Friday FAQs with Tessa for 3/12/21

Dear Library Staff Serving Youth, 

Happy Friday! Here is the latest installment of Friday FAQs for Youth Services. The slides used in the recording are attached as a PDF. Also, the FAQ Friday form is open for your input anytime. FAQs are published on the second Friday of each month. 

            FAQ Friday 3/12/2021 recording (5:34) 

FAQ Friday for Youth Services 2021 Form 

Question of the month: As we begin to re-emerge, reset, and return from the pandemic way of life, what can you say for certain? Is there anything you are sure about? Are there any changes you want to hold on to or let go?

 

For FAQ archives, visit the Youth Services Section blog 

Resources related to this week’s topics

• One Year Later
• Pandemic Reflections on Youth Librarianship: One Year Later (ALSC Blog)
• COVID Trauma Anniversary: It’s Okay to Not Be Okay (ALSC Blog)
• Planning Ahead
• Wisconsin Public Libraries Reopening Guide
• Racist Imagery
• Racist Imagery and Seuss (YSS Shout Out Blog) 
• CCBC Choices 2021
• CCBC Choices 2021, the latest edition of the CCBC’s annual best-of-the-year list, recommending 257 books for children and teens from birth- high-school age is available as pdf online: https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-choices/ 
• All of the books in CCBC Choices 2021 are also searchable in the CCBC Recommended Books database.
• Check out the Upcoming Events for several online presentations in which the CCBC librarians will be featuring some of the books in CCBC Choices 2021.
• Beanstack
• Rebekah (Becky) Garrety rebekah@zoobean.com

 

Enjoy the signs of spring!

Sincerely,

 

Tessa Michaelson Schmidt (she/her/hers)

Youth and Inclusive Services Public Library Consultant

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction | Library Services

(608) 267-5077 Tessa.Schmidt@dpi.wi.gov

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