Webcams

ACLA has 5 Logitech C110 webcams. Please email Kristin Rama to borrow these.

Button Maker

ACLA has 2 1/3" round button maker set including the metal pin shells and plastic laminate discs. All you need are 2" images/papers. Please email Kristin Rama to borrow this set and she will update the table below.

One Book, Every Young Child

Previous One Book, Every Young Child kits are cataloged in Millennium and can be requested with any library card. Current kits are available on the OBEYC page for reservation from March - May.

$ Piggy Bank Tales $

A kit for a four week unit on earning, saving, spending, sharing for ages 12 months to 5 years. Libraries may request kits for 5 weeks - 1 week of preparation, and 4 weeks of implementation. An extra week will be built into the calendar for the next participant to receive the item via delivery. Please email Kristin and she will update the table below.

Planning Items:

• Inventory Sheet
• Program Overview and Weekly Plans
• Craft from Oriental Trading (optional)
• Template for Price Tags

Please have the bin ready for delivery by the end of you last day of reservation. Check this schedule for the next library and email Kristin when you have sent it.

Gaming Trunks

Erin Pierce at C.C. Mellor and  Brad Wulfkuhle at F.O.R. Sto-Rox will manage trunk requests and reservations from now on.  You can email or call them to request a trunk.  Keep in mind that each library will have one set; each ‘set’ contains 3 trunks:

1. a trunk of wii games
2. a trunk of board games
3. a trunk for the guitars of Guitar Hero

 You can borrow all or 1 at a time. 

Programming Kits

4 Programming Kits are available for libraries to borrow.  Much like the One Book Every Young Child Trunks, these kits are ready-to-go-programs that will make your programming a bit easier!

Kit Descriptions:

1. Lego Fun!  Get together and Build! Build! Build! This kit includes everything needed for children to build, present, unveil and share their own Wonder of the World with their community.
2. Princesses From Around the World!  What is it like to be a real-life princess? The contents of this kit will allow children to examine the lives of princesses from around the world.  Through the use stories, rules of etiquette, music, and a variety of props, children will experience what it takes to lead a royal life.
3. Bounce Around the World!  Bounce your way around the world and discover how balls and spheres are used in different countries. This kit includes the equipment for exploring games and traditions from around the globe. 
4. Fairy Tales Meet Science!  Fairy tales allow our imaginations to soar.  If we listen carefully we can discover more about our world. The contents of this kit provide stories from around the world and the necessary scientific tools for young patrons to examine the details with the eyes and ears of a scientist. 

How to Get a Kit: 

• To reserve a kit, enter your name and library for your desired kit and email Rachel Brehm (brehmr(at)einetwork(dot)net as the kits now live at Braddock Library with your information.   
• You must log-in to the wiki and click 'edit' in order to add your information to the chart.  
• Kits are to be returned to Braddock (not ACLA.) 

Lego Fun!

Princesses Around the World!

Bounce Around the World!

Fairy Tales Meet Science!