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JUNE PREVIEW

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Extensive Programming for
Public Librarians Available
at ALA Annual Conference
With big-name speakers and diverse
educational offerings, the Public Library
Association (PLA) offers something for every
public library worker in its programming at
the 2018 ALA Annual Conference.
To kick things off, PLA is partnering
with the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) to present a
full-day preconference workshop called
AvramCamp, named in honor of library
innovator  Henriette D. Avram.  AvramCamp 2018 will provide an opportunity for
female-identifying individuals who work
with technology to connect with peers and
discuss shared challenges. Participants will
collectively examine barriers to success,
salary negotiation, creating and maintaining
inclusion, and more. 

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On Saturday, PLA will
host a Member Welcome
Breakfast featuring authors
Anand Giridharadas and
Priya Parker.
  On Saturday, June 23, PLA will host
a  Member Welcome Breakfast  featuring
authors Anand Giridharadas and Priya
Parker. PLA President Pam Sandlian Smith
will host the event, during which PLA will
also recognize the recipients of its  2018
Awards and Grants. The Breakfast will take
place Saturday, June 23 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.,
in Grand Ballroom D of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. Admission is complimentary
to PLA members, but a ticket is required.
Click here to learn more.
From June 23 through June 25, PLA will
offer a wide array of educational sessions
aimed at public library workers. Among the
21 open sessions, the topics to be covered
include the opioid crisis, cultural competence, digital literacy, and  legal issues in
public libraries. The PLA Board of Directors
and numerous PLA committees, task forces,
advisory groups, and working groups will
also convene at the ALA Annual Conference.  Click here to see a list of PLA activities
at ALA Annual 2018.
 

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YALSA Releases Report on Transforming
Library Services for and with Teens
The Young Adult Library Services
Association has released its new report,
Transforming Library Services for and
with Teens Through Continuing Education.
The report is the result of a year-long
national forum that took place from June
1, 2017 to May 31, 2018, and was hosted
in partnership with the Chief Officers
of State Library Agencies (COSLA) and
generously funded by the Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
The project brought together state
library agency (SLA) chief officers,
youth consultants, library practitioners
and others to discuss the challenges,
opportunities, and recommendations
for improving CE for library staff to aid
them in transforming teen services. These
discussions took place both in-person and
virtually and resulted in the following
overarching recommendations to help
improve the CE landscape for serving
teens through libraries:
 Commit to CE that promotes
deeper learning
 Connect with others to provide a
richer learning experience
 Create an organizational culture
that prioritizes staff learning
 Embrace effective models for CE

Additionally, recommendations for
specific stakeholders such as national
organizations, state library agencies, public and school library staff, funders, and
more were identified. Recommendations
for each group include some or all of the
following:
 Setting a strategy and vision for CE
 Identifying and promoting models
and best practices
 Building capacity
 Embracing and promoting a culture
of learning
 Advocating for high quality CE
 Embracing national guidelines
 Advancing a 21st century vision for
teen services
 Adopting best practices in CE
delivery
 Gathering data for informed decision making
Learn more about the project and access the executive summary and the full
report here. A follow-up project titled
"Transforming Teen Services: A Train
the Trainer Approach," which will implement many of the recommendations
mentioned in the report, will start July
1, 2018. Learn more at http://www.ala.
org/yalsa/train-trainer-project.

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