Budgets & Funding

Presenting the average book prices for 2021-2022-to-date, produced annually by SLJ in partnership with Follett and Baker & Taylor. 

The National Coalition Against Censorship creates a Book Challenge Crisis Hotline and Youth Censorship Database and Map in response to the rising censorship attempts across the county; We Need Diverse Books offers new educator grants; Cook Prize nominees announced; and more news. 

Presented by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and SLJ, the program will award grants to Title I school libraries to purchase Mathical Book Prize-winning titles.

The proposed legislation calls for funding to be used on school librarians, among others, to help improve the "educator pipeline" and support student development and achievement.

Fines bar kids from library services, don’t bring in much revenue, and force staffers to spend time on bookkeeping. Several librarians say the pandemic was the catalyst for ditching them.

Legislation that mandates certified librarians in every school seems like the solution to librarian loss, but it isn’t always that simple—as Washington State shows.

Battling threats to library funding and positions and educating the community on the value of librarians often becomes like a second job, taking up nights and weekends with conversations, events, and social media posts. 

Has your library joined the movement to eliminate fines for kids and teens? Tell us a little more and help SLJ report on this topic.

The FCC will open a second round of applications for the Emergency Connectivity Fund Program, Discover Education offers new virtual field trips, the AASL bringing new Pokemon Clubs to school libraries, and more.