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September 11 marks a difficult anniversary. To help children’s and young adult librarians navigate the challenging teachable moments that the day might raise and to guide those librarians working in universities and public libraries to address the potential research needs of their patrons, our editors have compiled these resources.
By Frances Jacobson Harris
September 11, 2001, wasn’t a normal day for most of us. The students at my Illinois high school packed into the library to watch the nonstop news coverage. Those in computer-lab classes kept trying their luck with CNN’s much-overburdened website. Administrators cruised the halls, looking for kids with relatives who worked at or near ground zero or the Pentagon or who were just too upset to [...]
America Responds
PBS created this website immediately following the 9/11 attacks and now maintains it as an archive of related resources, analysis, and discussion. The site also offers very useful links to PBS content on a wide variety of 9/11 topics and themes. Users will find episodes of Frontline and other TV programs, relevant transcripts from Washington Week, first-person accounts, resources for parents, and lesson plans for teachers.
Newseum: “Today’s Front Pages”
On its website, the [...]
What happens when two people—an American and a Kenyan—decide to improve children’s lives? The Jambo Jipya School renaissance happens! When Keela Dates took a year off after college to volunteer overseas, she found it difficult to leave behind the children she taught, many of whom were orphans. How could she help them get the education they needed to break the cycle of poverty that held them back? Along with the dedicated founder of Jambo Jipya School, Christine Mwende, Dates embarked [...]
One evening a month, Adela Peskorz, Faculty Librarian and Associate Professor of Adolescent Literature and Information Studies, Metropolitan State University (MN), becomes den mother to anywhere between 20 to 45 teens, all clamoring to get their hands on new galleys from teen and young adult publishers. The self-titled Teens Know “Best” YA Galley Group is part of YALSA’s Young Adult (YA) Galley/Teen’s Top Ten Project which uses 15 public libraries and school library media centers from across the country to [...]
How one teacher uses hip-hop to unlock the classics
It’s not often that an English teacher working with poor inner-city kids ends up at the White House. But that’s exactly where Alan Sitomer was on April 26—standing in the Oval Office, cracking jokes and shaking hands with President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura.
Sitomer and 53 other State Teachers of the Year were invited to Washington, DC, to attend a Rose Garden ceremony honoring their hard work and dedication. But [...]
