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Picture Books and Primary Sources: A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington by Carole Boston Weatherford, Rob Sanders, and Byron McCray

By Tom Bober on 01/31/2023 • ( 0 )

After writing dozens of these posts and working on dozens of other picture book and primary source pairings, there are few that truly shift my thinking about how I should be teaching a topic in my school library. But that… Read More ›

Space Resources for Day One of Crayola Creativity Week: Endless Possibilities

By Karin Greenberg on 01/23/2023 • ( 0 )

Star Gazing One recent night when the temperature in New York hovered around 15 degrees, my dog needed to go outside. I had been sitting on the couch reading (ironically!) A Year in Jamaica, Diana Lewes’s memoir from 1889. While… Read More ›

Crayola Creativity Week Day One – You Are Going

By Hannah Byrd Little on 01/18/2023 • ( 0 )

Creativity Week January is considered International Creativity Month. In celebration, AASL partnered with Crayola to provide a week of sponsored activities in the last week of January. The first day of the Crayola Creativity Week features NASA astronauts with a… Read More ›

Sharing Selection & Reconsideration Policies to Support Reading Choices

By AASL/ALSC/YALSA Joint Committee on School Library/Public Library Cooperation on 01/06/2023 • ( 2 )

We as librarians understand that offering a rich, diverse range of reading options to meet needs of all community members is a major focus of both school and public libraries. Unfortunately, some individuals (and, recently, groups) are working to limit… Read More ›

Here are the Top 22 Knowledge Quest Posts of 2022

By Maureen Schlosser on 12/22/2022 • ( 0 )

What was your favorite Knowledge Quest blog post of 2022? Did it make it on the top 22 list? Take a look at the most popular Knowledge Quest blogs of the year. You’ll find lots of ideas to try in… Read More ›

Are you attending LibLearnX?

By Hannah Byrd Little on 12/19/2022 • ( 0 )

LibLearnX is the future. One of my favorite library conferences in my 20-plus years in the industry has been the ALA midwinter conference. But according to a December 2021 Publisher Weekly article, “The ALA Midwinter Meeting is history, LibLearnX is… Read More ›

Speed Dating with Nonfiction Books

By Karin Greenberg on 12/15/2022 • ( 3 )

Every year I collaborate with the 11th-grade English teachers on a nonfiction independent reading project. The goal is to increase student agency and create excitement about literature. While many juniors initially express an aversion to reading, they often show an… Read More ›