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STEM Video Game Challenge Encourages Librarians to Mentor Students
Washington DC high school student Golden Rockefeller (right) was a 2012 STEM Video Game Challenge winner for a game called Electrobob.Photo courtesy of E-LIne Media. Students are invited to enter the...
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Elyria (OH) Schools To Lose All School Librarians
The Elyria (OH) City School District is losing all of its media specialists for the coming 2013–2014 school year, with school libraries to be run by principals, teachers, and some media techs,...
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Los Angeles School District Spends On Technology, Not To Restore Librarians
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) avoided additional cuts to educators and support personnel for the first time in five years—saving 208 mental health counselors, librarians, library...
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YALSA Town Hall: Building Stronger Partnerships
When it comes to reaching out to teen library patrons, partnerships between public and school libraries are absolutely key—but how to make them successful is an ongoing challenge, agreed more than 60...
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California 10th Graders Improve Their Writing Skills—Through an Interactive...
Jason Sellers and class onscreen atthe French American International School, San Francisco, CA. Jason Sellers wanted his 10th-grade English students at the French American International School to...
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Philadelphia May Cut Its School Librarians
Philadelphia school children are facing an education without librarians—as well as nurses, counselors, athletic coaches, summer school, and school secretaries—because of a $304 million budget shortfall...
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Islam in the Classroom
This article originally appeared in School Library Journal‘s October 2010 issue. Teachers and parents alike are unsure about the topic, but it’s never been more important Islam proved a tough subject...
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Chicago To Add New School Libraries—Even As It Closes Schools
As Chicago prepares to permanently shutter 49 K–12 schools and one 9–11 school program for the coming school year, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is planning to open four new stand-alone school...
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Using Social Media to Engage Teens in the Library
“Brother Mike” Hawkins (at left) and YOUmedia’s Spoken Word team at the“Louder Than a Bomb” poetry competition in Chicago, March 2013.Photo courtesy of “Brother Mike” Hawkins. Taylor Bayless, a...
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Philadelphia Begins Laying Off School Librarians
Facing a $304 million shortfall for the coming year, Philadelphia’s public schools have started making severe staffing cuts for its so-called “doomsday budget” —many of them to the 43 certified school...
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The Early Bird: How Sesame Workshop is adapting its revolutionary educational...
Sasha, a three-year-old girl with light brown hair, is trying to get Elmo back to Grover. It’s 12:35 p.m. on a Friday in early April, and she’s dragging one-inch pieces of virtual railroad...
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Media Specialists’ Role Endangered in Florida
School media specialist positions are being hit hard across the Sunshine State, with school librarians finding their positions renamed—and, in some cases, their jobs re-assigned or terminated—for the...
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Community Angered by Tossed Black History Collection
Residents of Highland Park, MI, are still enraged that a selection of books and other materials from a Highland Park Renaissance High School collection devoted to global black history was thrown away...
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Miami’s Public Library Cuts Detrimental to Students
Photo by Ben Ostrowsky Draconian cuts to Miami public libraries—nearly 45 percent of its branches shuttered and more than 250 staff positions lost—stand to impact the community, including Miami’s...
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Maker Summer: A Global Project Offers DIY Opportunities
During a maker party at the New York Hall of Science, kids usedMaKey MaKey circuit boards and Scratch programming language.Photo courtesy NYSCI Tinkerers of all ages are flexing their creative muscles...
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In Philadelphia, School Librarians Still In Flux
Already hobbled, Philadelphia schools are facing their first day with fewer school librarians—continuing a trend in the metropolitan school district and the state of Pennsylvania as well. Of the...
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Chicago’s New Public/School Library Hybrid Opens Doors
Can a public library serve both school children and its other patrons at the same time? That question is being put to the test in Chicago this week as the Back of the Yards Library—a public library...
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A Minecraft Library Scores Big: Mattituck, NY, Branch Is a Hit with Kids
“Nothing’s impossible in Minecraft,” says Elizabeth Grohoski. She would know. Grohoski recently spent three months using the online game to create a virtual replica of the Mattituck-Laurel Library in...
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When the Library Is Bigger Than the School
San Diego’s new 400,000-square-foot Central Library. Imagine a school library bigger than the school it supports—with an auditorium, homework center, and a 6,000-square-foot teen room where hundreds of...
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Florida School Librarians Stretching Resources—Themselves
Sharing has a whole new meaning for Marion County, FL, elementary school librarians, far beyond the lesson they help teach their young charges. Today, the word refers to the way media specialists...
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