CLELCON is an annual, affordable conference featuring workshops, keynote speakers and networking around the topic of early literacy in libraries. It is open to anyone who is involved or wants to be involved with early literacy. Learn more and register!
Libraries are seeing a growing number of immigrant children and caregivers at their programs, but what do you do when storytime leaders and storytime participants don't speak the same language? Learn how Brooklyn Public Library has developed simple strategies and techniques to make storytimes for young children friendly to parents and children who are English ...
Member Meetups are an informal way to network with other professionals around a topic relevant to youth librarianship. Let's meet to discuss our favorite books to share during Storytime from this past year and discuss new books and books to use for different types of groups (like an All Ages or a Digital Storytime). If ...
Join our next meetup to be held on March 11th from 1-2 (MST) to share your own experience and learn from others as we aim to increase our support for emerging readers. Librarians promote early learning for ages birth to 5 primarily through ECRR. But how do you support children as they transition into reading ...
Join us at our next meetup on May 13 from 1-2 (MST). We will be sharing our own experiences and learn from others' experiences as we brainstorm ways to manage program burnout. In this hour together, we will look for strategies and ways to support and combat the exhaustion and disengagement many librarians struggle with as program ...
Save the Date! October 16 and 17, 2025 will be the dates for our Annual CLEL Conference. The conference will be virtual this year and will be hosted on our Zoom platform.
