FYI, Hi, Everyone, Here's a way you can encourage the youth you serve to participate in the 250th Anniversary Celebrations for the Boston Tea Party. They're collecting loose leaf dried tea to use in the re-creation of the event on December 16th. You'll get a little memento of your participation. For more information: [1]https://www.december16.org/the-boston-tea-party-250th-anniversary-student-tea-donation-drive ------- This information isn’t youth services related, but I thought maybe ...Continue Reading

Please excuse cross postings FYI, Programming To Infinity and Beyond Ever find yourself in need of a ready-made programming solution? Maybe you're planning an event series that would be enhanced by a coordinated theme? Or, perhaps you have a new staff member who would benefit from a treasure trove of ideas and a bank of planning guides? Or possibly... you just need additional inspiration? Whatever the case, remember that through your membership in the Collaborative Summer Library Program ...Continue Reading

Please excuse cross postings FYI, CSLP’s Virtual Summer Symposium Thursday, December 7, 2023! 11 am to 4:30 pm EST Registration Opens on November 10, 2022 The CSLP Summer Symposium is a half-day virtual offering for public library staff to connect, learn, and collaborate as we plan for summer library programming around the 2024 theme of Adventure Begins at your Library. Sessions will include: * Simplifying the Adventure of Summer Reading: Observations from a Seasoned ...Continue Reading

FYI, The Ready Now: Supporting Youth and Families During Crisis project, expands on the co-design work implemented in the summer of 2020. This work led to the publication of [1]Library Staff as Public Servants: A Field Guide for Preparing to Serve Communities in Times of Crisis (fondly known as The Field Guide), that outlines four Essential Tasks that libraries and their staff need to embrace to serve historically marginalized youth and families successfully. Following the publication ...Continue Reading

Hi, Everyone, In order to make the best use of the CSLP summer reading funding, I am conducting a short survey - for public libraries only - to ask whether your library intends to use the CSLP customized incentives that you receive each year (banner, children’s, teen and adult bookmarks and posters). I would be very grateful if you or someone else from your library would fill out this short survey. Only one person needs to complete it from your library, but please make sure the answers refle ...Continue Reading

Please excuse cross postings Joann Sweetland Lum Literacy Grant Applications Being Accepted Until Dec. 1, 2023 Gregory Lum is a retired school librarian and former president of the Oregon Association of School Libraries. The YALSA Joann Sweetland Lum Literacy Grant was started four years ago to honor Gregory’s late wife, and applications for this year’s grant are due on December 1st. If you have a literacy project in mind, you are encouraged to apply for the $1,000 grant. Examples of li ...Continue Reading

Please excuse cross postings FYI, A funding opportunity for U.S. libraries interested in starting or expanding food education or food access initiatives The [1]US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program is designed to increase the availability of local foods in schools and help connect students to the sources of their food through education, taste tests, school gardens, field trips, and local food sourcing for school meals. Grants can launch new farm t ...Continue Reading

***Please excuse cross-posting*** Hi all, I’d like to invite you to participate in Book Evaluation NJ at the Rahway Public Library. We are a group of library workers and school media specialists in Central NJ that meet twice a year to evaluate new books for kids and teens. Publishers provide us with hundreds of books to review! Each member is responsible for providing an online review (within 6 months) of the books that they pick out at the meeting. Please look at our website for a sample o ...Continue Reading

Please excuse cross postings FYI, CSLP Manual Code for NJ Public Libraries to Access the 2024 Summer Reading Manual I am attaching a flyer with the link to the CSLP 2024 manual code for public libraries. I’m also created a link to the flyer with the code. [1]https://www.njstatelib.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/New-Jersey-2024-CSLP-Manual-Access-Code.pdf Please don’t share this code with the public. School libraries don’t have access to the code but are encouraged to reach out and partner ...Continue Reading

Please excuse cross postings FYI, “Penguin Random House and We Need Diverse Books launched their annual [1] Creative Writing Awards program with a new Freedom of Expression Award. In their announcement, they write, “In the face of book bans and attacks on free expression on the rise in America, Penguin Random House and We Need Diverse Books celebrate the power of books and stories. Applicants to the new award will be asked to answer the prompt, “Tell us about one banned book that changed ...Continue Reading