The continuing conversation about whether Dewey’s days are numbered.
Letters to SLJ: February 2013
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Letters to SLJ | Technology Education | January 2013
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Letters to the editor | Self-published memoirs reflect the experiences of these young people in our society | December 2012
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Hope for Troubled Teens
I just wanted to say how insightful I found Amy Cheney’s article, “Time After Time” (Oct. 2012, pp. 36–39). I learned a lot from the article, including tips on what’s hot in Street Lit right now and the names of the well-known authors of the genre. I also appreciated her call to action for finding and purchasing self-published memoirs. I am really excited and inspired by her article and will try to get [...]
Letters to the Editor: SLJ’s new Spanish column is just what librarians and teachers need | November 1, 2012
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Thanks SLJ for providing Tim Wadham’s new bimonthly Spanish column, “Libro por libro.” I’d love to see how we can encourage each other in our bilingual programming and also give publishers ideas for themes and stories we want to see. I’d love to find Bolivian, Colombian, and Peruvian folktales for children. I haven’t found anything published in either language for children.
We also need books that provide rhythm and rhyme in Spanish for our youngest learners, like [...]
Kill Dewey? It’s not necessary to demolish a system that works
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I am writing in regard to Christopher Harris’s recent article, “Summer Project: Kill Dewey” (Aug. 2012). I’m all for making a school library more user-friendly, but why recreate the wheel? A few colorful shelf labels and directional signs would have saved him and Kristie Miller a lot of time and trouble.
Dewey is a system of subjects, so when students are taught how a library is organized, they will quickly see that all the books about a [...]
Slim Pickings: It’s Getting More Difficult To Find a Job as a Children’s Librarian | Letters September 2012
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The following is a response to Elizabeth Bird’s feature article “Role Call: Want to work with kids in a public library? Here’s the inside scoop,” .
While there may be children’s librarian jobs out there, and indeed librarian jobs in general, they are few and far between. Plus many of them may be part-time, or downgraded to “assistant” in order to save on salaries. Public service has gone the way of private corporations, wherein job openings require someone to already be doing the exact same job somewhere else, …
A Word to the Wise: ALA made no attempt to stifle debate about the National Broadband Plan | Letters
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I believe that Lauren Barack, the author of “Proposed ‘Digital Literacy Corps’ Will Not Usurp School Librarians’ Role, Explains FCC,” a story that appeared on SLJ’s Digital Shift (June 12, 2012), used a poor choice of words when she said that “representatives of the American Library Association (ALA) reached out to some bloggers to help clarify the role the ALA has had with the FCC over the proposal to help quell concerns.”
What really happened was a [...]
Feedback: Letters to SLJ, July 2012 Issue
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I am the Project Coordinator for Limitless Libraries, the partnership program between the Nashville Public Library (NPL) and Metro Nashville Public Schools. Limitless Libraries provides collection development assistance to school libraries to meet curriculum needs, and also provides daily delivery of NPL materials to the schools.
I just read Rebecca Miller’s editorial, “We Need Tag-Team Librarianship” (May 2012, p. 11), regarding collaboration between public and school libraries. It made me very excited to see a cover story [...]
