Youth Services News

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The virtual National Book Festival will run September 25 -27. Register to check out presentations, activities, and to visit "booths" hosted by each state in the Pavilion of States. This year the RI Center for the Book will be celebrating local author Padma Venkatraman and her recent novel The Bridge Home. You can find the 2020 great reads from all states and can view great reads author videos. Be sure to share Padma Venkatraman's video below!

Join us for a daylong, virtual event focused on teen services. Featuring keynote speaker Adrienne Kisner, author of Dear Rachel Maddow, winner of a 2016 PEN New England Susan P Bloom Discovery Award and one of YALSA’s 2019 picks for Best Fiction for Young Adults, The Confusion of Laurel Graham and the recently published, Six Angry Girls. Nine different breakout sessions will be presented by New England Teen Librarians with topics ranging from books and reading, civic engagement, programming, teen volunteers, and more! Find the schedule and program descriptions at https://tinyurl.com/2020TS

Teen Summit 2020 is free and open to all library staff who work with teens, in any library type. All sessions will be recorded and accessible at the MLS Vimeo Teen Summit Showcase, with Closed Captioning available soon.

With school looking very different this year, many families are exploring homeschooling options or are seeking additional supports for their student's remote learning requirements. Join us at 2:30pm on September 30th to learn more about homeschooling, including how it differs from remote learning and ways in which libraries can support homeschooling families despite limited in-person services. Resources and recommendations for supporting both homeschooling families and families engaged in remote learning will be discussed. This webinar will cover materials appropriate for students in grades K - 12.

It's not too late to join a Project READY cohort! Space is still available in the following cohorts:

• Cohort 1: Tuesdays, 9:30am (5 spaces)
  
• Cohort 3: Thursdays, 9:30am (4spaces)
  
• Cohort 4: Thursdays, 3pm (3 spaces)

Each cohort meets biweekly and attendance is flexible. For more information, including the full meeting schedule, see the EDI LibGuide at https://olis-ri.libguides.com/edi/projectready

OLIS is offering a 3-week series of webinars called Mindfulness in Ordinary and Extraordinary Times for Library Staff biweekly beginning on Tuesday, September 29 through October 27 at 10:00 AM. The sessions will be presented by Dr. Richard Moniz, Director of Libraries at Horry-Georgetown Technical College and co-author of the book The Mindful Librarian. To learn more and register for Part I visit this link: https://olis-ri.libcal.com/event/7057614 . Links to Parts II and III are in the description. We will be recording each session if you cannot make it to each part live!

In lieu of the live RI Heritage Fesitval festival this year, the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission is planning for a September 2020 RI Heritage Month. Every Saturday in September the Commission will host a virtual Facebook event that will feature “Heritage Highlights” from cultural performance groups, heritage museums, cultural organizations, hands-on activities like crafts, cooking, and more! Please help promote these events by sharing the flyer below and the Facebook events at https://www.facebook.com/events/289744515587382/

A COVID-19 page and a Virtual Training page have been added to both the Children's Services Roundtable (CSRT) LibGuide and the Young Adult Roundtable (YART) LibGuide. These pages are still under construction, but the COVID-19 pages will include information and resources on topics that arise during the weekly chats and the Virtual Training pages feature learning opportunities specific to youth services.

CSRT LibGuide - https://olis-ri.libguides.com/csrt

YART LibGuide - https://olis-ri.libguides.com/yart

Also be sure to refer to and bookmark the COVID-19: Information for Rhode Island Libraries LibGuide - https://olis-ri.libguides.com/covid19

This LibGuide contains reopening guidelines and other COVID-19 related information.

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