Hi Gail,
Connie Williams and I will be doing an interactive workshop on teaching the census later this month.
Meanwhile here’s a piece on instructional ideas I wrote for School Library Connection
Abilock, Debbie. "Adding Friction. A Librarian Writes, 'I'm Wondering if I Should Start to Think about How to Teach the 2020 Census?'." School Library Connection, July 2019, schoollibraryconnection.com/Home/Display/2214598.
best,
debbie
Debbie Abilock
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Smart tools, smart research, smart teaching
Abilock, Debbie. “From a Foot in the Door to Being There: Leadership along a Professional Development Continuum.” Libraries Unlimited-ABC CLIO, 2017.
Sample SLC Friction column
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Subject: [CASL-L] Census resources for libraries
Good afternoon,
Yesterday we held our first CT Library Census Conversations workshop with U.S. Census Partner Specialist Eva Bunnell at the Waterford Public Library. It was a great session with lots of information for libraries and questions answered. While the workshop was happening, a new video was just released on how to complete the questionnaire online:
2020 Census Internet State Response Video: https://youtu.be/fXg1_1HHKzA
Questions and Answers for Stakeholders Supporting the 2020 Census (shows what libraries can and can’t do when helping the public)
https://2020census.gov/content/dam/2020census/materials/partners/2019-10/partners-self-response.pdf
The https://2020census.gov/ site has lots of fact sheets, videos, posters, and other outreach materials to special segments of your populations.
Outreach materials can be found at https://2020census.gov/en/partners/outreach-materials.html including the following:
Census handouts for libraries
Sample questionnaire
We were reminded about a fun picture book called Tricking the Tallyman which is about the first census in 1790. We have 2 copies of this book at the Middletown Library Service Center.
If you have not had a chance to sign up for one for one of the CT Library Census Conversations workshops for library staff yet, please go to the Continuing Ed calendar at https://cslib.libcal.com/ and sign up. They are being held on Tuesdays in January and February at various regions in the state.
Best,
Gail
Gail Hurley | Library Development Consultant, Division of Library Development | Gail.Hurley@ct.gov | Office: (860) 704-2222
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