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How to draw on, and supplement, classroom teaching skills while making the transition to a school library.
Overhauling library systems, forging alliances, finding communities, weathering suspicion, and weeding—sometimes thousands of titles. It’s all in the first year’s work for many librarians starting at a new school.
YALSA gets a new executive director, IMLS awards nearly 50 grants for cultural programs, and new diversity-related awards are announced.
The three lists focus on books that use science and technology not fantasy and magic.
Photos from an exhilarating weekend at the 2017 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
John Lewis's "March: Book Three" took four Youth Media Awards, including the Printz, while Javaka Steptoe's "Radiant Child" won the Caldecott, and Kelly Barnhill's "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" took the Newbery.
Across the country, librarians participated in the January 21, 2017 Women's March, which coincided with the ALA Midwinter Meeting.
A full list of the 2017 ALA Youth Media Awards winners and honorees.
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Attendees describe how they’d like ALA and other big conferences to evolve—and why smaller and virtual gatherings can be fine alternatives.
Pack smart, get engaged, take charge of your PD. These and other tips will help you get the most out of this year's ALA Annual Conference.
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The 2016 Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña, and other Latino authors/illustrators honored at this year’s Youth Media Awards, have long been recognized by the Pura Belpré Awards, celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Librarian Lucia Acosta set out to find new books that had a Hispanic character, theme, or backdrop on the floor of the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in January 2016. Check out these selections of titles by and about Latinos, publishing this spring.
SLJ caught up with the acclaimed YA author of Between Shades of Gray to discuss her latest historical fiction novel about the world’s worst maritime disaster, Salt to the Sea.
Snapshots from the festivities during this year's Midwinter Meeting in Boston.
The winners are in, and once again, SLJ predicted many of the top Youth Media Award winners and honor books. Check out the reviews of all the winning and honor books.
There were cheers, tears, and mouths agape at ALA Midwinter, as Matt de la Peña's "Last Stop on Market Street" and Sophie Blackall's "Finding Winnie" took the top spots in the YMA lineup. Laura Ruby's "Bone Gap" won the Printz.
A full list of the 2016 ALA Youth Media Awards winners and honorees.
The finalists in the 2015 CYBILS awards have been revealed; YALSA is accepting proposals for its YALSA Symposium. These tidbits and more in the first SLJTeen news roundup of 2016.
This year marks the 20th presentation of the Pura Belpré awards, and a huge celebration is being planned for ALA Annual in June. Tim Wadham takes stock of the trends and themes that recur in the winning titles, all of which affirm the Latino cultural experience.
Following the Youth Media Awards in January and the conclusion of the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco, several librarians and fellow book-loving industry folk cemented their love of the winning and honored titles by getting Caldecott-themed body art.
Greater outreach and a holistic approach to early learning characterizes initiatives such as Too Small to Fail, which seeks to place literacy-positive images in prime-time TV shows. A far-reaching outward focus is taking hold in library programs as well.
Librarian and critic Nina Lindsay unpacks the 2015 Youth Media Awards. Diversity was the hallmark of this year's top honors in children's literature, pushing boundaries of content, form, and style. Is this a harbinger of real change?
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