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Career Online High School Grants available to Public Libraries
Purpose: The Career Online High School (COHS) program enables public libraries to provide an online high school diploma program and career certificate to California adults who are not high school graduates. COHS is provided at […]
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California State Library 2023 Annual Report Released
Our Annual Report is available online now! We had a busy 2023, and we’re looking forward to spending the rest of 2024 and beyond serving the people of California. Read the report at library.ca.gov/press!
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Author Aida Salazar visits Wawona K-8 School in Fresno
Wawona K-8 School played host to Oakland-based Author Aida Salazar. Given that it is School Library Month, her visit is visiting many schools and libraries presenting her latest work, “Ultraviolet” to the middle school students […]
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The Ten Most Banned Books of 2023
The American Library Association (ALA) has released its list of the ten most banned books for last year. The numbers of books that are banned each year continues to rise. The short version: there was […]
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Raymond Pun elected 2024-2025 ALA President Elect
From an ALA email announcement: “Raymond Pun, Academic and Research Librarian at the Alder Graduate School of Education in California, has been elected 2024-2025 president-elect of the American Library Association (ALA) by ALA members. He […]
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Trailblazers in Conversation with Skye Patrick and Mychal Threets
To celebrate National Library Week, the Los Angeles County Library is offering an inspiring conversation with Michael Threets and LACL Director Skye Patrick about Mychal’s life in libraries and his emergence on social media. “Calling […]
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Today is the Right to Read Day sponsored by ALA
The American Library Association committed itself in 2023 to combat the number of book bans by instituting a Right to Read Day. Now, in 2024, with the significant uptick in book bans in 2024, they […]
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California Department of Education Offers Professional Learning
The CDE Online School Library Survey is open. It is password protected, and the Password is the same as previous years, @YourLibrary, typed just as you see it. News and Media Literacy for All Session 7: English Language Arts […]