ALIA Children's and Youth Services (NSW) [cysnsw]

ALIA Children's and Youth Services (NSW) promotes library services to children and youth, highlighting children's literature and fostering professional development of members.

It co-ordinates the national ALIA awards for children's librarians, promotes children's librarianship within the profession, and encourages networking and communication between members. It also co-ordinates the national aliaCYSS e-list. Planned activities include seminars, two national awards and pre-bookweek extravaganza.

Gettin' the Goods: Collection Development Seminar

CYS Toolkit

The CYS Toolkit includes useful links to websites and references to resources in the children's and young adult field. We welcome suggestions of resources to include - please send your suggestions to the aliaCYSS elist.

National Simultaneous Storytime 2008
ALIA CYS (NSW) supports the National Simultaneous Storytime, for more information see the NSS website

National Summer Reading Club 2008/09
ALIA CYS (NSW) supports the National Summer Reading Club "Get in the game, READ!" which will run December 2008 - early February 2009, stay tuned for more information.

Join our e-list!
aliaCYSS is the ALIAnet e-list affiliated with this group or activity. Subscribe to aliaCYSS by heading to the e-list web interface and entering your e-mail address and a password. You'll be sent an e-mail asking you to confirm your subscription - just follow the instructions and you'll be communicating with the rest of the group's members in no time at all.