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ALA Youth Media Awards
Newbery Award – Hello, Universe written by Erin Entrada Kelly Caldecott Award – Wolf in the Snow illustrated and written by Matthew Cordell Coretta Scott King Author Award – Piecing Me Together written by Renée Watson Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award – Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets illustrated by Ekua…
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ALA Annual Conference (and what you can do when you're stuck at home!)
This week Chicago hosts the ALA Annual Conference where librarians from across the country will come together for networking, continuing education and the chance to meet authors and illustrators while learning about upcoming new releases. And as much as I love traveling to the ALA Annual Conference sometimes it’s just not…
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Children's Resource: Reading Beyond Book List
I’m so excited to promote this amazing booklist, just in time for summer reading and all those parents looking for books for their kids who read beyond their grade level. The Reading Beyond booklist is a list of “75 titles chosen by the ALA-CBC (American Library Association & Children’s Book…
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Everyday Advocacy – Week of Tuesday, March 8
Introduce Everyday Advocacy to a colleague. Everyday Advocacy isn’t just a one-person show! This week, introduce Everyday Advocacy to a colleague who’s unfamiliar with the initiative. Rather than introduce Everyday Advocacy to just one person, I’d love to introduce it to all my readers! Everyday Advocacy is a grassroots…
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Everyday Advocacy – Week of Tuesday, March 1
I’m participating in the Everyday Advocacy Challenge so each week I’ll be posting a challenge to increase advocacy for my personal job and my profession. So, here it goes: Week of Tuesday, March 1 Write a diversity elevator speech using value-based language. Want to articulate the importance of creating diverse…
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ALA Midwinter Conference & Youth Media Awards
I’m super jealous of all my library friends who are spending a fantastic weekend in Boston at the ALA Midwinter conference. I’m going to be following the #ALAMW16 hashtag to see what’s happening and the #alaleftbehind hashtag to commiserate with other librarians stuck at home.The conference is very early this…
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Advocacy – The Easy Way
I’m so proud of myself – I actually read through Children & Libraries (the spring 2015 edition) already! There were lots of interesting articles, but the one that stood out to me the most was “It’s How You Say It” written by Jenna Nemec-Loise about the importance of using value-based…
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Banned Books Week Display
Banned Books Week (September 21 – 27, 2014) is something every library should highlight because there are so many people unaware that this is something that occurs regularly across the country. Books get banned for any number of reason, usually because they are “unsuited for the age group” due to content.…
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ALA Annual Conference
I’ve been learning a lot, connecting with other librarians, and getting some great new ARCs of some promising new books being published in the next few months. I’ll be heading home tonight and you’ll definitely see my musings about the annual conference in the coming week. And if you haven’t…
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2014 Youth Media Awards
I was going to take a break today from my blog to reflect on my conference experience and decide what I wanted to share, but I couldn’t miss this HUGE event that happened this morning…. the Youth Media Awards were announced! Now, for many of my friends, this epic event…
