Our Partners

School Life – Brag Tags

CSLP and School Life share the belief that reading is the key to educational and developmental success. School Life helps build strong independent reading habits by motivating, encouraging, and recognizing reading goals and achievements with Brag Tags®. For 25 years, educators have used Brag Tags by School Life with great success. Students are eager to earn and collect Brag Tags to wear on a ball chain necklace or hang from backpacks as a proud symbol of accomplishment.

Read With Jenna

Read With Jenna is the NBC Today show’s monthly book club. Read With Jenna Jr and CSLP are partnering for the summer to encourage kids to check out a book and start reading! Jenna Bush Hager is honored to be this year’s Summer Reading Champion and promises to encourage library visits and beach reading, all summer long!  Learn more about #ReadWithJenna and find our #ReadWithJennaJr booklist by going to: https://www.today.com/read-with-jenna.

Follett Content Solutions 

Follett Content Solutions partners with public libraries to strengthen literacy, spark curiosity, and support reading engagement across their communities. With more than 150 years of trusted library experience, Follett Content brings the scale, insight, and reliability libraries need to curate impactful collections for young readers and families. Through Titlewave®, public libraries can easily discover and select from millions of in‑stock titles from thousands of publisher partners, including durable, library‑bound options designed for heavy use. With dependable turnaround that helps libraries prepare programs on time, thoughtful curation, and a shared commitment to access and lifelong learning, Follett Content supports impactful summer reading and meaningful year‑round engagement. Learn more here.

Hoopla/Midwest Tape

hoopla Digital brings the public library to your fingertips 24/7 with a valid library card. hoopla is the digital service of Midwest Tape, a leading provider of media products and services to public libraries. CSLP makes its themed book lists available to library patrons who use hoopla. Libraries can easily purchase those summer reading materials via hoopla Flex to encourage reading at all levels, and patrons can also find a wealth of engaging, educational content available with no holds and no waiting via hoopla Instant.

Midwest Tape/hoopla was the first-ever sponsor of our 2024 Summer Symposium, allowing library staff across the country to freely access high-quality professional development related to delivering inclusive summer programs.

Library Speakers Consortium

The Library Speakers Consortium believes in the power of collaboration.  Library Speakers Consortium has more than 400 member library systems which each range in size from less than 100 to more than 2 million patrons.  By pooling the resources of hundreds of library systems, they dramatically expand access to author programs for all patrons.  CSLP’s members libraries can get access to selected summer events for free thanks the generosity of this organization.

Nebraska Extension Partner Organization

Nebraska Extension’s STEAM Imagination Guide program provides caregivers (early childhood professionals and parents) with books, guided questions, and expanded learning resources to support literacy and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) development, enhance relationships, and strengthen connections with their local library.

Each year, the guides align with the Collaborative Summer Library Program’s annual theme and consistently include conversation starters, STEAM connections, a nature component, and a creative arts activity.

Designed for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, the guides can be downloaded at no cost at go.unl.edu/imagination.

NewsBank

NewsBank, Inc. has been a premiere provider of the world’s largest repository of reliable information for more than 50 years. Since October 4, 1972, NewsBank’s comprehensive resources have met the diverse information and research needs of public libraries, colleges and universities, schools, military and government libraries, and professionals around the world.

Read Aloud 15 Minutes National Campaign

Read Aloud 15 MINUTES National Campaign believes that when every child is read aloud to every day for at least 15 minutes, from birth to age 8, we will change the face of education in our nation.  Read Aloud 15 MINUTES National Campaign is proud to offer handouts and summer reading list to our member libraries:

Link to Read Aloud- CSLP Parent Handout- English
Link to Read Aloud- CSLP Parent Handout- Spanish
Link to Read Aloud-CSLP book list

Read Aloud has more than 10,000 partners across all 50 states including libraries, schools, day care providers, businesses, health care providers, and non-profits who share our campaign messages with the parents their organization reaches during our three campaign pulses; in March, July, and October each year.

STAR_Net

The STAR Library Education Network (STAR_Net) is a hands-on learning network for libraries and their communities across the country.  They focus on helping library professionals build their STEM skills by providing “science-technology activities and resources” (STAR) and training to use those resources. Many libraries will find their STEM Clearinghouse of programming activities useful for library programming.

SciStarter

The Citizen Science at Your Library program provides easy access to resources to turn curiosity into impact! Libraries across the country are helping people take an active role in finding solutions to science-based issues by promoting citizen science projects, kits, and events. Details can be found at https://scistarter.org/library

Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group

Macmillan Children’s is home to some of the most highly acclaimed and noteworthy children’s imprints in the publishing industry. From award-winning novels and best-selling stories to family favorites and classic tales, there are books to fit every young reader’s varying interests.