Welcome Back

Hi everyone - hope you all had a great break. Now that the holidays are over, we'll be getting back into our regular schedule - fourth Monday of every month - for January, that'll be the 22nd.
Until the next meeting, I just wanted to let you know about some other opportunities at the library...
We're recruiting volunteers for the Reading Buddies Programme - the programme runs on Tuesdays between February 6 and March 27. Volunteers work one-on-one with children to practice reading. If you are interested in applying, please email me at acecch@markham.library.on.ca and I'll send you an application - you must be in grade 10 or older to volunteer.

This was an idea we discussed at a previous meeting... we're starting a new project for summer and we're looking for a group of creative, enthusiastic teens who like working with kids and want to get involved in running children's craft programmes. The group will meet once a month beginning in March to plan a series of drop-in craft programmes for children. These teen volunteers will not only get to help plan the classes, but they will actually run the programme! It's a great opporutnity to be creative, get some great experience (that'll look great on your resume or university/college applications) and have some fun! If you are interested in applying, again, drop me a line at acecch@markham.libary.on.ca. I believe some of you mentioned that you know other people that may be interested, so by all means, please let them know about this opportunity and ask them to email me if they want to participate.

We're still trying to come up with some ideas for summer programmes - I don't know if I mentioned this already, but if any of you (or your friends) want to run a programme this summer, we do take proposals. We often get proposals from students and teachers who want to run programmes for us in the summers when they're off. If there are any programmes you could teach that might appeal to tweens and teens, let me know and I'll send you instructions for submitting a programme proposal. We do pay our instructors, by the way. Feel free to mention it to anyone you know who might be interested.
See you in a couple of weeks.