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New York Libraries Face Five Percent Cut
New York libraries are facing close to a five percent budget cut with just $81.6 million allocated in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s executive budget—down from the $85.62 million granted to libraries last...
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Mid-Continent Public Library Proves Summer Reading Programs Boost Student...
The results of a pilot study of Missouri’s Mid-Continent Public Library (MCPL) suggest that summer reading programs actually raise student reading levels by their return to school in the...
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Idaho School Libraries Open this Summer to Tackle “Summer Slide”
The Horizon Elementary School Library in Jerome, Idaho, is one of six libraries in the state staying open this summer. Idaho’s betting its younger students will choose school this summer—investing...
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Massachusetts Parents Fight For School Librarians—And Win
As a new parent at the Hadley (MA) Elementary School in 2012, Melissa DeFilippi volunteered to help out at the school library—and discovered that she and other volunteers were acting as the de facto...
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Poetry Book by Teens Removed from Arizona School
Sixth and seventh graders in the Mesa Public Schools will have to trek to their local library or high school to read Things I Have to Tell You (Candlewick, 2001), a collection of poems by teenagers...
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26 Science Kits Available for Checkout at Texas Libraries
Students, parents, and teachers can now borrow science experiments along with other materials from the Denton (TX) Public Library and run their own chemical and mechanical observations in class and at...
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Teen Tech Week 2014: Computer Tear Downs, Skyping, and Raspberry Pis
Tech activities at the Stewart Middle Magnet School in Tampa, FL. Maker spaces, robot construction, and computer tear-downs will figure prominently in librarians’ Teen Tech Week lineups this year,...
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Advocates Progress on Restoring Funds to Utah School Libraries
Sharyl Smith (r) and Rosette Acord (l), advocates for Utah’s library budgeting. Utah’s school libraries are one step closer to getting a $500,000 infusion for new books, materials and electronic...
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“Sketchnotes” Invigorate Student Note-Taking and Bolster Visual Thinking
Photo: Brad Ovenell-Carter Brad Ovenell-Carter is not a graphic artist. However, many would make that assumption after viewing the educator’s “sketchnotes”—a name that’s gaining currency for...
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New Report Hails Librarians as Drivers of Digital Transition
New report shows digitizing learning can engage students in new ways. / Credit: Rocketship Education The Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) published the report “Leading In and Beyond the...
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Discovery Education Summit: We Don’t Just Needs Tablets, We Need A Digital...
Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools speaks of his district’s successful transformation and branding. At Discovery Education’s Future@Now: Roadmap to the Digital Transition on February 26,...
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Cleveland Public Library Pushes Out 54 New Literacy Stations
Four-year-old Isabel plays the Dora the Explorer game that’s part of a literary program at CPL. Before time is up on the Dora the Explorer game—a game four-year-old Isabel loves—she’ll jump to...
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NJ Librarian for Teens Selected for Macmillan’s YA Novel Writing Contest
Librarian Sandy Hall is set to publish her first YA novel with Swoon, a YA imprint at Macmillan./Credit: Sandy Hall A teen librarian for the past four years at New Jersey’s Morristown and Morris...
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St. Paul to Create 15 New School Library Positions
A January 30 rally supporting the Saint Paul Federation of Teachers and school librarians. Photo: Anna Brelje After a nine-month battle, Minnesota’s Saint Paul Public Schools has agreed to more than...
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Colorado School District Experiments with Digital Literacy Teachers
Students working on supplemental math curriculum and using the Flubaroo Script in Google Forms / Nathan Wendlowsky Faced with a budget cut that turned their full-time teacher librarians into half-time...
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PBS KIDS Says School Readiness Is More Than Letters and Numbers
PBS Play and Learn app / PBS A new study from PBS KIDS reveals that how children feel when starting school and how they handle that adjustment, may be more important to parents than whether they know...
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Not Your Mama’s Library Program: Lanyards give way to coding and power tools...
The “2nd Floor” is a space for kids, tweens, and teens at the Chattanooga Public LIbrary. Computer coding programs and robotics are just some of the tools intrepid young patrons will be using this...
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SLJ’s 2014 Spending Survey: Savvy Librarians Are Doing More with Less
Illustrations by David Flaherty. Charts by SLJ Staff. In an increasingly digital world, school and public libraries’ use of digital tools, ebooks, and other resources continues to grow—even as their...
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It’s an Ebook World for Young Readers 13 and Under Says PlayCollective Report
According to the study by PlayCollective and Digital Book World, 92 percent of children under 13 are using their e-readers at least once a week. The majority of students 13 and under are picking up...
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San Diego Schools May Restore Some Library Services in Upcoming School Year
A proposal by Superintendent Cindy Marten would reopen doors to the roughly 40 libraries in the district that are currently shuttered. Official photo. More San Diego students may see the inside of...
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