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On May 7, the director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Libraries Program, Deborah Jacobs, posted a blog on the Gates Foundation website announcing the conclusion of the foundation's work in the Global Libraries Program over the next 3 - 5 years. To date, the program has reached more than 13,000 public libraries in nearly 20 countries, many developing and transitioning.
On May 7, San Diego City Council members praised the mayor for his proposed budget for libraries that earmarks approximately $3M for acquisitions, but concern was expressed over $500K of the funds being redirected to pay for a pilot afterschool tutoring program.
"Math is Beautiful" states Ian Stewart, and along with the production team at Touch Press, he delivers an elegant proof of that claim in 'Incredible Numbers,' a visual exploration of mathematical concepts.
Writer Carly Okyle was born with cerebral palsy—a movement disorder—in 1985. She writes of how growing up, she wasn't exposed to disabled characters in books and television and how the media landscape has changed over time, with disability hitting the mainstream, including some worthy book titles.
YALSA recently announced the 25 Teens’ Top Ten Nominees for 2014. Teens are encouraged to read the titles before the national Teens’ Top Ten vote, which starts August 15 and goes through Teen Read Week, from October 12-18.
SLJ goes behind the scenes at Scholastic headquarters in New York City to watch the filming of Scholastic's Fall 2014 Online Preview, available May 14, where editors and authors meet to discuss upcoming titles.
Tim Wadham shares how Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library, was a pioneer in the library field and influenced services and literature for Spanish-speaking patrons.
The recent surge of interest in reconfiguring school library spaces offers tremendous opportunity to spotlight the potential of school libraries.
Bank Street School librarian Allie Bruce found herself facing a complicated question from a sixth grader about the lack of minorities on YA book covers, starting with Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender. The question led Bruce on a year-long lesson on diversity in children's literature with a sixth grade class and—some surprising results.
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