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Facing Book Bans: A Meetup Recap
Book challenges and bans have increased dramatically in recent years, and librarians often find themselves in the center of the ...
Nursery Rhymes in Storytime
Children’s librarians are storytellers, and with that storytelling comes the natural propensity to add music and rhyme into our Storytimes ...
Join the 2025 CLEL Bells Committee
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Events
Beyond Bilingual: Making Storytimes ELL-Friendly
Libraries are seeing a growing number of immigrant families at their programs, but what do you do wh…
October 22 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm MDTMember Meetup: Favorite Storytime Books for 2024
Member Meetups are an informal way to network with other professionals around a topic relevant to yo…
November 7 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm MST at Zoom
“CLEL offers a central focus on early literacy and networking with like-minded professionals and paraprofessionals. This is priceless.”
— CLEL member