Sealaska Heritage Institute

Sealaska Heritage Institute—in partnership with the Alaska Library Association, the Haines Borough School District Library, the Juneau Public Libraries, the Petersburg Public Library, the Sitka Public Library, the Alaska State Library, Montana State University's Tribal College Librarians Professional Development Institute, and the Association for Rural and Small Libraries—will develop culturally responsive early literacy programming for children and learning resources for librarians. During the two-year Raven Reads at the Library Toolkit project, the team will: 1) create a Cultural Responsiveness Organizational Self-Assessment for Libraries; 2) produce, test, and refine two asynchronous e-Learning modules for library staff; 3) co-design, deliver, and refine activity plans for nine Raven Reads at the Library Family Literacy Events; 4) develop the Raven Reads at the Library Toolkit, which will have culturally responsive early literacy tools, videos, and linguistic resources; 5) deliver a train-the-trainer workshop for Alaska's public libraries and for the nation's tribal college libraries; and 6) disseminate the toolkit more broadly. Project beneficiaries include public librarians who will have access to the resources to deliver Raven Reads at the Library programming and the children who will participate in the programs.