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Join us on Friday, October 8, 10am-4pm for Teen Summit 2021.

Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/teensummit2021/1

It is an entirely online and entirely free professional development conference for library staff who work with teens. This year’s schedule includes:

• Keynote with Crystal Maldonado, author of Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
  
• Conversation with Brittney Morris, author of and The Cost of Knowing
  
• Special session with Sarah Weise, author of Instabrain: the new rules for marketing to Generation Z
• Both live and on-demand sessions with teen librarians from all over New England!

All sessions will be recorded and hosted on the MLS Vimeo page after the event, so even if you can’t attend the whole day live you can benefit from the event. Final program will be coming soon. Register via the link above to get access to the conference platform and to get updates about recordings.

Brought to you by the Massachusetts Library System, the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services, and the Connecticut State Library, and supported by the state libraries of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

OLIS and a small committee of youth services librarians are exploring the development of circulating kits available to youth services staff for facilitating programs for youth. These kits would be available upon request and would include enough materials to facilitate programming with groups of youth.

We are looking for input from our youth services community to identify which kit themes/materials would be most helpful in facilitating programming. In thinking about COVID recovery and a return to more in-person programming, consider what types of programming tools would most benefit your community and allow you to offer expanded learning opportunities.

Share your recommendations and thoughts by submitting the survey below.

Listed on the survey are examples of the types of kits that may be developed. Please select the types of kits you are most interested in and feel free to add anything you don't see listed by selecting "other." Keep in mind that the kits must focus on literacy/learning and materials solely for entertainment purposes cannot be considered.

All library staff responsible for developing and facilitating programs for youth are invited to submit this survey. This survey will be open through October 18.

The OLIS Library Learning Center provides asynchronous learning resources for RI library staff via Niche Academy. The Library Learning Center includes recordings of OLIS webinars and RI-specific training as well as curated webinars, courses and learning resources from state library agencies, library systems and other library serving organizations made available through the Niche Academy platform. OLIS staff are continually working to update the resources available in the Library Learning Center to meet the learning needs of RI library staff. If there is a specific training topic you would like to see, contact Nicolette Baffoni with your requests.

Visit the OLIS Library Learning Center to access learning resources. You will be prompted to sign in to this academy; library staff must have an account in order to access the OLIS Library Learning Center.

There are three ways to sign in/create an account:

• If you accessed the Ryan Dowd's Librarian's Guide to Homelessness course through OLIS in 2020, your account has been transferred to the OLIS Library Learning Center.
• You can create a free account using your library email address (must include your library's unique domain).
• Contact Nicolette Baffoni to create an account if you do not have a library-specific email address.

It's time to start taking a closer look at the children's books of 2021. Participating in the Mock Newbery is an opportunity to read the newest children’s books and to discuss them with other passionate readers. A letter certifying participation is available for those applying the Mock Newbery program towards professional development.

Program registration: https://tinyurl.com/newbery22

Mock Newbery webpage: http://www.olis.ri.gov/youth/newbery/index.php

We'll also be using the RI Mock Newbery Goodreads Group to discuss each of the titles on the first reading a list. A thread is being created for each title and we'll use the comments from the Goodreads discussions as a springboard for our virtual discussions. Start out by introducing yourself in the Introduction thread! Not a member of the group? Join now!

ALSC is celebrating a century of the Newbery Medal with free events.

Friday, November 5th beginning at 9AM Central. Zoom Registration Available Here.

Registration is limited for this day-long virtual symposium hosted in collaboration with the Center for Children's Books at the University of Illinois! Recording will be available through the Center for Children's Books following the event.

The series is named in honor of Augusta Braxton Baker, a beloved children’s librarian and storyteller who made South Carolina her home after a 37-year career at the New York Public Library.

In each kid-friendly session of the program, experts will talk about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at a level appropriate for children and their classroom teachers and caregivers. These 30-45 minute sessions will take place at 9 am on Tuesdays, and our audience will include children of all ages. Topics will include, but are not limited to anti-racism, LGBTQIA+ issues, rainbow families, gender issues, immigration and more. Zoom sessions will be live to allow for Q&A, but will be recorded to share with those who are unable to attend.

Learn more and find storytime recordings.

At the University of South Carolina, the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair, Dr. Nicole Cooke, has the honor of teaching a course entitled Critical Cultural Information Studies.

As part of the Fall 2021 iteration of this course, there will be six amazing guest lectures that are being opened up to the larger LIS community! All are welcome to join these free online sessions!

Sessions will be held via Zoom on Thursday afternoons, at 4pm EDT, and they will be recorded and posted on this site at a later date.

Learn more and register.

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