Dear California Library Community: Please join us for an upcoming CLA Summer @ Your Library workshop entitled, "Summer @ Your Library Is Designed to Reach and Engage Everyone." It will be held at the Berkeley Central Public Library on *Monday, March 9th, 2020 from 10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.* The workshop will cover: - How to reach people who have not previously taken part in your library’s summer programs. - How to create a summer at your library that offers something for all ages and the many demographic groups in your community. - How to design programs that are responsive to the cultures, languages, abilities, and other diversities in your communities. - How to utilize the Summer @ Your Library Quality Principles assessment tool to ensure that strategies for outreach to new library users become a part of your annual summer program planning. The workshop will introduce, and focus on, Summer @ Your Library’s Quality Principle #4: Summer @ Your Library Is Designed to Reach and Engage Everyone. This workshop will bring library staff together for discussions and presentations around summer programming, outreach strategies, and best practices. The day will focus on helping you plan, assess, and improve your summer reading and learning programs in order to reach and engage a broader, more diverse group of library users. You will hear from colleagues already implementing these principles, and you’ll develop strategies for implementing and achieving these principles in your own libraries. *Funds are available to support participant travel to and from the workshop.Backfill funds are available to cover desk hours during the time that library staff are attending the workshop*. **Please Note:* This workshop, Summer @ Your Library is Designed to Reach and Engage Everyone, was offered as a CLA pre-conference in Pasadena, CA on October 24th, 2019. Though presenters may differ, the workshop content will be the same. If you attended the pre-conference, *this workshop will be duplication.* *For more information on this workshop and to register, please visit:* *https://calchallenge.org/workshops/march-9-2020-summer-your-library-is-designed-to-reach-and-engage-everyone-workshop/ <https://calchallenge.org/workshops/march-9-2020-summer-your-library-is-designed-to-reach-and-engage-everyone-workshop/> * We look forward to seeing you in Berkeley! Holly Please forgive for cross posting -- Holly Macriss California Library Association Programs Associate - Summer @ Your Library: Explore, Learn, Read, Connect CLA Interest Groups and Awards Coordinator 916.834.4125 (cell), 626.204.4071 (CLA office) hmacriss@cla-net.org www.cla-net.org lunchatthelibrary.org http://calchallenge.org/