The purpose of the Children's Services Division is to promote and advance library service to children and youth through public and professional education and cooperation.  As we begin this new year, we are excited to build upon the great work that our previous boards accomplished.  With COVID slowing its pace, 2022-2023 is going to be a year of rebooting, regrowth and reconnection.  As your chairs, we look forward to putting theory into practice, listening to the needs and expectations of children's library workers, and inspiring and motivating our members to continue their good work at their libraries.

Our first event of the year is a virtual meetup on Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 1:00 pm.  We will present the new Oregon Library Presenters Directory.  The Oregon Library Presenters Directory is a database of artists, educators, and presenters for Oregon library audiences. The database can be accessed year-round and replaces the bi-yearly Performers Showcase event.  At this meetup we will walk you through the information in the directory.  Attendees will have the opportunity to share their favorites and connect with other library workers who are planning these programs. If you know of a presenter that you think should be included in the directory, please send them this link to apply to be added.

Our second meetup will be on Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 1:00 pm.  Our topic will be Programming Comeback: How’s It Going and What’s Next.  Now that in-person programming has returned, what is going well and what challenges are you experiencing?  Connect with other library workers to share how things are going.

We are excited to hold our annual spring workshop on Wednesday, March 15th from 1:00-3:30 pm.  This year’s spring workshop will focus on Early Literacy and will be 2.5 hours of sharing and fun!  We will provide you with useful tools and techniques that will strengthen and support all that you already do!  Our annual fundraiser coincides with the spring workshop.  Look for great books at fantastic prices

The OLA conference will be on April 19th-22nd at the Riverhouse in Bend, Oregon.  To support our membership, CSD will be offering scholarships to help pay to attend this event.  CSD will also sponsor a pre-conference session on Wednesday, April 19th. On Friday, April 21, 2023 , we will celebrate our Lampman Award recipient at a breakfast ceremony.  CSD will subsidize a portion of the cost of the breakfast.  And throughout the conference, please stop by our CSD booth; we would love to see you there.  More details to come as the conference approaches.

CSD Schedule

You are invited to the next virtual CSD board meeting!

Wednesday, October 5, 2022 1:00 pm via Zoom Join us to meet the new CSD board, discuss Children’s Services Division events, and look over the CSD budget for 2022-23.  CSD members have received a Zoom link.  Can't find it?  Head to the OLA calendar for the Zoom link. If you are not a CSD member and would like to join us, please email csd@olaweb.org with your name and library. ​Looking forward to seeing you!

Agenda

Author

Emily West and Tara Morissette
CSD Co-Chairs 2022-23
​csd@olaweb.org

Thank you, Susan!
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Susan Cackler

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 Susan Cackler Banks  Public Library csdpastchair@olaweb.org

​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.

Emily West

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 Emily West, North Plains Public Library ​Tara Morissette, ​Tigard Public Library csd@olaweb.org ​

Tara Morissette

Monica Hoffman joins the CSD Board as Chair Elect

Monica Hoffman

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.

Welcome CSD Board Members

Secretary Alec Chunn Multnomah County Library csdsecretary@olaweb.org Lampman Award Chair Holly Campbell-Polivka Tigard Public Library ​csdlampmanchair@olaweb.org Summer Reading Chair Dena Chaffin Silver Falls Library CSDsummerreadingchair@olaweb.org Oregon Library Presenters' Directory Co-Chairs Anna Bruce Happy Valley Library Jaime Thorenson Sherwood Public Library csdshowcase@olaweb.org​​​

CSD Scholarship Deborah VanDetta Estacada Public Library​ Members at Large Jennifer Knight Jane Corry

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.

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.

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.

Author

Perry Stokes
Co-Chair, OLA Intellectual Freedom Committee
ifc.chair@olaweb.org

When you start planning fall programs, Fostering Readers may be a helpful free resource—paid for by an LSTA grant from the State Library of Oregon.

If you want to offer research-based literacy programs for K-3rd graders, Fostering Readers provides: Ready to use literacy activity plans, including scripts. Planning templates to create your own research-based literacy activities. Ideas for passive literacy programs. Ideas for integrating research-based strategies into existing book clubs and story times for K-3rd graders. Handouts for parents and caregivers in English and Spanish.

Author

Katie Anderson (she/her)
Youth Services Librarian | WCCLS

Mock Workshop Chair: Plan and provide a Mock Workshop based on one of the ALA Youth Media Awards (YMA) aimed at ages birth-14, including subcommittee recruitment, book selection, activity planning, event promotion and registration, and event debrief. Time commitment varies - particularly based on the length of the material being considered - but administrative work is approximately 20-30 hours over the year, plus the workshop. Professional skills used/gained: ● material assessment/analysis ● project management ● organization ● communication and networking ● event coordination ● committee coordination

Author

Tara Morissette
Library Assistant, Tigard Public Library
CSD Incoming Co-Chair

The State Library of Michigan collaborated with their Talking Book Library and 32 public libraries to offer braille-enhanced Storywalks in their state.    There are a few resources attached here,  You can see a quick video of their process and here’s an ALSC blog post about their PLA presentation. Greta Bergquist via Kids-Lib

Author

Tara Morissette
Library Assistant, Tigard Public Library
​CSD Co-Chair Elect

Lampman chair Holly Campbell-Polivka and co-presenters drew inspiration from Camper and Kenard Pak’s Ten Ways to Hear Snow to showcase the accomplishments of the award recipient. We heard the “swish-flip-flip” of librarianship, the “shhhhhh-ta-ta-ta-ta-t-t-t-t” of seed artistry, and more. In her acceptance speech, Camper reminded us that librarians have tremendous power through their institutions to fight against racism, sexism, and other forms of prejudice. Her call to action: “Keep doing what you’re doing. It connects even if you don’t know that.” (You can read more about Cathy Camper’s incredible legacy over on the 2022 Lampman Award page.)

Through self-reflection and hands-on learning, Megan Barella—a parenting coach—encouraged us to see play’s “promise to restore human relationships and connections.” Considering the pandemic’s effect on youth social-emotional development, play can help prevent and transform “flipped lids.” Libraries can help encourage play by loaning toys, creating calming corners, and even facilitating spontaneous dance parties. Barella suggested libraries share the load among staff by assigning someone to be in charge of fun each week.

How are you currently using play in the library?
What are the challenges to using play right now?
What are your goals and ideas for play?

Author

Alec Chunn
Tualatin Public Library
​CSD Secretary