Professional Development

The 13th national conference of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), held October 25–28 in Reno, NV, featured several vendor announcements.Follett Software Companyreleased the latest version of InfoCentre at AASL. InfoCentre 3.0, a new More...

SLJ talks to Rick Riordan about his latest bestseller 'The Red Pyramid,' book one of the Kane Chronicles. More...

Do you have the tools to ensure that your students become 21st century learners? If you're in need of some more help, sign up for a one-day professional development course entitled, 'Empowering 21st Century Learners: More...

The American Library Association's youth services divisions have new presidents-Carl Harvey, a school librarian at North Elementary School, in Noblesville, IN, was elected president of the American Association of School Librarians; Mary Fellows of the More...

Copyright is a universal concern among librarians. But librarians in developing countries can have difficulty locating accurate information on how these laws affect them. Enter Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, which recently More...

Ah, Chatroulette. The relatively new site, which enables video chat with strangers, has sparked a lot of press and some concern among the education community. 'If the idea is for students to chat, there are More...

Want to know what the candidates for president of the American Library Association's (ALA) youth divisions have to say? SLJ caught up with them at this year's ALA midwinter meeting in Boston last month to More...

I love books, especially the actual physical ones. I madly scribble notes in the margins, and stuff them with related articles as if they were file folders. I can think of no better afternoon than More...

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