COVID-19

With school and public libraries shuttered, librarians and literacy organizations have gotten creative trying to get books into students' hands, especially those who don't have books at home.

The SLJ team is hard at work curating some of our top summer reading picks for a variety of age groups by type, genre, and subject area. Those lists will roll out starting after Memorial Day. In the meantime, here are some of our favorite lists from other organizations and libraries.

SLJ's reporting takes stock of the pandemic's impact on school and public libraries and the kid lit community.

"The Last Dance" may be over, but there are plenty more sports documentaries that can teach, entertain, and inspire.

This playlist offers windows into key documents, people, and cultural factors that shaped U.S. history.

A panel of school librarians talks about creative and effective ways to use virtual meeting tools with students as remote learning continues.

Youth services librarians at public libraries around the country have been adjusting to pandemic closures and trying to plan for future programming amid many unknowns, including budgets, according to SLJ's recent survey.

More than 66 percent of public librarians report that summer reading programs will go completely online, according to SLJ's Youth Services in Public Libraries COVID-19 Response Survey.

Reworking summer reading programs is the number one task being performed by public librarians who work with kids and teens, according to SLJ's survey. But the report shows a wide variety of work being done.