District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray on Friday signed a bill that requires public libraries, schools, recreation centers, and other city agencies that work with young people to adopt and implement antibullying policies.
DC Mayor Signs Law Requiring Youth Anti-Bullying Policies in Libraries, Other City Agencies
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ALA Council Unanimously Adopts Resolution Supporting School Libraries| ALA Annual 2012
By on June 26, 2012 Leave a Comment
Drafted by the Special Presidential Task Force on School Libraries, the resolution was “formed out of necessity” in response to the ongoing budget cuts and school librarian layoffs, says Sara Kelly Johns (right), the American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Division Councilor and a media specialist at New York’s Lake Placid Middle/High School, who last Friday proposed the resolution at an ALA membership meeting, where it also passed unanimously.
Chicago Building Its First Joint High School/Public Library from the Ground Up
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Chicago’s taking the partnership between public and school libraries to the next level—it’s building its first public library as part of a school.
Utah District Restricts Polacco’s ‘Our Mothers’ House’ in Elementary School Libraries
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The removal of Patricia Polacco’s picture book about lesbian moms has created a stir after a Utah school district recently pulled the title from general circulation in elementary school libraries.
Interview: School Librarian, Robin Levin, Wins Arch Coal Teacher Achievement Award
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Robin Levin is in the news again. This time it’s for being the first school librarian to win the Arch Coal Foundation Teacher Achievement Award, which this year recognized 10 teachers in Wyoming for their leadership and contribution to K-12 education.
The New Standards Dovetail Elegantly with Inquiry, and We Know Inquiry | On Common Core
By on June 1, 2012 1 Comment
This is the worst time to be a school librarian and the best time to be one. Our profession is under daily threat of extinction, yet the implementation of the Common Core Standards affords incredible opportunity to make the strongest case for the importance of librarians and libraries in schools. Together we must commit to gaining a deep understanding of these new standards and determine to be at the fore of the Common Core conversations taking place in our buildings. We are uniquely suited for this because the Common Core Standards dovetail elegantly with inquiry, and we know inquiry.
WV Fifth Grader Donates $10,000 Prize to School Library
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PA School District Bans ‘The Dirty Cowboy’ for Partial Nudity
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Amy Timberlake’s humorous picture book, The Dirty Cowboy, (Farrar, 2003) is staying off elementary school library shelves in Pennsylvania’s Annville-Cleona school district.
Despite protests by free-speech organizations and an online petition with more than 300 signatures in favor of repealing the ban, the school board last week stuck to its decision that the book was too dirty for young eyes.
The award-winning book tells the tale of a freckle-faced cowboy who decides to take his annual bath in a nearby river and [...]
Oregon Merges Library Associations to Focus on Literacy
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Canadian School District to Cut More Than Half of its Library Staff
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Reading Challenge Nets WI School a $100K Library Makeover
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We Need Tag-Team Librarianship: Active collaboration between public and school librarians benefits all | Editorial
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It Takes Two: The Need for Tighter Collaboration Between School and Public Librarians
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Numbers can be telling, and the story here presents a stark reality that signals an ideal opportunity to foster a stronger relationship between public and school libraries in ways that better support how kids learn and grow.
The results of SLJ’s first survey of public library spending habits on children’s and young adult services reveals a disturbing trend: only 30 percent of respondents say their library collaborates with local schools to coordinate book purchases to support the curriculum—leaving 70 percent that don’t.
Citizen Scientists | Focus on Discovery
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“Citizen Scientist” might be a newly coined term, but people have long assumed the role, jotting down crocus sightings in early spring, the number of loon pairs on the lake in the summer, and the first sign of frost in the fall or winter.
