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 [1]click on this link!) You can find the full schedule (as well as links to publisher catalogues) on [2]our website. Schedule for Libraries & Education Day 2022 - Friday, June 17th (All times are Eastern.) Zoom links will be sent out on T ...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: [1]http://lsta22grants.njstatelib.org/. NJSL is allocating LSTA funds through a competitive grant p ...Continue Reading

FYI, See important message below.~Sharon Best, Sharon Rawlins, MLSYouth Services Specialist for Lifelong LearningNJ State Library185 West State St.P.O. Box 520Trenton, NJ 08625-0520sraw[1]...@njstatelib.org609-278-2640 ext. 116 - phone609-278-2650 - faxPronouns: she/her/hers Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: NJASL <webm[2]...@njasl.org> Date: June 8, 2022 at 7:54:10 AM EDT To: Sharon Rawlins <sraw[3]...@njstatelib.org> Subject: New Jersey Legislato ...Continue Reading

FYI, From the Public Library Association Funding opportunity to expand digital skills opens next month ------------------------------------------------------------- \[\-\-mqbxUkiPDM_TMP[if gte vml 1]> African American family using tablet\[\-\-mqbxUkiPDM_TMP[endif]DM_TMPmqbxUkiP\-\-\] 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 P ...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 nam ...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 o ...Continue Reading

[IMAGE] [1]Image with text: ALSC Summer Reading Lists Birth through Grade 8 and ALSC logo [IMAGE] 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 read ...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 te ...Continue Reading

FYI, Join our Children & Technology Committee for an upcoming free ALSC Chat on Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 7 PM ET that’s all about hybrid programming! This ALSC chat will be a space to share takeaways and learning moments from pandemic virtual programming throughout different youth library environments. We will discuss ideas for what technology we're bringing into future library programming, and provide a definition on what "hybrid" programming might look like in the years to c ...Continue Reading

FYI, The teen-hosted We Are Our Stories auction is now LIVE. [1] You can visit the auction here. As a reminder, this auction is for the ACLU to fight against book bans that disproportionately impact BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ young people. As we all know, these stories are essential to keep on shelves. There are a lot of amazing items up for grabs, including manuscript critiques, virtual school visits and author meet-and-greets, signed book bundles, and a 3-night writing retreat at the Highlights ...Continue Reading