Have you ever compiled a list of recommended materials for children? That’s basically the job of Priority Group II committees.
Kathy Krasniewicz, Chairman of the ALSC Notable Children’s Video Committee, shares:
The charge of our committee is to select, annotate, and present for publication annually a list of notable videotapes and video-discs of interest to children, [...]

Hennepin County Libary in Minnesota produces a “Birth to Six” enewsletter  that contains fingerplays and book suggestions.   Go to http://www.hclib.org/BirthtoSix/ to sign up.  Although some of the information in the enews is about their local storytimes, the new fingerplays that arrive every other month are very nice to have.

The American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting will be held January 11 through 16, 2008, in Philadelphia, PA. Here are a few online places you may use to help you plan your meeting schedule.

For fully registered attendees, the ALA Midwinter Event planner is available.
A list of ALSC meeting locations is available on the ALSC web [...]

…A class comes for a library tour, you do your usual thing, and then a couple days later a manila envelope shows up on your desk with 22 hand made thank you cards from a bunch of creative second graders. Or maybe it’s one giant poster-size piece which each of the kids signed. Sometimes they each say what they liked best about their visit (“the books!” “the puppets!” “the dead bugs in the light fixtures!”)…

Linda Braun, YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) blog manager, shares with ALSC Blog her recent podcast (YALSA Podcast #30) in which she speaks to Teen Librarian Sarah Couri and Children’s Librarian Rebecca Schosha, both with the Donnell Library Center of the New York Public Library, about their new monthly program that gives adults the [...]

On Monday, December 17, Nerdfighters took over YouTube.
Ok, first you might ask, what is a Nerdfighter? According to John Green, author of Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines, and one half of Brotherhood 2.0 , a Nerdfighter Is like a regular person, only instead of being made of bones and things, a [...]

Children’s literature is certainly not lacking in Christmas books. While there is a great variety of quality, I have many favorites. While not all are suitable read alouds for a toddler storytime, I’d like to mention a few long-time favorites.

Waiting for Christmas touches on the excitement and impatience felt by children celebrating Christmas.  Christmas just [...]

The American Library Association issued a press release stating a live webcast will be available of the “national announcement of top books, video and audiobooks for children and young adults” beginning at 7:45 a.m., EST, on Monday, January 14.
For you lucky ducks who will be at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in person, the doors of [...]

I can remember the excitement in her voice as she came over the hill, “Grandfather! Grandfather!” Nestled in a small cabin in the Swiss Alps, with porridge on the stove and a goat at the door, Heidi was coming home—the same way I felt every time my mom opened that book.
It was the sound [...]

‘Tis the season! Trees are trimmed, candles are lit, gifts are wrapped, cookies are baked, families make plans to gather, turkeys go on sale, music fills the air….
This is the time of year that children’s librarians debate whether or not to have Santa Storytimes, and wish they could find a really good book that is [...]