School Library Jounral RSS School Library Journal en_us Fri, 17 May 2013 17:29:19 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.rss.XMLServer.cls With so many middle and high school students using subscription databases and the Web to complete assignments, there's a lot more cutting and pasting taking place than we'd like to see. And while it's understandable that teachers would be tempted to give ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869624-320/the_problem_of_plagiarism.html.csp Colleen MacDonell ProfessionalReading 480332@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 14 May 2013 17:29:16 Also in this article:Diminishing ReturnsIt's 10 a.m. and Kate Elder's ninth-grade English class is in the library researching early 19th-century Paris, the setting of Victor Hugo's classic Les Miserables. In her first attempt to learn about the French Res... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/864152-320/the_google_game.html.csp Katrine Watkins and Kathleen El ProfessionalReading 452969@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 14 May 2013 17:29:16 KEANE, Nancy J. 101 Great, Ready-to-Use Book Lists for Teens. 264p. bibliog. CIP. Libraries Unlimited. 2012. pap. $40. ISBN 978-1-61069-134-5. LC 2011051428. Meant to serve as a continuation of The Big Book of Teen Reading Lists (Libraries Unlimited, 2006... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/894713-320/professional_reviews_july_2012.html.csp ProfessionalReading 913994@eschoolibraryjournal.com Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:24:03 BLAKEMORE, Catherine. Mixed Heritage: Your Source for Books for Children and Teens About Persons and Families of Mixed Racial, Ethnic, and/or Religious Heritage. 812p. CIP. index. websites. Adams-Pomeroy Press. July 2012. PLB $98.00. ISBN 978-0-9661009-... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/894438-320/professional_reading_june_2012.html.csp ProfessionalReading 903767@eschoolibraryjournal.com Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:23:29 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/894217-320/professional_reading_may_2012.html.csp Josephine Marc-Anthony ProfessionalReading 895552@eschoolibraryjournal.com Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:22:57 Do you need some support for young adult services in your library and community? Being a Teen Library Services Advocate (Neal-Schuman, ISBN 9781555707958) from former YALSA president Linda Braun is now available-and should be part of every teen librarian'... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/894309-320/being_a_teen_library_services.html.csp Dodie Ownes ProfessionalReading 898271@eschoolibraryjournal.com Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:22:57 BODART, Joni Richards. They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill: The Psychological Meaning of Supernatural Monsters in Young Adult Fiction. No. 43. 260p. (Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature Series). appendix. bibliog. index. notes. Scarecrow. ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/892992-320/professional_reading_january_2012.html.csp ProfessionalReading 852553@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:21:13 INTNER, Carol F. Homework Help from the Library: In Person and Online. 202p. diags. appendix. bibliog. index. Web sites. CIP. ALA. 2011. pap. $47. ISBN 978-0-8389-1046-7. LC 2010042096.   As libraries strive to reach out to patrons, and students turn ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/892677-320/professional_reviews_december_2011.html.csp ProfessionalReading 842222@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:20:38 BISHOP, Kay. Connecting Libraries with Classrooms: The Curricular Roles of the Media Specialist. 2nd ed. 122p. bibliog. further reading. index. Web sites. CIP. ABC-CLIO. 2011. pap. $85. ISBN 978-1-59884-599-0; ebook $85. ISBN 978-1-59884-600-3. LC 2010... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/892310-320/professional_reviews.html.csp ProfessionalReading 831427@eschoolibraryjournal.com Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:19:55 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/891942-320/professional_reading.html.csp ProfessionalReading 817854@eschoolibraryjournal.com Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:19:24 COOPER, Susan. The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels. 208p. Candlewick. Oct. 2011. Tr $22.99. ISBN 978-0-7636-5040-7; ebook $22.99. ISBN 978-0-7636-5657-7. LC 2010053682.   About a year before his death, Langst... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/891554-320/professional_reading.html.csp ProfessionalReading 804913@eschoolibraryjournal.com Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:18:54 FINDLAY, Diane, ed. LibrarySparks: Library Lessons. 200p. Upstart. 2010. pap. $17.95. ISBN 978-1-60213-052-4. LC number unavailable.   Compiled from the first six volumes of the magazine LibrarySpark s, this book contains 24 lessons by librarians and... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/891216-320/professional_reading.html.csp ProfessionalReading 792729@eschoolibraryjournal.com Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:18:24 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/889401-320/professional_reading.html.csp ProfessionalReading 731872@eschoolibraryjournal.com Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:16:21 COLE, Sonja. Booktalking Around the World: Great Global Reads for Ages 9-14. 178p. index. CIP. Libraries Unlimited. 2010. pap. $35. ISBN 978-1-59884-613-3. LC 2010036580.   Cole is the host of bookwink.com, a video booktalk website. In this authoritat... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/888952-320/professional_reading.html.csp ProfessionalReading 716815@eschoolibraryjournal.com Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:15:50 BANE, Rebecca C. Let’s Pretend: 50 Start-to-Finish Preschooler Programs for the Busy Librarian That Foster Imagination. 143p. photos. bibliog. index. CIP. Neal-Schuman. 2010. pap. $55. ISBN 978-1-55570-728-6. LC 2010029956.   All of these programs cont... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/888578-320/professional_reading.html.csp ProfessionalReading 703958@eschoolibraryjournal.com Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:15:25 Rick Riordan loves flavoring his mythological-based tales of Ancient Greece and Egypt with a heavy dose of educational spice, sending his young readers racing for forgotten tomes in their libraries. We catch up with the adored author and former English te... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/885597-320/rick_riordan_on_his_latest.html.csp Debra Whelan ProfessionalReading 613278@eschoolibraryjournal.com Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:15:25 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/887986-320/professional__reading.html.csp ProfessionalReading 689358@eschoolibraryjournal.com Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:15:25 CAMPBELL, Patty. Campbell’s Scoop: Reflections on Young Adult Literature. 262p. appendix. index. CIP. Scarecrow. 2010. Tr $40. ISBN 978-0-8108-7293-6. LC 2009045563. One of the foremost authorities in the field has compiled her essays, articles, and ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/887472-320/professional_reading.html.csp ProfessionalReading 673032@eschoolibraryjournal.com Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:15:25 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/887120-320/professional_reading.html.csp ProfessionalReading 661845@eschoolibraryjournal.com Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:13:47 Ah, Chatroulette. The relatively new site, which enables video chat with strangers, has sparked a lot of press and some concern among the education community. 'If the idea is for students to chat, there are other ways to set it up,'; says Cassandra Barnet... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/885045-320/chatroulette_whataposs_an_educator_to.html.csp Lauren Barack ProfessionalReading 585238@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/884946-320/a_copyright_course_for_librarians.html.csp Lauren Barack ProfessionalReading 584769@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 With serious trepidation, I entered my 15-year-old son's room. Would he be doing his homework, as promised?The good news: he was researching his paper on the history of the Roman Empire, following a Roman road of inquiry on the Internet. The bad news: he ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/884779-320/veni_vidi_wi-fi_a_father.html.csp T. A. Barron ProfessionalReading 583894@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 It all started with a classroom argument. Susan Stagnitta, a librarian at Liverpool (NY) High School, recalls her students debating the merits of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia created and edited entirely by volunteer contributors. "Can you trust... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/883209-320/the_wikipedia_wars.html.csp Kathy Ishizuka ProfessionalReading 548918@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Cybliography. That's a legitimate word, right? Well, it will be if librarian Laurie Murrell and her students at Fieldstone Middle School in Montvale, NJ, have anything to say about it. They are trying to get their made-up word into the dictionary.Several ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/871234-320/cyblio..._what.csp Meg McCaffrey ProfessionalReading 488397@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/871110-320/the_web_of_deceit.html.csp Lynn Blumenstein ProfessionalReading 487772@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Who would have thought that standardizing a school districts online databases would lead to a successful collaboration among media specialists, students, and parents? That's what happened in the summer of 2003, when the Evergreen School District in Vancou... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/871108-320/story.csp Anita Bowman ProfessionalReading 487763@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) in Ontario, Canada, has launched its “Every Kid a Card” campaign, which encourages youngsters under the age of 16 to apply for or renew a library card.Staples Business Depot, the city hockey team Ottawa 67, the Canadian Spa... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/871069-320/ottawa_launches_every_kid_a.html.csp Lynn Blumenstein ProfessionalReading 487567@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 More than 1,000 students at Hays (KS) High School received Apple iBooks when they enrolled in August, thanks to the Hays Public School Board, which approved a $1 million initiative to provide each student with a laptop computer. The board entered a three-... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/871051-320/ks_high_school_launches_laptop.html.csp Dodie Ownes ProfessionalReading 487477@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Understanding precisely how young people search for online information is both easy and frustrating. It's a snap because we can easily observe kids sitting down at a computer, going straight to Google, typing in one or two key words, and selecting a few W... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/870907-320/chat_room_they_canapost_always.html.csp Walter Minkel ProfessionalReading 486756@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 When I arrived at Ben Davis High School four years ago, I imagined classes coming to the library at the start of each semester to learn about information-literacy skills. But after three years of trying to attract a crowd, I realized that I was just dream... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/870855-320/where_the_kids_are.html.csp Pamela S. Bacon ProfessionalReading 486494@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 www.esmslibrary.com East Side Middle School library's site looks like a professional resource, built by someone who knows how to organize information. Vicki Builta (vickicb@acsc.net), East Side's librarian and the site's creator, says she's developed the ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/870847-320/web_site_of_the_month.html.csp Edited by Walter Minkel ProfessionalReading 486453@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Commenton this articleTwo of the nation's most influential educational technology organizations have created a new Web site to encourage educators to lobby legislators for adequate school technology funding. The Ed Tech Action Network (www.edtechactionnet... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/870650-320/at_last_a_site_to.html.csp Walter Minkel ProfessionalReading 485469@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/870556-320/chat_room_the_online_engines.html.csp Walter Minkel ProfessionalReading 484998@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/870300-320/pay-per-page_does_it_help_school.html.csp Debra Lau Whelan ProfessionalReading 483718@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 One day, while reading Anne and Harlow Rockwell’s classic picture book, The Toolbox (Macmillan, 1971), it occurred to me that any good nonfiction book is filled with tools. Tables of contents, indexes, captions, charts, and the like—they’re the hammers, s... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/870154-320/dont_gloss_over_the_glossary.html.csp Jane Rossi ProfessionalReading 482989@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/870131-320/waking_up_digital_content.html.csp Brian Kenney, Editor-in-Chief ProfessionalReading 482873@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/870068-320/story.csp Lauren Barack ProfessionalReading 482556@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 To provide students with the information skills needed to compete in today's global economy, North Carolina will launch the first-ever Center for 21st Century Skills.The first state initiative to implement the Partnership for 21st Century Skills' framewor... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869966-320/nc_fosters_info_literacy.html.csp Kathy Ishizuka ProfessionalReading 482046@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Born in Lebanon, educated in the U. S., and awarded a grant to study in Egypt, Dania Bilal is a multilingual associate professor who's long been fascinated with cyberspace.For the past seven years, Bilal has studied how children and their linguistic abili... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869894-320/information_science_professor_is_a.html.csp Staff ProfessionalReading 481684@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Despite the investment of millions of dollars in computers and other technology, Maryland public school students and teachers are not using these tools for higher-level analytical or problem-solving activities, according to a recent study by the Maryland ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869891-320/have_tools_lack_skills.html.csp Kathy Ishizuka ProfessionalReading 481669@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 I received a letter recently from Kendall Heide, a library media specialist and School Library Journal reader from Maize, KS. His letter brought to mind an interesting challenge: How do we change our schools from applying technology to "what we already do... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869879-320/reaching_21st-century_learners.html.csp Evan St. Lifer ProfessionalReading 481609@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869876-320/north_carolina_governor_sets_up.html.csp Eric Oatman ProfessionalReading 481595@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 April 14 was opening day for “Join the Major Leagues @ your library,” a joint effort of the American Library Association (ALA) and Major League Baseball (MLB) to promote libraries, 21st-century information-literacy skills, and baseball. Now in its fourth ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869867-320/its_a_hit_ala_teams.html.csp Eric Oatman ProfessionalReading 481549@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869777-320/aasl_promotes_21st-century_skills.html.csp Debra Lau Whelan ProfessionalReading 481100@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Are your students fearful of scientific information and data? Then take advantage of the recent craze over popular TV series such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Crossing Jordan. I did so last semester by devising a unit to increase my sixth-grade s... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869768-320/can_you_dig_it.html.csp Alice Robinson ProfessionalReading 481054@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869746-320/internet_users_overly_confident_but.html.csp Kathy Ishizuka ProfessionalReading 480944@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Due to time constraints and much focus on No Child Left Behind, I've had a hard time teaching in-depth research skills to my middle school students. So last fall, I approached my principal with an unprecedented idea: to offer kids a semester-long elective... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869684-320/electing_research.html.csp Mary Hoffman ProfessionalReading 480633@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The Educational Testing Service (ETS) is rolling out a new test for college students, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Literacy assessment, to measure their proficiency in evaluating the importance of information from various sources, a... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869662-320/literacy_skills_are_in_vogue.html.csp Evan St. Lifer ProfessionalReading 480522@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869595-320/instant_web_sites_just_add.html.csp Adam Janowski ProfessionalReading 480187@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The library community has been discussing, planning, lamenting and, yes, obsessing over this moment for years. In case you haven't heard, Google, flush with more than $1 billion after a stratospheric initial public offering, has forged agreements with som... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/869593-320/guiding_the_googlers.html.csp Evan St. Lifer, Editor ProfessionalReading 480177@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/865105-320/interested_in_attending_the_google.html.csp Joan Oleck ProfessionalReading 457734@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/865034-320/pluto_gets_the_heave-ho.html.csp Jennifer Pinkowski ProfessionalReading 457379@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/865025-320/battle_of_the_bulge.html.csp Marc Aronson ProfessionalReading 457333@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 More than half of all student-computing devices will be mobile by 2011 and online learning will grow by at least 26 percent annually over the next five years, says a recent survey of the top 2,500 school districts nationwide. "America's Digital Schools 20... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/864803-320/study_digital_literacy_to_advance.html.csp ProfessionalReading 456223@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/864569-320/camp_library.html.csp Jayashree Chatterjee ProfessionalReading 455053@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/864555-320/research_high.html.csp Debra Lau Whelan ProfessionalReading 454983@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/864462-320/magner_touts_librarians.html.csp Lauren Barack ProfessionalReading 454518@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/864355-320/the_gap.html.csp Andy Carvin ProfessionalReading 453983@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The wait is over. The America Association of School Librarians (AASL) officially unveiled its "Standards for the 21st-Century Learner" on October 25 during its 13th National Conference and Exhibition in Reno, NV. AASL President Sara Kelly Johns says the h... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/863905-320/aasl_unveils_new_learning_standards.html.csp SLJ Staff ProfessionalReading 451734@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 It seems like everyone has a blog these days. But can this tool be used to improve literacy and enhance collaborative learning? You bet, says Diane Penrod, a professor of Writing Arts at New Jersey's Rowan University and author of Using Blogs to Enhance L... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/863810-320/slj_chats_with_diane_penrod.html.csp Debra Lau Whelan ProfessionalReading 451258@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/863623-320/the_boy_problem_many_boys.html.csp Leonard Sax ProfessionalReading 450324@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Forget the title "media specialist"-Dave Fontaine calls himself an "Internet librarian." This full-time librarian spends his days at Middletown High School in Rhode Island. But many of you may know him as the adjunct at the University of Rhode Island who ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/863602-320/slj_talks_to_internet_librarian.html.csp Debra Lau Whelan ProfessionalReading 450218@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 After just one year in operation, UC Online Academy, a virtual high school operated by the University of California, has shut down.The online academy had envisioned enrolling up to 125 full-time ninth-graders but ended up with only eight students, says Cu... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/863532-320/university_of_californiaaposs_online_high.html.csp Debra Lau Whelan ProfessionalReading 449869@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 In this era of high-stakes testing, few librarians have time to teach art. That's why the Cincinnati Art Museum created a curriculum designed to engage young students in the subject-and improve their literacy skills.'Through a Child's Eyes'; is possibly t... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/863493-320/museum_creates_art_lessons_for.html.csp Debra Lau Whelan ProfessionalReading 449673@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 It's nice to have friends in high places. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a longtime supporter of school libraries, and Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) recently introduced a bill that would include media specialists in the 'highly qualified'; category of No Child L... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/863491-320/bill_proposes_highly_qualified_librarians.html.csp Debra Lau Whelan ProfessionalReading 449663@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/863277-320/can_we_make_peace_with.html.csp Chris Harris ProfessionalReading 448594@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Keep an eye out for one more Colorado Study, the third in a series of studies by the Library Research Service (LRS), which proves that school libraries have a direct link to student achievement. This time, however, the research will be led by Nicolle Stef... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/863023-320/third_colorado_study_is_in.html.csp Debra Lau Whelan ProfessionalReading 447324@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/862928-320/os_teacher_gates_on_education.html.csp Lauren Barack ProfessionalReading 446849@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Chances are that many of today's kids won't have decent jobs or earn livable wages unless we improve reading and math skills and close the achievement gap, warns a new report by the Educational Testing Service, which develops and administers the SAT and t... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/862918-320/poor_literacy_skills_threaten_our.html.csp Joan Oleck ProfessionalReading 446798@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Also in this article:Join the Party They Even Deliver Working Together Blogs, wikis, and other nifty Web-based tools, ones that enable us to create and distribute content like never before, get all the glory, it seems. Then there are the applications that... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/862910-320/taming_the_beast_social_bookmarking.html.csp Will Richardson ProfessionalReading 446758@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Illustration by Wesley Bedrosian. YouTube, Facebook, blogs, and text messages. Today's youth have access to an extraordinary amount of news sources, but how can they discern the accuracy of this information?A revolution in media has sparked an explosion o... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/860305-320/enhancing_news_literacy.html.csp Lena Consolini Quinn ProfessionalReading 433728@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 error: ERROR #6901: XSLT XML Transformer Error: SAXParseException: Expected entity name for reference (, line 2, column 49)... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/860179-320/click_clack_mooin_the_white.html.csp ProfessionalReading 433100@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 If there's one thing all library and information science school graduates share, it's some degree of dissatisfaction with their professional education. It was too practical. Or too theoretical. There wasn't enough technology. There was too much. It failed... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/859983-320/what_should_every_librarian_know.html.csp Brian Kenney, Editor-in-Chief ProfessionalReading 432117@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Country singer Reba McEntire is teaming up with PBS's Reading Rockets to host a new show about how to make the most of the years before a child starts school. 'Toddling Toward Reading'; is the newest episode of the Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/859476-320/singer_reba_mcentire_teams_with.html.csp SLJ Staff ProfessionalReading 429579@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Jumpstart's third annual Read for the Record event, which it bills as 'the world's largest shared reading experience,'; is set to take place October 2. It aims to bring national attention to the importance of preparing children to read at an early age.Thi... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/859446-320/get_ready_for_jumpstartaposs_read.html.csp SLJ Staff ProfessionalReading 429430@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 error: ERROR #6901: XSLT XML Transformer Error: SAXParseException: Expected entity name for reference (, line 2, column 252)... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/859391-320/kanyes_mom_lives_on.html.csp ProfessionalReading 429156@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/859387-320/still_wild_about_books.html.csp ProfessionalReading 429134@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 There's more evidence that reading aloud to young children-especially in an engaging manner-promotes emergent literacy and language development and better prepares them for school.'Reading aloud to children: the evidence'; says the practice promotes a lov... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/859360-320/reading_aloud_better_prepares_kids.html.csp SLJ Staff ProfessionalReading 429000@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Do summer reading programs really work? That's what Dominican University's Graduate School Library and Information Science (GSLIS) is hoping to find out. It's launching phase two of a three year research project studying the impact that summer reading pro... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/859356-320/do_summer_reading_programs_help.html.csp SLJ Staff ProfessionalReading 428980@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Scottish writer Ian Rankin, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels, will head a government commission to explore the declining standards of literacy in Scottish schools.The Edinburgh-based author will investigate why thousands of pupils fail to achieve... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/859349-320/ian_rankin_to_head_uk.html.csp SLJ Staff ProfessionalReading 428944@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Although more than half of California's little ones attend preschool, those who have the most to gain from the program are the least likely to participate, says a new study from the RAND Corporation.Researchers at the nonprofit research organization found... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/859348-320/california_preschools_fall_short.html.csp SLJ Staff ProfessionalReading 428940@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/859296-320/kids_still_wild_about_books.html.csp SLJ Staff ProfessionalReading 428679@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Librarians across the country will be asking students to step up to the plate with a new program that encourages sports fans of all ages to test their knowledge of baseball trivia while improving their literacy skills.The American Library Association (ALA... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/858947-320/ala_kicks_off_step_up.html.csp Slj Staff ProfessionalReading 426935@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Also in this article:Where to Shop for a Search ToolSure, there are a lot of nifty tools on the Web, all those social applications, and the like. Still most of us go online for one thing-to perform a basic search. Say you can't recall the name of the acto... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/858887-320/start_your_search_engines_taming.html.csp Anna Adam and Helen Mowers ProfessionalReading 426635@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Who says kids don't like to read? A new study from the United Kingdom says the majority of young people enjoy reading and rate themselves as proficient readers.In fact, kids are quite proud to be labeled as readers, with 71 percent saying the description ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/858762-320/u.k._kids_say_reading_is.csp Staff ProfessionalReading 426009@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 If you have no idea what to make of the newly released standards from the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), have no fear. Help is on the way.AASL's 'Standards for the 21st-Century Learner,'; which offers a complete revision of 1998's Infor... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/858607-320/new_aasl_standards_help_on.html.csp Staff ProfessionalReading 425235@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/858604-320/summit_deluxe.html.csp Staff ProfessionalReading 425220@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 It's 2010. Do you know where your personal information is? Unless you rang in the New Year from some off-the-grid cave, much of your digital identity is out there floating freely around the Net. Going online requires a careful balancing act, in which user... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/858474-320/choose_privacy_its_2010._do.csp Christopher Harris ProfessionalReading 424569@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Give a kid a joystick, and she's occupied for a day. Teach her how to create her own video game, and she's a learner for life. That's the goal of Global Kids and its games-based educational training sessions, which the New York-based nonprofit kicked off ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/858471-320/gamers_in_training_global_kids.html.csp Lauren Barack ProfessionalReading 424555@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The Calgary Board of Education (CBE) in Canada is revamping the role school libraries play in the lives of students by unveiling a learning commons, where books and other resources are combined with the latest technology and highly trained staff to create... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/858231-320/calgary_board_of_ed_to.html.csp Lauren Barack ProfessionalReading 423354@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Frances Jacobson Harris, Joyce Valenza, and Harold Rheingold believe librarians are on the front lines in teaching students how to evaluate which sources are relevant and which are not. 'Crap detection,'; as the three panelists called it during their webc... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/858044-320/librarians_as_um_crap_detectors.html.csp Lauren Barack ProfessionalReading 422420@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Discovery Education is hosting two free, virtual professional development programs for educators and administrators: the Fourth Annual streamathon and the Fall 2009 Virtual Conference. Focusing on how to incorporate digital content and the latest educatio... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/857942-320/free_virtual_professional_development_events.html.csp Dodie Ownes ProfessionalReading 421910@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) recently announced three terrific online courses for the fall. The first one, 'AIMing at Tweens: Advising, Involving, Motivating,'; is taught by Teri Lesesne, a library science professor at Sam Houston... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/857932-320/go_teen_crazy_with_yalsa.html.csp Dodie Ownes ProfessionalReading 421860@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Libraries of the future will primarily manage digital repositories of information rather than warehouse physical books. A more functional method geared toward easy browsing will replace the Dewey Decimal system. And computers will surpass human librarians... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/857840-320/the_next_big_thing_is.html.csp Christopher Harris ProfessionalReading 421400@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/857803-320/yalsa_young_adult_literature_symposium.html.csp ProfessionalReading 421210@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The American Association of School Librarians' (AASL) decision to require permission-and potentially a fee-to commercially use its Standards for the 21st-Century Learner has generated ire among its members.'At first I was annoyed, but now getting mad,'; p... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/857735-320/sticky_standards_aasl_requires_permission.html.csp Lauren Barack ProfessionalReading 420870@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/857734-320/my_first_necc_the_big.html.csp Kathy Ishizuka ProfessionalReading 420865@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 www.loc.gov/teachersMost of us know the excitement that primary sources can bring to teaching. Photographs, maps, correspondence, and other original records that have survived from the past spark the imagination, and a staggering 13 million of these items... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/857732-320/site_of_the_month_library.html.csp Kathy Ishizuka ProfessionalReading 420854@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 A recent firestorm on Twitter involved media specialists and education technology experts who considered whether librarians who don't engage in social media are jeopardizing their careers not to mention student learning.'Can a media specialist do their jo... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/857471-320/social_media_specialists_the_use-or.html.csp Lauren Barack ProfessionalReading 419549@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 I wonder if the American Library Association (ALA) truly understands what it's getting into with its launch of ALA Connect. Part of the organization's new site design, Connect uses the open-source Drupal framework to provide an online collaborative worksp... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/857308-320/ala_connect_the_mother_ship.html.csp Christopher Harris ProfessionalReading 418726@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Cracking Dante's Inferno is a tough row to hoe for any high school student-but what if the reading assignment was conducted via Twitter?The exercise 'Twitter in Hell'; was handed to some lucky seniors at University Laboratory High School at the University... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/857155-320/twittering_dante.html.csp Lauren Barack ProfessionalReading 417957@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 For those of you wondering how the American Association of School Librarians'(AASL) new learning standards are being incorporated into school library programs, the wait is over. AASL has just released Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action, whic... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/856929-320/error_error_6901_xslt_xml.html.csp Rocco Staino ProfessionalReading 416821@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Here's one more way to help prove the value of your jobs. The Library of Michigan and Michigan Department of Education have unveiled a new videothat highlights the need for fully stocked media centers led by qualified librarians.The '21st Century Media Ce... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/856800-320/michigan_doe_video_shows_importance.html.csp SLJ Staff ProfessionalReading 416168@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 I love books, especially the actual physical ones. I madly scribble notes in the margins, and stuff them with related articles as if they were file folders. I can think of no better afternoon than one spent indulging in the discovery of ideas within a lib... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/856521-320/web_2.0_in_hardcover_a.csp Steve Hargadon ProfessionalReading 414767@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Buffy Hamilton (pictured) thinks one shouldn't take online content filters lying down, but instead build a well-supported case to get them removed.'I think out of an effort to be proactive, keep children safe, and avoid litigation, schools may err on the ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/856519-320/fight_content_filters.html.csp Lauren Barack ProfessionalReading 414757@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Photo by Tanjila (www.flickr.com/photos/tanj). Forget all that malarky about digital natives and immigrants. It never did work to describe the reality of technology adoption. I've been using computers all of my life. But am I still a digital native even ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/856518-320/dumping_on_digital_natives._its.csp Christopher Harris ProfessionalReading 414754@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Also in this article:Kat Meyer: All a Twitter about booksWill Richardson: Name your passionPaula Chase Hyman: Celebrating books by people of colorKaleb Nation: Establish your personal brandMitali Perkins: Toasting new titles on TwitterMichael Porter and D... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/professionalreading/856513-320/people_who_need_people_how.html.csp Kathy Ishizuka ProfessionalReading 414728@eschoolibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45