David Weinberger’s Everthing is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder was suggested here by an ALSC Blog reader. Thanks, afewsocks!
These Professional Reading posts aren’t book reviews, but rather my response to something that I read from the book. The following is an excerpt from pages 142-143:
The trust we place in the Britannica enables [...]

AASL (American Association of School Librarians) is beginning a Blog Book Club. Sounds like fun. It also sounds so much more friendlier than what I call “Professional Reading” posts. Perhaps we can tie in with some of the same books.

I have a sun and moon storytime, and I’m all right.

The moon inspires dreamy, quiet, and reflective books; books that are lovely for a quiet parent-child bedtime story, but not always a good fit for a morning storytime. That’s why I was pleased to find Carolyn Curtis’s I Took the Moon for a Walk.  While it’s [...]

I have read a lot of multicultural books, but haven’t thought that much about the field of multicultural education, which is filled with theories, clashing philosophies, and plenty of controversy. So now, besides reading and rereading multicultural books, I’m also reading textbooks and academic articles and scholarly arguments.

… with a lot of help and endorsement from their English teachers.
In March, all my (95) 7th graders had to pick a book of classics from a list of titles that the 7th grade English teachers and I had compiled. There are about 40 titles on this list, running the gamut from Little Women, [...]

Last night we held our first Wii program, at a very small branch. I’m talking so small that when 15 people show up for a program, you start to worry where to put them. In a town of around 1000 (this includes the farms and small communities nearby), we had just that—15 people show up [...]

by Adriana Dominguez
El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day) is fast approaching, on April 30th! As part of its new collaboration with ALSC, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has organized public events to help raise awareness of Día among the general public.
Spanish radio personality and Rayo author, Dra. Isabel, [...]

Toddlers are fascinated by babies.  Toddlers are fascinated by animals.  Put together a baby animals storytime and you have a win-win situation!

I was concerned that Kate Banks’s Fox, although a lovely story, might be a bit too quiet and gentle for my rambunctious group of toddlers. I’m happy to be proven wrong in this situation!  Toddlers [...]

Pat Mora’s blog, Bookjoy!, stresses sharing the love of books and reading among families and community. El día de los niños/El día de los libros, Children’s Day/Book Day (Día) is April 30, but it is much more than one specific day.
Ms Mora explains it beautifully in her April 18 Bookjoy blog entry:
Día is a daily [...]

Many of us have heard about outcomes based evaluation but have not learned all of the ins and outs of actually applying the techniques to a real program or project. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), in partnership with Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) is offering a low-cost online course on outcomes-based planning [...]