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The Black History Month To-Do List - Get inspired! Read Andrea Davis Pinkney's wonderful feature Celebration Time to get some fresh ideas about how to celebrate the month in your school and library.
- For more ideas on books to use, take a look at the Focus on Black History & Civil Rights by Mary Oluonye and Joyce Adams Burner's Focus on The Harlem Renaissance.
- Throughout the month, share your experiences and send us photos of Black History celebrations in your library. We'll post them on our Web site.
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| TechTrends |
EduCon 2.0 Features 'Extreme Library Makeover'
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Carolyn Foote's "Extreme Library Makeover" session at this year's EduCon 2.0 in late January offered tips to attendees on how to revamp or "pimp" their K–12 school media centers by drafting their core customers—kids. And the best part? Many of these free tools are just a click away.
"Wikis, blogs, VoiceThread, Flickr, SlideShare, and others are all free sites, and have free tools educators can use," said Foote, district librarian with the Austin, TX-based Westlake High School library. "And these are all tools that you can use with students on projects or to share with your library outside of your own walls." Foote, who wrote SLJ's January feature about Skype , co-hosted the session with Joyce Valenza and Cathy Nelson at the Science Leadership Academy (SLA), a public high school in
Philadelphia.
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 BOOKS
A Kitten Tale by Eric Rohmann
From SLJ February 2008
 K-Gr 2–Four lively kittens come upon cards in the mailbox with winter scenes on them. Three of the felines are worried about the snow and lament that they will be freezing and wet when it comes.... |
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The Fever of '57
Gr 8 Up–In 1957, the world was bought into the Space Age and there was an increase in the already tense Cold War relationship between the United States and Soviet Russia.... |
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I Like Being Me!
PreS-Gr 4–Lanny Sherwin's outstanding album is fresh and on target for young audiences. He uses varied musical styles, including country, reggae, rock, do-wop, a cappella, and swing to complement his original songs.... |
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| News and Views |
| Stay Tuned: NYPL's Central Children's Room |
Once the Donnell Library Center of the New York Public Library closes in May, will the people still have one-stop access to all the wonderful resources in the Central Children's Room and Teen Central? And what's going to happen to the original Winnie the Pooh stuffed animals and Mary Poppins's umbrella?
First off, there will be a temporary Central Children's Room and Teen Central while Donnell is being razed to make way for an 11-story hotel and a smaller library—but it's still uncertain whether parts of the collections will be dispersed and where they'll be located, say New York Public Library (NYPL) officials. read more... |
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| Improving Literacy Through School Library Grants |
It's that time of the year again. If your school library is located in a district in which 20 percent or more of families live below the poverty line, you're eligible for a grant from the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries program.
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the program provides funding to public school libraries to update collections, expand Internet connections, buy new technology, provide professional development for media specialists, and extend library hours.
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| Fresh Approaches: New Editions & Reissues
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| The Secret Garden Blooms Again |
| Almost a century after the 1911 publication of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel, W. W. Norton has published The Annotated Secret Garden, a handsome volume edited by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, a professor of English at Dartmouth College. In a lively and lengthy introduction, Gerzina outlines Burnett's life and times, her ties to both Great Britain and the United States, and, interestingly, her status as a popular and prolific author for adults. Events from the writer's life and her religious and personal beliefs are neatly connected to themes found in The Secret Garden. Gerzina also recounts the novel's fall into obscurity, eventual revival, and transformation into a modern-day classic, and touches on changing schools of thought in literary criticism. read more... |
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| Executive Director, Maine InfoNet |
University of Maine
Orono, Maine
The University of Maine and the Maine State Library seek an executive program leader to develop, direct, and manage this statewide library information program which is a partnership of public, academic, school, and special libraries throughout the state.
To see all positions available through the SLJ Career Center, click here...
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