REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services, is pleased to announce that the San Francisco Public Library, Topeka & Shawnee County (Kan.) Public Library, have been selected to be the recipients of the 2009 Estela and Raúl Mora Award for their commendable efforts in promoting El Día de los Niños/El Día de [...]

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 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 [...]

A colleague of mine suggested that ALSC members may be interested in
Reading for Healthy Families Oregon a statewide early literacy training program utilizing the Every Child Ready to Read @ your library curriculum. For more information please visit the RFHF website: http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/youthsvcs/rfhf.home.page.shtml.
The Oregon State Library and Oregon Commission on Children and Families have partnered [...]

If you are in the Philadelphia area, or will be there for NCTE in November, consider the workshop hosted by the Children’s Literature Assembly. It is on biographies and will feature a host of wonderful authors including Russell Freedman, Gene Barretta, Candace Fleming, Deborah Hopkinson, Kathleen Krull, Anne Schwartz, and Shadra Strickland. The workshop is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

by Tricia Bohanon Twarogowski
In this final installment of the series examining programs for children with special needs and their families, I share ideas on two final topics: potential partnerships and future possibilities for this specialized programming.
Partnerships
As mentioned in Part One, reaching out to community organizations affiliated with special needs is beneficial not [...]