Cognotes 2018 Annual Conference Highlights - 11

2018 ANNUAL HIGHLIGHTS

COGNOTES

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Celebrating Grand Families Telling Our Stories
Karen Lemmons, chair of the 2018
Reading is Grand! Celebrating GrandFamilies Telling Our Stories @ Your Library
selection committee, announced that four
libraries will receive the 2018 Reading is
Grand! grant. Reading is Grand! celebrates
the important role African American
grandparents and older adults play in the
lives of children. It is through their infinite
wisdom and experience that children learn
the unique cultural and familial values that
help them grow into valuable contributors
to the community.
The grant-winning libraries - Broward
County Library, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Kinard
Elementary School, Clover, S.C.; Middle
College High School, Memphis, Tenn.; and
Uniondale Public Library, Uniondale, N.Y. -
were selected based on the level of creativity
and originality of program criteria, action
plans, level of involvement of grandparents
in the activities, and impact of the program
on the community.
Winning Programs
Broward County Library
The theme, "Cooking with Carver Ranches: History, Literacy, and Love @ the Library"
is a months-long new initiative of the Carver
Ranches Library in partnership with the
City of West Park. The first phase of this
initiative will take place during the month of
September in celebration of Grand Families
and Grandparents Day. Beginning September
4, and for the following three weeks, preschool age children and grandparents will
read books together. Grandparents will share
stories of growing up in the Carver Ranches
Community as well as share a favorite recipe
from their childhood. This interaction will
continue throughout the second phase, in

JCLC to Host
National
Conference
The Joint Council of Librarians of Color
(JCLC) will host the 3rd National Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, "Gathering all
Peoples: Embracing Culture & Community,"
September 26-30, 2018, in Albuquerque,
N.M. This conference is open to all library
staff, students, influencers, and decision-makers interested in exploring inclusive policies,
practices, and issues of diversity in libraries
and how they affect the ethnic communities
who use library and information services.
On June 23, the Council hosted a social
and fundraising reception, which raised over
$8,000. The group hopes to reach its $25,000
goal before the conference in September.
Donations can be made by check or online
via Crowdrise, https://www.crowdrise.com/o/
en/team/jclc-2018-conference.
Exhibitor and sponsorship information
is available by contacting jclc2018exhibits@
gmail.com. Individual supporters may send
their donations to Dora Ho, Treasurer, JCLC
Inc., P.O. Box 71644, Los Angeles, CA
90071-0644. For more information about
the upcoming conference, please visit: http://
www.jclcinc.org/conference/2018/.
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which the grandparents and youth together
will prepare the grandparents' recipes. The
recipes and stories will be compiled into a
story/cookbook.
Kinard Elementary School
The theme, "Mawmaw & Pawpaw, You're
Telling Me a Story!," begins September 10,
with the Mayor of Clover issuing a proclamation declaring Grandparents Week at
Kinard Elementary School. During that
week, elementary students will use iMovie
to introduce their Mawmaws and Pawpaws
sharing life stories. Other activities include
a grandparents' read-a-thon in the library;
Mawmaw's favorite recipe day, in which students will produce a Mawmaw's Memories
Cookbook. The culminating activity will be
breakfast with the grandparents.

Middle College High School
The theme, "March On! Memphis! (Remembering the 1968 Sanitation Strike), begins in August. All the students from Middle
College High School will read the book,
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The
Sanitation Strike of 1968. After reading the
book, students will write a personal literary
response to the book. In September, during
a school-wide assembly, students will hear
a guest panel of five grandparents and one
Memphis sanitation worker discuss their
memories of the Memphis strike, the personal
impact of King's Mountaintop speech, and
his assassination. Questions and answers will
follow the presentation and students will
present their written reflections on the 1968
strike and King.

Uniondale Public Library
"Reading is Grand: Bridging the Generations to Celebrate African American
Heritage" is a three-part series which will
bring together grandchildren and their
grandparents so that these children can learn
about and document their family history,
culture, and traditions. The first part will be
an intergenerational fundamental genealogy
workshop. The second part will be a freedom
quilt craft workshop in which grandparents
will work with their grandchildren to make
"no sew" freedom quilts. The culminating
activity will be a food heritage celebration
and intergenerational dialogue in which
grandparents and their grandchildren will
discuss the importance of knowing one's
heritage, while participating in a communal
dining experience.

ALA
MIDWINTER Meeting & Exhibits
JANUARY 25-29, 2019

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September 12, 2018
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