Special Videos to Celebrate Día’s 20th Anniversary

Pat Mora

We are excited to share these wonderful short Día video spots created by Día Dynamos Christy Vasquez, a retired librarian and Thom Eberhardt, a retired screenwriter. As Sky City Productions, they created and filmed these spots to assist in promoting Día’s 20th Anniversary nationally. How generous of them to donate their creative talents for all of us to share!

We hope libraries, schools, universities, literacy organizations, and all who wish to promote Día in 2016 will post these videos on social media, showcase them on your website and share them with patrons, students and families.



How to share these videos:
Click the central arrow to start playing the video, and then click on the YouTube video in the lower right. The video will open up on our YouTube channel. Beneath the video, you can:

  • Click “Share” to get a direct link you can copy and paste into an email or web page.
  • Click “Embed” to copy code that you can paste into a website that will embed the video on that site (like we have done on this page.)
  • Click “Email” to have YouTube send the video to your recipient(s).

Please note:
The above videos are meant for use with websites and presentations. They are not broadcast standard.

CSMCL invites Día grant applications

Pat Mora

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature (CSMCL) is an organization advocating for multicultural children’s literature which includes librarians, teachers, parents, caregivers, students, and experts in the field of children’s literature. CSMCL will award a $500.00 grant in selected multicultural children’s books to your library that serve children and their families who are having a Día library program, El Día de Los Niños/El Día de Los Libros (Children’s Day/Book Day) with an African American Focus. The Día event must be held on or about April 30, 2016. Download more information and the application.