READsquared & Winter programs and more–workshop Monday, November 23 @ 11:30 am

You have been invited to a join.me meeting . Highlighting fall/winter and 1,000 books before Kindergarten programs
. Recommending how to transition from summer to future programs
. Reviewing available reports and some tips on setting up ad hoc reports
. Advanced Features Review Join the meeting: join.me/READsquaredTraining Monday, November 23, 2020 11:30 AM
Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Niche Academy Webinars

Did you know that Niche Academy has webinars? You may be interested in:

GovInfo Phobia: How to Get Over That “Deer in the Headlights” Feeling with Christopher Brown

Library Leadership Your Way with Jason MartinNext: Fostering Engagement and Building Information Literacy Competencies for Students and Patrons of Various Cultures with Drs. Judy Henning and Sherry Crow on Wednesday November 18th at 2 pm Eastern time,11 am Pacific Time

 Libraries Supporting Online Learning: New Strategies and Best Practices in Response to COVID-19 with Christine Mune on Wednesday December 2nd at 2 pm Eastern Time, 11 am Pacific Time

All of their previous webinars are archived on HERE

Family Engagement – Family Learning -STEAM – Community Dialog

Thinking ahead to next year, continuing to engage with the families in your community virtually, creating take and make programs and perhaps opening up to in-person programs–here are some resources to inspire you no matter what stage in the game you are at (including thinking about applying for a Summer Learning Grant next year).

Responding to COVID-19: Seven Practices to Guide Funding and Programming ~ Global Family Research Project.

Family Creative Learning Facilitators Guide ~ Family Creative Learning

How do you know what will engage your families? What do they need? Through Community Dialog. Ask yourself:

1) What audiences in my community are not making full use of library resources?
2) How does my library provide equitable and relevant programming for diverse audience segments? (Latinx, LGBTQ, Homeless populations, etc.)
3) Who in my community has the ear of the groups we wish to serve better?
4) Who are my go-to partners who could help plan and implement a Community Dialogue?

StarNet webinar Community Dialogues to Support Equitable Programming, Access, and Action in YOUR Library Presentation Slides | YouTube Recording | Link Bank

STEM in Libraries – Collaboration Opportunities ~ StarNet

Are you a Guide on the Side or a Sage on the Stage. For more on being the Guide on the Side another great webinar from StarNet STEAM Learning in Public Libraries: A “Guide on the Side” Approach for Inclusive Learning Presentation Slides | YouTube Recording | Link Bank

Copyright First Responders Course Resources

Federal copyright law says that “Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government.” 17 U.S.C. § 105.  What happens when the copyright falls under the works of State Government? For more state copyright laws see:

http://copyright.lib.harvard.edu/states/


Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States


  17 U.S.C. § 107, available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107·         

Fair Use Infographic: http://copyright.lib.harvard.edu/fair_use/

Using Media Literacy to Combat Election Disinformation: Librarian Train-the-Trainer Workshop Resources

If you would like to catch up on past live workshops and panels that Pen America has presented to the public, view the recordings on their project page, Knowing the News.

How to Talk to Friends and Family Who Share Misinformation – PEN America

PEN America’s Guide on COVID-19 and Disinformation

PEN America Reports:

Faking News: Fraudulent News and the Fight for Truth

Truth on the Ballot: Fraudulent News, the Midterm Elections, and Prospects for 2020

Fact-checking resources:

Politifact.com by the Poynter Institute or Washington Post’s Factchecker both fact-check political content.

RevEye Reverse Image Search is a Chrome extension to perform an inverse image search.

FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Centerand is non-partisan and monitors for political accuracy.

All Sides offers perspectives on topical news stories from the left, center, and from the right, plus a ‘media bias rating.’

Snopes.com has been around since 1994 and fact-checks internet content.

Duke Reporters’ Lab is a database of both national and global fact-checking resources. 

NewsGuard Coronavirus Misinformation Tracker for COVID-19-specific tracking.

A short news article from Buzzfeed on the various hoaxes and misleading content surrounding the protests.

News Literacy Project’s How News Literate Are You? quiz

Resources from STEMIE Fest 2020

STEMIEFest | STEMIE

STEMIEFest Innovation for inclusion in early education

9/14/20

Two popular early learning robots were Beebots & KIBO.

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AFIRM Autism Focused Intervention Resources & Modules: AFIRM Modules are designed to help you learn the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring an EBP with learners with ASD from birth to 22 years of age. Supplemental materials and handouts are available for download.

Supporting Individuals with Autism Through Uncertain Times-7 Support Strategies.

Reimagining Youth Librarianship

Since June I have been participating in the COVID-19 Reimagining Youth Librarianship project. Now is not only an opportunity but the absolute necessary time to rethink how we meet the needs of and remain significant within our communities. 
Here is an article about the project from facilitators Linda Braun and Mega Subramaniam: https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=covid-19-is-an-opportunity-to-rethink-youth-librarianship-reimagining-libraries


From the work of the group over the last few months has come the following: https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=wake-up-libraries-curbside-pickup-is-not-the-answer-reimagining-public-libraries-youth-services

Are we asking ourselves who in the community does our current decisions serve and how do we know what we are thinking is actually true? 9/3/20 article from the Reimagining Libraries group: The Right and Wrong Way to Make Decisions in a Crisis.

The Harwood Institute agrees–we NEED to step forward, have these conversations, build a shared responsibility within our communities, and help build sustainable change.

Rethinking Our Role to Better Serve the Community During and Beyond Times of Crisis by Beth Yoke, Chief Strategy Officer, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County