Becky Russell, School Library Senior Consultant, Colorado Department of Education wrote this week to share an exciting project relating to the State’s retooled Power Library Program. The program and its competencies are closely tied to the newly revised Colorado Academic Standards, which integrate 21st century skills across grade and content area. It is a highly [...]
It was Shannon!
August 19, 2011 By 3 Comments
The article Casting a Wide Net for Mentors appeared on the front page of Tuesday’s USA Today. (Here’s the link to the online version.) The article begins: Julia Albaugh’s high school in Van Meter, Iowa didn’t have a course that would teach her about marketing and public relations. So a librarian in the school helped [...]
On library mashups
July 31, 2011 By 2 Comments
Don’t you just love it when we build on each others’ good work? Here’s what happened. Jennifer LaGarde, aka Library Girl, inspired by the work of Carl Harvey, created her Are You Ready? poster/infographic. Around the same time, a number of us discovered and were playing around with Thinglink. (I think I first discovered it [...]
School Libraries: What’s Next (an ebook project)
July 22, 2011 By
Share your vision for our future. Please consider contributing to this exciting crowdsourced collaborative visioning project coordinated by Kristin Fontichiaro and Buffy Hamilton. To coincide with the 2011 Treasure Mountain and AASL National Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, we are engaging in an ebook publishing experiment, and we want you to be a part of it! [...]
CLSA Bookstore
June 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Jane Lofton, librarian at Mira Costa High School, asked me share Jackie Siminitus’ new promotional flyer for the Cafe Press Library Store (cafepress.com/csla). The online store features art donated by book illustrators in support of the new California Campaign for Strong School Libraries. You don’t have to be from California to appreciate and use these [...]
Tell me, what do you teach?
May 26, 2011 By 10 Comments
In It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey was forced to consider what would happen to Bedford Falls had he never lived. Perhaps, like George, it is time for us to seriously consider our full impact on those around us. Perhaps, it is time to explain exactly what our own Pottervilles might look like should short-sighted [...]
Salem Press 2011 Library Blog Awards
May 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
At a time when so many folks don’t have a clear enough picture of what libraries look like, or where libraries are going, or who librarians are, we need to point to vision. The Salem Press 2011 Library Blog Awards literally does that kind of pointing with its nominated library bloggers. It presents a cross-section [...]
Persecution of Teacher-Librarians (guest post by Rob Darrow)
May 16, 2011 By 5 Comments
Perhaps, no one expected a library inquisition. Just in case you haven’t been following the situation in California, I asked California colleague, Rob Darrow to describe the frightening situation in a guest post. (May 18th update: LAUSD librarians, fighting for their jobs, get a grilling | 89.3 KPCC Listen to this call in show from [...]
Why I need my library: Check out these videos!
May 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
It may be too late to enter, but it’s not too late to enjoy and share some of the fabulous submissions in ALA’s Why I Need My Library Video Contest. Here’s just one of the many true gems. Check out this professional produced music video from New Canaan High School. (Directed by Nicola Scandiffio. Production [...]
NCCE TL Summit
March 4, 2011 By 4 Comments
Those TLs in the great Northwest are shaking things up! Don’t miss the UStream broadcasts of some of the highlights of Wednesday’s TL Summit, part of this week’s Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE) Conference, in Portland. I am including a couple of my choices of most inspiring moments. Mike Eisenberg provocatively questions some of [...]
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