Candy is fleeting but a good spooky tale is forever! Find all of these fun Halloween titles at the CCBF next Saturday, October 15th, 10-4. Free admission and parking. Books available for sale and signing.

Are you going to the @CCBF2022 on Saturday?? Stop by the SLMSSENY librarian’s lounge! Members be sure to grab your swag bag!

It is the most perfect day at the Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival! Stop by and say hi! Members, don’t forget to grab your swag bag!! @CCBF2022

That’s right!! Members stop by the SLMSSENY tent to get your free coffee ☕️ @CCBF2022

🚨🚨Field Trip Alert 🚨🚨 Join us on 1/7 at 3:30 at the Katonah Museum for a guided tour of the Jerry Pinkney exhibit. Register slmsseny.wildapricot.org/event-5071920

🚨🚨Registration ends tomorrow for our field trip to Katonah Museum for the Jerry Pinkney exhibit! Join Us!! 🚍🚍Register here: slmsseny.wildapricot.org/event-5071920

🥳🥳 We are so pleased to announce 📢 Claribel A. Ortega is the winner of the 2023 Rip Van Winkle Award!! Join us as we celebrate her on June 7 at Woods Tavern Bar and Grill!! Register at: slmsseny.wildapricot.org/event-5259255

🥹💜 THANK YOU!!!!!!

It will be an HONOR to present Claribel A. Ortega w/the 2023 SLMSSENY #RipVanWinkleAward on June 7th for her outstanding contributions to the world of children’s literature. 💕📚 CONGRATS Claribel!🎉 Join us to celebrate: slmsseny.wildapricot.org/event-5259255 Melissa Iamonico Kelsey L. Cohen

Did you register yet??? Registration ends this weekend for our RVW Dinner 🎉🎉 Come Celebrate with us! slmsseny.wildapricot.org/event-5259255

Looking forward to being at Westchester PRIDE tomorrow!! We have bookmarks with curated #LGBTQ+ reading lists and other fun swag. Stop by and say hi!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Come visit us!! Get your curated bookmarks from us and then get started on your summer reading with books from Be Yourself bookshop!!!

Attention SLMSSENY members—award and scholarship applications are due THIS Wednesday, 5/1. Don’t delay—apply today! Read more here: slmsseny.org/awards

We’re thrilled to be honoring author Barbara Dee with the 2024 Rip Van Wickle Award on 5/30. We hope you can join us! Register here: slmsseny.wildapricot.org/event-5644329

We had a great time at DutchessBOCES today defending the freedom to read at the annual Banned Books Symposium.

This one’s for our members! We’ll be celebrating Pride Month by giving away books with LGBTQIA+ representation. Raffle winners can select TWO books from a list of Stonewall Book Award winners. SLMSSENY members can enter here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Want to support SLMSSENY? We would love that! Donations to our organization are tax deductible and help us to build better, stronger school libraries in our region: slmsseny.wildapricot.org/page-18060

While the verdict was being read a few miles downstate, I was receiving the 2024 Rip Van Winkle Award by the School Library Media Specialists of Southeastern NY! So happy to share this special occasion with family—and librarians from 7 NY counties!

We had a great time at our annual Rip Van Winkle awards dinner. Our 2024 award went to the remarkable Barbara Dee Other awards went to: Administrator of the Year: Rachel Koontz Bea Griggs Memorial Incentive Grant: Sarah Malgioglio SSL conference scholarship: Amanda Birro

So much fun at Westchester Pride today! 🏳️‍🌈📚