From Deanne.Dekle at state.nm.us Wed Sep 4 07:58:47 2019 From: Deanne.Dekle at state.nm.us (Dekle, Deanne, DCA) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 13:58:47 +0000 Subject: Youth Services News Survey updates and CSLP Newsletter: August 2019 Message-ID: <9f5dffb048d447c7b2a99ff52324a245@MBXCAS001.nmes.lcl> Good September morning Youth Services staff! I hope you all enjoyed Labor Day! Below is the latest CSLP newsletter and this is a biggie- it has screenshots of what the new manual for 2020 looks like! I?ve seen it and as someone who always thought the previous manual was too bulky and intimidating and therefore didn?t use it much, I think the new format is going to be so much more useful! The Manual committee has spent a lot of time working on this new format and I truly hope you al find it more user friendly! Please let me know what you all think when you receive your manuals (which should be sometime next month, I think). The new Shop CSLP website has also gone live today https://www.cslpreads.org/cslp-store/! From now on, all Summer Reading purchases will be made directly through CSLP and not Demco (like previous years). I?m not quite sure how the voucher system will work this year, we?re still figuring out that system but as soon as I know so will you! I recommend taking a look around- looking at the new artwork and figuring out what you?d like to purchase! You should have a pretty good idea of what your voucher will allow your purchase (promotional and programmable items) and I?m hoping that we can get our state order in even earlier this year so if you start thinking now you?ll know when the time comes! In previous years, after the survey deadline closes in August, I spent September and October doing the data entry of around a thousand surveys before I know who has the most surveys and will receive the extra voucher but because you all did that part this year I ran all the stats this morning and have our statewide results already! * We received 1,310 parent/caregiver surveys from 54 libraries (227 more than 2018!!!) * 80% of parents believed their child?s enjoyment of reading increased (or was not applicable) * 75% believed their child?s reading skill increased (or was not applicable) * 98% said they will return to the library this fall I have more stats but I?ll put those on our website later today and will start work on the libraries that wanted their parent surveys sent to them so if you?ve already requested that from me, if I asked you to remind me in September now is the time for that reminder and if you?ve done so in the past week or so, I have you down on a list already. And finally for the announcement of the extra voucher winners! We had 54 libraries return surveys and I separated everyone out into 4 population categories and the winners are: * Population > 40,000: Santa Fe Public Library with 71 surveys * Population 10,000-39,999: Artesia Public Library with 84 surveys * Population 2,000-9,999: Tucumcari Public Library with 73 surveys * Population <1,999: Pueblo de San Ildefonso Library with 55 surveys Thank you to all the libraries that returned parent/caregiver surveys! This information is vitally important to the continued funding of the program from the IMLS! And as for librarian surveys, I had 83 libraries return surveys and will receive a voucher to purchase items for next summer as well as the 2020 manual. Deanne Dekle Youth Services & Outreach Consultant New Mexico State Library 505-476-9705 1-800-340-3890 deanne.dekle at state.nm.us View this email in your browser [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/ed31fdf7-bdb5-4a6b-914b-6d20102f5ae2.jpg] ATTENTION: Important CSLP website information! We are doing some fall cleaning on our website and removing inactive users. If you have or have had a login to the CSLP website, and are interested in keeping your account active, please log in by December 31, 2019. If you have not logged in by that date, your account will be deleted. You will be able to re-sign up in the future if you would like to. Please log in today!: https://www.cslpreads.org/ 2020 Incentive will be live September 3rd! Click here to view! https://www.cslpreads.org/cslp-store/ 2020 "Imagine Your Story" is Here! [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/0200b80a-1245-4518-9730-a65d8c6ab251.jpg] A New Look for an Old Friend! At the time of this writing the 2020 Program Manual is in full production. After countless hours of work by library volunteers, graphic designers, and State Youth Consultants, the 2020 manual has a brand new look and structure. As well as a brand new layout, the 2020 manual has a renewed focus on sharing "adaptation ideas". These ideas are designed to help inspire you to look at programming through a wider lens, and provides you with the tools you need to help shape your summer programming to meet the needs of your individual patrons and community. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/6ce14eda-8e86-4ae4-b4a5-6ecd75d4cd8b.jpg] The print manual is arranged into six thematic chapters, and contains ideas for children, teens, adults, and multigenerational programs. However, your DVDs and USBs do contain the programming ideas arranged by age group, so you still can access all the age specific ideas at a glance. Early Literacy has seen an overhaul as well. This year you will find five thematic ideas containing a wealth of songs, activities, and tips for a successful summer. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/ee802f89-46c4-4cce-8f3c-199f533bfaa2.jpg] The 2020 manual marks a significant change from our previous layout. Your feedback is welcome, and while we did our best for 2020, with your help, 2021 will be even better! Speaking of 2021, there is still plenty of time to submit a program idea for consideration for "Tails and Tales"! https://forms.gle/ebHUdBKUsJfu1VNbA [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/a2bca2f8-221e-4880-b926-ca4adedc6262.jpg] Increasingly, public libraries are feeding hungry bodies as well as hungry minds during the summer ? and throughout the year. The CSLP?s ad hoc Child and Community Well-Being committee is developing resources to support and encourage library participation in the USDA?s Summer Food Service Program and other initiatives to help kids and teens stay nourished, active, and healthy when school is out. These resources include the Libraries and Summer Food page on the CSLP website, themed downloadables for upcoming programs, and a series of stories showcasing the experiences of libraries around the country. For August, to celebrate the end of summer, we bring you not one but two stories, one from Massachusetts and one from Ohio. Enjoy! Summer Meals at Palmer Library By Stephanie Maher, Director, Palmer Public Library About seven or eight years ago, I picked up a copy of School Library Journal and read about California?s amazing public library summer lunch program. I immediately knew I wanted to start a program like that at the Palmer Library. For years, kids and teens would spend all day in the library during the summer eating junk food or nothing at all. Moreover, I knew from talking with the parents and grandparents in our community that they could use some help during the summer months. Unfortunately, we were short-staffed, I had just taken over as head of the Youth Services Department, and our Young Adult librarian had just left. I kept the idea in the back of my mind, waiting until the time was right. A few years later, with the Youth Services Staff positions filled, I reached out to someone at the Massachusetts Department of Childhood Services to find out how to start a summer lunch program. They quickly put me in contact with Project Bread and CNOP (Childhood Nutrition Outreach Program). They helped me team-up with the wonderful Food Services Staff of the school system in the next town over in Monson. They were running a summer lunch site through the extension of the Free and Reduced Lunch Program through the USDA at their elementary school and without hesitation agreed to make food for us too. Our first summer, we served lunch twice a week for six weeks, and we were averaging about 30-40 meals a day. It quickly became evident that we needed to expand, and for the past three years, we have been running the lunch program from Monday-Thursday. The feedback has been nothing but positive, and families, kids, teens, and caregivers are grateful. The biggest surprise was how easy it was on our end. The Food Services team in Monson puts it all together for us, we transport it and hand it out! Word got out quickly about the program, thanks to a billboard put up by Project Bread in the center of town. We got calls from local churches and service organizations asking how they could help. With a combination of staff and volunteers, we have handed out over 2,450 meals to kids and teens in our area! A year ago I was hired as director, and it is my mission to continue this program, grow it, and to find new ways to bring materials, programs, food, and fun to our community! Filling a Void in Middletown by Ally Doliboa Youth Programming Library MidPointe Library System The Middletown branch of the MidPointe Library System is in our fourth year of participating in the Summer Food Service Program. During this time, we have made a handful of adjustments to better serve our youth, ranging from adjusting serving times, Sponsors that best fit our needs, and adding additional meals. When we started our SFSP journey in 2016, we were approached by a Sponsor that offered hot meals three days a week and cold meals the other two days. We loved the variety that we could offer, and it turned out that our patrons loved the variety as well! Due to our limited room space (the room that we serve lunches in is the same room that we book for our Summer Reading special performers) we opted to try an earlier serving time for our first year; we served from 11 AM to 12 PM. That turned out to be a tad too early for our kids. It aligned well with the programs we offered in the morning time frame and gave us plenty of time to get ready for the special performers in the afternoon, but most of our patrons came in closer to noon for lunch. We kept the same Sponsor in 2017 and knowing that the early serving time didn?t seem to work out as planned, we decided to try serving from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM. We still received both hot and cold lunches, and the time combination and the meal options seemed to be a good hit! [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/90a27cad-fb60-4141-a09b-0da56dd57c99.jpg] In 2017, we more than doubled the amount of youth we served lunches to. 2018 was an unusual year, as our State approval was taking longer than usual for our site to be up and running. Since there are various other sites supplied by a different Sponsor throughout Middletown, we seemed to be losing the youth that we had previously fed for the last two summers. While we were glad that they had access to lunches in our city, we were sad to see our numbers drop. It turned out that our school district had a long summer to finish up a construction project and we wanted to make sure we provided meals to our youth until they returned to school. Luckily, we had a Sponsor in town that was willing to add us on as one of their sites for the remainder of the summer, since our initial Sponsor did not have that capability. Our kids had access to lunches their entire summer break and that was important to us at the Library, and to our new Sponsor. 2019 brought even more changes for us to better serve our patrons. We got approached by yet another Sponsor that could offer us hot meals Monday thru Friday! Throughout our years of being a serving site, our most common feedback was asking if we could have hot meals the entire week. With our previous two Sponsors, that was beyond our control. Now we had the option for hot or cold meals ? and we decided upon hot meals. Another added benefit we had with this new Sponsor was the option of adding a snack time later in the afternoon. We immediately jumped at this offer, knowing once the word got out, we would have happy youth (and guardians)! While we have had ups and downs over the past four years, our main goal is to make sure the youth in our city have access to healthy meals, and we are doing just that. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/87a5a3e4-1fc7-48d2-9b16-a7542de3135f.jpg] Deaf Awareness At Your Library by Susan F. Cohen, Coordinator, Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library Libraries have two opportunities to celebrate Deaf Awareness during the month of September. The first is International Week of the Deaf (IWDeaf) and the second, is International Day of Sign Languages. IWDeaf, an initiative of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), was first launched in Rome, Italy in 1958 to promote human rights of deaf people and highlight topics critical for awareness. In 2018, International Day of Sign Languages, adopted by the United Nations, is now celebrated annually on September 23. According to WFD, IDSL serves to ?raise the awareness of sign languages and strengthen the status of sign languages around the world.? [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/c12b6772-9e3d-4099-8ef3-159f22325045.png] As libraries recognize these two observances, we celebrate the diversity of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community*. Many culturally Deaf adults usually do not view deafness as a disability. The authors of ?Deaf Culture: Exploring Deaf Communities in the United States? (Leigh, Andrews, Harris, 2018) note in their book: Deaf culture is a different way of looking at deaf people. (Holcomb, 2013; Padden & Humphries, 1988). ?It legitimizes how they look at life, how they function, and how they define themselves, not by how hearing people define them." (Leigh, Andrews, & Harris, 2018, p. ) Conversely, individuals who became deaf as adults may view their deafness as a disability because they did not grow up as part of the Deaf Community. While the needs of both communities may be different, the two distinct groups do share many issues in common, including for example, communication access, captioning, and visual accessibility. *These communities include many subgroups such as non-Deaf and Deaf parents of Deaf children, oral Deaf individuals, Deaf persons with disabilities, DeafBlind persons, and so on. In the spirit of celebrating Deaf Awareness, we have the following suggestions for library staff: * The Association of Specialized Government and Cooperative Library Agencies lists tips on how library staff can best communicate with library customers who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing. * Invite Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals to form a Library Advisory Committee to help provide guidance on best ways to reach the target community through outreach, services, and library programs. * On the library website and in all marketing materials, describe how deaf and hard of hearing library customers can request accessibility services (e.g. interpreters, assistive listening device systems, CART).Montgomery County Public Libraries? ?Accessibility at MCPL? webpage is one such example. * Collaborate with local or statewide Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community organizations to help plan programs of interest to the target community. * Feature titles written by Deaf and Hard of Hearing authors during IWDeaf and IDSL via social media channels or through a material display. * Offer ASL classes by instructors preferably native to the language for the community or staff may prefer to sign up for an online ASL language learning course through American Libraries Association. For additional information, guidance, or suggestions, contact the Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library. For Deaf Awareness for library staff, we have these title suggestions: * Deaf Community in America: a history in the making, M. Nomeland & , R. Nomeland, Ronald (2012) * Deaf Culture: Exploring Deaf Communities in the United States, I.W. Leigh; J.F. Andrews & R.L. Harris (2018) * For Hearing People Only: Answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about the Deaf Community, its culture and the Deaf reality, M.S. Moore & L. Levitan (2004) * Introduction to American Deaf Culture, T.K. Holcomb (2013) * My Life of Language: a Memoir, P.W. Ogden (2017) What is on the horizon for CSLP? 2020: Theme/Fairytales, Mythology, Fantasy; Slogan/?Imagine Your Story? Artist/LeUyen Pham 2021: Theme/Animals; Slogan/?Tails and Tales? Artist/Salina Yoon 2022: Theme/World-Social Justice-Unity-Kindness-Inclusion-Change-Diversity-Equity-Make a difference-Embrace different cultures; Slogan/?All Together Now? Artist/Sophie Blackall [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405/images/53439c2e-a9d6-48f4-913a-b440f94ac0d6.jpg] Was this forwarded to you? Click here to sign up for your own copy of the newsletter! [Facebook] [Pinterest] [Twitter] [Website] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I hope you're all well on this Tuesday morning! I just wanted to give you all a reminder about the upcoming STEM to Read workshops held by Explora. We'll be holding 3 workshops next month to tie into Summer Reading 2020. I know it's super early but the grant that pays for these workshops ends in October so they have to be done by the grant deadline. These are really great, useful workshops that give you easy programming ideas using the theme and without spending a lot of money. The day ends with creating an activity tied into a storybook (that you then get to keep at the end of the day) using some of the ideas and concepts you've learned that day. Explora has been planning this for a couple years and have managed to figure out a way to tie STEM concepts into fairytales and I think it's going to be a lot of fun! These workshops are free to attend and will be held: * September 13th 10-2:30 @ Taos Public Library * September 25th 10-2:30 @ Marshall Memorial Library (Deming) * September 27th 10-2:30 @ Portales Public Library Registration is required to attend, so please register at: https://forms.gle/qud4vjJ8aPByYwuWA. And if your library is interested in receiving a copy of the parent surveys from this summer (in an excel spreadsheet) that are in reference to your library and your program, please let me know! I've had several libraries ask and I have a list going but am happy to run it for any library that is interested! It won't be until after it closes so sometime next week or the week after. Deanne Dekle Youth Services & Outreach Consultant New Mexico State Library 505-476-9705 1-800-340-3890 deanne.dekle at state.nm.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Deanne.Dekle at state.nm.us Tue Sep 24 10:11:53 2019 From: Deanne.Dekle at state.nm.us (Dekle, Deanne, DCA) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:11:53 +0000 Subject: Youth Services News CSLP Annual Meeting Info Message-ID: <16c9435b8dd64b91b5a0441729c710ac@MBXCAS001.nmes.lcl> Good morning Youth Services staff! Last week I attended the annual CSLP annual meeting and I wanted to give you all an update on things that happened or will be happening. The biggest was the theme for 2023 was chosen and it is... oceanography! Next year we'll work on the slogan so start thinking about! I was re-elected as chair of the Vendor committee, and our new president-elect is BriAnne Newton (the current chair of the Teen Manual committee). We held a committee fair where meeting attendees went around to the different committees and got information on all of them. The deadline to sign up for a committee is THIS Friday, the 27th, and I wanted to give you all one last push to join a committee. The CSLP doesn't work unless we have people volunteering for committees! Most of the committee work is all done virtually through email or sometimes through online meetings like Zoom and attendance at the annual meeting isn't required. I signed up for the Vendor committee after my first annual meeting and eventually chaired the committee which brought along a seat on the Board, I've been on the Adult Manual, served on Artwork for 2019 and 2021 and chaired Artwork for 2020 and 2022, and I also serve on Social Media. After this meeting, I think I also want to sign up for the Rules of Use Committee! If you'd like more information on any one committee or to sign up, visit https://www.cslpreads.org/join-a-cslp-committee/. I can also answer some questions about committees and as always will give a push for Vendor! I should be receiving your manuals in the mail fairly soon which means YOU will be receiving your manual in the mail fairly soon as well! As soon as I have yours, I will mail them immediately so you can start planning for 2020 and also so you can see the new manual format which I think is awesome and so much more user friendly! The new online store is now open if you'd like to browse around and start thinking about what you'd like to purchase https://www.cslpreads.org/cslp-store/ . Vouchers will be done a little differently this year because of the new online shop but I think it's going to be so much easier on everyone involved! When that time comes, I will offer plenty of instructions. That's all that I can remember right now about the meeting, but there was A LOT that happened, a lot of discussion about future product ideas in the catalog, and a presentation by the National Summer Learning Association to name a couple. Be on the lookout at the beginning of October for an announcement of Summer Reading 2020 workshop dates and locations! 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