Teen Services
Time to prepare for TeenTober! TeenTober is a nationwide celebration hosted by libraries every October. It aims to celebrate teens, promote year-round teen services, and the innovative ways teens services help teens learn new skills and fuel their passions in and outside the library. Check out the website for TeenTober Toolkit and download the free web graphics! If you'd like to receive updates about TeenTober, please sign up here.

Are you curious about Discord? Want to know more about starting your own Discord server and using it for library services and programs? Have no idea what Discord is? Check out our new “Getting Started with Discord” toolkit, authored by Jenny Liebig, and produced by the Idaho Commission for Libraries. The toolkit can be found on the ICfL’s Teen Programming Resources page, along with an Author Visit toolkit that was published last year.

 

ALA
ALA Accepting Applications for Class of 2022 ALA Emerging Leaders
Deadline: August 30 | Apply here
The ALA Emerging Leaders program is a leadership development program that enables newer library workers from across the country and Canada to participate in problem-solving work groups, network with peers, gain an inside look into ALA structure, and have an opportunity to serve the profession in a leadership capacity.

Resources

Leap Into Science

The Detroit Zoological Society, the Library of Michigan, and the Michigan Afterschool Partnership are excited to announce Leap into Science training opportunities for public libraries and afterschool partners. Participating public libraries and afterschool program partners will receive support to purchase materials you need to run a “Light & Shadow” based STEM program. Registration will be limited, so be sure to complete this interest form by end of day, Friday, August 13th, for a chance to be selected. 

 

The Eric Carle Museum: Making Art Together

A large collection of articles from the Art Studio team document how The Eric Carle Museum designs and facilitates creative projects for all ages. Check out their shared materials, ideas, and reflections: https://www.carlemuseum.org/education/making-art-together.

 

Block Play: Building a Foundation of Early Learning in the Library

Recording (2018) from the Indiana State Library
Talk! Sing! Read! Write! Play, especially with blocks! Play is an integral component of the development of young children, which is increasingly reflected in libraries through their design and programming.  During this webinar you will learn why block play is so powerful, how staff at Allen County Public Library tackled the challenge of adding more play–specifically block play–to their program offerings, and how to adapt their initiative for libraries big and small.

 

Summer Library Programming

The CSLP annual end-of-summer survey is now open. Your input on this survey is vital to the future of this program (you do not have to be using the CSLP theme to participate). Please complete the survey by Friday, September 17, 2021. The survey can be found here: https://forms.gle/qPLPy8p1YKYzakKA8.  

The audience for the survey is public library staff who played an active role in administering or running 2021 summer library programming. Multiple library staff from the same library should complete the sections of the survey most relevant to their work; e.g. children, teen, or adult programs. Please contact me with any questions.

Job Opportunities


A number of open library positions have been posted to Michlib-L recently.  Don’t forget you can view the archives as a subscriber. To join Michlib-L, MiYouth, or other LM channels, go to: https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/0,9327,7-381-88855_89054-310372--,00.html.

 

Not to encourage anyone to leave MI, but Iowa State Library is seeking a Youth Services Consultant: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/iowa/jobs/3153052/library-consultant-youth-services, feel free to share with your contacts. Closes July 27th.

In the News…

 

Raising the Future: America’s Child Care Dilemma – PBS series report

 

Wishing you a sunny weekend ahead,

 

Cathy Lancaster

Youth Services Coordinator

Library of Michigan
702 W. Kalamazoo St.
Lansing, MI 48915
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Check with your local public library for details on their summer library program!