Registration will open soon for the following webinars from the Library of Michigan, supported in part by the Institute for Museum and Library Services:
Hopefully, everyone had successful summer programs with support from READsquared. As some libraries might be planning winter programs, READsquared wanted to share their post-program recommendations:
https://portal.readsquared.com/r2kb/Article.aspx?id=10106 and instructions for importing new programs:
https://portal.readsquared.com/r2kb/Article.aspx?id=10149
This program is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
It’s Children’s Book Week Nov. 6-12!
Hundreds of schools, libraries, and bookstores will be holding special reading hours, and we have cool
free bookmarks available to download, a very useful
Educator’s Kit with lots of ideas for events,
and more.
Take Your Child to the Library Day – 2024
Take Your Child to the Library Day, an international celebration that encourages families to take their children to their local public library. Take Your
Child to the Library Day is held annually on the first Saturday of February. To celebrate, libraries across the country and around the world welcome families with programs, activities, and special events. Since 2011, more than 1,735 libraries have participated,
serving 56.54 million people and drawing attention to the importance of the library in the lives of children.
Last year, the Take Your Child to the Library Day team launched a new public-facing website:
takeyourchildtothelibrary.org. The site features information about Take Your Child to the Library Day and the benefits of libraries for children, including an interactive map for families to find a participating
library near them. Coming soon is a librarian resource page with information and tools to make participating even easier.
We are asking for libraries across the country to register and participate.
Participation is completely customizable – it can be as simple as handing out bookmarks, or as elaborate as a full day extravaganza.
Registration is simple and free through
this form. When libraries register, they’ll be placed on the
map for their community to find. Libraries can get information and inspiration from these short videos:
Take Your Child to the Library Day is coordinated by the
Connecticut Library Consortium along with co-founder Caitlin Augusta of the Stratford (CT) Library.
Ready Now: Supporting Youth and Families During Crisis
Would you like to build community relationships? Do you want to be ready for crises that may affect youth and families in your community? If so, you’ll want to consider participating in the University of Maryland
led Ready Now: Supporting Youth and Families During Crisis initiative.
Ready Now expands on work that took place in 2020 during the height of the pandemic and led to the publication of
Library Staff as Public Servants: A Field Guide for Preparing to Serve Communities in Times of Crisis
(fondly known as The Field Guide). The Field Guide outlines four Essential Tasks that libraries and their staff need to embrace to serve historically marginalized youth and families successfully.
The Ready Now project team is now recruiting library staff from across the United States to join in on the IMLS-funded next phase of the initiative. Participating library staff will benefit from the opportunity
to:
youth and families
engagement, co-creation, iteration, and re-imagining systems and structures,
emergencies
Staff from five libraries across the United States will be selected to work with their state library agency to participate in year one of this initiative.
A $2000 stipend to use in support of learning about community and building crisis related services will be provided for selected libraries. Project activities for selected library staff
begins in January of 2024. Learn more by
registering for our information session on Tuesday, November 7, 2023
at 3PM Eastern. If you have any questions, contact the Ready Now team at:
readynow@umd.edu and visit our
website to learn more about us.
How to talk to your children about conflict and war – UNICEF
Scholastic Apologizes, Will Discontinue Optional Set of Diverse Titles at Book Fairs
– SLJ, 10/25/23
Transforming Teen Services
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Monday, November 20, 2023 – at the Library of Michigan
702 W. Kalamazoo St., Lansing, MI 48915
Join the growing LM cohort of Transforming Teen Services as we explore YALSA’s core concepts of “Connected Learning” and “Computational Thinking,” discuss how public libraries are already using it, and how
to implement it in library communities. Discussion will center on the use of these practices to support equity in youth programming. Breakouts will further best practices regarding trending topics related to teen services. Participants are encouraged to
bring examples of their work with teens and discussion questions!
Registration is limited, lunch will be provided.
These workshops are made possible by grant funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) administered by the State of Michigan through the Library of Michigan.
Wishing you a great weekend,
Cathy Lancaster
Youth Services Coordinator
Library of Michigan
702 W. Kalamazoo St.
Lansing, MI 48915
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