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Maker Movement Grows in K-12, with Librarians Leading the Way, Finds SLJ Survey
Illustration by Traci Daberko Old-fashioned board games and puzzles are what first drew students at a Jacksonville, NC, middle school into the library’s maker space. Now they’re experimenting with...
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Pat Scales Special Collections Room Opens | Picture of the Week
Photo courtesy of Pat Scales The Pat Scales Special Collections Room was dedicated and opened at the Carmichael Library at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, AL, earlier this month. Scales, a...
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New Anti-Opioid Initiative Focuses on Prevention in Schools
Information from EVERFI’s online course for students. The statistics are sobering: 33 percent of teenagers believe there’s nothing wrong with misusing prescription drugs “once in a while,” while one in...
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Everyone’s Problem: Libraries Confront the Opioid Crisis
Illustration by Scott Bakal About six years ago, Doug Ute, superintendent of the Newark (OH) City Schools, says he began to see the effects of addiction among his students. Kids would show up to school...
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How To Become a Copyright Expert
Participants in a Creative Commons certificate beta training session for the LOUISconsortium of Louisiana libraries at the University of New Orleans Earl K. Long Library.Photos courtesy of The...
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What’s Your Why? Defining Your Mission | Take the Lead
Who? What? When? Where? Why? Growing up, I wrote many essays for English and other classes asking me to address the “Five Ws” as they related to a given topic. I venture to guess that you did, too. We...
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A teacher and librarian team up to give high schoolers better research and presentation skills.
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School librarians see declining budgets, but many have influence over spending, our survey shows.
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The only two targeted efforts to collect detailed information about school libraries and librarians ended in 2012.
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Who loses? An educational policy analyst looks at the data on school libraries, the charter and choice movement, and questions about racial equity.
View ArticleA Perfect Storm Impacts School Librarian Numbers
Several circumstances created conditions contributing to U.S. school librarian cuts. Here's a look at likely issues at three levels—national, state, and local/school district.
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The profession is evolving, and there are fewer of us. What has been happening? Here’s what the numbers say.
View Article10,000 School Librarians and Counting | Editorial
Nationally, the data confirms, the field has been grappling with a precipitous decline in full-time equivalent school librarian positions over the past decade. It's time to rebuild.
View ArticleSLJ’s Average Book Prices for 2018
The numbers you put to work every year are here—the list of average book prices for 2017 and 2018 to date.
View ArticleHow To Boost Spatial Skills, Key to STEM Learning
A school librarian develops exercises to foster spatial reasoning, prepping students for future success.
View ArticleMIT Developing Assessments To Quantify Makerspace Educational Value
University's Teaching Systems Lab is teaming up with MakerEd and two schools to try to quantify what students learn and, in the process, change the mind-set of educators and parents.
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Not all kids see the police as community stewards, but picture books do.
View ArticleStudy on Women in Social Studies Standards Finds Equity Issues
Staff at the National Women's History Museum studied every state's K–12 social studies standards for U.S. history to see what women and "topics associated with women" were discussed.
View ArticleCollaboration Puts Chicago History At Students’ Fingertips
Explore Chicago Collections, a free online portal, lets users search the digital collections of the Chicago Public Library, the Chicago History Museum, and other member institutions.
View ArticleNews, Info and Highlights from ALA Annual | News Bites
A few things to note from ALA Annual in New Orleans.
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