Resource: How to Manage Your Makerspace During the 2020 Pandemic

From Demco Blog | August 10, 2020

These are unprecedented and unpredictable times in education right now. Educators and librarians are having to quickly innovate and adapt to find ways to continue supporting our students while maintaining health and safety. While makerspaces thrive on in-person collaboration and sharing, it is still possible to continue supporting maker learning in a socially distanced or virtual scenario. But it does take a little more planning and some ingenuity to make it work....

Click here to read the full article on Demco's blog

Resource: With Remote Learning Still the Norm, Publishers Extend Permissions for Read Alouds

From School Library Journal | August 5, 2020



With remote learning looking like the state of play this fall, publishers have extended permissions for read alouds of their titles.

To help educators and librarians engaged in online learning and storytimes held via Zoom and other virtual means, many publishers relaxed copyright restriction on their works at the start of the pandemic.

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Resource: Future Ready Librarians - Reopening and Return to Learn Padlet

Shannon McClintock Miller, of the Library Voice blog and Future Ready Librarians (FRL) Spokesperson, shared the following Padlet as part of the July 29th FRL webinar "Creating Return to Learn Plans for Your Library". The included articles, templates and charts will be incredibly helpful as our Tulare and Kings County school sites prepare for the upcoming school year.

https://padlet.com/shannonmmiller/reopeningandreturntolearnplans