WLA YSS Sessions in Short: Diversify Me!

Jenni Frencham, YSS Member and Youth Services Director at the Columbus Public Library, presented an excellent and informative session called "Diversify Me! Incorporating Diverse Titles into Your Collections, Displays and Programming." It was an ideal follow-up to this year's preconference and was also an outstanding example of how to implement diversity in the library right now.

Here is a link to the slides and here is a link to the handout she shared from Children and Libraries Fall 2015 issue on "Awards that Celebrate Diversity in Children's Literature" compiled by Laura Schulte-Cooper. Both will be posted on the WLA Conference Program Handouts page in the near future.

Jenni described ways to do a shelf audit to see how many diverse titles are already in your collection, reminders to include diversity in your program publicity and flyers, bias in holiday collections, including books with diverse characters in Storytimes, incorporating diversity into passive readers advisory, and other practical tips.

Author: Sarah Cournoyer

To see all the recaps of "WLA Sessions in Short" click below:
Reach One Teach One
Group Problem Solving
Fear Not Coding for the Rest of Us
Using the Five Practices in School Age Programming
Plan Less, Program More

Summer is a Super Time to Share YSS Early Literacy Calendars

With all the additional patrons in the library, summer is a wonderful time to introduce your patrons to the YSS Early Literacy Calendars. Filled with easy activities emphasizing early literacy practices, the calendar is a terrific outreach piece and summer handout for parents, grandparents, and caregivers. Get your downloadable pdf file of the calendar on the WLA YSS Resources page right HERE. Each month was created by a different YSS member.

2016 Early Literacy Calendars Available

The 2016 Early Literacy Calendar is now available! This project is brought to you by YSS, and awesome librarians from all over WI contributed to it. The calendar offers caregivers 365 days of tips on how to raise a reader. It is a wonderful resource to provide to patrons at your library and to offer as a handout at outreach visits! 

 

NEW for 2016: Your choice of 8.5x11 or 11x17 pages!*

*The 11x17 pdf is not posted to the WLA website yet, but will be available soon.

WAPL 2011

Are you headed to WAPL next week? What program(s) are you most looking forward to. For a list of programs sponsored by YSS and to download the handouts for those programs, check out www.wla.lib.wi.us/yss.

See you next week!