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Jacksonville (FL) Public Library’s Collaborations Are a Win-Win for Students, Library, and Community
Humor can be a powerful tool when it comes to encouraging children to read. Read on to learn about Jacksonville (FL) Public Library's outreach activities that are putting smiles on a lot of faces.
Torstar Corp., owner of the Toronto Star and other newspapers, is selling the Harlequin book publishing company for $455 million [$414/USD] to global media company News Corp, reports the CBC.
On April 25, SLJ's Public Library Leadership Think Tank took place at Nashville (TN) Public Library. Meridian (ID) Library District director, Gretchen Caserotti, kicked off the day with a heartfelt keynote speech about her professional journey from children's librarian to library director, and you can listen to it here.
Nancy Larrick’s landmark 1965 study on race and children’s books was supposed to have been a wake-up call. Not much has changed.
In a world where misinformation about Muslim Americans takes place daily, we have a chance to build understanding among children through our library collections.
Monica Brown, author of the "Marisol McDonald" series, writes about how as a person of mixed race lineage, she doesn't fit under a neat label. Her situation is shared by the growing multiracial population in the U.S., yet children's books do not reflect these changing demographics.
Wisconsin teacher librarian Crystal Brunelle has long prioritized advocating diverse children's literature in school and libraries, but only in the last few years has she figured out a way to put her beliefs into everyday practice—which she offers in four handy tips.
The Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990, and physical accessibility in libraries became federal law. However, nothing in the law requires library services to be disability-friendly, leaving it up to individual librarians, including Barbara Klipper, Renee Grassi, and Amy Price, to create library programs and tools for patrons with disabilities that other librarians can model.
School librarians can provide pivotal support for LGBTQ teens by just being there.
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