Please add your five favorite books from 2022 to our sign up form and be ready to talk about your choices. We encourage you to make your selections using a diversity lens. We will compile the list of favorites and send it to you. Check out our 2022-23 workshops page. Questions? Contact us at csd@olaweb.org. AuthorTara Morissette
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Leap Into ScienceFor STEAM programs, I have found the Leap Into Science Training to be a great introduction to providing evidence-based STEAM programs. Training with them includes access to fully-developed curriculum that can be used for preschool to elementary school programs and even family workshops. The programs that they have created all use reading a picture book as a component of the program, so this can be a gentle segue from more traditional library programs. Check out their website here. ACRES Program
Fostering Readers
These are a few of the resources that I have found helpful in growing as an educator. What resources do you like? AuthorSusan Cackler Children's Services Division Virtual Fall Workshop Series Presents:
Check out the newly retooled Oregon Library Presenters Directory!
Last year, as your incoming chairs, we took some time to think about what worked well during the pandemic and what didn’t. Each time we met, it became more apparent that virtual meetings, although limited in some social aspects, provide many members the ability to attend meaningful and purposeful CSD meetings without the concerns of travel or cost. In our efforts to grow as an inclusive and welcoming organization, we feel that continuing to offer virtual meetings and events allows more of us to share, learn, and grow as children's library workers. We look forward to Bimonthly CSD board meetings to report on what we know and what we plan to do. We encourage all youth library workers to drop in anytime to learn more about how our board plans and operates. We would love for you to join our CSD team. See the end of this post for dates and times for our CSD board meetings.
Although we did not find a chair for the CSD Mock Award Workshop, we have reimagined how we can support and help youth library workers with new and noteworthy titles from 2022. We will host a Book Buzz on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 1:00 pm. Lots of fun titles and opportunities for you to share your favorites of the year. CSD looks forward to supporting our library community on Legislative Day coming this January or February. We hope to connect legislators with books to donate to their home libraries and to advocate for full funding of OLA priorities. If you have been involved with a national book award committee and have books that you can donate, please contact csd@olaweb.org. Also, please let us know if you can volunteer to help plan this event.
![]() New this year: to support future CSD board leaders, we will be offering a $1,000 scholarship to attend the Leadership Institute of the Oregon Library Association (LIOLA) to a youth library worker interested in becoming involved in CSD leadership. LIOLA will be held in the summer of 2023, date TBD. ![]() Look for the latest CSD information on our website: csdola.org. Recent blog posts include our new CSD Board, collection development resources, and fostering readers. Although we do not yet have a dedicated person helping with social media, we plan to post what we can to Facebook and Instagram. Please let us know if you can help with this important task. ![]() We are honored to serve as your chairs for the 2022-2023 year. Our primary goal as this year’s co-chairs is to provide you with resources, tools, techniques, and more to help you continue the amazing work you do with children and their grown ups. Looking forward to a great year together. CSD ScheduleCSD Fall Workshops:
CSD Virtual Board Meeting:
CSD Winter Workshop:
CSD Virtual Board Meeting:
Legislative Day: TBD CSD Scholarships: More details to come CSD Spring Workshop:
CSD Virtual Board Meeting:
OLA Conference April 19- 22, 2023:
CSD Virtual Board Meetings:
You are invited to the next virtual CSD board meeting!
AgendaIcebreaker: Why are you involved in children’s services or what drew you to children’s services? Video? CSD Purpose Old items
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AuthorEmily West and Tara Morissette Thank you, Susan! |
As the new year starts for the Children’s Services Division, we want to send a huge thank you to Susan Cackler for leading the Division this past year. She planned and prepared the Fall Workshop on Slow Librarianship and the Spring Workshop on the Power of Play. She supported and led the volunteer teams that presented the Mock Caldecott workshop and Lampman Award. We appreciate Susan’s organization, willingness to lead, decisiveness, and creativity over the past year. Thank you for your service and thank you for continuing to serve as Past Chair this year. CSD Past Chair
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Emily West and Tara Morissette will lead the CSD team for 2022-23
Emily West and Tara Morissette are excited to lead CSD for 2022-23. Emily West began her literacy career in Tennessee. She was hired to work within one of the first family literacy organizations in the state. Later, she worked for the Center of Literacy Studies at the University of Tennessee as a curriculum developer for adult education. Emily then was hired by the National Institute for Literacy where she helped to reform and improve adult, and family literacy standards. Emily has been a long time advocate and practitioner of the Baldrige Continuous Improvement Framework and received her Malcolm Baldrige Regional Examiner certification in April of 2022. |
Tara Morissette is a library assistant in Circulation at the Tigard Public Library. She loves helping people, be it library patrons, fellow employees or volunteers. She looks forward to serving our library community, connecting with other library workers in our state, being creative, and problem solving in a collaborative way. Her goals are to: support children’s library workers with CSD workshops, support the CSD board in their duties, and represent the CSD at OLA meetings. CSD Co-Chairs 2022-23
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Monica Hoffman joins the CSD Board as Chair Elect
Thank you for voting in Monica Hoffman as our new CSD Chair Elect. Monica is the Early Literacy Outreach Program Manager of the Umatilla County Special Library District. Most of her patrons call her the Storylady. She partners with early childhood educators and care providers such as Head Start, Early Intervention/Special Education teachers, private and in home childcare providers. |
Incoming CSD Chair
- Monica Hoffman
- Umatilla County Special Library District
- csdchairelect@olaweb.org
Welcome CSD Board Members
Secretary
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A Great Year Ahead
Authors
Emily West and Tara Morissette
CSD Co-Chairs 2022-2023
csd@olaweb.org
We have a lot of new folks in youth services and someone asked me recently about collection development. First off, I highly suggest my Connecticut colleague Kym Powe’s webinar: From Diversity to Inclusion – It’s an excellent and brief (1 hour!) summary of why we weed/audit and includes really practical suggestions for doing so – and hyperlinks! All her slides are hyperlinked and posted below the video. If you want to do a refresh of your kids/teens collections, check out the Bank Street College yearly booklists for Best Books of the Year, they are an excellent overall compilation of recent titles that would be good additions. If I needed to do a quick refresh/update, this is the first place I would go. |
Cooperative Children’s Book Center at Univ Wisconsin Madison Booklists (for more deep dives into collection)
International Literacy Association Choices List (newest is 2020)
We Need Diverse Books Where to Find Diverse Books link
Books Between – This podcast stopped in 2019 but the blog is still quite active and for middle school reads is still a great resource
One More Page – Reviews, news, and kids lit from Australian hosts, sort of breezy/fun
Publishers Weekly PW Kidcast – mostly recently published author interviews, also episodes run fairly short
The Yarn - Interviews kids’ authors, 170-ish episodes, School Library Journal podcast
Author
Greta Bergquist
Youth Services Consultant
State Library of Oregon
Banned Books Week will begin September 18. Let’s give our communities a chance to raise their voices. The Penguin Random House publishing company has some Banned Books Week kits to share while supplies last, and downloadable resources. |
- READING is a foundational skill, critical to future learning, and to exercising our democratic freedoms.
- WE CAN TRUST individuals to make their own decisions about what they read and believe.
- PARENTS HAVE THE RIGHT to guide their children’s reading and education, but parents should not be making decisions for other parents’ children. A small group of parents should not dictate what books other people’s children are allowed to read.
- BOOKS ARE TOOLS for understanding complex issues. Limiting young people’s access to books does not protect them from life’s complex and challenging issues.
- YOUNG PEOPLE deserve to see themselves reflected in a library’s books.
- REMOVING AND BANNING BOOKS from public libraries is a slippery slope to government censorship and the erosion of our country’s commitment to freedom of expression.
- PLEASE REJECT any efforts to ban books and allow individuals and parents to make the decision about what they can read and believe.
- VISIT UniteAgainstBookBans.org to learn more and to join our efforts.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: How do I handle difficult conversations with individuals seeking to ban books, especially parents concerned about what their kids are reading? A: We must trust individuals to make their own decisions about what they read and believe. We also believe that parents have the right to guide their children’s reading and education. At the same time, individuals should not be making decisions for other readers or for other parents’ children. Specifically, a small group of parents should not dictate what books other people’s children are allowed to read. Q: What if someone says that children are too young to begin reading a book that addresses sexually explicit topics? A: We recognize that there will be disagreements over certain content. However, individuals should not be making decisions for other readers or for other parents about what is appropriate. Services, materials, and facilities that fulfill the needs and interests of library users at different stages in their personal development are a necessary part of providing library services and should be determined on an individual basis. Reading materials available in the library are available to students for personal selection; they are not required books. Banning these materials will remove access for all members of the community. |
A: School educators and librarians are professionals who are trained to not impose their own thoughts and opinions on which ideas are right, but to make knowledge and ideas available so that people have the freedom to choose what to read. Further, librarians and educators respect the rights of parents to decide which books their children are exposed to. They work closely with parents to help them decide the best books for their children. Libraries provide access to books that offer teachable moments for readers of all ages and expand our understanding of people with different backgrounds, ideas, and beliefs.
SOURCE: UABB Toolkit PDF
For more resources, visit Unite Against Book Bans.
Author
Perry Stokes
Co-Chair, OLA Intellectual Freedom Committee
ifc.chair@olaweb.org
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