As the OLIS Spring CE session winds down, join us for the Adult Services Roundtable Planning Meeting to discuss next years' continuing education topics, meeting formats & frequency, and potential ways for sharing information between group members/ boosting communication within the group. This meeting will be on Wednesday, June 13 from 2 to 4 at the Kingston Free Library in South Kingstown.

Even if you cannot join, please fill out the Adult Services Roundtable Continuing Education Survey to share your ideas for next years topics before the event.

It's not too late to get your summer reading program incentive coupons to the South County Museum, the Tomaquag Museum, and the RISD Museum. We are also pleased to announce that we now have the coupons available in Spanish!

Please also take a moment to check the Adult Summer Reading Page to confirm that your program is listed. Email Nicolette Baffoni to get coupons in English and/or Spanish, or to add or remove your program from the summer reading list.

The Connecticut State Library is hosting a 2nd Cohort of its EXCITE Transformation for Libraries Innovation Grant. This program is an intensive team-based experiential learning program that will teach collaboration and innovation skills, result in programs that respond to community input and demonstrated needs, lead to cultural change at libraries and sustain project impact through extended training.

Teams of 4 from public, academic and special libraries are welcome to apply. Cohort 2 will meet at the Cranston Library's Central Branch several times for training between September 2018 and February 2019. There are no tuition fees, and scholarships will be awarded to cover travel, lodging and staff coverage for accepted teams.

If you have project coming up in your library that you would like to tackle in an innovative, creative way, learn more about how you and your team can apply. Deadline for applications is June 14.

The Public Library Association has launched the PLA Workforce Development/Small Business Online Interest Group. Join to share projects, experiences and programs and to get ideas on these topics to bring back to your library!

Locally, if you'd like to know more about the goings-on at our netWORKri Job Centers, contact Lee Ann Johnson from The Workplace to receive weekly updates about job fairs, recruiting events and other happenings at netWORKri centers across the state.

Many of you are following along with the PBS Great American Read, even using it as a component of your Summer Reading Program (great idea!). PBS has compiled some great resources for participating in this event:

Downloadables (including poster, memes and book facts!)

Great American Read Quiz

Facebook Book Club

PBS Learning Media Resources

Please feel free share ways that you incorporating The Great American Read into your summer reading program and continue the conversation at the Adult Services Google Group or by emailing the listserv with your questions and ideas!

Let's Move in Libraries is a project focused on supporting health and wellness through physical activity in public libraries, and has recently launched a comprehensive new website! You can find program ideas, stories, and resources for movement-based programs for ages including adults and seniors. You can also your library programs and events to Where Libraries Move map (indeed some of you already have!).

• ALA Annual Conference (New Orleans, June 21 - 26)

• NELA Verbal Judo Training Program (Shrewsbury, MA, July 11)
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Bridges to Citizenship Institute (Boston, MA, September 5)
  
• RILA/NELA Joint Conference (Warwick, October 21 - 23)

To encourage first-time attendance at the NELA Annual conference, NELA is offering an opportunity to make first-time conference attendance possible with scholarships, awarded annually to up to six NELA members representing each New England state.

Each recipient will receive a full conference registration (does not include travel reimbursements or hotel) AND a one year membership to NELA. Applicants do not need to be current members of NELA.

Apply now!

• Senior Fitness Programs in the Library (Let's Move in Libraries, June 6, 1:00 - 2:00 pm)

• Making Space for Active Learning in Your Library (WebJunction, June 12, 3:00 - 4:00pm)

• A New Kind of Village: Combating Loneliness among Older Adults (NNLM, June 13, 11:00am - 12:00pm)
• Expand Patrons' Minds, Not Your Budget (Library Journal, June 13, 1:00 - 3:00 pm)
  
• "I could really use a good laugh!" How to Give a Laughter-as-Therapy Program in Your Library (Infopeople, June 14, 3:00 - 4:00pm)
  
• Laying Out the Welcome Mat: Asset Mapping to Better Serve the Immigrant Community (WebJunction, July 17, 3:00 - 4:00 pm)

*Many of these events were found using the Wyoming State Library's Training Calendar, which shares upcoming free webinars for librarians, including many that are not listed here and may be of interest to you!

Excite Transformation For Libraries Innovation Grants (June 14)
Association of Bookmobile & Outreach Services Awards & Scholarships (Aug 8)
Bank of America Foundation Grants (varies)
Library Pipeline: Awesome Foundation Innovation in Libraries Grant (due between the 1 - 15 each month)

June
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
GLBT Book Month

Father's Day (June 17)

July

National Ice Cream Month

International Friendship Day (July 30)

August

American Artist Appreciation Month

National Golf Month

Women's Equality Day

National Book Lovers' Day (August 9)

Please contact me to share questions, comments or ideas for next month's newsletter!

Email: nicolette.baffoni@olis.ri.gov
Website: www.olis.ri.gov
Location: One Capitol Hill Providence RI
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