Resources
Contact Us
Email the BEBS Team at bebs@cla-net.org.
Listserv
BEBS Listserv: Join to continue discussions, ask questions, and share ideas or resources.
BEBS AI Generative GPT
Explore the BEBS AI generative GPT to help you and your library team learn to build equitable summer services using the BEBS framework. The BEBS equity-focused GPT covers foundational equity principles, skill development, reflective practices, and practical applications. You can also access a concept map, video, equity podcasts and a host of files related to all aspects of the BEBS framework to guide your journey.”
Further Learning
- BEBS Podcast: Listen to this monthly podcast to explore more ideas related to equity in libraries.
- BEBS National Website: View case studies and find more equity resources.
- California State Library Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Webpage: Find webinars and toolkits related to equity, diversity, and inclusion in library services.
- Community Toolbox: Find toolkits and articles related to assessing community needs, developing partnerships, and working with the community to reach shared equity-based goals.
- Library Staff as Public Servants Field Guide: Learn essential tasks for working with the community to build equity-based services.
- Project READY: Reimagining Equity & Access for Diverse Youth: Review professional development modules for library staff interested in improving their knowledge about race and racism, racial equity, and culturally sustaining pedagogy.
- Targeted Universalism: Learn about creating and building targeted solutions to community goals.
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 equitable 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 related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- 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.