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:
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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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