OLIS will be collecting data on each library’s children’s, teen, and adult Summer Reading Program. Each library’s SRP contact should have received information about reporting data using LibPAS, the online portal OLIS uses for library data collection. All libraries are required to submit summer reading program data as part of the Public Library Annual Survey. This is separate from data collected as part of the mini-grants.

Learn more about the questions being asked in the LibGuide, or contact State Data Coordinator Kelly Metzger, kelly.metzger@olis.ri.gov.

Censorship and book bans are a singular challenge facing public libraries. Attempts to ban or censor materials come in many shapes and from several different directions. When they originate with concerned parents or community members, it is important to engage in difficult conversations. But when they become politicized or performative, it is necessary to understand that an agenda may drive them. Knowing the differences - and being properly equipped with digital tools, skills, and policy frameworks - is key.

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Climate action requires a focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions combined with increasing community resilience, all through a lens of climate justice. Join this webinar to find out where your time and energy can be best spent in the face of the overwhelming nature of climate action. Learn from library practitioners that have been early adopters of climate action through the award-winning Sustainable Library Certification Program, to help organize your own thinking on how to implement a climate action plan at your library that will have the biggest impact locally and globally.

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In this webinar, Beatriz De La Espriella will cover how trauma can change the brain, the impact it has on individuals, and how trauma-informed services can transform the way we provide services to our patrons and connect with our community. You will leave this presentation with the tools you need to serve patrons with empathy, avoid re-traumatization, and strategies that are vital for self-care when providing trauma-informed services.

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Jessica Lee, Mike Holt, and Robert Griggs-Taylor have researched the experience of parents and burnout. But they recognize that everyone has complicated lives. Individual practices that alleviate and reduce burnout are to everyone’s benefit, including parents of minor children. In this presentation, they will reach into their survey data and examine the interventions used to prevent burnout, along with institutional measures that respondents felt would make positive impacts on their immediate lives.

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If there is a threat to your library, the key to preserving your organization is to align it with the priorities of local stakeholders, organizations, and elected officials. Library stakeholders, allies, and partners need to be encouraged, equipped and enabled to advocate for what they believe in - and what your library stands for.

Join John Chrastka, founder and executive director of EveryLibrary, to learn smart, effective ways to engage stakeholders in the face of a crisis and how to get organized for successful advocacy.

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See Your Grant Success Story in an ALA Editions book! Be a part of the upcoming book, Winning Grants, 3rd Edition: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians to be published by ALA Editions. Share your winning grant story, big or small, and inspire others.

To submit your success story, please use this online form to share the details of your grant project and advice for other grant seekers. You can learn more about this call for submissions from the Library Grants Blog.

Partnering with nonprofits, civic groups and artists are just a few ways to create lasting connections between your library and the community. From Programming Librarian, read an article about a library leveraging community partnerships to have a successful hosting of the Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition.

"As part of the National Impact of Library Public Programs Assessment (NILPPA), Programming Librarian's Knology sat down with advisors from across the library sector to discuss the impacts libraries aim to have on the communities they serve. During these discussions, we also brainstormed ways to track these impacts across various domains of community life. Two important ideas emerged from our conversations; Impact Domains and Indicators."

Read the article.

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