Grants Database Available Through Demco

Looking for a way to fund a program or learning space at your library or school? Great ideas but small budget? Did you know that Demco offers a free grant search database? They do!

Look for grant opportunities in four different categories:

• Early Childhood
• Library
• STEM
• Technology

If you're a YSS member and you've been awarded a grant this year, we'd love to hear about it. Send your submissions to Aimee Schreiber at the email listed in the blog header.

If you're a YSS member who is willing to mentor or review another YSS members grant, email Sarah Cournoyer, YSS Chair, at sarah(at)beaverdamlibrary(dot)org.

C.A.L.L.: Conference About Libraries & Learning

C.A.L.L.: Conference About Libraries & Learning

Thursday, January 31, 2019

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It is our distinct pleasure to invite you to the third Conference About Libraries & Learning (C.A.L.L.). The conference is a collaboration between UW-La Crosse Murphy Library, the School District of La Crosse & La Crosse Public Library and will take place on the UW-La Crosse campus on Thursday, January 31, 2019. Librarians from all types of libraries (school, public, academic, special, etc.) are welcome to attend.

Service runs through a librarian’s work day. We know it from day one going in to the field. We expect to be tired at the end of a day, week, program, or semester. Patrons, students, community members or administration turn to us for answers, help, expertise, reassurance, and a friendly smile.

So let’s talk about burnout. What do we do when we have barely anything left to give, when we’re at the end of the rope, when we feel emotionally drawn and the tanks of compassion are running on empty? Is there any space in our work lives to recognize that sometimes we feel unprepared for the realities of managing and regulating the requirements of emotional labor of librarianship? Let’s talk about it.

For this year’s C.A.L.L. conference, we are going to explore ideas and techniques, both urgent on-the-spot, and intentional techniques to cultivate when time allows.

We are excited to invite presenters on the following topics of interest that may include, but are not limited to:

• Techniques to combat compassion fatigue in the workplace
• How to emotionally support one another professionally
• Techniques to de-escalate emotionally charged interactions:  librarian to patron and colleague to colleague
• Workplace practices to nurture self-care

Submission Details

To submit a conference proposal, please use the submission form. The deadline to submit proposals is Monday, September 17, 2018.  The committee invites proposals that address current challenges faced by professionals in the field and are solution-oriented as well as stimulate and provoke discussion and audience engagement. Presentation sessions are 30 minutes each with 15 minutes scheduled for questions/discussion. Collaborative and interactive presentations are encouraged and panel presentations are also accepted. Notification of acceptance will be prior to Monday, October 15, 2018.

If you have any questions or need clarification, please contact Liz Humrickhouse at ehumrickhouse@uwlax.edu.

We look forward to seeing you at the Conference About Libraries and Learning!

Cindy Halter, School District of La Crosse

Teri Holford, UW-La Crosse Murphy Library

Liz Humrickhouse, UW-La Crosse Murphy Library

Linda Jerome, La Crosse Public Library

Submissions for Book List for Advanced Readers Wanted

The ALA-Children’s Book Council (CBC) Joint Committee is launching a new pilot bibliography to provide guidance to caregivers interested in finding titles for children who read at an advanced level. The committee is looking to library professionals, publishers, and anyone with a passion for child literacy to provide suggestions for this list, especially titles offering diverse characters and settings as well as by diverse authors and illustrators, and notable recent publications.

The list will have three sections:

•             Titles for Kindergartners/1st graders reading at a 3rd grade level

•             Titles for 2nd/3rd graders reading at a 5th grade level

•             Titles for 4th/5th graders reading at a 7th grade level

To submit title suggestions for this new book list, visit:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hnHf5kS8zdxB6igkbrP1Lb3JgurQOPOJaKhvpEuHK8E/viewform

The CBC Joint Committee would greatly appreciate your thoughtful suggestions! The submission period will be open from May 16 to September 5, 2016. The committee, comprised of librarians and CBC member publisher employees, will review submissions to create a final list of titles for each category. The final list will be released in early 2017.

Please contact the CBC Director of Programming, Shaina Birkhead (shaina.birkhead@cbcbooks.org), directly with any questions.