
Cover Story
Architects of Dreams: Anythink’s Pam Sandlian Smith on the Power of Children’s Librarians
By Pam Sandlian Smith
Features
- What’s Not to Love?: SLJ’s 2013 job satisfaction survey reveals widespread happiness among librarians, but challenges persist.
By Laura Girmscheid - Core Essentials: 20 outstanding nonfiction books for the new standards.
By Kathleen Odean
Collection Building
- Humor: Seriously Funny | Focus On May 2013
By Paula Willey - Summer Reads | Libro por libro May 2013
By Tim Wadham
TechKnowledge
- Welcome to the Mothership: Amazon bought Goodreads—now what? Librarian Travis Jonker weighs in.
- ResearchReady | Test Drive
By Jeffrey Hastings - A Solution That Isn’t | The Next Big Thing
By Christopher Harris - Beat the PowerPoint Blues | Cool Tools
By Richard Byrne
Columns
- World Peace and Other Aspirations: Reflecting on the role of play in forging a harmonious future | Editorial
By Rebecca T. Miller
- What Are You Afraid Of?: Challenges abound, yet we can’t afford to hesitate in our mission | Project Advocacy
By Carolyn Foote - College Readiness: Librarians can help students—and teachers—prepare for the transition | On Common Core
By Leanne Ellis - World Peace, Infinite Possibility: Teacher and author John Hunter on inspiring kids and fellow educators | Up Close
By Karyn M. Peterson
Digital Resources
- Fiction and nonfiction ebooks and testing: 1,000 ebooks for K-12, with assessment features built in.
By Jennifer Prince
Letters to SLJ: May 2013
Multimedia Reviews: May 2013
Best of Apps & Enhanced Books: May 2013
The Book Review
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- Grades 5 & Up: May 2013
- Fiction Series Update: May 2013
- Professional Reading: May 2013
- Book/Multimedia Review Stars List: May 2013







