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ACL Mini-Grant Report from Oakland Public

  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]

Published on Nov 20, 2019
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: News, Programming Ideas, STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering & Math
Tags: Oakland Public Library

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]

Published on Nov 19, 2019
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: News, Professional Development
Tags: Oakland Public Library

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]

Published on Dec 20, 2017
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: News
Tags: Oakland Public Library

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]

Published on Oct 27, 2017
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: News
Tags: Oakland Public Library, School Library Journal

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]

Published on May 1, 2017
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: News, Professional Development
Tags: Oakland Public Library

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]

Published on Sep 28, 2012
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: News
Tags: A Wrinkle in Time, Author Events, Lois Lowry, Oakland Public Library, Rita Williams-Garcia, San Francisco Public Library

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]

Published on Mar 17, 2012
Posted by: pennypeck
Categories: ACL Events
Tags: Community, Food, Justice, Oakland Public Library

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