The 2024 CSLP Social Media Toolkit is live and ready to help make this summer the best ever! Find pre-written posts, ready-to-go graphics, Adventure Begins at Your
Library brand guidelines and customizable Canva templates! Find the toolkit here:
CSLP 2024 Social Media Toolkit
This toolkit for CSLP member libraries only, so please do not share the link with those outside your library.
All CSLP member library staff are invited to contribute thoughts about future summer themes and slogans. This April, you will have two virtual opportunities to
give feedback on a slogan for 2027’s theme (Mystery/Detective/Suspense) and a theme for 2028. What type of sleuthing will 2027 bring to our libraries? Will we spend summer of 2028 getting our hands dirty in the garden? Standing under a tree during a rainstorm?
Zipping into the future? You get to help us decide!
Register for one of our two listening sessions in April by clicking on the links below. We want to hear your voice! Ahead of the meeting, we will be providing the top 25 options for 2027 slogans and 2028 themes. Help us narrow it down to the ten that will be
voted on by State Reps at the annual CSLP meeting!
Slogan/Theme Listening Session Option #1:
Thursday, April 18th: 1:00 p.m. PDT/2:00 p.m. MDT/3:00 p.m. CDT/4:00 p.m. EDT Register
Here
Slogan/Theme Listening Session Option #2:
Tuesday, April 23rd: 11:00 a.m. PDT/12:00 p.m. MDT/1:00 p.m. CDT/2:00 p.m. EDT Register
Here
Adventures in Summer Marketing!
Last month the Library of Michigan invited library staff to a webinar to learn some tips and tricks for marketing summer library programs, and introduced some special
materials to use. All libraries and their communities are unique and while there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution to marketing, so be sure to view the webinar and explore new ways that you can approach marketing your summer programming. Some of the Collaborative
Summer Library Program’s new marketing tools were introduced and we hope this webinar inspires you to engage with your community this summer in new ways. Feel free to view the Library of Michigan’s
Recording and access their Slides/Handouts.
A sample graphic from the 2024 CSLP Toolkit
CSLP Partner Feature & Webinar Opportunity
SciStarter helps bring together millions of curious and concerned people in the world; the thousands of opportunities
to engage in real-world research questions in collaboration with researchers, communities, organizations, and companies; and the resources, products, and services that enable people to pursue and enjoy these activities while learning and accelerating important
research. Together, we can help answer questions that cannot be answered alone. When we’re all involved, the science is better.
Community Driven Science Adventure(s) at Your Library this Summer!
Join SciStarter, STAR Net and the National Girls Collaborative Project to gain ideas and resources for connecting public engagement in scientific research with this year’s Collaborative Summer Library Program theme: Adventure Begins at Your Library™. From counting
pollinators and taking photos of biodiversity to observing clouds and measuring light pollution, citizen and community science is a way for everyone to join in the adventures of science.
March 27, 2024 • 12:00-1:00 PM PT/ 3:00-4:00 PM EST
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
