Hello, Everyone, While watching the Today Show today, they interviewed a person from the children’s magazine /The Week Junior,/ for kids ages 8-14, that asked children across the country which books they enjoyed so much that they would recommend to other kids for summer reading. I’m sharing it with you.  Here’s a link to “Summer of Reading 2022 List.pdf” in my Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fcoc0b205lsb8gf/Summer%20of%20Reading%202022%20List.pdf?dl=0 ~Sharon Best, ...Continue Reading

Please excuse cross postings   IMPORTANT MESSAGE:   You are receiving this email because CSLP recently learned that on one occasion, the experience in the 2022 Manual entitled "Hold My Water: Water Pods and Water Bottles" [on page 202 - 204] led to a number of children becoming sick after they ingested the water pods.  REMOVE THE “HOLD MY WATER: WATER PODS AND WATER BOTTLES EXPERIMENT” FROM YOUR MANUAL.   CSLP would also like to share with you their safety disclaimer and waiver of liabil ...Continue Reading

FYI,   I’m passing this along in case you’re interested.   *Libraries & Education Day is Friday, June 17th! *   (Registration is free and open to anyone, so feel free to forward this to your colleagues. If you haven't registered yet, just click on this link!)   You can find the full schedule (as well as links to publisher catalogues) on our website.   *Schedule for Libraries & Education Day 2022 - Friday, June 17th* (All times are Eastern.) *Zoom links will be sent out on ...Continue Reading

FYI, Dear Colleagues, The New Jersey State Library (NJSL) is excited to announce that the application portal for the 2022 Library Services Technology Act (LSTA) grant opportunity for New Jersey public libraries has officially opened today, Friday, June 10, 2022. All public libraries and library consortia are invited to apply. All applications must be submitted through the online portal: http://lsta22grants.njstatelib.org/. NJSL is allocating LSTA funds through a competitive grant program to address litera ...Continue Reading

FYI, See important message below. ~Sharon Best, 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 - phone 609-278-2650 - fax /Pronouns: she/her/hers/ Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: *From:* NJASL <webm...@njasl.org>*Date:* June 8, 2022 at 7:54:10 AM EDT*To:* Sharon Rawlins <sraw...@njstatelib.org>*Subject:* *New Jersey Legislators Spe ...Continue Reading

FYI, From the Public Library Association Funding opportunity to expand digital skills opens next month Every day, community members go to their local public libraries to access the internet for email, education, work, and more. But some people lack the basic computer knowledge and skills to do so. The Public Library Association (PLA) is proud to partner with AT&T to expand upon our work helping libraries and their communities close the digital divide. With support from AT&T, PLA has added and improved course ...Continue Reading

*FYI,* *The #BuildAWorldOfPlay platform with an abundance of free resources for libraries is open! *The toolkit is available in these languages: Bengali, Danish, English, Kinyarwanda, Portuguese, Spanish and Swahili.  It includes locally adaptable ´how to´ activity ideas, a catalog of ´plug-and-play´ activities, downloadable media and communication assets for amplification and use on social channels, opportunities for tying own initiatives and featuring own organization name to the cam ...Continue Reading

FYI,   Through the IMLS-funded /Public Library Virtual Storytimes: Meeting School Readiness and Community Needs through a Socially Distant Approach /project, a team of researchers from the University of Kentucky School of Information Science is conducting a multi-state study to investigate the *value of public library virtual storytime programs for young children and the larger community*.   *As part of that larger project, we are interested in learning more about children’s librarians’ perceptions of virtua ...Continue Reading

2022 Summer Reading Lists are here!   ALSC's Quicklists Consulting Committee has updated our Summer Reading Lists with new and exciting titles for 2022!   The lists are full of book titles to keep children engaged in reading throughout the summer. Four Summer Reading lists are available for birth-preschool and grades K-2, 3-5 and 6-8. Each list is available here to download for free. ALSC reading lists are created as a resou ...Continue Reading

FYI,   NJSL's Inaugural Digital Literacy Forum: Recordings Available   The first ever Digital Literacy Forum took place May 10-13, 2022 to foster an open and encouraging environment for NJ libraries to expand capacity in response to digital literacy needs in their communities. Each day’s session was focused on digital literacy as it pertained to a particular service population or topic of interest in public libraries – i.e. adult basic literacy (ABE/ESL/ELL), workforce development, youth, and telehealth. ...Continue Reading