Rincon
Branch of the Livermore Public Library to Present
"It's a REEL World After All: Teens Making
Movies" at ALA Poster Session in June
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Logo
for the program “REEL FOCUS: Teen Learning through
Video Creativity”
[Logo design courtesy
Karl Pontau]
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“Reel
Focus: Teen Learning through Video Creativity,” a
filmmaking program for low-income teens, developed by
staff at the Rincon Branch of the Livermore Public
Library, and funded by a Library Services and Technology
Act (LSTA) grant, is an innovative project from which
people who work in the nation’s public libraries can
learn. Donna Pontau, former Rincon Branch Manager, was so
sure her national colleagues would want to know about
“Reel Focus” she proposed "It's a REEL World
After All: Teens Making Movies” to the Young
Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) for a
poster session at the 2008 American
Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Anaheim
June 30.
Jason
Ryder, Reel Focus Instructor and filmmaker, instructs
students before a cascade shoot. (A cascade shoot is an
exercise where students change crew positions every scene
so that each receives experience in all positions.) [Photo
courtesy of Mary Sue Nocar]
Pontau
had the right idea. YALSA and ALA selected the Rincon
Branch’s proposal -- an honor for a California public
library.
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Sandy
Fouts, part of the team who
wrote the Reel Focus grant, and
Mary Sue Nocar, Program Coordinator
[Photo courtesy Eileen Contento]
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Mary
Sue Nocar, Supervising Librarian at the Rincon Branch, is
now overseeing the program and says of the ALA tribute,
“We’re thrilled to be going to ALA and to be sharing
information about how we organized ‘It's a REEL World
After All: Teens Making Movies.’ We’re looking forward
to showing other public libraries how a local library can
offer 5th through 12th grade students from low-income
families opportunities they might not find elsewhere.”
“Not
only do our kids get to work with high-tech and costly
filmmaking equipment, they also learn study skills,”
Nocar says. “While making films, they write, plan,
organize, edit, and outline. They also speak before
groups, and use math to calculate tables and costs.”
Nocar says that by June the Rincon Branch will be able to
show ALA-attendees films of the kids at work, “a really
exciting component of our poster session,” she says.
The
Rincon Branch team named their ALA program "It's a
REEL World” as a friendly nod to “It’s a Small
World,” the legendary ride at the 2008 Conference’s
Anaheim neighbor, Disneyland.
For
more information about the 2008 ALA Annual Conference,
please visit http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2008a/home.cfm.
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