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Authors, educators, librarians, and more gathered for learning and inspiration at this year’s Young Adult Library Services Association Symposium.
Thinking about hosting a Mock Geisel program in your school or library? The "Guessing Geisel" bloggers offer tips and examples of successful ways to "mock" the award with students.
Three former Geisel award committee members launched a new blog, Guessing Geisel, to explore the history, criteria, and future of the medal named in honor of Dr. Seuss.
Harper Lee, author of the bestselling novel To Kill a Mockingbird and its recently published controversial predecessor, Go Set a Watchman, died on February 19 at the age of 89. To Kill a Mockingbird is widely taught in U.S. classrooms despite its most recent ranking as 21 of the American Library Association's 100 most challenged books in the last decade. In 1999, an LJ poll voted it "Best Novel of the Century."
A proposed revision to a Kansas law may help protect school librarians' jobs, but it will be hard to reverse the slow drain of certified school librarian positions in the state during the past decade.
A Delaware politician hopes to see school librarian positions mandatory in every school—and has filed a bill that would require it.
From banishing elbows on the table to understanding 21st century social media etiquette, these books offer fun and funny ways to introduce (and remind) kids about cultivating good manners.
The becomingly modest thing to say would be "you probably don't remember me," but in fact I think there's a good chance you do. In the early 1970s, when I was between the ages of seven and eleven or so, I was a regular visitor to the children's room located in the basement of the Dallin Branch of Robbins Library in Arlington, MA, where you were the children's librarian. I want to take this chance to thank you publicly for your kindness, your patience, and your help. You significantly shaped my idea of what a librarian should be like, and I will always remember you and be grateful.
The children’s librarians at Connecticut’s Darien Library share their guide to the most beautiful book and toy selections for the holidays.
Shelly Ripplinger watched last year as her job disappeared in Utah’s Ogden School District—fired along with 19 of her fellow school librarians. But after push-back from colleagues, parents, and advocates, one-time money has now funded seven district librarian positions, including hers. They travel to schools as mobile co-teachers, while clerks man school libraries.
Nancy Robertson is not a school librarian—but as Michigan’s State Librarian, she believes strongly in the role of certified media specialists in student success. That's why she has worked for the last five years on a benchmarking program called SL21 to help the state's school librarians raise their programs to exemplary status.
Little, Brown’s fall lineup of books, presented to librarians and children's book reviewers last week in New York City, includes new titles from Newbery winner Patricia MacLachlan, Caldecott winners Mordecai Gerstein and Jerry Pinkney, and Coretta Scott King Award winner Bryan Collier. In this second of our preview peeks, SLJ highlights which titles especially got our attention.
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