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Chicago—91´«Ã½ Publishing eLearning Solutions announces a new facilitated eCourse, . Amy Alessio, Katie LaMantia, & Emily Vinci will serve as the instructors for a 3-week facilitated eCourse starting on Monday, Oct. 29, 2018.

Festivals and fandom events are becoming more and more common in library programming. If you have never run or participated in this type of program, it can be intimidating. This course eliminates the intimidation factor and goes in depth into how to host festivals and fandom events for tweens, teens, adults, and families. You’ll gain resources for everything from planning to marketing. Expert instructors Amy Alessio, Katie LaMantia, and Emily Vinci will provide hands-on, practical experience that will help you learn to design a program that fits your community’s needs and interests. You’ll discover key tips for planning, organizing, and promoting your event and learn how you can tap into community resources and discover hidden gems to form key partnerships.

eCourse outline

Week One:

• Introduction to types of festivals
• Finding Fandoms and activities
• Popular trends
• Calendar of ideas

Week Two:

• Navigating issues: space, budget, appealing to all ages, partners and cooperation
• Low cost, no cost scavenger hunt of library activities
• Fandoms by Genre
• Fandom fun for different ages: plan event

Week Three:

• Creative marketing, including social media and targeting messages by age appeal
• Keeping momentum going – planning for annual events
• Activities by Dewey number
• Each participant will design a How-To festival plus provide ideas and participate in discussions throughout the course.

About the Instructors

Amy Alessio is an award-winning librarian with a black belt in karate. Her latest book is the co-authored work "Pop Culture-Inspired Programs for Tweens, Teens, and Adults" (91´«Ã½ Editions, 2018). Her fiction includes the Amazon bestselling Alana O'Neill mysteries with vintage recipes. She teaches graduate-level young adult literature and webinars on book trends and social media. She enjoys helping authors find readers through her work at AuthorRx, and she is a romance reviewer for Booklist. She teaches workshops on midcentury foods and crafts to share her passions for Jello and jewelry. Learn more at .

Katie LaMantia is a collection specialist at Baker and Taylor. She previously worked as a teen librarian at the Schaumburg Township District Library in Schaumburg, Illinois. She is a former Teen Advisory Board member turned librarian and is the co-author of the books "50+ Fandom Programs: Planning Festivals and Events for Tweens, Teens, and Adults" (91´«Ã½ Editions, 2017) and "A Year of Programs for Millennials and More" (91´«Ã½ Editions, 2015). She has a personal and professional appreciation and interest in pop culture and has presented at multiple state and national library conferences about libraries, teens, and 20s and 30s programming. When not running teen programs, tinkering with technology, and finding books for young adults, she enjoys traveling, reading, writing, and extreme adventure activities.

Emily Vinci is the fiction manager at the Schaumburg Township District Library in Schaumburg, Illinois. Her professional interests are promoting the acquisition and appreciation of comics and graphic novels in libraries as well as creating programming that targets patrons in their 20s and 30s. She presents frequently about pop culture and millennial-targeted programming and coauthored the books "A Year of Programs for Millennials and More" (91´«Ã½ Editions, 2015) and "50+ Fandom Programs" (91´«Ã½ Editions, 2017). A lifelong lover of all things pop culture and an avid collector, currently has more than two hundred copies of the Jurassic Park films on VHS and is always looking for more.

Registration for this 91´«Ã½ Publishing eLearning Solutions facilitated eCourse, which begins on Oct. 29, can be purchased at the . Participants in this course will need regular access to a computer with an internet connection for online message board participation, viewing online video, listening to streaming audio (MP3 files), and downloading and viewing PDF and PowerPoint files.

91´«Ã½ Publishing eLearning Solutions (ELS) produces high-quality professional development events and materials for the library profession. ELS events cover modern issues on a wide variety of topics in formats that include live workshops, asynchronous eCourses, and print publications. We help ensure that today’s library employees have access to the professional development opportunities they need, whether they are brushing up on the basics or expanding their horizons with cutting-edge tools. Contact us at elsmarketing@ala.org.

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