Note: This post was updated to reflect US Copyright Law. Many students are now learning at home due to COVID-19. For my elementary school students, story time is an important and exciting part of the day. How will students hear… Read More ›
The coronavirus is impacting travel plans as I write this post. Some families are canceling spring vacation plans. Now might be a good time to remind the learning community that you can take a trip around the world without having… Read More ›
What if I told you there are amazing resources you can easily use with students and teachers that will help create curiosity, promote critical thinking, reinforce information literacy skills, and make curricular connections? Better yet, what if I told you… Read More ›
In the March/April issue of Knowledge Quest, contributing authors Barbara Stripling, Suzanna Panter, Naomi Giles, and I offer stories, strategies, and testimonies of successful advocacy practices—ideas with universal appeal—that show the impact of a well-funded, strong school library. To be… Read More ›
Overcoming the abundance of beautiful and free information offers Every time I get an offer from an author or vendor about a complimentary service or item, it makes me feel so good. I noticed the very first offer during the… Read More ›
Well, this will be a School Library Month for the record books. Like most of you, I have been uprooted from my school library and have set up a remote library headquarters from my dining room where I wrestle new… Read More ›
As schools across the country are closing for weeks, months, and some for the rest of the year, school librarians (and other educators) are undoubtedly experiencing waves of emotion. We are sad because we miss our students and colleagues. We… Read More ›
Are you looking for online reading lessons to share with your learning community? If so, I am creating worksheets for books available online. My hope is that the worksheets will help remote learners respond to literature. This is a work-in-progress…. Read More ›
On March 13, 2020, at 1:10 p.m., during the middle of a school day, the governor of Louisiana announced that all public schools in Louisiana would be closing until April 13, 2020. While I had a small inkling that we… Read More ›
Occasionally there is a picture book that I know will work well with a certain format of primary sources before I even open it. That was the case with Jennifer Thermes book Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island. There… Read More ›
I can’t believe it was only a few weeks ago that I was meeting friends at the Museum of Natural History to see a new exhibit. We had lunch and walked around without a thought about societal upending. Later that… Read More ›
Humans, Information, and Behavior People by and large are not stupid (despite what some might claim based on the state of the world). But people are easily misinformed, and we tend to make decisions based on our feelings. As trained… Read More ›
My school district in Kansas announced that we will go to online learning soon (no set date yet) in lieu of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a high school librarian, I have so many questions. What is our role in a… Read More ›
The next CopyTalk is a timely one: how to manage copyright when everything is suddenly “only digital” for libraries, schools, colleges, and universities that are closed due to the global pandemic. The webinar will include information on Section 108 (the… Read More ›