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Each year, the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom compiles a list of the top ten most frequently challenged books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The ALA condemns censorship and works to ensure free access to information. A challenge is defined as a formal, written complaint, filed with …
As this past week kicked off the first official day of summer, as well as several days where many of us toiled over which friend with an air conditioner to call next, it would appear that it is also time to talk about summer reading. It seems to be viewed as a time when we …
English teachers Marcelle Mentor and Amanda Stessen conduct a fun, enlightening workshop, Building Your Own Library Using Authentic Literacies. We explore Hemingway*, Smith Magazine, and other great sources for the six word memoir -- opening our hearts and minds to “multiple interpretations, insinuations, explorations.” Yes, we find that those brief, oft poetic phrases spark the …
“The freedom to read is essential to our democracy. It is continuously under attack,” - ALA The events taking place in Arizona's Tucson Unified School District are hitting too close to home. As a former ethnic studies student and as I continue my studies here at TC with the purpose of improving the educational experiences …
I was reading the news today and stumbled upon this. It made me smile. I hope more corporations will take part in similar initiatives to create long-term effects of positive change for young students! As the Huffington Post reports, Target has partnered up with The Heart of America Foundation to help transform 76 school libraries …
If your goal in teaching is to inspire your class to create works of text or art, you might consider using zines as teaching aides. Alison Piepmeier, author of Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, reports that, “Every time I teach a class about zines, a significant percentage of the students begin making their own. …
Education Program at Gottesman Libraries hosts different types of education related events in the library through the year. For instance, Socratic Conversation, book talk, workshop, news display, and film screening. I always find those events resourceful and enjoyable. This week, I attended a book talk hosted by Wendy Elmer: Book of Poems About Being a …
What do Russia, Ice T, Roger Ebert and digital publishing in Italy have in common? You guessed it! They're all at this year's Book Expo America (BEA) conference at the Jacob Javitz Center in NYC. BEA is the book world's annual conference where industry professionals gather to network, learn about trends, hear from authors and …
If that scares you (and your students) check out some of the resources below, many available online and at TC. Books If you’re teaching elementary school, you may already be familiar with these writers of poetry for children: Douglas Florian, Joyce Sidman and Lee Bennett Hopkins. TC has a pretty extensive collection of their books. …
Beginning today, the New York Times is implementing a "paywall": No longer will the content at NYTimes.com be free for unlimited use. Here's the official announcement made by the NYT on March 17th. Opinion on this issue has varied widely. The new paywall was very quickly criticized by a variety of interested parties, including …
" brings to life the interesting notion of browsing a text book on one screen while simultaneously looking up background references on the Web on the other--or taking notes; it has handwriting recognition so your lecture notes get automatically neatened. It's also being touted as a powerful media-playing machine--with HD video playback and audio recording …
Sociological Images has long been one of my favorite blogs, and I thought that this recent post, "The Gender Gap in Book Reviewing," might be of interest to Learning at the Library readers. Charts provided in the post (which were taken from another blog, with additional similar graphs) show that book reviews written by …
As an MLS student, I’m pretty up on library news. Within the past few weeks I’ve read that the mayor and other town officials in Enfield Connecticut pressured the public library to cancel a screening of Michael Moore’s Sicko. I read that Governor Brown of California is working on suspending all state funding for public …
Sometimes, I find myself totally overwhelmed by the vast range of books we have from which to choose. Should I catch up on classics? Or is it better to stay on the cutting edge? Fiction or nonfiction? Should I judge a book by its cover? And it is easy to forget which books we have …
I need to make an e-confession: NYPL revoked my borrowing privileges. As a newly minted librarian and outspoken fan of public libraries in all forms, I’m horrified and extremely embarrassed. Naturally, I’m writing about it on the internet. Here are my excuses: 1. It’s kind of out of my way, they don’t have a night …
Happy New Year to all patrons and friends of the Gottesman Libraries! Hopefully, at least some of you have made the resolution to read more this year. Of course, the wide world of the Internet is full of quality reading material: breaking news, long-form journalism, blogs, personal websites, and more. In fact, it's easy to …
As a Halloween treat this season, I thought I'd post a combination of two things I love: thrillers and “best of” lists. All are in the short story format (taking into consideration something I don't love, midterms!) I hope you find some time to scare yourself, at least once, this Halloween season. Mua ah ah!! …
As many teachers know, September is the time for setting classroom routines, meeting families and setting goals for your students. In the frenzy of all the things teachers have to do in a day, we hold on to the routines we enjoy the most, or feel are the most productive. With Banned Books Week running …
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