* * Attending the NJLA Conference in Atlantic City? We’d love to see you at our session called *Building Kindness and Compassion: Resources to Help Children Address Social and Emotional Learning, *on Thursday, May 30th from 3:10 pm – 4 pm, in Wildwood 22 & 23. Kids model their behavior from others, and increasing many are imitating the incivility exhibited by those around them in today’s cultural climate. How can we help them become more considerate towards others? The panel will offer books, programming and ...Continue Reading

** * * Attending the NJLA Conference in Atlantic City? We’d love to see you at our session called *Building Kindness and Compassion: Resources to Help Children Address Social and Emotional Learning.* Kids model their behavior from others, and increasing many are imitating the incivility exhibited by those around them in today’s cultural climate. How can we help them become more considerate towards others? The panel will offer books, programming and other resource suggestions to help elementary and middle school-a ...Continue Reading

Strap on your jet packs and join illustrator-author Leeza Hernandez as she takes you on a behind-the-scenes tour of how the artwork for the 2019 Summer Reading Program campaign—A Universe of Stories!—came to life. In this interactive session she’ll help you blast ideas out of your own imagination and onto paper, and chat about what it means to have a visual voice. Plus, Leeza will discuss ways to overcome creative block, guide audience participants through a character-building activity and share tips on how to incorpo ...Continue Reading

**Excuse cross-posting** Quick read regarding the role libraries can play in reducing the "opportunity" gap in relation to STEM, and more specifically from a family-centered approach. https://medium.com/stem-next-opportunity-fund/where-do-families-go-for-stem-bed9887b5704   Doug BaldwinHead of Technology Piscataway Public Library dbal...@piscatawaylibrary.org 732-463-1633 x4114 ...Continue Reading

Hi all, As always - please excuse cross-posting I just briefly wanted to share a new resources I became aware of for children and tweens for online storytelling with coding elements called https://elementari.io. They are a small ed-tech startup and I had a very nice chat with one of the two co-founders regarding the tool and applicability. They are in the process of seeking feedback as well regarding use of the tool in workshops, etc and very approachable if you ever decided to use as a workshop resources and were inter ...Continue Reading

Please excuse cross-postings FYI, Just forwarding the message below. ~Sharon Best regards, Sharon Rawlins, MLS Youth Services Specialist for Lifelong Learning NJ State Library 185 West State St. P.O. Box 520 Trenton, NJ 08625-0520 sraw...@njstatelib.org 609-278-2640 ext. 116 609-278-2650 – fax -----Original Message----- From: lita...@lists.ala.org lita...@lists.ala.org On Behalf Of Art Resources Transfer Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 2:37 PM To: lita...@lists.ala.org Subject: [litassem] The D.U.C. Library Prog ...Continue Reading

Just sending this information below as a courtesy to public libraries. See contest rules for more information.   ~Sharon Best regards,   Sharon Rawlins, MLS Youth Services Specialist for Lifelong Learning NJ State Library 185 West State St. P.O. Box 520 Trenton, NJ 08625-0520 sraw...@njstatelib.org 609-278-2640 ext. 116 609-278-2650 – fax *From:* Scholastic Literacy Partnerships Team <l...@message.scholastic.com> *Sent:* Friday, May 3, 2019 12:41 PM*To:* Sharon Rawlins <sraw...@njstatelib.org>*S ...Continue Reading

*FINDING EXCELLENT CHILDREN'S BOOKS BY AND ABOUT AMERICAN INDIANS /a conversation with American Indians in Children's Literature founder Debbie Reese /*   REGISTER TO JOIN this free, hour-long, online conversation with your EmbraceRace community, happening on *Tuesday, May 28th, at 5:30 pm PT/ 8:30 pm ET. * *Why We Gather.* How do you choose children’s books about Native peoples? Because most of us were socialized and educated to t ...Continue Reading

*The NJ Council for the Humanities offers grant writing workshops and hope libraries will participate:* https://njhumanities.org/njch-announces-2019-grant-workshop-calendar/ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-njch-incubation-grants-tickets-59441700727 Workshop: NJCH Incubation Grants www.eventbrite.com *NOTE - There has been a time change.  This workshop will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.  Whether you are planning a new program or reimagining an existing one, Incubation Grants help you pl ...Continue Reading

Please excuse cross-postings *CSLP’s 2019 Teen Video Challenge* Do the teens in your public library like to make videos?  Encourage them to participate in the Collaborative Summer Library Program 2019 Teen Video Challenge this summer! This year's Teen Video Challenge will be a NATIONAL contest and five winners will be chosen to receive a $200 cash prize plus $50 worth of summer reading materials for their public library. **New** this year, the challenge will run through the summer, so you can hold video making p ...Continue Reading