Resources
Contact Us
Email bebs@cla-net.org.
Listserv
BCBS Listserv: Join to continue discussions, ask questions, and share ideas or resources.
BCBS AI Generative GPT
Explore the BCBS AI generative GPT to help you and your library team learn to build community-based summer services using the BCBS framework. The BCBS GPT covers foundational principles, skill development, reflective practices, and practical applications. You can also access a concept map, video, podcasts and a host of files related to all aspects of the BCBS framework to guide your journey.
Further Learning
- BCBS Podcast: Listen to this monthly podcast to explore more ideas related to community-centered libraries.
- BCBS National Website: View case studies and find more resources.
- Library Staff as Public Servants Field Guide: Learn essential tasks for working with the community to build community-based services.
Planning and Evaluation
- Child Opportunity Index: Explore datasets that measure the quality of local resources and conditions that inform a child’s future development.
- Community Centered Libraries: Find webinars and resources related to data practices to better serve the community.
- YALSA Asset Mapping Instructional Video: Gain an understanding of what asset mapping is and why it is important to building library services for your community.
Summer Resources
- First Partner’s Summer Book Club: Learn about the annual First Partner’s Summer Book Club which provides participating California libraries with a collection of books highlighting values all communities.
- iRead Summer Resource Guide: Find information related to the annual iRead Summer Resource guide and ordering process. All interested California Public Libraries can order a free resource guide from iRead.
- Lunch at the Library: Learn about the annual California State Library grant opportunity to provide summer meals to children 18 and under in low-income areas.