This year’s retreat will bring us to a quarter century of this wonderful and enriching event for youth services librarians!

The retreat will again be held at Camp Carol Joy Holling near Ashland, Nebraska. The dates are August 29-30 and the prices have remained the same as last year. 11 CE are available for attendance at both days.

The workshop topics will be:

• Recommended Children’s Books 2018-2019
• Copyright for Youth Services
• Intellectual Freedom and Youth
•  “Book Talk” your Favorite Ideas, Resources, and Solutions
• Recognizing Trauma in Children
• Storytelling: A Personal Touch in this Digital World
• YA Literature and the Teen Brain
• SPICE UP Your Programming for Young Children with SPANISH LANGUAGE EXPERIENCES
• Great Books for Tweens and Teens
• The Story of the Orphan Grain Train: An Example of Storytelling with Pippa White

While this retreat is designed especially for those who plan to stay overnight and attend both days, the following options are available:

• Both days with overnight, single occupancy, includes all meals ($160)
• Both days with overnight, double occupancy, includes all meals ($130)
• Both days with lunch ($105)
• Thursday only, includes lunch ($55)
• Friday only, includes lunch ($50)
• Wednesday evening arrival (+$80)

Registration is open until August 13th at http://bit.ly/2019YSR.

The agenda for the two day retreat is as follows:

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For the fourth year in a row, “School Librarians in the Digital Age” will be cosponsored by the Nebraska School Librarians Association and SELS. This year the location will be Room 101 at the new Don Clifton Professional Learning Center. Address: 710 Hill Street, Lincoln, NE. The room will open for registrants at 8:45 am, the event will begin at 9:00 am, and we will be done by 12:00 pm.

Please register at http://bit.ly/2019SchoolLib

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Come and join us! Get acquainted with 2020-2021 potential picture book nominees. We will have all of them available for you to read.

Friday, May 24, 9-noon
Seward Memorial Library
233 South 5th Street, Seward, NE

Register at http://bit.ly/2019GSower

The 2019 SELS Training Extravaganza will be held on May 10 at Seward Memorial Library from 9:30 – 3:00. We are excited to announce that Pat Leach will be our keynote speaker and her topic will be Easier and More Effective Advocacy: Telling Library Stories. Pat will guide you through crafting a library story (or two or three) that you can tell in a variety of situations for maximum impact. While we’ll rely on great information from the American Library Association, we’ll keep the focus on how you tell the story where you live and work.

The cost of the Extravaganza is only $25 and a catered meal is included. Register by May 2 at http://bit.ly/Extrav2019

The other sessions are as follows:

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Registration has been reopened for this workshop until April 8th. See the information from the previous post at http://libraries.ne.gov/sels/2018/12/13/developmentally-appropriate-practices-in-youth-services-programming/

If you already registered and are no longer able to attend, simply shoot Todd a quick email at todd.schlechte.sels@gmail.com.

Due to the weather forecast, the Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Youth Services workshop has postponed from Thursday, March 7 to a later date.

As soon as we have the new date, we will make that information available.

The Southeast Library System, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on consulting and training for library staff and boards in the southeast corner of Nebraska, is looking for a part-time administrative assistant.  This position is for 12.5 hours weekly and the schedule for this position is flexible during our usual business hours (9:00 am – 5:00 pm).

Primary Duties of this position:

• Customer Service Contact
  During their shifts, the Administrative Assistant is the primary contact for incoming phone calls and greeting people coming into the office. When the Executive Director & Assistant Director are both away from the office, this position is expected to be able to answer basic questions.
• System Bookkeeper
  This position will pay bills as approved by Executive Director, prepare payroll, request quarterly funding from Nebraska Library Commission, prepare bank deposits, monitor budget statements, work with system accountant and auditor, prepare materials for year-end audit, work with Executive Director and Executive Committee to prepare annual budget for approval by board, file appropriate federal and state tax forms.
• Provide circulation services to member libraries
  This position is the primary contact for the SELS book kit program for member libraries. They will place reservations for kits, maintain records on circulation, check out and mail books to requesting libraries, check in returned kits, maintain notification lists for journal article request service, distribute table of contents to those interested, fulfill article requests.
• General Clerical Duties
  Maintain office supplies, tidy office suite, and other such tasks.

We are looking for candidates with the following preferred attributes:

• Professional, pleasant, & courteous communication style.
• Basic computer literacy skills, especially email, Microsoft Excel, document scanning, and QuickBooks.
• Experience with libraries and/or non-profit organizations.

Beginning wage: $10 per hour

To apply, provide resume to scott.childers.sels@gmail.com . Consideration begins Nov 26.