Note the new mural up at Michigan’s St. Charles District Library is featured in this month’s CSLP newsletter! View this email in your browser<https://mailchi.mp/eae0a0f09faa/cslp-newsletter-august-6739938?e=c18caf2bb6> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/ed31fdf7-bdb5...] Summer Reading Champion Alumni Jenna Bush Hager Partners with CSLP for New Reading List CSLP's 2023 Summer Reading Champion, Jenna Bush Hager has once again partnered with the Collaborative Summer Library Program for her Read with Jenna Junior's 2024 Summer Reading List! Check out the picks, announced on the "Today Show" the morning of May 23! [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/b47852f9-3f9c-666...] Partner New Library Speakers Consortium Partnership We are so excited to announce that CSLP and the Library Speakers Consortium have partnered to bring bestselling K-12 summer author events to CSLP members. The Library Speakers Consortium (LSC) is a partnership of more than 400 libraries working together to bring high-quality online author talk programs to their patrons. With a mission to dramatically increase access to the most influential authors and thought leaders of our time, LSC features 2-to 3 bestselling and award-winning authors per month, year-round. Learn more at libraryc.org. LSC will feature four K-12 virtual author events this July, and as part of our partnership, CSLP member libraries will receive free access to TWO of the amazing live-streamed events. Kate DiCamillo will host a 30-minute chat about her Mercy Watson series, and Dan Santat will host a 45-minute talk featuring his award-winning, middle-grade graphic memoir, A First Time for Everything! Members will also have access to the recordings and marketing resources, so if you want to plan super fun programming around one of these summer series events, you can! A custom CSLP and LSC event website is coming soon! We know that summer reading is a very exciting time for libraries everywhere, and the LSC Summer Series is here to add to the fun and serve as a program that you can easily incorporate into your summer reading activities. To learn more and gain access to more LSC author events, go to libraryc.org to request a demo. [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/54f2b813-f788-3d90-26ba-02f4ec98fde8.jpg]<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405&id=45a0133900&e=c18caf2bb6> Success Stories [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/3a1277d6-6151-81a...] We kicked off the NY State Library’s 2024 Summer Reading Lunch and Learn series with a unique offering called “Tasting History @ Your Library.” As our libraries began looking for and planning adventure-related programs for kids, teens, and adults, we wanted to offer ideas which could be easily adapted by librarians across the state as culinary adventure programs for all ages. So I enlisted Elizabeth Jakubowski, a Senior Librarian here at the NYS Library’s Manuscripts and Special Collections unit, to do a statewide online session similar to one she presented last fall at our annual NY Library Association conference. Elizabeth shared the story of the NYS Library’s ongoing Tasting History project, including the creation of the project in 2021, the eras of history the project has covered, and some recipes from each era. Using Tasting History as a blueprint, participants were treated to examples of fun and educational programming ideas for ALL age groups, which could be used as is or as a jumping off point for further creativity for library programs and culinary adventures. Tips were given on how to directly copy the NYS Library’s program, including steps such as choosing your recipes, having participants sign up to prepare a dish, and taking lots of pictures to share on social media. If sharing on social media isn’t an option then participants can talk about their experiences making their recipe, sharing with the group any issues they had or, if they made the recipe again, and what changes they might make. Participants can also be asked to rate all the dishes and give feedback on the recipes. Programming ideas for children included hosting a cooking-themed storytime complete with book options, craft ideas, and recipes for children and their adults to take home and make, or having children make a simple historical recipe in the library. YA program ideas included watching a YouTube creator make an historical recipe then recreating it (or purchasing the food) to taste or hosting a retro candy challenge! For adult programs, collecting recipes from community members to make an online community cookbook, watching an historical movie or show and sampling recipes from the same era, or a passive historical recipe display were some of the ideas offered. Interested in looking for historical recipes? Librarians can start by looking for recipes in their own collections! Choosing an historical era that works for what you have available or searching for cookbooks created by organizations in your community are a great place to begin. That’s also a good way to tie your program to local history. Newspapers and magazines can also contain recipes so if you have a robust collection of either, you might find a goldmine! Exploring the past through recipes can shed some light on what people’s lives were like - what ingredients they had available to them, the technical requirements to make their food, and how their food tasted. All along, the NYS Library’s Tasting History project has aimed to start conversations about the past and the very human experiences we can all relate to, starting with the foods we eat. If you’d like to view the recording of Tasting History @ Your Library and get some great program ideas for culinary adventures, you can access it on the Archived Webinars<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405&id=4c35830191&e=c18caf2bb6> page of the NY State Library’s Youth Services site. Submitted by Elizabeth Jakubowski, Senior Librarian, NYS Library Manuscripts and Special Collections unit, and Sharon B. Phillips, Youth Services Program Manager, NYS Library [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/35cc2b12-42b5-90f...] [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/63bbc890-be84-452...] [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/cbc82037-4dbf-370...] A new Adventure Begins at Your Library!™ mural is up at St Charles District Library in Michigan. Artist: Kevin Burdick of Scrap Designs [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/cf79160b-4d82-f5e...] Adventure Partner [https://mcusercontent.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/5c12a3b5-2783-21e...] 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! 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