Tips and Info DPI's Weekly Youth Services Newsletter

Jeni Schomber's DPI Youth Services Weekly Reminders and Resources is chockfull of great resources. If you are a WI youth library staffer and you don't receive this weekly missive in your email inbox, please contact Jeni  (jennifer.schomber@dpi.wi.gov) to be placed on the list! 

Here is the information from the Sept 5, 2024 edition

ALSC National Institute – September 19^th – 21^st, 2024 in Denver, CO

 

• The ALSC National Institute is a two and a half day intensive learning and networking opportunity with a youth services focus. It is designed for front-line youth library staff, children's literature experts, education and library school faculty members, and other interested adults.
• I know of a few Wisconsin public library staff that are attending the Institute this year. If you also attending, and would like to meet up with your fellow Wisconsinites, let me know! I’ll get everyone connected behind the scenes.

Save the Date – CSLP Summer Symposium

 

• Thursday December 5^th, 2024 – Registration coming soon (for this online opportunity)!
• 10:00 am - Welcome & Keynote: "You Belong in Libraries" with Mycal Threets
• 11:45 pm - "From Planning to Palette to Posting: Summer Reading Marketing with Cari Hillman (OH) & Katie Rothley (MI)
• 1:00 pm - "A Rainbow of Opportunities for Creative Programming" with Katie Brunner (CO) and Amanda Raiche (ND)
• 2:30 pm - "Coloring Our World Green: Sustainability and Summer Reading" with Keturah Cappdonia (NY) and Haleigh Mikolajczky (NY)

 

 

The Innovation Destination

 

• The Innovation Destination, official website of The Young Innovators Project, presents The Curious Kids’ Story-Game Adventure: The Mystery of the Burping Fish, a digital story-game (a story with game elements) and set of supporting resources, partially funded by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS). The story-game is designed to capture the imaginations of young, would-be inventors in grades 2-4 and motivate them to participate in its six fun-filled adventures while learning the invention process and gaining some teamwork and inquiry skills along the way.
• For more information visit the Digital Story Game information flyer