Summer Reading and Learning Wrap Up Join State Library Services and the Minnesota Library Association’s Public Library Division (PLD) and Children and Young People’s Section to talk about summer reading and learning in 2020. What went well and what didn’t work? What’s worth keeping in the future and what’s not? What strategies did you use to increase equity in your summer program? Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2–3 p.m.Register for Summer Reading and Learning Wrap Up. Share your learning and hear from colleagues around the state. Contact PLD Chair Julia Carlis if you have questions.
Whole Person Librarianship Online Let’s try this again! The Whole Person Librarianship workshops originally scheduled for March and April are moving online. Join us in September for a free series of two half-day workshops on what libraries can learn from social workers. Led by Sara Zettervall, library trainer and co-author of the book Whole Person Librarianship: A Social Work Approach to Patron Services, we will examine social work concepts such as person-in-environment, cultural humility, and reflective practice. You’ll have space to apply social work concepts to your own work in a library setting. The workshops will be the week of September 21, with options to attend Monday and Wednesday morning, or Tuesday and Thursday morning. One set of workshops will be focused on the needs of urban and suburban libraries, and the other will have a rural library focus. More details and registration will be coming soon. While the primary audience of this workshop is library staff, especially those who directly assist public patrons, social work students and faculty are also welcome to register. Please contact Leah Larson, 651-582-8604, for assistance with any questions.
Updates from Our Partners
SELCO’s Camp Read-a-Lot For the twelfth year in a row, SELCO is offering Camp Read-a-Lot, a day geared toward offering learning opportunities for librarians serving youth. The event will be held virtually this year on Wednesday, August 5, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants can earn six CEU’s for attending the conference and reading five selections from suggested topics. Register to attend Camp Read-a-Lot. We have two terrific guest speakers this year: Jessica Anne Bratt is Youth Services Librarian at Grand Rapids Public Library in Michigan. Ms. Bratt’s talk is #StayWoke: Centering EDI in Meaningful Collection Representation: Whether you are the book selector, a book advocator, or a storytime read aloud connoisseur, curating or advocating for diversifying a collection can be difficult. Using a simple change management tool will help provide concrete steps to help maintain or increase representation of diverse books for youth at your library. Iyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair is an Associate Professor at Saint Cloud State University where she teaches American Indian Studies and directs the Multicultural Resource Center. The focus of the presentation will be on developing skills to better evaluate books for children and young adults about Native people. Ms. St. Clair will introduce a tool that she has developed, highlighting real world examples from published resources to unpack its use. Reading lists are useful, but educators will be shown how to develop greater capacity to evaluate materials and develop critical analytical skills to support learners.
SARS-CoV-2 Sticks Around The REALM Project has published the results of the second round of Battelle’s laboratory testing for COVID-19 on five commonly handled materials: braille paper pages, glossy paper pages, magazine pages, children’s board books, and archival folders. Compared to the results of Test 1, the results of Test 2 indicate that a slightly longer quarantine time for some types of cellulose-based paper materials sitting in a stacked configuration may be required to render SARS-CoV-2 undetectable. Join staff from OCLC, IMLS, and Battelle for a free WebJunction webinar to learn more about the testing process, how to present results to your stakeholders, project resources to inform your local decisions, and what you can expect from the project in the months to come. Registration for the webinar is full, but you can watch the livestream on YouTube at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, August 4.
A Good Time to Talk About the Truth Mark your calendars for a statewide event featuring the current One Book | One Minnesota title, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota. The discussion is free and is scheduled for Thursday, August 20, at 7 p.m. Register for the discussion with authors of A Good Time for the Truth. Editor Sun Yung Shin will be in conversation with contributors Taiyon Coleman, Shannon Gibney, David Lawrence Grant, Carolyn Holbrook, IBé, and Andrea Jenkins.
About State Library Services State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), partners with libraries to achieve equity and excellence in our collective work for Minnesotans. Division staff are consultants who help libraries plan, develop and implement high-quality services that address community needs. State Library Services administers federal grant, state aid, and state grant programs that benefit all types of libraries.
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SARS-CoV-2 Sticks Around The REALM Project has published the results of the second round of Battelle’s laboratory testing for COVID-19 on five commonly handled materials: braille paper pages, glossy paper pages, magazine pages, children’s board books, and archival folders. Compared to the results of Test 1, the results of Test 2 indicate that a slightly longer quarantine time for some types of cellulose-based paper materials sitting in a stacked configuration may be required to render SARS-CoV-2 undetectable. Join staff from OCLC, IMLS, and Battelle for a free WebJunction webinar to learn more about the testing process, how to present results to your stakeholders, project resources to inform your local decisions, and what you can expect from the project in the months to come. Registration for the webinar is full, but you can watch the livestream on YouTube at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, August 4. 
A Good Time to Talk About the Truth Mark your calendars for a statewide event featuring the current One Book | One Minnesota title, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota. The discussion is free and is scheduled for Thursday, August 20, at 7 p.m. Register for the discussion with authors of A Good Time for the Truth. Editor Sun Yung Shin will be in conversation with contributors Taiyon Coleman, Shannon Gibney, David Lawrence Grant, Carolyn Holbrook, IBé, and Andrea Jenkins.