News of Note from the CCBC

At the recent State Youth Services System Liaisons meeting, CCBC Director K.T. Horning shared the following news:

• The CCBC has had several in-person visits from groups of teachers, university students, and librarians this fall, including book selection groups.  If you want to schedule book selection, you can sign up here.

• CCBC Intellectual Freedom Information Services Coordinator and Librarian Extraordinaire Megan Schliesmann has worked with Monica Treptow at DPI to compile a list of resources  in response to the current challenges and public attacks against books for children and teens taking place nationally and around our state.

• CCBC Shorts will be offered from 9:00-9:30am in the Spring of 2022 on Feb 2, March 16, April 20, and May 18. Past presentations are archived and available on the CCBC’s website. Check South Central Library System's calendar page to register for these free programs..

• Due to COVID, we have not been scheduling in-person outreach visits yet; however, the CCBC librarians will be doing two online presentations highlighting CCBC Choices 2022, sponsored by South Central Library System:
• Great New Books for Birth through Grade 5 (March 31, 9:00-10am)
• Great New Books for Older Children and Teens (April 7, 2022)

• CCBC Choices will once again be published in a digital-only version, and will be available in March (paper shortages, distribution, and cost have been huge factors). Hope to go back to paper in 2023.

• De Anza Williams, a new faculty member in the UW-Madison iSchool, visited the CCBC in November, soon after moving to Madison in October.  She has a public library youth services background and for many years worked as young adult librarian and then a manager at the Nashville Public Library.  She also has a strong background in diversity, and did her doctoral research on the depiction of African American boys in young adult literature. She will teach courses in the iSchool in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Multicultural Literature, Public Libraries, and Library Management, among other things.