Ideas

As Bluesky improves its community-building tools, more teachers and librarians are flocking to the platform as an alternative to X. Here's how to get the most out of it.

Here we go! Readers let loose on the selection available in middle grade titles as well as disinvited authors.

Self-directed programming can be as simple as a table with coloring sheets and wildlife livecams or as in-depth as a complex scavenger hunt.

Outstanding school librarians share new ideas, reboots, and advice for 2024–25.

When Coach Feiler signed on to work as our high school library teaching assistant, he transformed the programming and the vibe.

These 9 books and graphic novels feature protagonists who enjoy the popular RPG Dungeons & Dragons—and have adventures that help them learn more about themselves both inside of and outside the game.

Neal Shusterman received the 2024 Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors an author "for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature." The annual award is administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association and sponsored by School Library Journal. Here is his acceptance address, delivered June 30 at the ALA Annual conference held in San Diego.

The New York Times best-selling author and Caldecott Honor-awarded picture book illustrator talks with School Library Journal about creating the Mo Willems Workshop channel and how librarians can use it with their students.

 They are a community’s soul, “cathedrals to who we should be as a society,” and so much more.