Margarita Engle is the author of the 2006 Pura Belpré Medal Winner, The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano, and The Surrender Tree, which received the 2009 Pura Belpré Medal as well as a 2009 Newbery Honor.
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers is a division of MacMillan which provides a wonderful [...]

The program below is one of many featured on ALA’s online clearinghouse for school/public library cooperation managed by the AASL/ALSC/YALSA Interdivisional Committee on School/Public Library Cooperation. Visit the clearinghouse to learn more or share your own exemplary partnership!
Title of Program: Great Library Card Adventure/Get Carded
Type of Program: Library Card Campaigns
Age level: Elementary & [...]

Today is the first day of Banned Books Week. Robert P. Doyle writes in Books Challenged and Banned in 2008-2009: Speak-Read-Know,
The challenges documented in this list are not brought by people merely expressing a point of view; rather, they represent requests to remove materials from schools or libraries, thus restricting access to them [...]

The first 1000 libraries to register to be part of National Gaming Day @ your library (Saturday, November 14, 2009) may request free donations of games. Registration is open until mid-October.

Sponsored by Scholastic Library Publishing and administered by the ALA Public Awareness Committee, this $3000 grant supports a single library’s public outreach efforts during National Library Week. National Library Week 2010 will be celebrated April 11-17. The 2010 theme is Communities thrive @ your library.
The application deadline is October 16, 2009. Proposals must use the [...]

During the 2009 Annual Conference, the American Library Association’s Council adopted the Minors and Internet Interactivity statement as part of ALA’s Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights. As stated in the introduction to the Interpretations,
Although the Articles of the Library Bill of Rights are unambiguous statements of basic principles that should govern the [...]

At the 2009 ALA Annual Conference the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) presented the terrific program Serving Students on the Spectrum.  The program was hosted by Alison Ernst, Director – Northfield Mount Hermon School (MA) Library and Academic Resources and Ernie Cox, Media Specialist – St. Timothy’s School (NC) with the following panelists: Patty [...]

Please join us for the Pura Belpré Celebración on Sunday afternoon, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Hilton Chicago Hotel, Continental Ballroom A/B. All award-winning authors and illustrators will be in attendance.

The AASL/ALSC/YALSA Interdivisional Committee on School/Public Library Cooperation is updating its clearinghouse of information about school/public library cooperative activities. The list of programs submitted in 2004 is located on the ALSC Web site –> Initiatives –> Partnerships –> Clearinghouse of School/Public Library Cooperative Programs.
Please submit your successful school/public library partnership. Your partnership story will be [...]

Starting in October 2009, Book Links magazine will be published as a quarterly print supplement to Booklist, the book review magazine of the American Library Association. The complete press release is available here.