by Katherine Bunker / High Plains Library District In another pandemic-dominated year, our passion for helping children “experience the joy of reading and skills in life that literacy provides” did not wane. Storywalks evolved as an existing passive program and morphed into a safe social distancing program for libraries to offer to their communities. In …
by Pearl Bass/Douglas County Libraries 2021 has been a year of many firsts for me. For the first time since graduating with my MLIS in June, I’m no longer a student. In May, I got my first professional library job as a Youth and Family Services Librarian. My position offers me access to a myriad …
Each year CLEL is able to provide scholarship opportunities to Colorado library staff and we ask our recipients to blog about their experience. Remember, if you attended CLELCON21 but missed one of the sessions mentioned here, not to worry! All sessions were recorded and are available on Whova for the next 6 months. Our first …
Do you know how awesome you are? For many of us, the answer is no. It is easy for librarians to suffer from imposter syndrome; the belief that we are just faking it as an early literacy expert or children’s programming extraordinaire. The truth is we are accomplishing amazing things every day and making a …
Growing Readers Together is proud to announce our video-based, caregiver workshop is ready to share with families and caregivers in your community! Created to support early literacy and learning for anyone caring for young children, these videos are adaptable to your library’s needs. Post the links on your library website or social media page, view …
The Steering Subcommittee of CLEL hosted their first open networking Member Meetup on April 20th. We heard you loud and clear in our recent member survey: you don’t know your fellow CLEL members . . . and you want to! With the CLEL conference only once a year and the pandemic leaving us feeling more …
By Heidi Tingey, Arapahoe Libraries I found that the CLEL session by Amy Reyes’s Health Literacy for Littles an insightful presentation that has stuck with me the last few months. Reyes notes that, according to the CDC, Health Literacy is the ability to: Find health information and services Communicate needs and preferences and to then …
By Amy Easley, Membership Subcommittee Chair, CLEL Steering Committee In December of 2020, the CLEL Steering Committee decided to survey…
For all its challenges, 2020 also gave us many opportunities to learn. From how to properly wash our hands to how to battle systemic…
We can all agree, 2020 presented challenges we never expected. Libraries everywhere were asked to reimagine what youth services looked…
