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As a follow-up to the essay I posted earlier , here is a brief video I uploaded today about H.R. 7661. Introduced in late February by U.S....

“Most school boards are not paying attention to what is happening at other school boards across the country,” and this inattentiveness is al...

At The Mary Sue , D.R. Medlen discusses Isaac, a character on the Netflix drama “Heartstopper,” as Isaac explores his identity. “As a bookwo...

Did you know? April is School Library Month , the American Association of School Librarians’ annual celebration of school librarians, libra...

Video: The beginning of school is a busy time for me as an Instructional Materials Technician. There’s new curriculum to catalog and ...

Identification of partners, collaborators, and resources is an important aspect of a “Library and Community Analysis.” The local public libr...

Someone removed all the books from a Pride display at the Rohnert Park library. In solidarity with Sonoma County Library and with other loca...

Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts serves a K-8 student population in Santa Rosa, California. I work part-time at the school as a Parali...

For LIS 5100 this week, our instructor wanted us to explore Voki’s “Speaking Characters for Education.” Voki is an app that is used in an ed...

As an aspiring youth librarian who works in a school library, I am interested in ways that school and public libraries might collaborate. So...

It's Back-to-School Night at elementary sites, Santa Rosa City Schools, and at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts. Here is a vir...

My latest project is a video series on YouTube, 21st Century Skills, books in SRCSA library . So far, three videos have been uploaded to Y...

My thoughts turned this week to pondering how operations could resume at SRCSA library. This proposal that I’ve compiled incorporates social...

Physical libraries may be closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but school library workers offer resources and support to school staf...

Dust jackets are essential for promoting plain-covered books; how else can a reader determine at first glance, what a book is about — and...

National Library Week is being observed from April 7 to 13. It, along with “School Library Month,” which is observed in April, is an opp...

Every April, the Association of School Librarians observes School Library Month . The 2019 theme is “Everyone Belongs @ Your School Libra...

OK, creative types; if you’re looking for a way to help out in the library, have I got a one-time job for you! I have a collection of woo...

A school library’s “climate” goes a long way toward acknowledging and promoting diversity. Michelle Easley offers several practical suggesti...

I returned this week, for the new school year, to Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts, where I work as a “textbook librarian.” (My off...