You Have to Make Choices Sometimes
“You have to make choices sometimes, and the importance of librarians is a bit less than it used to be,” said Ze’ev Wurman, a Silicon Valley executive who participated in the development of California...
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Budget Time: What Is Your “Big Splash” this Month?
What is the local newspaper article headline for the event that will happen in your library in the next 30 days? “School Library Catches Students Reading” or “New Nooks Ready To Circulate in the School...
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Become an E-Activist Now!
What?!?! President Obama’s budget threw the Improving Literacy through School Libraries funds into one big literacy pot? It was JUST funded by Congress after two years of zero funding and now our...
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Guest Post: Visibility Works!
So many school librarians around the country are doing excellent and exciting work in their libraries without anyone but the students they impact knowing about it. Visibility is one of the important...
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“Library Skills” = Information Literacy Skills = Common Core Skills
If you have not sat down yet with your downloaded copy of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) with a highlighter in your hand, it’s time. And if you have, it’s time to read it again and for all of...
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It Takes a Group of People to Rescue a Sinking Ship: Colorado’s “Survive and...
Can we have business as usual on a Titanic? That’s a question that bothered Becky Russell, the School Library/21st Century Skills Content Specialist at the Colorado Department of Education’s Library...
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NLLD or VLLD: Time to “Take Action”
NLLD/VLLD I am on my first train to get from Albany, NY to Washington, DC on a grey, chilly Sunday morning as part of the New York Library Association (NYLA)’s delegation. We will participate in the...
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MARC Records as an Advocacy Strategy: My AASL “Advocacy Tip of the Day”
Teachers drift in and out of my office all day for the $.25 freshly ground coffee, “real” and decaffeinated. I sometimes sit at my desk with a pile of new materials, entering them into my automated...
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“Big ALA” and the new School Library Resolution
“Big ALA” will be focused on school librarians even more after the 2012 Annual Conference recently held in Anaheim. We need it. "Big ALA" rallies LOUDLY on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, June 2010 So...
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Kentucky’s Teacher of the Year Advocates for the Need for School Librarians
There is a 2012 Teacher of the Year in Kentucky who “gets it.” And, she expresses well what students need to do to be successful meeting the Common Core standards, tying them closely to what it is...
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