By Kara Yorio

Heading to Philadelphia for ISTE 19? Don't miss this list of sessions and speakers that ISTE leaders and fellow attendees are most excited to attend.

Nearly  100 percent of public libraries use incentives in their summer reading programs, according to SLJ's survey. Still, respondents had a lot to say about prizes as well as what motivates kids to read over vacation.

More than 40 percent of survey respondents report that summer meals are the third most popular summer initiative at those libraries that offer them. 

After speaking with an elementary library media specialist, NJ Teacher of the Year Jennifer Skomial will now show high school students the possibilities of a career in a school library.

The Patchwork Bike, This Promise of Change, and The Season of Styx Malone earned this year's awards, Horn Book editor-in-chief Roger Sutton announced at SLJ's Day of Dialog.

Elizabeth Atack and Klem-Mari Cajigas reworked their Bringing Books to Life! family literacy workshops for incarcerated teen dads, who recorded themselves reading books for their children.

Author Erin Entrada Kelly answered SLJ's questions about her Newbery-winning middle grade novel Hello Universe being adapted into a Netflix movie.

The author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, and many more children's titles, has died at age 95.

In Syosset, NY, the new library area is four spaces in one, combining to create a center that meets different needs for students, models lifelong learning, and helps educators transition to new ways of teaching.