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SLJ’s 2014 Spending Survey: Savvy Librarians Are Doing More with Less
SLJ's spending survey, sent to school and public libraries, found that libraries' use of digital tools, ebooks, and other resources continues to grow—while budgets do not.
Not Your Mama’s Library Program: Lanyards give way to coding and power tools in summer tech camps nationwide
Computer coding programs and robotics are just some of the tools intrepid young patrons will be using this summer as school and public librarians nationwide gear up for technology camps.
PBS KIDS Says School Readiness Is More Than Letters and Numbers
A new study from PBS KIDS reveals that parents value their children's learning of social and emotional skills over academic performance in early learning.
Colorado School District Experiments with Digital Literacy Teachers
Faced with a budget cut that turned their full-time teacher librarians into half-time positions, Adams 12 Five Star Schools District in Thornton, Colorado created a new job position to get media specialists into K-8 classrooms as much as possible.
St. Paul to Create 15 New School Library Positions
In Minnesota, Saint Paul Public Schools has agreed to more than double the number of school librarians over the next two years, to 25 positions by the fall of 2015.
YA Romance Imprint Swoon Reads Selects NJ Librarian as its Next YA Novelist
YA librarian Sandy Hall had never finished writing a novel before. After reading about Macmillan's new romance novel imprint's process that uses its online community to chose its authors, she found herself selected as a YA novelist.
Cleveland Public Library Pushes Out 54 Early Literacy Stations
The Cleveland Public Library has opened 54 new Early Literacy Stations across its 27 branches in the hope of enticing young learners, ages 2-8, through gamification and other means.
Discovery Education Summit: We Don’t Just Need Tablets, We Need A Digital Game Plan
Educators at Discovery Education’s learning summit last month in Maryland talk of how digitization requires strategy and training—not just putting a device into student's hands.
New Report Hails Librarians as Drivers of Digital Transition
This past January, the Alliance for Excellent Education published a report showing school librarians in the front lines of the education movement to shepherd digital tools and skills into the hands of students.
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