Sunshine & Stories is a Colorado State Library podcast dedicated to all things summer in public libraries. During our 2024-25 season, keep an eye out for new episodes twice a month from August to May. We'll explore topics like performers, incentives, outreach, volunteers, capturing impact, and many more ideas related to designing a summer public library program for your whole community (adults included!). Featuring interviews with other Colorado State Library staff and ideas from Colorado li ...
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Ep. 109 Artful Play for Itty Bitties & Kids
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Sunshine and Stories Episode 109: Artful Play for Itty Bitties & Kids Episode Summary: Kate Compton, Early Literacy Consultant at the Colorado State Library, chats with all of us about her ideas for art-themed programming for our youngest library friends. Join her for a quick review of developmental stages for children 0 to 8 years old and a discus…
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Ep. 108 Performers, Experts, & Marketing, Oh My!
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Sunshine and Stories Episode 108: Performers, Experts, & Marketing, Oh My! Episode Summary: Kate and Kate share their own experiences working with performers and experts to provide a variety of public library programs not only during the summertime, but throughout the year. They also chat marketing strategies as well as tips and tricks they’ve pick…
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Ep. 107 The Nuts & Bolts of CSLP and CSL Summer Resources
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Sunshine and Stories Episode 107: The Nuts & Bolts of CSLP and CSL Summer Resources Episode Summary: The Collaborative Summer Library Program’s 2025 program manual is live! So we’re digging into all the resources CSLP and the Colorado State Library (CSL) have available to help you plan next summer’s library program in and with your community. Manua…
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Ep. 106 Hispanohablante Communities & Your Library
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Sunshine and Stories Episode 106: Hispanohablante Communities & Your Library Episode Summary: The Kates were thrilled to have Cristy Moran, Adult Library Services Senior Consultant at the Colorado State Library join them today to talk about summer library services and Spanish-speakers in our communities. Kate, Kate, & Cristy sat down to talk about …
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Ep. 105 To Prize or Not to Prize
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Sunshine and Stories Episode 105: To Prize or Not to Prize Episode Summary: This week Kate & Kate talk summer library program tracking strategies, as well as the pros and cons of offering different types of incentives during the summer. They also explore how both tracking strategies and incentives programs might connect to and support the outcomes …
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Ep. 104 Perfect Summer Partners
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Sunshine and Stories Episode 104: Perfect Summer Partners Episode Summary: Special guest, Suzi Tonini, Colorado’s School Library Leadership Consultant, joins Kate Compton to chat about the school library landscape in our state and how public library professionals can partner with school library professionals for summer and beyond. If you’d like to …
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Ep. 103 The Art of Capturing Impact
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Sunshine and Stories Episode 103: The Art of Capturing Impact Episode Summary: What happens when one Kate asks another Kate what she thinks about how we capture the impact of what happens during our summer library programs? A whole lot of reflecting on why capturing impact might be meaningful to us, what playful ways might be out there to collect t…
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Ep. 102 The Why of Summer
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Sunshine and Stories Episode 102: The Why of Summer Episode Summary: Join Kate and Kate as they discuss why we might want to ask ourselves “Why do we do summer programming?” They also consider how reflecting deeply on our why as well as engaging with our communities of service around their summer needs may lead us to discover what’s really working …
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Ep. 101 Creative Takes on Coloring Our World
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Sunshine & Stories Episode 101: Creative Takes on Coloring Our World Episode Summary: The Colorado State Library's Youth and Family Services Team, Kate Brunner and Kate Compton, explore all the different ways they can think of to interpret the upcoming 2025 Collaborative Summer Library Program slogan, “Color Our World” as well as the theme of art a…
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