I am the Youth and Teen Collections Librarian at my library system. The majority of my job duties involve purchasing materials. One of my additional responsibilities is to assist with our Annual Mock Caldecott event held in January. Throughout the years, I have been utilizing technology to improve this process for myself and staff, while providing more access for all those interested. My Mock Caldecott process includes: 1. Track the starred reviewed titles throughout the year.2. Include titles that will be eligible for the Caldecott Medal. 3. Create a list for staff. The publications I use for starred reviews are Booklist, BookPage, Bulletin of the Center for Children, Horn Book, Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness. A sample of my 2025 Mock Caldecott Tracker: My library system uses G-Suite, allowing us to share and edit documents in real time. Our Mock Caldecott event only pertains to books…
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Digital Storytelling and Content Creation with Children
Stories are powerful expressions and conveyors of culture that build empathy, understanding, and help children explore their places in the world. How do we support children to become responsible creators of digital stories? This was the subject of a We Are ALSC Chat on May 20, 2024. Members of the ALSC Children and Technology Committee and other ALSC members met for an hour online to dig into strategies library staff in schools and public libraries can use to ensure we are helping kids grow in the area of digital storytelling. By incorporating digital content creation into the curriculum, we are seizing an opportunity to teach our students how to create responsibly, and act as ethical digital citizens. One way we can accomplish this is through modeling. Teaching kids to protect their own copyrights can help them begin to understand the rights of others. Student work is theirs and though many…