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 & [...]

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.

Smithsonian Education offers educator resources including Virtual Heritage Tours. If you haven’t had the chance, I encourage you to explore the site and share it with your patrons.

The program presented 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: Educator Library Cards
Type of Program: Library Cards for Educators/Schools
Age level: Elementary & Secondary
Description [...]

September is Library Card Sign-Up Month!
Celebrate Library Card Sign-Up Month during September with the Kids! @ your library® Campaign.  The online toolkit provides ideas and templates that you can adapt to showcase materials and resources in your library. 
You can also find free resources at: http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/advocacy/publicawareness/alainitiatives/otherinitiatives/card/librarycard.cfm
The official site for Library Card Sign-Up Month.
The Association [...]

by Teresa Walls
I’m putting together a pecha kucha (a 6-minute powerpoint presentation of 20 slides) to be shared at the Allen County (IN) Public Library Camp. Patricia Ross Conover’s “Quilt It” project from her book, Technology Projects for Library Media Specialists and Teachers is my inspiration. Speaking of library camps, I wish I lived closer [...]

Author Rita Williams-Garcia invites aspiring writers between the ages of 12-19 to enter the RWG Short Story Contest. Submission dates are September 30, 2009, to January 22, 2010. For more information, visit Rita Williams-Garcia’s website (http:www.ritawg.com) and click on the Writing Contest tab.

My four-year-old child is interested in robots, so we’ve been talking about how to make one. Our next trip to our local library will include checking out several books with the Dewey Decimal number 629.892. While we will probably use tin cans to make something that looks like a robot, his interest has led me [...]

Were you in the audience at the Authors Readers Theatre program in Chicago at ALA hosted by the ALSC public awareness committee?
If you were, then we hope you’re charged up about doing a readers theater program at YOUR library after seeing the performance by Avi, Pam Munoz Ryan, Brian Selznick, and Sarah Weeks. If you [...]

Greetings from Idaho! I’m Kimbre Chapman and I run the Children’s Department at a library in the Boise area, Caldwell, Idaho. Have any of my fellow youth services librarians ever wondered why the ALA conference is scheduled in the middle of Summer Reading!? ALA has been over for a week now and I’m finally getting a chance to [...]