Summer Reading Club is looming and libraries across the country are re-imagining what this programming can look like in a physically distanced, no-personal-contact world. Staff at member libraries and Parkland headquarters are working together, within and outside our system, to explore innovative ways of engaging children and keeping up their …
With the increase in virtual programming many people are in un charted territory when it comes to statistics and tracking. Libraries, while we love words, we thrive off numbers, and tracking social media/digital engagement is a bit more complicated than counting physical program attendance. While all social media platforms have …
The Association of Canadian Publishers has formed the Read Aloud Canadian Books Program with Access Copyright. They issued a statement about their new program to allow libraries and educators to do licensed virtual story times. They have not discussed how this impacts the private agreements and terms that individual libraries …