Building Your Literal Tool Kit: Hand Tools To Improve Your School Library Experience
Building Your Tool Kit We often speak metaphorically about the need for building our professional...
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Tag: library space
Movement for Manga
Over the years my library’s graphic novel section has grown exponentially. What started as a few manga series collections has morphed into graphic novels from all genres and nonfiction areas. With all the growth and change...
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SLRI Documentary Makes Case for “Overdue” Recognition of School Librarians
It’s overdue. We need to tell the stories of how valuable school librarians are. School librarian...
Read MoreDC Virgo Preparatory Academy Hopes to Spark Joy in Reading While Building Literacy Skills through Inspire Special Event Grant
At D.C. Virgo Preparatory Academy (DCVPA), we focus on four pillars that drive school decision-making: Social and Emotional Learning, School and Community Resiliency, Literacy, and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support/Positive...
Read MoreWhere to Start? Opening a Neglected Library Space
Recently, I went to a school library in lower Manhattan whose neglected space overwhelmed the new librarian and me. Not only were books piled everywhere–library books, classroom titles, those annoyingly thin...
Read MoreSummer Planning – Assessing the School Library Facility
Yes, Rest and Reboot, but Plan! By the time summer rolls around each year, many of us are exhausted and in need of rest and a reboot. Every other book or article I have read so far this break cover these topics. While rest is...
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Touring an Updated High School Library
As we creep closer to summer, I reflect on this school year and how I missed going into different...
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