[Michlib-l] Youth & Teen Services Updates

Fri Mar 14 15:13:23 EDT 2025

Gather ‘Round the Table with Teens: A Food Literacy Workshop
Food literacy is essential for teens to understand and learn about food in a positive way, including food skills and best food practices. Library staff that work with tweens & teens will benefit from this workshop designed to guide libraries to in turn support teens as they explore the impact of food on so many levels of their lives.
Food Education Consultant Rebecca Antill will provide in-person workshops on how to plan and deliver nutrition & cooking programs for teens, featuring how to do so with minimal kitchen access. As a former librarian, Rebecca will offer a tailored learning experience that will equip library staff to offer food programming of all levels at their libraries. Basic health and safety information, kitchen classroom management, culinary skills and community partners will all be discussed as participants cook and share time together. Bring your own apron as this cooking workshop is hands-on and very interactive!
Workshops will be offered in three locations across the state and registration is very limited<https://libraryofmichigan.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/libraryofmichigan/eventList.jsp>:
Monday, May 5, 2025
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET
Jackson District Library’s Meijer Branch
4699 Airport Road, Jackson, 49202
Registration & Details: https://libraryofmichigan.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/libraryofmichigan/event.jsp?event=7470&

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET
Traverse Area District Library’s Woodmere Library
610 Woodmere Ave., TC 49686
Registration & Details: https://libraryofmichigan.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/libraryofmichigan/event.jsp?event=7475&

Friday, May 9, 2025
*9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET
Gloria Coles Flint Public Library
1026 E. Kearsley St., Flint, 48503
*Please note the earlier start time for this workshop, due to a special GCFPL event following the workshop at 4pm – details on this event TBA to registrants.
Registration & Details: https://libraryofmichigan.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/libraryofmichigan/event.jsp?event=7480&
These workshops are supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Collaborative Summer Library Program Updates
Store orders<https://shop.cslpreads.org/> must be in by the following dates to get shipping by summer:

  *   Order by Mar 1, 2025 / get by May 1, 2025
  *   Order by May 1, 2025 / get by June 15, 2025

CSLP’s Libraries and Summer Food Guide has been updated
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, 21.4 million US children who receive free or reduced-price school meals1,including 13.8 million who live in food-insecure households2, 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), also known as SUN Meals, 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. Learn more about how to help with summer food go to https://www.cslpreads.org/libraries-and-summer-food/.

CSLP’s 2025 Summer Reading Champion is Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate
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Librarians, sign up<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSee71utfYlqunJlPtO9Ojy1zCr_yGI8gWMaCIiZsiFqaMuGLw/viewform> to receive promotional materials for the Katherine Applegate Color Our World Writing Contest<https://www.mackidsschoolandlibrary.com/colorourworldwritingcontest/>! The first 200 libraries to sign up<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSee71utfYlqunJlPtO9Ojy1zCr_yGI8gWMaCIiZsiFqaMuGLw/viewform> will receive a promotional easel and bookmarks to promote the Color Our World Writing Contest. All others will receive digital links to print their own materials. Find out more about the contest online here: https://bit.ly/ColorOurWorldContest

Calling Volunteer Library Staff! Help Inspire Young Writers! 🎨✍️
Do you love encouraging creativity in young readers and writers? We’re looking for volunteer library staff to help support the Color Our World Writing Contest<https://www.mackidsschoolandlibrary.com/colorourworldwritingcontest/>—a fantastic opportunity for kids to express themselves through storytelling!
As a volunteer, you’ll help judge contest entries around this writing prompt developed by author, Katherine Applegate:

WRITING PROMPT
Your writing can change and color our world! Write a short story between 1,000 – 1,500 words about a character that takes an action that changes someone else’s day for the better. The action can be as small or grand as you’d like — even small acts can make a big difference!  Your story must have a catchy title, a protagonist that takes an action to make a change, and a beginning, middle, and end.

A scoring rubric will be provided.  Judging will take place in early August 2025 after the contest closes on July 31, 2025.  We're not sure yet how many judges we will need, since we're unsure how many entries we will get.  We're hoping that judges will read/score no more than 20 entries each. There are no qualifications needed here, just a willingness to read the entries and use the scoring rubric to assess them.  We will whittle the list down to the Top 10 and from there, Katherine Applegate, our Summer Reading Champion, will choose the winner. If you would like to volunteer, email Dawn Krause, CSLP Executive Director at dawn.krause at cslpreads.org<mailto:dawn.krause at cslpreads.org>

National Library Week 2025
Drawn to the Library!
April 6-12, 2025
Award-winning author and illustrator Raina Telgemeier and cartoonist and comic theorist Scott McCloud have been selected Honorary Chairs of the American Library Association’s National Library Week, April 6-12, 2025. The week celebrates the important role libraries and library professionals play in schools and communities. Details on celebration days, free tools, and social media graphics are at: https://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek.
In the News…
Michigan has new early reading education laws. How will they look in the classroom?<https://www.michiganpublic.org/education/2025-03-13/michigan-has-new-early-reading-education-laws-how-will-they-look-in-the-classroom> – Michigan Public, 3/13/25

Hope you can get out and enjoy the warmer temperatures this weekend!
Cathy Lancaster
Youth Services Coordinator
Library of Michigan
702 W. Kalamazoo St.
Lansing, MI 48915
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