Ready to Read Michigan Presents:
Engaging Bigs & Littles During Storytime
Thursday, January 23, 2025
1:30 – 3:00 pm EST (90 mins)
Looking for new ways to engage families and expand your storytime skills? Join us for this all new 90 minute Ready to Read Michigan webinar! Libraries are community hubs for healthy child and family development. Intentional family
engagement begins at birth and Storytime is the place for Youth Librarians to start building strong and lasting relationships with families. Join Narrative Coach, Jen Strauss for this webinar dedicated to family engagement during Storytime, birth to preschool
and beyond.
This webinar is provided by the Library of Michigan with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Color Our World™ Webinars
Color Our World: Animal Prints and Patterns with the Detroit Zoo
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
2:00 - 3:00 pm EST
Our friends at the Detroit Zoo are back to bring us engaging STEM programming using colorful animal patterns.
Spots, stripes, and more! Animal patterns are all around us, so this is a great opportunity to learn how to engage youth in your community with science activities created just for libraries by the Detroit Zoo.
This webinar is provided by the Library of Michigan with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Artful Connections: Inclusive and Inspiring Communities
– a CSLP Webinar
November 20, 2024
2:00 pm EST
During this
presentation we will learn about the fundamentals of accessibility through the lens of creative arts activities. We will cover what it means to be accessible, common adaptations you can make to creative tools and materials, and how you can be flexible and
inclusive in your approach to planning arts experiences for a diverse community. Don't miss out on this opportunity to transform your library services and make a lasting difference! Register here.
It will be recorded and posted to
https://www.cslpreads.org/inclusion-resources/ when available.
YALSA
Activating Communities: A Panel with Teen Activists across the U.S.
November 18, 2024
4:30-6:00 pm EST/5:30 pm CST
Details & Registration:
https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1334
Learn how teens have successfully engaged with and activated their communities around the freedom to read. This moderated panel discussion will feature teen advocates and address book banning, censorship, and how they engaged in civic leadership
and built coalitions in the face of challenges. This webinar will help library staff working with teens, and maybe even teens themselves, learn from those who activated their communities around challenges and censorship. It will also include strategies, program
ideas, and projects that helped the teen panelists build their communities.
Call for Papers
The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults, a peer reviewed journal, is putting out a Call for Papers for two upcoming issues. Please submit by December 15th for priority consideration.
1. Call for Papers on the
current state of teen services.
2. Call for Papers
Special Themed Issue: Culturally relevant pedagogy and cultural responsiveness in library service to Teens.
Librarians, researchers, graduate students and others who conduct research related to teens (ages 12 – 18) and libraries are invited to submit manuscripts. Papers describing scholarly research (qualitative, quantitative, or theory development)
as well as action research are welcome for peer review and consideration of publication. Papers that report library programs but lack an original research component will not be considered. Additional information regarding author guidelines and the submission
process can be found at the following website: www.yalsa.ala.org/jrlya/author-guidelines.
Resources
Power Up: A Leadership Conference For Youth Services Managers & Staff
February 13-14, 2025
Virtual Conference
Register today: go.wisc.edu/w2uvnu
Join youth services managers and staff for two days of virtual learning. Sessions will focus on leveling up your leadership skills, best practices for serving your community, and how to best support your team. Each concurrent session will
be presented live, and recordings will be available to registered attendees for 3-months.
Jason Reynolds / Simon & Schuster Travel Grant
The travel grants will be awarded annually to five black/African American youth/teen services public or school librarians for the purpose of attending the ALA Annual conference. The grants provide up to $3000 (and not less than $1500) to
cover actual expenses for five black/African American librarians selected by ALA for travel, housing, registration, and cost of ticket to the Coretta Scott King (CSK) Awards Breakfast. Learn more:
https://www.ala.org/grants/jason-reynolds-simon-schuster-travel-grant. Deadline is December 1, 2024.
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DIY Thanksgiving Pop-Up Book Webinar
November 21, 2024
3:00-3:45 pm EST
Register:
https://www.pageturneradventures.com/diy-thanksgiving-pop-up-free-workshop
In celebration of
Thanksgiving Page Turner’s Adventure Library has put together a free DIY Pop-Up Book Workshop designed to be fun, educational, and incredibly hands-on.
This workshop is ideal for adults who work with kids ages 5-9, though it can easily be adapted for kids (and grown-ups!) of all ages.
In the News…
Libraries Transforming Communities, One Year Later: A look into ALA’s largest-ever grant program, funding accessibility initiatives
at rural and small libraries – American Libraries, 11/1/24.
Election Impact: What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Education and Libraries? – School Library Journal, 11/8/24
Hoping you all get a chance to rest this weekend,
Cathy Lancaster
Youth Services Coordinator
Library of Michigan
702 W. Kalamazoo St.
Lansing, MI 48915
My Pronouns: She/Her/Hers - See
www.mypronouns.org to learn more.
LancasterC5@michigan.gov
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is their obvious delight in what they’re doing … and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they’re doing, and they love it in front of others.”
~ Fred Rogers