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Youth Services: CLOUSC

Ramapo Catskill Library System Youth Services provides support to young adult and children’s librarians throughout all of Orange, Rockland, Sullivan and southern Ulster counties. By offering services and advocacy through a combined system wide effort, RC

Meeting Schedule

CLOUSC 2024-25 Meeting Schedule 

All meetings are in -person at host libraries throughout Orange, Ulster, and Sullivan Counties.  If you are interested in hosting a meeting at your library, please contact Michelle Muller, michelle.muller@rcls.org.

Chair:Beth Balogh, Josephine-Louise Public Library, Walden
Secretary: Dawn Falone, Florida Public Library
 

September 23: Walden: Table Talk: Summer Reading Recap
                        Bookshare: Favorite Books of Summer Reading
                         At Noon: Serving Homeschool Families
 
October 28: Monticello:  Table Talk: Online Reading Platforms: Beanstack, ReadSquared
                         Bookshare: Diverse Holiday Books
                    At Noon: Mental Health: potentially a Representative from NAMI Sullivan County
 
December 2nd: Cornwall:  Table Talk: Science of Reading
                          Bookshare: Decodable Books
                            At Noon: Digital Navigators (Meaghan Doyle)
 
Mock Newbery/Caldecott: January 10th @RCLS with a Snow date of January17th
 
February: Florida:  Table Talk: Civil Service
               Bookshare: 2025 Award Winners
                At Noon: ?
 
March: Tuxedo:  Table Talk: Koha So Far...
                   LARC/CLOUSC Meet Up ?
               
April: Ask a Sullivan Library:  Table Talk: School Visits/ Relationship Building with Schools
                                Bookshare: Colorful Stories
                               At Noon: Art in the Hudson Valley
 
May/June: End of Year Luncheon at Thrall Library in Middletown


  

  

Upcoming Conferences and Continuing Education Opportunities 

October 17-20: New York Comic Con, New York City 

October 24: Fall Into Books, Newburgh, NY 

November 7-10: NYLA Conference, Syracuse, NY 

January 24-27: LibLearn X: The Library Learning Experience Phoenix, AZ

February 13: In-Person Summer Reading Workshop

February 25: NY State Summer Reading Workshop, online

March 11: YA Summer Reading Collab, online

April : NYLA YSS Conference,  

June 27-30: ALA Annual, Philadelphia, PA

 

Current Officers

Beth Balogh, CLOUSC Chair, Josephine-Louise Public Library, Walden bbalogh@rcls.org

Dawn Falone, CLOUSC Secretary, Florida Public Library, dfalone@rcls.org