitas/MIdirections.html
 
Visiting librarians will need to park in the garage and then walk to the rear of the building (the main entrance in the garage will be locked).  There will be signs indicating where to go.

A no-host lunch will follow the meeting, at a nearby restaurant to be determined.

Perhaps Baja Cactus down the street for lunch.  It is about a seven minute walk and a very short drive straight down the street from the library.
 
http://goo.gl/maps/AidP

The Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org) is a great web site for people of all ages who need an extra tutorial in math, and it’s all free. The site is loaded with hundreds of brief tutorials that are presented in YouTube videos on subjects ranging from basic addition to higher level calculus. There are also practice problems you can access. While the site has videos on many other subjects, the math tutorials will have the widest appeal for our middle school and high school students looking for help.

If you are looking for help with running a chess tournament at your library, I have a great suggestion for you. The San Leandro Public Library worked with Salman Azhar of Bay Area Chess on a highly successful chess tournament and recommend his services. He came with two other staff people and all the chess boards and clocks. They managed and judged the tournament and posted all the results on their web site. We also bought our trophies through his contacts. We did a quads tournament with both rated and unrated sections, but he has many ideas for other types of tournaments and configurations. Fees are negotiable. To contact Salman, e-mail him at salman@bayareachess.com.

My library has applied for a grant for a Microsoft Surface. Here’s the web site: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/default.aspx
 
The director is thrilled with the idea of teen/children’s services using this and offering it to teens to use for projects. The only thing I’ve been able to come up with is film/animation students, especially those collaborating on a powerpoint animation show.
 
Does anyone have any other ideas for uses for this in a library environment? you can reply here or email me at jrees@ci.sunnyvale.ca.us
 
Thanks,
 
JoAnn