The American Library Association officially supports the creation of a permanent home in Washington D.C. for the National Women’s History Museum, according to an ALA November 25th news release. To learn more about the National Women’s History Museum, visit its website at www.nwhm.org.

The staff of the Allen County (Ind.) Public Library’s Children’s Services department has many booklists. One that has recently been highlighted on the ACPL Kids Blog is At-Home Dads / Working Moms.
I encourage you to check out their booklists and share lists that you and your colleagues have compiled.

My early experiences don’t translate well to today’s libraries but some of the early lessons included:
Teamsters drive trucks, they don’t unload them.  One week into my first job after library school, the Director and I got to unload the 18-wheeler delivering new shelving to the small town [pop. 10,000] library I worked at because there [...]

One of my most “enlightening” experiences came from the urinals in the men’s bathroom.  We had problems with them continuing to run after flushing, so we (the three women who were the only employees at the branch) learned how to take a screwdriver to adjust the valve.  I guess you can say that I learned [...]

PBS has created easy-to-use activities designed for children’s programming. These activities were recently mailed to public libraries on the back of a colorful Curious George banner. These activities may also be found online at pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/parentsteachers/activities/ under Curiosity Center Activities located in the column on the left of the page.

The activities detail how to set up [...]

The Association for Library Service to Children Program Coordinating Committee is now accepting proposals for innovative, creative programs that have broad appeal for the 2010 ALA Annual Conference to be held June 24 – 30, 2010, in Washington, DC.
The committee is looking for a wide range of themes and topics such as advocacy, multiculturalism, administration [...]

  I’m not sure how I feel about this gift idea. As a child many of us, of course, played librarian. My mother often talked about how I checked books out to my siblings and neighbors, along with teaching my younger brothers to read and holding play storytimes. So maybe this kit, offered by Perpetual [...]

It’s true. December 1st will be here in less than two weeks. If you are interested and eligible and haven’t applied yet, time is running out.

Bookapalooza, a windfall of books for three libraries
Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship, a $4,000 stipend to study for a month at the University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature
ALSC/BWI [...]

I just learned from a post on AL Direct that this week is Geography Awareness Week, which is especially fitting for me since I have spent the first part of this week in The Bahamas, a place I knew nearly nothing about until my friend suggested we spend a few days there.
The National Geographic Society [...]

Eli Neiburger is the Information Access and Systems Manager of Ann Arbor (Mich.) District Library (AADL) and he was one of the presenters at the 2008 ALA TechSource Gaming, Learning and Libraries Symposium. After his Pokémon Primer session, I now have a better understanding of the complex system of stewardship, strategy and organization that is [...]