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January 2014 YALSA Report Serves As a Guide for Library Community’s Youth...
YALSA’s “The Future of Library Services for and with Teens: A Call to Action” was released in Jan. 2014. Image courtesy of YALSA Just three months after its release, the American Library Association’s...
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LGBTQ & You: How to Support Your Students
Photograph by Kai Teoh/Ink Café Photography A former part-time school library assistant, Amanda MacGregor (above) considers the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) teens she...
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New York High School Goes Entirely Digital
Photos courtesy of Archbishop Stepinac High School. Vice-Principal for Academics and Curriculum for Archbishop Stepinac High School, Frank Portanova, never expected that 11 years after he started...
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Weaving Together Touch and Digital into Early Childhood Play
Image courtesy of Tiggly. Azadeh Jamalian has spent the past four years studying how three- and four-year-olds learn math—using adults as her lab rats. Videotaping adults as part of her PhD work at...
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School Librarians Get No Love in Allentown School District
Hobbled by cuts to its school librarians over the past several years, Allentown (PA) School District (ASD) has seen attention to school libraries drop in priority, with the effect trickling to...
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California’s Modesto City Schools To End Library Instruction for Elementary...
Virginia Johnson, associate superintendent of MCS. Photos courtesy of Modesto City Schools. Modesto City Schools (MCS) is set to end all library instruction for its elementary schools for the 2014-2015...
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Vermont School Librarians Win—And Are Recognized in State Standards Once Again
Vermont librarians have won a battle. They fought to be reintroduced into their state education standards, in writing, and succeeded. The fight started in August 2013, when the Vermont School Library...
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LAUSD Passes Record $6.6 Billion Budget, Expected to Hire 15 New Librarians
Superintendent John Deasy. Image courtesy of LAUSD. School libraries across Los Angeles may soon have their doors opened again now that Los Angeles Unified School District (LASUD) Superintendent John...
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Reading Is Fundamental Study Says Summer Reading Is Not Priority
Just 17 percent of parents believe reading should be a top priority during summer months, according to a new study from Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), sponsored by corporate partner Macy’s, which...
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Bridging the Gap: Making Libraries More Accessible for a Diverse Autistic...
Courtesy of Project PALS/Photo by Casey Yu. Glenda Rodriguez has long championed children on the autism spectrum—providing services well before the term autism was as widely familiar as it is today. As...
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Are Today’s Kids All Thumbs? Touch Matters. Researchers Bring Tactile...
Photo courtesy of Tiggly.com. This July article is an expanded version of “Weaving Together Touch and Digital into Early Childhood Play” that ran on May 21, 2014. Azadeh Jamalian has spent four years...
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New ALA Report Examines Licensing Model for Ebooks in School Libraries
Consumers are familiar with downloading ebooks—they just click and buy. For libraries? It’s a very different story. A new report from the American Library Association (ALA) takes a close look at the...
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California Administrator Creates Digital Stopgap After School Librarian Cuts
Jay Greenlinger All photos courtesy of Pleasant Valley School District Jay Greenlinger knew there was little he could do to restore the school librarian positions that had been cut from his district....
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Queens Library to Offer PreK Class in Fall 2015
The Woodhaven branch of the Queens Library will open its doors on September 8 to 18 Pre-K students. Image courtesy of Queens Library. Eighteen school children in Queens, New York are heading to their...
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Two Second Graders Pitch to Restore School Library on Indiegogo
Josephine Sinclair ( left) and Sarai Williams (right) at Willow Creek School Library. Photos courtesy of Willow Creek Academy. Social media’s waters are teeming with requests for money. But few have...
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Study Ties College Success to Students’ Exposure to a High School Librarian
moodboard/Thinkstock Attention, educators: training high school students early in digital research, partnering them with a school librarian, and providing time to practice skills can instill a high...
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The Popular Nonfiction Minute Site Launches Crowdfunding Drive
The Nonfiction Minute, a site featuring audio clips of quality nonfiction written and read by some of the biggest names in the field, would seem to be a resource aligned with the demands of the Common...
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JukePop Opens Kickstarter to Get Indie Ebooks into Libraries
Expanding ebook access at public libraries has been, well, an ongoing process. But one site is aiming to have an impact, giving libraries a chance to offer their patrons digital titles by independent...
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Colorado Students Protest School Board’s AP U.S. History Review Committee
A protest takes place in Littleton, CO. All photos courtesy of Lindsey Stearns On October 11, Colorado high school students from Jefferson County school district gathered in Littleton’s Clement Park to...
View ArticleAdobe’s Lax Security Raises Concerns About Student Privacy
Privacy around what students read, along with other personal data, may be at risk due to software giant Adobe’s transmission of the data without encryption. Student rights are protected under the...
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