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Thank you to all libraries that applied for the Digital Navigator program The Digital Navigators of the Hudson Valley is a new program by which participants from libraries and community-based organizations will be trained to become trusted guides who assist community members in accessing and using technology.
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Newbery Award Winner: The Last Cuentista
by Donna Barba Higuera
"Había una vez...There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children--among them Petra and her family--have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet--and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard--or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, anyhope for our future. Can she make them live again?"
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Caldecott Award Winner: Watercress
by Andrea Wang
A little girl traveling through Ohio in an old car helps her family collect muddy, snail-covered watercress from a ditch in the wild before learning the story of her immigrant heritage and how foraging for fresh food helps her loved ones stay together. Illustrations.
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Printz Award Winner: Firekeeper's Daughter
by Angeline Boulley
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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A New Member of the Family
Congratulations to Jen Park, RCLS Community Engagement and Talent Development Specialist, who gave birth to a healthy baby boy on January 22, 2022. We are excited to welcome a new reader into the world! Jen will be out of the office until early April.
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Member Library COVID Status The Member Library COVID Status page of the RCLS website has been updated. If you would like to know your neighboring library's hours and services, click here. To update your library's status, contact Eileen Acosta at eacosta@rcls.org
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RCLS Blood Drive Thursday, February 24, 2022 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM To schedule an appointment please call 1-800-RED CROSS or visit redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code: RCLSNY
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Internet LOL
Did you find something funny online that library staff can relate to? Now accepting library humor submissions to end our newsletter with a smile.
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Share your library news with the RCLS News. Send your article to jgoldfarb@rcls.org.
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