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As you prepare for this new school year, have you... Become acquainted with the  Starting Well 2020 page  from the South Dakota Department of Education? This is loaded with information for South Dakota schools as they return to school during pandemic circumstances. Reviewed the resources, updates, and reopening guidance specific to SD school libraries at  Starting Well 2020: A Guide for School Libraries  &  Newest Updates on School Libraries & COVID-19 Resource Guide . Introduced yourself to new staff in person and by email? Don't forget to share critical services and resources while keeping it short and simple. New staff are already overwhelmed, right? Reached out to staff in a staff meeting to communicate the library's plan to address COVID-19. Share critical resources, changes in programming, Makerspaces, schedule changes, updates, etc. Touched base with your administrator IN PERSON? Created your back-to-school newsletter with vital resources for stud...

To assist school library staff as they prepare for the 2020-21 school year, the SD State Library, in partnership with the SD Department of Education, has created a document titled Starting Well 2020: A Guide for School Libraries . The document contains questions and considerations intended to help school librarians and administrators think about from-the-library and in-the-library adaptations that may be needed for face-to-face learning, distance learning, or a hybrid of the two. Locate this document on the Starting Well page , in the Toolkit for Schools, under the General Guidance heading.  The State Library has also linked on the  COVID-19: Information for SD School Libraries page.

I’ve created a page on our LibGuides just for school librarians as they do their thing and support other educators during this stressful time of the CoVID-19 outbreak. It’s a living webpage so know it will expand and contract as we go. Feel free to bookmark and share. Here’s the short link: https://bit.ly/sdschlibcovid19 This link lives in our LibGuides and, so far, has the following sections: SDSL Databases for K-12 Digital Books Read-Alouds & Fair Use Digital Learning Tools Freebies from Publishers & Vendors Professional Time Cleaning