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• Celebrating Our Library Culture

  By Leanne Ellis on 11/22/2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Culture is an aged word, but one with staying power. And culture describes just about everything: work, school, family, ethnicity, country, fandom, and on and on. People want to know what defines a culture, how to create and promote it,… Read More ›

• Equity: Moving Beyond Intention to Inclusive Practice

  By Nancy Jo Lambert on 11/21/2019 • ( 0 )

  

  At AASL 2019 I attended the session “Equity: Moving Beyond Intention to Inclusive Practice” presented by Julie Stivers, Mount Vernon Library in Raliegh, North Carolina. Julie served as the task force chair for the 2017-2018 YALSA Presidential Theme of Youth… Read More ›

• Get Ready for the Christmas Bird Count with These Books

  By Maureen Schlosser on 11/21/2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The first Audubon Christmas Bird Count took place 119 years ago. The purpose of the event was to save birds from a hunting tradition. Hunters would gather on Christmas day to shoot as many birds as they could. The person… Read More ›

• Picture Books and Primary Sources: Lines, Bars and Circles: How William Playfair Invented Graphs by Helaine Becker and Marie-Eve Tremblay

  By Tom Bober on 11/20/2019 • ( 0 )

  

  There are certainly historically based picture books about inventions that I’ve read before, but none may have surprised me more than Helaine Becker’s Lines, Bars and Circles. I had never attributed the creation of the line, bar, and circle graphs… Read More ›

• Create Your Own Graph: A Math Collaboration in 5 Steps

  By Kelly Hincks on 11/19/2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Recently, a second-grade teacher and I had the opportunity to work together on a project in math. Her class was finishing a unit on graphing and I recommended the book The Great Graph Contest by Loreen Leedy. The book sparked… Read More ›

• Creating Curation Sensations

  By Margaret Sullivan on 11/18/2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The concurrent sessions are my favorite part of the AASL National Conference because these one-hour workshops always provide me with inspiring ideas I can take back to my library. One of those sessions was “Creating Curation Sensations,” presented by Katherine… Read More ›

• Word on Words, Books, and Reading

  By Hannah Byrd Little on 11/16/2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “Choose words carefully.” Two of the keynote at AASL 2019 National Conference Ellen Oh and Dr. Adolph Brown III give inspiring words of wisdom. These inspirational speeches are not only from research and best practice but also from their father… Read More ›

• Engaging Students with Inquiry Using Primary Sources

  By Tom Bober on 11/15/2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Teaching research is not just teaching about where information is according to Rebecca Newland. In her 2019 AASL National Conference presentation “Engaging Students with Inquiry Using Primary Sources,” she noted that teaching researching is also an opportunity to teach students… Read More ›

• Teaching Students to SIFT through News and Information

  By Colleen R. Lee on 11/15/2019 • ( 0 )

  

  2019 AASL National Conference Session: Fighting Fake News with Visual Literacy This is Colleen Lee, reporting live from AASL2019, Louisville, KY, on the Friday, November 15, Session “Fighting Fake News with Visual Literacy,” presented by Lois D. Wine, April M…. Read More ›

• 5 Kinds of Nonfiction

  By Tom Bober on 11/15/2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Whether we organize the nonfiction in our library by Dewey, ditching Dewey, or some other method, our libraries are often organized by topic. In her AASL National Conference presentation, Melissa Stewart gave conference attendees another way to think about nonfiction… Read More ›

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