In these times, it’s more important than ever to stand together and let our voices be heard. Please take a minute to look at this statement sent out to all SCLA members on March 24.

Another way to get involved is to check out the State Budget Campaign. Share this link with family and friends to make sure all voices are heard before the NYS Budget is finalized on April 1. https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23621

To access the links in the statement, click on the image for a PDF version with live links or check out the official statement on SCLA’s homepage: scla.net

The YASD 2025 Annual Fran Romer Book Talk will be happening on Thursday, April 10 from 10am-1pm at the Patchogue-Medford Carnegie Teen Center!

Join guest speaker Jen Calonita, author of Fairy Godmother: An Enchanter’s Tale, 12 to 22, and the upcoming Isle of Ever to discuss this year’s theme: Twisted Tales. Win raffles and earn CEU’s! Lunch will be served.

When registering, please be sure to include your top two discussion group choices.

See the attached flyer for more information.

Registration closes on Tuesday, April 1.

Join Kymberlee Powe to learn how to perform a diversity audit on your library collection. Kym shares what a diversity audit is, why we should audit our collections, why the structure of the publishing industry may make it difficult to cultivate inclusivity, and most importantly, why it’s important to build collections that are diverse AND inclusive.

Kymberlee Powe (she/her) is the Children and Young Adult Consultant with the Connecticut State Library. Kym specializes in youth services and literary equity and has presented at various conferences including, the American Library Association Annual Conference, the Connected Learning Summit, Niche Academy, and she has spoken for multiple School Library Journal/ Library Journal professional development courses. In 2023 Kym was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker.

Register Here

Calling all teen librarians!! YASD is looking for submissions for the new and improved Teen Talk, YASD’s quarterly newsletter sent out so we can see all the cool stuff happening in teen departments around the county. For our first issue of 2025, we are looking for submissions on the following topics: 

Program Highlights – Have you or a colleague recently ran a teen/tween program that you want to brag about and let other librarians see your amazing work? Send us a quick write up, around 5-10 sentences, describing the event and some pictures to be featured in the newsletter. 

Book Displays – Same idea as the program highlights. Only this time, we want to see your shefies! Whether it was a holiday display, something topical or a theme truly unique to you, snap a pic to inspire other teen librarians! 

What You’re Reading – Send us reading suggestions! Whether it’s a book you’re currently reading, or something you can’t wait to read – we want to know about it! 

New Faces in the Teen Department – Are you a new teen librarian? Have you hired a new teen librarian? If the answer is yes, now’s the time to introduce yourself/them to YASD! Send us an email with some fun facts about yourself so we can all say hi and welcome you to the group! 

However, if you have any other burning articles/write up suggestions, we are open to them! Just send us an email and we can chat! 

All submissions must be received by February 28. 2025, in order to be included in our Spring Newsletter.  All submissions can be emailed to youngadultsd@gmail.com! 

If you have any questions, please email Liz Hughes, eah1106@gmail.com, for more info! 

Get to know some of the 2025 YASD Board Members at this year’s Meet SCLA event. Find out what this year’s board is looking to do and give us some ideas of what you hope to see. The first 50 people who sign up will receive a free professional headshot!