* <https://calchallenge.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/001CovidDiaries_Final-1-1.png>* *Integrating California State Library’s COVID Diaries Project Into Your Online and Distance-friendly Summer Programs* California State Library's COVID Diaries is a statewide community history project that encourages Californians of all ages to share their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic through creative expression. COVID Diaries can take many forms – an essay, a story or letter, a poem, a song, a photo or drawing, a painting, sculpture, a short film, a blog or social media post. The possibilities are limitless! The Summer @ Your Library Program Committee has compiled programming ideas and resources gathered from library staff across California to assist libraries in using their summer reading and learning programs as creative outlets that provide a platform and repository for their community members' experiences during this unique moment in time. For COVID Diaries programming ideas visit: Summer @ Your Library *COVID Diaries Summer Programming Ideas and Resources <https://calchallenge.org/resources/summer-your-library-covid-19-resources/covid-diaries-summer-programming-ideas-and-resources/>* Beanstack, BookPoints and READsquared are making COVID Diaries badges available. These badges can be used to promote and encourage participation in creating and submitting diary entries to your own library archive/programs and/or to the California State Library’s COVID Diaries archive. California’s libraries are encouraged to: - offer programming that encourages community members to create a personal record of their quarantine experiences, - encourage community members to submit and share their written, audio and/or visual expressions to the State Library’s COVID Diaries submission page: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SD2DXNR - encourage community members to submit and share their written or visual expressions to your library’s own COVID archive, library website, social media sites, or other local submission sites. In addition to the Summer @ Your Library COVID Diaries Summer Programming Ideas and Resources <https://calchallenge.org/resources/summer-your-library-covid-19-resources/covid-diaries-summer-programming-ideas-and-resources/>, you can find additional COVID Diaries-themed programming ideas submitted by California library staff on the California State Library’s Online and Remote Programming Resources from California Public Libraries <https://www.library.ca.gov/services/remote-resources?>. Filter your search using the "COVID Diaries" Program Type. And please consider contributing your own great COVID Diaries programming ideas to the database <https://www.library.ca.gov/services/remote-resources?>! *Summer @ Your Library Program Committee* -- Summer @ Your Library Project California Library Association 626.204.4071 (CLA office) www.cla-net.org http://calchallenge.org/ Summer @ Your Library: Explore, Learn, Read, Connect is a program of the California Library Association, supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.