By Mahasin Abuwi Aleem The Children’s Room at the Oakland Public Library was honored to receive an ACL mini-grant to support a new program, Family STEAM Night, which was created to attract “tweens” and [continue reading]
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Author Breanna McDaniel to Visit Oakland
Breanna McDaniel, author of “Hands Up!” will read her picture book at the African American Museum and Library at Oakland as part of their Saturday Children’s Story Hour on December 7th, at 11am. The museum [continue reading]
Evaluating Books about Police from Oakland PL
Evaluating Books about Police: Colleagues at the Oakland Public Library (CA) have developed Evaluating Children’s Books About Police: a toolkit for librarians and other evaluators of children’s literature to help library selectors evaluate books for [continue reading]
Oakland Library’s Anti-Islamophobia Featured in SLJ
Oakland Public Library’s Anti-Islamophobia Program Featured in School Library Journal: With anti-Muslim hate crimes up 50% in California, Oakland PL recently hosted a program to support Muslim library users, with its “Everyone Is Welcome Here” [continue reading]
Free Workshop at Oakland Library on Difficult Conversations with Kids
Free Workshop: Tough Stuff: Exploring Difficult Conversations with Kids How do we help children process and understand the current political and cultural climate? What skills do we need when approaching difficult conversations with young people? [continue reading]
Three Upcoming Author Events
The San Francisco Public Library presents “An Evening with Lois Lowry” on Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 6pm at the Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin St.. Lowry is a two-time Newbery [continue reading]
Not too late to register for Institute!
Workshop on Food Justice Resources for Libraries “Eat the Library: How Libraries and Food Justice Organizations Can Work Together to Make Food Healthy, Safe, and Available in Their Communities” is the title of the [continue reading]