@37signals My entry for #WorkCanWait :: )

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/101401429083820767/

https://37signals.com/svn/posts/3688-show-us-how-workcanwait-and-win-a-night-out-on-us

It's Hispanic Heritage Month!

Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month 2013! Ignore the Cinco de Mayo hoopla --- Sept. 15 & 16 are the real deal. http://hispanicheritagemonth.gov

Get yours before the ALA bookstore sells out!

Snag a copy!
"YALSA’s new Practical Programming: The Best of YA-YAAC offers tried & true ideas for teen programs - ALA: http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2013/09/yalsa-s-new-practical-programming-best-ya-yaac-offers-tried-and-true-ideas."
(I'm not getting royalties; just really think you'll like it!)

Posted to YA-YAAC email discussion list:

Happy Labor Day weekend, Great Brain:

Tinna told me about her post re: the Practical Programming book to the email discussion list, so I'm checking in to address her excellent question for everyone. Yes, the book is now available/published (As of Thursday or Friday, I believe.), & I included as many of the list contributors as I could pack into the pages. ​(There are so many wonderful ideas & discussions here!)​

Practical Programming: The Best of YA-YAAC​ is presently being sold in the ALA store: http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=10707. ​

C​reated Twitter & Facebook pages for the book today, too:

• https://twitter.com/YA_YAAC
• https://www.facebook.com/PracticalProgramming (Pretty please press those "like" ​& "follow" icon​s for the book. Thanks!)

​I am grateful to everyone who contributed ​to this title by posting to YA-YAAC, or by working with me directly to share programming details. Am so pleased that the book that YALSA commissioned me to write --- is now published. (Hooray!) I invested 3 gorgeous SoCal summers in writing, researching, and editing, so I feel certain that teen programming planners will enjoy it and find the information that it offers to be useful!

Thanks, all! : )

Monique

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Monique Delatte Starkey

Author, Practical Programming: The Best of YA-YAAC: http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=10707

Associate Professor, Fullerton College Library

Adjunct Librarian, Rio Hondo College Library

MoniqueDelatteStarkey.com

Belmont Heights Parrots

Belmont Hts. Parrots (Photo by Monique)

"Hi!" 

Shot of parrots in Long Beach (red-crowned parrot [mitred parakeet or maybe red-masked parakeet?])

Practical Programming: The Best of YA-YAAC

Mere hours before the dawn of my one millionteenth birthday, I learned that the book that I dragged--clawing & howling--from the depths of the primordial goop of my lower bowels is...available!
But, after spending a summer writing it (I'm off for the summers, but I pick up extra hours at Rio & FCL.), then working with the editing notes of several YALSA editors over a time span of 2+ years, I am elated to see this love labor arrive at fruition.
Here it is: Practical Programming: The Best of YA-YAAC

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