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November 12, 2010
**Ronda's Corner**

What's new in the CASLS world.

Well, first off I would like to welcome Allison Stoltz to our group. Allison will be taking over for Pat Wygant at Wellsville. Her email is astoltz@wlsv.org. Please add her to your CASLS all call list.

Another new member to our group is Chris Hatfield. Chris is going to be filling the position at Randolph Academy. I'm not sure of her email yet. I've tried to find out in time for the newsletter, but didn't have any luck. I'll let you know as soon as I do.

Fillmore has a new person for their library. The name seems familiar to me. I didn't get permission from this person to "let the cat out of the bag" yet, so I'm just going to have to keep you in suspense a little longer.

If you have put in your request to attend the Kathleen Odean presentation in December, please let me know. I want to try to avoid some of the missed names that plagued our last training. There are too many places between your request and the list I receive at the end for your name to disappear. That's all I have for this week. Please take the time to see what Mary Ann has to share below.

**DECEMBER 1, 2010 - at Southern Tier West - Please sign up with Laurie Sledge via your Curriculum Coordinator.**
==**Kathleen Odean, a nationally recognized expert and popular speaker on books for young people, will share her expertise in a specially designed two-part presentation.** ** __Part One - Girls & Reading__ nurture in girls the strong qualities often suppressed in our culture by giving them books with images of strong females who are leaders, adventurers, scientists, artists, problem-solvers. A review of titles for ages 3-14. ** ** __Part Two - What’s New in Teen Literature:__ A presentation of the best new books for grades 6-12, along with practical ideas and activities to motivate young adults to read more and outstanding suggestions on books and techniques to reach reluctant readers **==



Visit this website--really good ideas for "boy" books []

It's not a game, but a reality check for students to see how much they need to make in order to support their lifestyle choices: []

Students will hit the gold mine for reports when using [] you can enter a search term like World War II, for example, and see various images. Click on the image, decide whether to use it or not, you can save to your collection, etc.