[Michlib-l] CSLP Newsletter: February 2024

Tue Feb 27 09:09:44 EST 2024

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CSLP Partner Feature & Webinar Opportunity

SciStarter helps bring together millions of curious and concerned people in the world; the thousands of opportunities to engage in real-world research questions in collaboration with researchers, communities, organizations, and companies; and the resources, products, and services that enable people to pursue and enjoy these activities while learning and accelerating important research. Together, we can help answer questions that cannot be answered alone. When we're all involved, the science is better.

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Community Driven Science Adventure(s) at Your Library this Summer!

Join SciStarter, STAR Net and the National Girls Collaborative Project to gain ideas and resources for connecting public engagement in scientific research with this year's Collaborative Summer Library Program theme: Adventure Begins at Your Library(tm). From counting pollinators and taking photos of biodiversity to observing clouds and measuring light pollution, citizen and community science is a way for everyone to join in the adventures of science.

March 27, 2024 * 12:00-1:00 PM PT/ 3:00-4:00 PM EST

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Thinking Ahead to 2025

Here at CSLP, our members and staff are always working a year ahead to make sure we have compelling merchandise for your communities to enjoy during summer.  We're hard at work on 2025's vibrant theme, Color Our World((tm)), which is all about art and creativity at the library.  Our illustrator for 2025 is Mike Mullan (https://www.mullanillustration.com/<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405&id=8373acfccc&e=c18caf2bb6>).  Member feedback, brainstorming sessions by State Reps, and survey feedback have prompted a change; instead of 4 sets of age-specific posters/bookmarks, we will produce 3 different designs in 2025:

  *   a children's specific poster (targeting ages 0-12)
  *   a slogan-only poster (targeting teens/adults)
  *   a multigenerational poster (targeting all ages)
The children's design has always been the most popular whenever libraries provide feedback. It's our best seller in terms of sales too. Meanwhile, the teen poster often gets mixed feedback from members. Many find the teen artwork skewing too young. Additionally, adult summer reading has gained a lot of traction over the past decade. For 2025, we'll offer the slogan-only option to hopefully better engage both teen and adult audiences.
We also recognize that there is an increase in multi-generational families using the library during summer, whether vacationing together or older generations watching younger ones during the school break. We're also seeing growth in multigenerational programming across U.S. libraries, so this new poster will help address that interest. Our aim is for the multigenerational poster to appeal broadly to families in your communities.
We will be seeking additional feedback from membership before our 2024 annual meeting about reaching teens, adults, and multigenerational audiences with summer reading marketing materials.  We hope to have some of your new ideas on the horizon!  In the meantime, we wanted to prepare libraries for our move away from some of the traditional age-specific pieces. We hope this provides more flexibility and appeals to community members. Your direct feedback is always appreciated, email Executive Director, Dawn Krause at dawn.krause at cslpreads.org<mailto:dawn.krause at cslpreads.org> if you have thoughts/ideas to share.

Libraries and Summer Food

Hungry kids don't read. They can't concentrate; their physical, social, and emotional well-being suffers; and they don't participate successfully in library activities. Every summer, 22 million US children who receive free or reduced-price school meals (USDA Child Nutrition Tables<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405&id=295198338d&e=c18caf2bb6>), including 11.7 million who live in food-insecure households (USDA Economic Research Service, Household Food Security in the United States in 2020<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405&id=d7336d94a2&e=c18caf2bb6>, September 2021), lose access to the daily breakfast and lunch served in school. During the summer, many students also lack the other benefits of school, including engagement, learning, adults present, a temperature-controlled environment - things libraries can provide.
The USDA's Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) makes free healthy meals and snacks available to young people in communities with high rates of poverty. Many public libraries already participate as meal or snack sites, or provide programming to nearby feeding sites. Libraries can incorporate their summer library program and other fun, literacy-based activities to support child well-being and send children and teens back to school ready to learn. Your library can be part of the solution to childhood hunger. Become an SFSP site or partner with existing sites, publicize the program, and connect your young patrons to healthy food. If your community is not eligible for SFSP, you have other options for helping to feed young people.
The CSLP Child and Community Well-Being committee has created this how-to guide to help libraries get started<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405&id=9efbcc889b&e=c18caf2bb6>. If you are interested in more Libraries and Summer Food networking, feel free to join the "CSLP - Feeding the Whole Child: Libraries and Food" Facebook group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2383790818612681/<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405&id=aa677d1b06&e=c18caf2bb6>.

RESOURCE LIST

  *   CSLP Summer Meals Factsheet<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405&id=d2a8396998&e=c18caf2bb6>
  *   CSLP Summer Meals Talking Points Flyer<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405&id=906f324788&e=c18caf2bb6>
  *   Read Up! A mini-manual for summer feeding sites<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405&id=4c57313f20&e=c18caf2bb6>

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Product Feature

New in the store!  We had an overwhelmingly positive response to our first ever hoodie offering with the Love My Library slogan on it.  We have a few more Love My Library hoodies in the store, but we'll no longer be using this slogan and they're running out fast.  Our Themes and Slogans Committee came up with a new slogan for us - Libraries Are Life.  This version comes in a charcoal color so maybe you need both for your wardrobe of library wear?

Don't forget your hoodie for those cool summer nights or those chilly library interiors when the AC is blowing this summer!

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Toolkit for Inclusive Teen Internships

Summer internships can be a great way to reach new audiences, develop new connections, and provide leadership opportunities for staff. If you are planning to host a teen intern this summer - or are curious and don't know where to start - the Public Library Association's Internship Toolkit is a start-to-finish guide for implementing an internship program at the library. Based on PLA's Inclusive Internship Initiative<https://cslpreads.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=043a7515ceb3ad45bdd2dd405&id=d500a3de8e&e=c18caf2bb6>, the free, downloadable toolkit includes templates, best practices, and case studies to make your program a success.

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Adventure Partner

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More than ever, the role of libraries is particularly important in helping children learn and thrive through reading. Make sure your library's summer reading program is the best it can be with the new CSLP Adventure Begins at Your Library Brag Tags. Proven to increase summer reading participation!

"These Brag Tags are bringing in new patrons. Kids are telling their friends about the Brag Tags and those kids are dragging their parents to the library so they can earn their own brag tag collection. Best marketing tool I've found!" - Marcy P, Sawyer Community Library

"Thanks to your wonderful Brag Tags and ball chains, our Summer Reading Program more than doubled! Thank you. You have made my job so much easier, gone are the days of worrying about reading participation."  - Carolyn, Public Librarian

"Our young borrowers cannot read their books fast enough to qualify for the next Brag Tag in the series. This is the best gift incentive we have offered." - Anne  S., Public Librarian

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