CASLS+Newsletter+Vol.2+N.18


 * February 6, 2012**

**RONDA'S CORNER**

**MARY ANN'S MEANDERINGS** **FYI** **JANUARY STATS** Thank you for your license to TeachingBooks. In order to keep you, the license coordinator, informed about how TeachingBooks is being used and to assist you in maximizing your use of this service, we send you the following monthly statistics and sharing information.
 * Statistics for Cattaraugus-Allegany-Erie-Wyoming BOCES School Library System**
 * 48618 pages turned since the start of your license
 * 801 pages turned in the past month
 * 8805 total sessions since the start of your license
 * 309 sessions in the past month


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**WORLD READ ALOUD DAY** **MARCH 7, 2012**

Dear Colleagues, The third annual World Read Aloud Day will be here before we know it. This year's theme is "Change the World, Story by Story." I hope youconsider celebrating this special day on March 7, 2012. Shannon Miller and I wrote a blog post about how plan to celebrate this global literacy movement: []

LitWorld created a resource page where you can download the World Read Aloud Day badge, flyers, worksheets, book recommendations, and more to help spark your World Read Aloud Day preparations. Activity Page: [] Best regards, JohnJohn Schumacher, M.Ed MLIS Teacher-Librarian Brook Forest Elementary School Oak Brook, IL 60523

As our area libraries are preparing, or have prepared exhibits and programs, for Black History Month, I thought I would share the following from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History: This might be useful for some of our readers. Please read below aswell as see this link from ASALH: []
 * ORIGINS OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH **

Sorry for any duplication. Lorna Peterson

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