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 Trainer Sue McCleaf Nespeca
Sue McCleaf Nespeca heads Kid Lit Plus Consulting , providing speeches, training, and consulting to librarians, teachers and early childhood educators on topics such as early literacy, family literacy, children's literature and library services to youth. With over 29 years experience in youth services library work, present on-going consulting work includes the Northwest Regional Library System and Northeast Ohio Regional Library System, both in Ohio. Also, she is adjunct faculty at Kent State (Ohio) University's School of Library and Information Sciences and at Syracuse (New York) University. She has a Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education from Kent State and a Master's Degree in Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Her newest book, written with co-author Joan Reeve, is Picture Books Plus: 100 Extension Activities in Art, Drama, Music, Math and Science , published by the American Library Association in 2003. Active in the American Library Association, she served on the 1993 Caldecott Committee and was chair of the 2003 Sibert Committee. Presently she is one of seven national trainers for the PLA/ALSC Every Child Ready to Read® @ Your Library® Project . She has spoken at over 200 conferences and workshops throughout the United States.
READY TO READ is administered by the State Library of Ohio and the Ohio Library Council and is made possible, in part by Federal Library Services and Technology Act Funds, awarded to the State Library of Ohio by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, Dayton Metro Library and Columbus Metropolitan Library have provided additional resources to this project.
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