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PROGRAMS AND EVENTS:
Free Virtual Screening; The Right to Read - February 1*
Reclaiming Black History - February 8*
ARSL Leadership Institute Applications Open Until February 21*
Switching it Up! Creating a Video Game Collection for Your Library - February 22*
Co-Creating Library Services for Transformative Impact - February 22*
Spring, 2024 State Library Resource Center (SLRC) Webinar Schedule
RESOURCES, PUBLICATIONS AND NEWS:
Shirley Mason, Baltimore County Public Library (BCPL), wins ALA Award.
Centering Community VOICE
Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Blog Post: 23 January 2023
In Case You Missed It: Library News from Around the Nation
Reminder of Topics in the Previous Digest
Free Virtual Screening; The Right to Read - February 1*
The documentary, The Right to Read, executive produced by Levar Burton, is offering a free virtual screening of the film on February 1st (available all day) in honor of Black History Month.
“The Right to Read shares the stories of an NAACP activist, a teacher, and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of life-long success: the ability to read.”
For more information about the film and to sign up to receive access to the screening, visit https://www.therighttoreadfilm.org/.
Reclaiming Black History - February 8*
Thursday, February 8; 1-2 p.m.
Three Howard County community members, Marlena Jareaux, Wayne Davis, and Christine Bulbul, came together to participate in a community research roundtable called the Truth Lab.
Using archival documents, obscure maps, and phone interviews, they worked to research and ascertain the accurate age and history of one of the most beloved and iconic historic structures in Howard County, the “Thomas Isaac Log Cabin.”
As they discovered, the factual Black history of the cabin had been obliterated by a European settler narrative propagated for decades. The resulting book, Early Ellicott City Black History: A Historic African American Church, A Log Cabin and Lynching, restores the cabin’s true history. They never imagined that their research would also uncover a community of Black homeowners in Ellicott City in the years before the Civil War.
The authors’ talk will describe their research and the implications of what history is deemed “significant.”
Sponsored by the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the Maryland State Archives and Maryland’s Four Centuries Project.
Learn more and register here.
ARSL Leadership Institute Applications Open Until February 21*
Building capacity and creating a network of people and materials to support rural and small libraries and the communities they serve has been the hallmark of the Association for Rural & Small Libraries. That is how Kathy Zappitello describes ARSL and the impact it has had on the vocational community. “The missing puzzle piece was an educational leadership program designed around the unique framework and challenges in small and rural communities.” The Institute of Museum and Library Services agreed and ARSL launched its very own Leadership Institute in 2021. Building on that success, IMLS has been awarded additional funding and with that ARSL will be accepting applications for the Institute until February 21, 2024.
Switching it Up! Creating a Video Game Collection for Your Library - February 22*
Thursday, February 22; 3 - 4 p.m.
Video games are a dynamic, modern, popular medium worthy of a place in every library, but starting a collection can feel overwhelming. You might have questions like, how much funding will it require? Are these materials more prone to theft? Is this a juvenile collection, young adult, or one for all ages? This webinar will provide you with practical solutions for all your questions. We’ll walk through the process of creating, maintaining, and promoting a new video game collection. You’ll hear lessons learned and tips for success that Billings Public Library used to create a successful collection, along with strategies from other libraries around the country. You’ll leave ready to get started creating what is sure to be one of your library’s most well-circulating collections.
Learn more and register here.
Co-Creating Library Services for Transformative Impact - February 22*
Thursday, February 22; 3 - 4 p.m.
The most relevant and dynamic ideas can grow from collaborating with impacted communities. Co-creation is one of the most effective ways for libraries to turn diversity, equity, and inclusion ideals into real-world services. In this session, you’ll learn about the fundamentals of co-design and explore how to apply them in your library for wildly creative and deeply impactful programs and services. As a result of this webinar, you’ll be able to:
- Define co-design and its role in creating library services
- Identify multiple ways of sharing power with community
- Apply basic principles and techniques from human-centered design to facilitate co-creation
- Draw on real-world examples for inspiration
Learn more and register here.
Spring, 2024 State Library Resource Center (SLRC) Webinar Schedule
The State Library Resource Center hasfive webinars scheduled from March through May. The sessions are listed below:
Each training is worth one contact hour. To find out more and to sign up, simply click on the links above. When registering, be sure to include your email address so that we can send you log in instructions before each scheduled session (usually this happens the day before). Please share this information with anyone who might be interested.
Shirley Mason, Baltimore County Public Library (BCPL), wins ALA Award
Congratulations to Shirley Mason (BCPL, Black Caucus of the Maryland Library Association (BCMLA)), on winning the Baker and Taylor/American Library Association (ALA) Library Support Staff Award. This award recognizes dedicated and outstanding performance by a library support staff member. See photos from the ceremony here.
Centering Community VOICE
Are you looking to deepen or expand your library’s outreach services for children and families from underserved communities, or would you like to build your library’s outreach efforts but don’t know where to begin? Have you been looking for ways to incorporate social justice principles into your outreach efforts? Would you like strategies for how to thoughtfully and compassionately provide outreach in communities whose identities and values are different from yours? Then this may be the right course for you! Centering Community VOICE includes in-depth, approachable content that guides you through a value-focused, outcomes-based process for developing, delivering, and assessing outreach programs for children and families from underserved groups. The self-paced course is designed for library staff at all levels who are interested in providing outreach services for children and families.
Call for Participants: Libraries Count
Researchers from East Tennessee State University and University of Alabama are looking for partners for an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant: Libraries Count: Co-Developing a Professional Learning Program to Build Capacity of Library Staff to Support Young Children and their Families in Math.
Learn more about the project here.
Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Blog Post: 23 January 2023
This is the latest Hanging Together blog post, part of a regular series on issues of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility, compiled by a team of OCLC contributors.
Call for Participants: Forging Resilience
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley are looking for partners to bridge gaps between climate solutions we hear about in the news and obstacles that prevent people from adopting them. Each participant will receive a custom toolkit to use in their community.
Learn more here.
In Case You Missed It: Library News from Around the Nation
Here is a round up of recent library news events:
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Gen Z And Millennials Have An Unlikely Love Affair With Their Local Libraries; The Conversation, Jan 12
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State Bill Would Allow Only Educators To Select School Library Materials; Spectrum News, Jan 10
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As Illinois Officials Push Back Against Book Bans, Some Advocates Wonder About Actual Impact on Prison Libraries; WTTW, Jan 10
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Rural Libraries Endowment Invests in New Mexico’s Small Communities; Library Journal, Jan 8
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The L.A. Public Library Is Getting Into Book Publishing; LA Times, Jan 8
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Oregon Libraries Face Budget Cuts On Top Of Safety Issues, Record Number Of Book Ban Attempts; KGW8, Jan 4
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How a Drag Queen Event That Never Happened Forced a Library to Shut Down; NY Times, Jan 4
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Only 6 Book Titles Submitted To Alabama Public Library Services’ List Of ‘Controversial Books’ So Far; CBS42, Jan 3
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Mychal Threets Wants Everyone to Experience ‘Library Joy’; NY Times, Jan 1
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Library Tech Trends for 2024; The Digital Librarian, Dec 29
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Forbidden Knowledge; Banning books about LGBTQ+ issues doesn’t stop kids from learning about them—because that’s not where they’re learning about them in the first place.; Slate, Dec 28
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Pressley Bill Would Classify Discriminatory Book Bans as Civil Rights Violations; Truthout, Dec 18
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Montana Libraries Lose Access To Library App (Feat Jennie Stapp); NBC Montana, Dec 17
- Support the Maryland Library Community at LibLearnX!
- Invitation to Participate in the Online RJ@PL Strategic Planning Workshop 5 (Topic: Racial Justice and ENVIRONMENT) - January 25*
- Building Authentic Relationships with Underserved Communities - January 30*
- Maryland Library Association's (MLA) Library Legislative Day Briefing - February 9*
- Winter Issue of Maryland Library Association's (MLA) Happenings is Now Available.
- Winter Issue of Maryland Library Association's (MLA) The Crab is Now Available.
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