[kids-lib] Friday, February 9th Shoutout

[BERGQUIST Greta E * SLO]

Hello everyone,

Happy Lunar New Year! If you are celebrating this weekend, I hope you have as much fun as it looks like folks had in Lake Oswego this week<https://www.facebook.com/LOLibrary/posts/pfbid0cDXnczWyVoa6BMJgzqjHfsWsi6iiPaR4Ppdic5xonnd1nP3TPNQTW4ngU4cD6YXpl>.

It was a great week for early literacy around Oregon this week - If you haven't heard OPB's highlight of kids' spaces, have a listen<https://www.opb.org/article/2024/02/05/how-some-northwest-libraries-are-meeting-the-needs-of-kids-in-their-communities/>! I'm grateful for these voices advocating for play spaces for families and kids in our libraries. There are so few free spaces for families to play together - it's so exciting to have this be a focus in expanding library buildings to foster early literacy. Sweet Home has a fun new playing addition to their kids' space, with their pillow fort<https://www.facebook.com/SweetHomePublicLibrary/posts/pfbid022Yk9DsChtSbTjLTXyAZfA9UkQrJj6ehzoHZax1ArFbkcNjT7r6dwDawJfZreXqRMl>. And Curry Public Library District is celebrating new board books<https://www.facebook.com/currypubliclibrary/posts/pfbid02VVRxuNReFSU938uKZMFcJBD9DdeAiesgXecbSgcNMm8enJQpj2SKeHncZgToqEVGl>.

If you listen to the OPB story, you'll hear about teens and library spaces too. I really appreciated all the folks this week who joined Tamara Ottum and I at information sessions about the Teen Internship Grant<https://libguides.osl.state.or.us/lstagrants/teeninterns>. Applications are due next Thursday and we hope to see yours - please let us know if you have questions. Have a good weekend!

Best,
Greta

Greta Bergquist, MLIS, MAT (she/her/hers)
Youth Services Consultant
State Library of Oregon
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