April 2024 - Michlib-l - liblists.org

Upcoming Event at BPL- Into Non Man's Land: An Evening with Holocaust Survivor Irene Miller
by Mick Howey 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

Hello Michlib-l, Please join us at 6:30 PM on May 6th as we welcome author Irene Miller to Baldwin. It is a story of courage, determination, perseverance, and the power of the human spirit. Irene Miller, a Holocaust survivor, author, speaker, and educator will take you on an extraordinary survival journey little written and known about. Learn how she overcame unimaginable adversity to become a positive, creative, accomplished woman with a joy for living and love to share. Copies of Irene’s book Into No Man’s Land: A Historical Memoir will be available for purchase and signing following the presentation. Into No Man’s Land and her presentations to groups all over the country serve Irene’s mission to promote tolerance and diversity. Registration is required. Attend in person only. Tap here <https://www.baldwinlib.org/calendar/#/events/wJ9plcozRG/instances/7GDMnFu2d…>to register and for more information. Hope to see you there, Mick Howey, MLIS Adult Services Librarian II Baldwin Public Library 300 West Merrill Street Birmingham, MI 48009 (248) 554-4649 https://www.baldwinlib.org/ Currently Reading <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_destination/72296780?utm_med…> [image: Book Cover] <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_destination/72296780?utm_med…> [image: Goodreads Logo] <https://www.goodreads.com/?utm_medium=gr_logo&utm_source=email_signature>Get your own email signature <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_instructions?utm_medium=gyo_…>

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John Cotton Dana Award applications are open now
by Katie Rothley 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

The American Library Association <http://www.ala.org/> (ALA) is now accepting submissions for the 2024 John Cotton Dana Award <https://www.ebsco.com/about/scholarship-awards/john-cotton-dana> (JCD)! The John Cotton Dana Award is one of the most prestigious awards given to up to eight libraries. The $10,000 awards will be provided by the H.W. Wilson Foundation <http://www.thwwf.org/> and honors outstanding library public relations. Apply now through May 10 <https://www.ebsco.com/about/scholarship-awards/john-cotton-dana> to be considered for this incredible award. *Click here to learn more. * <https://www.ebsco.com/news-center/press-releases/submissions-now-open-2024-…> -- Katie Rothley, MLIS Marketing & Public Relations Librarian Northville District Library 212 West Cady Street Northville, MI 48167 (248) 349-3020 <callto:(248)+349-3020> ext. 221 https://northvillelibrary.org Currently Reading <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_destination/32729040?utm_med…> [image: Book Cover] <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_destination/32729040?utm_med…> [image: Goodreads Logo] <https://www.goodreads.com/?utm_medium=gr_logo&utm_source=email_signature>Get your own email signature <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_instructions?utm_medium=gyo_…> My working day may not be your working day. Please do not feel obligated to reply to this email outside of your normal working hours.

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FW: CSLP PSA Link Update
by Lancaster, Cathy (MDE) 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

Directions on how you can access the CSLP PSA videos are below. Feel free to reach out to me with any additional questions. Thank you, Cathy Lancaster Youth Services Coordinator Library of Michigan 702 W. Kalamazoo St. Lansing, MI 48915 My Pronouns: She/Her/Hers - See www.mypronouns.org<http://www.mypronouns.org/> to learn more. LancasterC5(a)michigan.gov<mailto:LancasterC5@michigan.gov> | 517-335-8129 | www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan<http://www.mi.gov/libraryofmichigan> Follow us: Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/libraryofmichigan/> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/libraryofmich> | Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/libraryofmichigan/> Join the MiYouth<http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/miyouth> Listserv, created for Michigan public library staff to share and discuss children and teen programming and services. View this email in your browser<https://mailchi.mp/cb04773b937d/cslp-newsletter-august-6725734?e=c18caf2bb6> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/ed31fdf7-bdb…] PSA Now Available for "Adventure Begins at Your Library" The customizable videos libraries that can be used for social media and/or Public Service Announcements (PSAs) on broadcast TV are linked in the 2024 online manual at the top right. Access the manual here: https://www.cslpreads.org/2024-adventure-begins-at-your-library/<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> using your access code provided by your State Rep or in your confirmation email when you purchased the online manual in our store. Need to know your State Rep? Find that here: https://www.cslpreads.org/member-libraries/<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> If you're in a non-member state and still need to purchase a copy of the manual, find that here: https://shop.cslpreads.org/product/adventure-begins-at-your-library-2024-ma…<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/517213d5-f11a-3d…]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> Was this forwarded to you? Click here to sign up for your own copy of the newsletter!<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> [Facebook]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> [Pinterest]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> [Twitter]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> [Website]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> Copyright (c) 2024 Collaborative Summer Library Program, All rights reserved.

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AUTHOR VIOLA SHIPMAN VISITING CLARE MICHIGAN
by Cheryl Wagner 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

Join us in welcoming Viola Shipman aka Wade Rouse for an evening of heartwarming tales. This event will be held at the IDEAL THEATER, 607 N McEwan St, Clare MI 48617 on June 3, 2024 at 7:00 PM. Tickets are on sale now for $15.00 each. You may buy your tickets online at https://libraryevents.org or you may buy them at the door on the night of the event. This event is made possible with a little help from our friends: Pere Marquette District Library, Harrison District Library, Gladwin County Library-Gladwin Location & Beaverton Location, Surrey Township Public Library, Ideal Theater, and the Sleepy Dog Books (Mt. Pleasant, MI) . Tickets for the event are available at any one of these locations also. It is wonderful what small libraries can do when they come together. Cheryl Wagner Circulation Desk Manager/Adult Programming Harrison District Library 989-539-6711 Pere Marquette District Library 989-386-7576 Cell: 517-331-2328 "This organization is an equal opportunity employer" If you wish to file a Civil Rights program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, found online at http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html or at any USDA office, or call (866) 632-9992 to request a form. You may also write a letter containing all of the information requested in the form. Send you completed complaint form or letter to us by mail at U.S. Department of Agriculture, Director, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410, or by fax (202) 690-7442 or email at program.intake(a)usda.gov<mailto:program.intake@usda.gov>

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CSLP Newsletter: April 2024
by Lancaster, Cathy (MDE) 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Smokey Bear is our champion! And CSLP PSAs are here!! Read on... View this email in your browser<https://mailchi.mp/c5c37f4ea08b/cslp-newsletter-august-6725342?e=c18caf2bb6> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/ed31fdf7-bdb…] 2024 CSLP Summer Reading Champion - Smokey Bear! In honor of the 80th Birthday of Smokey Bear, CSLP has partnered with the USDA Forest Service to appoint Smokey as the 2024 Summer Reading Champion (https://www.cslpreads.org/nationalsummerreadingchampion/<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…>). Many libraries across the US are engaging their communities using the Smokey Bear Readding Challenge this year, with materials provided by USDA Forest Service. The Smokey Bear Reading Challenge Toolki<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…>t<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> is free and available to all libraries online. As Summer Reading Champion, Smokey will be be providing a #SmokeyReads campaign that will include the launch of social media challenge for the public to post pictures of themselves reading with Smokey in their favorite "adventurous" spot, and short PSAs of people reading with Smokey, as well as a couple of videos featuring Forest Service officers reading with Smokey. CSLP is thrilled to be able to team-up with such a famous figure for the 2024 Summer Reading Champion, and we look forward to hearing from our libraries on how they engage their communities using Smokey Bear. [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/b4446ae8-3dd9-0e…] Incorporate Spanish Language Content into Your Summer Reading Program Want to promote Summer Reading and Learning to Spanish speakers in your library community? The CSLP online manual has an entire section of Spanish Language program content that is available and ready to use for outreach and promotion for "Adventure Begins at Your Library" this summer! View the recently added recording of "How to Incorporate Spanish Language Content into Your Summer Reading Program" on the NY State Library archived Youth Services webinars<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> page. This March 8 Summer Reading Lunch and Learn session was presented by Deborah Kinirons, Bilingual Community Outreach Librarian at Uniondale Public Library, and Amy Olson, Youth Services Consultant at the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Deborah is also the chair of the CSLP Spanish Language manual committee. You can also view additional Summer Reading Lunch and Learn sessions from this year and previous years on the archived Youth Services webinars<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> page. Feel free to reach out to Sharon Phillips, NY State Library Youth Services Program Manager at nyslyouth(a)nysed.gov<mailto:nyslyouth@nysed.gov> if you have any questions. [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/c26b5958-08e6-f6…] PSA Now Available for "Adventure Begins at Your Library" Summer is the time for adventure! And just in time for summer programming kick-offs we are happy to announce the official Collaborative Summer Library Programming PSA is now available! Share the PSA with local media, across your social media channels, with local partners, and display them in your library. The main PSA, available in both English and Spanish, is a 30 second video with a tagline that you can load and launch as-is. Additionally, there is a "clean slate" version available for brief customization at the end, should you want to add your library's logo and event information. CLSP is also offering short segments pulled from the original for use on social media. New this year is an animated "poster" of one of our graphics, which can be displayed on a computer screen or display monitor to promote summer reading within your library. [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/517213d5-f11a-3d…]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> Partner Spotlight CSLP developed a new partnership with Baker & Taylor in order to facilitate our member library's ordering of materials from our Adventure Begins at Your Library book list (available in our manual here<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…>). If your library is a Baker & Taylor customer, they offer summer prize books as well. Get in touch with our contacts there to view the list of CSLP-themed titles to use for your giveaways at a 45-50% off discount. Email Sara Shepard at sara.shepard(a)baker-taylor.com<mailto:sara.shepard@baker-taylor.com> or Grace Larochelle at grace.larochelle(a)baker-taylor.com<mailto:grace.larochelle@baker-taylor.com> for details. [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/7ce2838f-8bbd-2b…] Adventure Partner [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/5c12a3b5-2783-21…] More than ever, the role of libraries is particularly important in helping children learn and thrive through reading. Make sure your library's summer reading program is the best it can be with the new CSLP Adventure Begins at Your Library Brag Tags. Proven to increase summer reading participation! "These Brag Tags are bringing in new patrons. Kids are telling their friends about the Brag Tags and those kids are dragging their parents to the library so they can earn their own brag tag collection. Best marketing tool I've found!" - Marcy P, Sawyer Community Library "Thanks to your wonderful Brag Tags and ball chains, our Summer Reading Program more than doubled! Thank you. You have made my job so much easier, gone are the days of worrying about reading participation." - Carolyn, Public Librarian "Our young borrowers cannot read their books fast enough to qualify for the next Brag Tag in the series. This is the best gift incentive we have offered." - Anne S., Public Librarian Click on the images below to shop! [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/1307c5fe-9c1e-07…]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/381128ba-4374-cc…]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/e313fa3a-bd72-51…]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> Was this forwarded to you? Click here to sign up for your own copy of the newsletter!<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> [Facebook]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> [Pinterest]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> [Twitter]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> [Website]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd…> Copyright (c) 2024 Collaborative Summer Library Program, All rights reserved.

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AADL Job Opportunity - Library Technician, Youth
by hr＠aadl.org 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Happy Monday, The Ann Arbor District Library is currently hiring for a full-time Library Technician - Youth in our Public Experience and Desk Service department. Applications will be accepted until 9pm on May 13, 2024. If you are interested in applying, please visit: [ https://aadl.org/aboutus/employment, | https://aadl.org/aboutus/employment, ] to view the job posting. Kindly, Heidi Pratt HR Associate Ann Arbor District Library hr(a)aadl.org

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Locks
by Stephanie Fair 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Hello, We have a ton of locks that we do not need. The blue ones are for DVDs and we have probably close to a 1000 of them. The white ones in the photo have been taken, but the gray locks are for playaways and we have a lot of those too. Please let me know if you could use any of these and we can send them over via RIDES. Thank you, Stephanie --- Stephanie Fair Director St. Clair Shores Library 22500 E Eleven Mile Rd, St Clair Shores, MI 48081 586-447-3408 fairs(a)libcoop.net

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Upcoming Program of Interest at the Dearborn Library
by Daniel Lodge 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Everyone - We have a great virtual program this week coming up here at the Dearborn Library (especially with the start of a new baseball season). Sportswriter Keith O'Brien will join us virtually on Thursday, May 2nd at 6:30pm to talk about his new well-reviewed book entitled Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball. Please visit our Library's Events Calendar at our website www.dearbornlibrary.org to register for this program. Dan Lodge Librarian I Adult Services Dearborn Public Library Dearborn, MI

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Friends Brochure
by Cierra Bakovka 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Hi all, Our Friends group dissolved during covid and some board members are wanting to try to hand out brochures at a town event to try to revive it. Does anyone have a good template for a friends brochure, what/why,etc that I could give to them to work off of? Thanks Cierra Bakovka, MLIS She/Her Director Henika District Library 149 South Main St. Wayland, MI 49348 269-792-2891 ext. 309 mailto:cierra@henikalibrary.org

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Best-selling Author Shelby Van Pelt to visit Alpena!
by Jessica Luther 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

The Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library is pleased to announce that New York Times best-selling author Shelby Van Pelt will be the 2024 Spring Author. Van Pelt, the author of runaway bestseller Remarkably Bright Creatures aka “That Octopus Book”, will appear on Monday, June 3, 2024, at 7:00 pm. The event will be held in the Stanley Beck Auditorium at Alpena High School. Van Pelt will be available immediately following the event for signing. Books will be available for purchase from Parallel 45 Books and Gifts. Remarkably Bright Creatures is the author’s debut novel and was published in 2022. The novel has received widespread recognition for its portrayal of grief, loneliness, and the need for connection. Tickets are available to purchase through the Library’s website www.alpenalibrary.org, at the Library service desk, and at Parallel 45 Books and Gift in downtown Alpena. Tickets are $30 for the main floor and mezzanine and $20 for balcony seating. *Jessica Luther (she/her) * Assistant Director *Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library* 211 N. First Ave. Alpena, MI 49707 jluther(a)alpenalibrary.org 989.419.4236 Currently Reading <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_destination/627527?utm_mediu…> [image: Book Cover] <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_destination/627527?utm_mediu…> [image: Goodreads Logo] <https://www.goodreads.com/?utm_medium=gr_logo&utm_source=email_signature>Get your own email signature <https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_instructions?utm_medium=gyo_…>

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