May 3, 2023 Dear Jones Community, Blueprint Banned Book Conversations The Library Ambassadors and Blueprint are teaming up to create student podcasts to draw attention to specific books that have been challenged and/or removed from schools and libraries in recent years. Check out the first two podcasts!!! Flamer by Mike Curato Podcast Maus by Art Spiegelman Podcast Students are welcome to select and read a widely challenged book and to collaborate with a journalist to explore what content is being challenged and to reflect on the consequences of removing these books in many communities. Click to sign up to be a part of this effort! ATTN: SENIORS Seniors must return or pay for all library books prior to graduation. The library does not impose fines for late book returns, but all seniors have to return their library books or pay the replacement costs before graduation. Identify the books checked out to you!
One Summer Chicago brings together government institutions, community-based organizations and companies to offer employment and internship opportunities to youth and young adults ages 14 to 24. Click here for more information. Among the opportunities are Paid Summer Library Internships for Teens at Chicago Public Library! SYNC Free Audiobooks for TEENS 2023 HAS STARTED! TAKE ACTION RIGHT AWAY TO DOWNLOAD THIS WEEK’S TITLES!! FOURTEEN WEEKS/TWENTY-EIGHT TITLES you can keep forever!! SYNC is a program that gives away two complete audiobook downloads per week for 14 weeks–a current Young Adult title paired thematically with a Classic or Required Summer Reading title–each week to listeners ages 13+ from April 27 to August 20, 2023! You can keep the eAudiobooks forever! Main Page YouTube video Visit SYNC to Register for SYNC and to sign up for weekly Title Alerts to notify you when each week’s thematically paired eAudiobooks become available. Click to explore all 28 titles. Listen to the books with Sora, the student reading app from OverDrive. THIS PROGRAM IS GOLD and it’s never too late to sign up! Explore AMAZING Virtual Field Trips - local, national, and international, curated by Brian Andrusyk, School Librarian at IC Catholic Prep's Dyer Family Resource Center. @ICCPLibrarian Great for rainy days!!! ‘Gender Queer’ Tops Library Group’s List of Challenged Books Italie, Hillel. “'Gender Queer' Tops Library Group's List of Challenged Books.” AP NEWS, Associated Press, 24 Apr. 2023, https://apnews.com/article/most-challenged-books-2022-list-c39af4320afb16525cb0fd911c9ffed4. Unite Against Book Bans celebrated the inaugural Right to Read Day on Monday, April 24. All across the country, readers, advocates, and library lovers took action to protect their right to read freely. On the same day, the American Library Association released its list of the Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022, which put on display what we already knew - that the books being most targeted for censorship are those written by or about LGBTQIA+ people and people of color. Click here to identify valuable actions you can take to fight against book banning in the United States. The Fight for the American Public Library: Library boards, school boards and legislatures are becoming battlegrounds in a push to censor books. Communities are fighting back. Check out this fascinating, well-formatted, and comprehensive round-up of what’s going on!! Aberg-Riger, Ariel. “How to Protect Your Local Library from Book Ban Campaigns.” Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg, 26 Apr. 2023, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-26/how-to-protect-your-local-library-from-book-ban-campaigns. Media Literacy: News Literacy Project Podcast Will chatbots change how journalism is practiced? Guest Madhumita Murgia, the first artificial intelligence editor at the Financial Times in London, speaks with NLP’s Darragh Worland talk about how generative AI is changing journalism. Media Literacy: Teens and Mental Health: How Girls Really Feel About Social Media This new report from CommonSenseMedia gives us a comprehensive, up-to-date road map to teen girls' online lives—with commentary straight from the girls themselves. Where do they spend their time online, and what do they come across while they are there? And do they believe any platforms are worse offenders than others when it comes to their mental health? Main Page Read the Report Read the Infographic Association of Latin American Students (ALAS): Unidad Please join us on May 5, 2023, for the 22nd Annual ALAS Fest! The night of celebration will start with a showcase of Latino culture and the talents of Jones Latino students. Enjoy beautiful performances by Jones Mariachi Aguilas, bachata and reggaeton dancing from JCP Baile Latiné, dances choreographed and performed by JCP Folklorico Ensemble, and more. Afterward, there will be a dinner for all guests to enjoy food and dancing! Ticket presales continue all week during Ac Lab and after school in the lobby. Pre-sale tickets for students and faculty are $5.00 and $7.00 for guests outside of Jones. Tickets at the door are $7.00 for students and faculty and $10.00 for guests outside of Jones. Cash only accepted. Jones Asian American Club announces its annual showcase: "Sharing Serendipity" in the Robin Bennett Theatre Thursday, May 11, 4:00-6:00 PM (dress rehearsal). Jones students only $4.00 *bring id* Friday, May 12, 6:00-9:00 PM. Presale: $7.00; $10.00 at the door Presale tickets can be purchased online or from board members at a discounted price! Online reservations can be found in the link in our bio or by scanning the QR code. Information From the Jones Compost Team! Check out THIS PADLET replete with great summer opportunities for teens, including jobs, internships, programs, entertaining and enriching opportunities, and much more! We CPS high school librarians will continue to populate this Padlet through the end of the school year. Please let me know of other great opportunities that I can add to the list!! Huge thanks to Ms. Lori Kunc, the fabulous library media specialist at Carl Schurz High School in the Irving Park neighborhood, for initiating this collaboration.
Just a few weeks more, y’all! Hang in there! Mr. Feeley, School Librarian [email protected] jcplibrary.weebly.com My recent reads Read current and past library newsletters on the Keeping Up With the Jones Library blog Comments are closed.
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