Events & Pd

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Exploring everything from collection development to programming to scholarly literary analysis, these titles will equip school and public librarians with plenty of ideas come fall.

Experts shared advice on how to teach students to analyze information during an SLJ/ISTE webcast on critical thinking in the age of fake news, misinformation, and disinformation.

The discussions in the spring set of free, one-hour professional development programs will tackle serving striving readers, information inequity, and news literacy.

Photos from Achieving Together, a Library Journal/School Library Journal event at the Indianapolis Public Library that gathered leaders who have forged dynamic collaborations in their cities and communities.

Several panels at the 2019 Association of American Librarians National Conference focused on the urgent need for better information literacy and advocating on behalf of school libraries. 

The 2019 National Conference spotlighted equity and inclusion, along with advocacy, media literacy, makerspaces, reading, and other topics, in more than 130 professional development sessions.

At the 2019 American Association of School Librarians National Conference, Ellen Oh, Adolph Brown, and  Jarrett Krosoczka spoke with emotion and humor while calling on librarians to lift up all children.

The most valuable aspect of school and other off-site visits is not necessarily that they pose new questions for visitors, but rather that they suggest new answers.