usucansponsor

[James Werle <>]

Everyone,

 

The Library of Congress has asked to partner with our community on an upcoming free distance learning program aimed at K-12 teachers, school librarians, and young adult and children’s librarians to celebrate “El Día de los Niños, El Día de los Libros”.  This should be a wonderful professional development opportunity with a wonderful set of participating authors and illustrators.  Full details on the program are below.  Please help us distribute this opportunity far and wide across your learning communities!  The event will have a live interactive videoconference dimension as well as a live web stream option.

 

Thank you,

James

 

James Werle

Executive Director, US UCAN Program

Internet2.edu

360-499-2069

 

April 30th, 2018
JOIN US FOR A FREE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAM

“El Día de los Niños, El Día de los Libros” 
“Day of the Child, Day of the Book”

3:00pm –  4:10pm EST

 

Program Audience
Public librarians, school librarians, K-12 teachers.

Program Details

Monday April 30^th has been traditionally celebrated as “Dia de los Ninos, Dia de los Libros!”, as championed by the American Library Association, to honor “the day of the child, the day of the book.”  The Educational Outreach team at the Library of Congress, in partnership with Internet2, is pleased invite public librarians, school librarians, and K-12 teachers from around the country to join us via interactive videoconference or live web stream to honor this day and its value in promoting diversity in children’s literature.  The conversation will take on the theme of librarians as heroes and how they have inspired and continue to facilitate diversity in books and other media.

 

The program will feature award-wining authors and an illustrator; an academic scholar and researcher; and a reference librarian from the LOC Hispanic division. 

 

Lee Ann Potter, Director of Educational Outreach at the Library of Congress will moderate a panel featuring Carole Boston Weatherford (author) and Eric Velasquez (illustrator) who will share background about their new book, Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library. 

Booklist says, “Lifelong bibliophile Arturo Schomburg would be pleased by Weatherford's prose-poem biography, which praises his passion for researching and collecting books, manuscripts, and other written materials relating black heritage and history.”

 

Velasquez, the son of Afro-Puerto Rican parents, was born in Spanish Harlem and grew up in Harlem. His dual heritage coupled with the experience of living in dual cultures in New York City gives Eric a rich and unique cultural perspective.  He will demonstrate his artistic considerations for his illustrations.  Carole will share her thoughts about Schomburg and why she chose to write about him.

 

Eric and Carole will be joined by Meg Medina who will feature her most recent bi-lingual book for young children, Mango, Abuela, and Me / Mango, Abela y yo.” Meg will discuss her literary portfolio as well as share examples from other contemporary authors of color, particularly those of blended Latinx heritage. 

 

Dr. Marilisa Jiménez Garcia, Assistant Professor of English and Latin American Studies at Lehigh University, will provide context to the discussion about the background and development of this literary genre, and Catalina Gomez, reference librarian from the Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress, will share related resources from the Library’s collections and ways to access them.

 

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

There are two ways for your organization to participate:  1) Register below as an interactive videoconferencing site.  This will allow you and your colleagues to talk live with the presenters and as though you were in the same room with them.  We will be using the cloud based videoconferencing platform called Bluejeans to host the interactive videoconference. 2) Tune into the live stream and watch the complete program online.  No registration is required for this option.

Interactive site

To participate as a live interactive site, please register here by Friday April 13, 2018:  https://goo.gl/forms/oySKSQMhUteWG4vz1  

 

The first ten classrooms and libraries to register and successfully test for each event will be accepted as an interactive site so register soon!

 

Technical and Program Requirements:

We will be using a cloud-based videoconferencing platform called BlueJeans.  Each site wishing to participate as an interactive videoconferencing site will need access to a videoconference system or web browser and internet connection (see full BlueJeans technical specs). Every interactive site must successfully complete a videoconferencing test at least 48 hours prior to the program start date. We hope all participating sites will invite colleagues from your institution and/or others to join this interactive program.

 

Live Stream

The program will also be live streamed at {URL Coming Soon!}.  No registration is required to watch the live stream.  Throughout the program, live stream viewers can tweet questions or comments to hashtag #diatogether.

Questions?

 

Questions about the program:  Please email:

Karen Jaffe

Technical Questions:  Please contact James Werle