The science of reading is one of the fastest growing topics in librarianship. At my library, patrons want to know more about the science of reading, and how they can use it to help their children learn to read. Over the years, we’ve tried to meet this in different ways. For example, we created a Science of Reading kit to help patrons access the tools they need. As patron demand continued to grow, we realized we needed a way to help many patrons at the same time. To that end, my library created a Help Your Child Learn to Read website so patrons could access library resources whenever they needed them.
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Everyday Advocacy: journey through our new webpage
Let’s all admit it, few of us spend much time really delving into organization web pages unless we need to use them for work or are specifically seeking out information. We don’t tend to scroll them for fun. Let’s change that! I invite you all to take just a moment and look through our newly updated “Everyday Advocacy” page on the American Library Service to Children (ALSC) website. The ALSC Public Awareness and Advocacy Committee has worked to update it over the past months, and it’s looking pretty great. The page can be found on the ALSC website under the “Initiatives” tab or at this handy dandy link https://www.ala.org/alsc/initiatives/everyday-advocacy. In its most basic form it provides great information about what advocacy is and how to advocate for yourself, your programs, your library, and librarianship as a whole. Information that is great for us all. You should start with the “Be…
AASL 2018 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning #ALAAC18
What a great session from the AASL! While many librarians may be aware of the AASL’s annual listing of the best websites for teaching and learning, this session delved into each website giving information about the site, age levels, the standards the site addresses, and even showed short video clips about each site and its application. It was a fun way to learn about new resources, and I plan to experiment with a lot of these and hope to use them in my elementary school library curriculum next year. To check out the AASL’s best websites, here is the list… https://standards.aasl.org/project/bw18/ Past recommended websites can be found at: http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards/best/websites And now, I am signing off to build my own code using Pencil Code!!! This post addresses the following ALSC Core Competencies: II. Reference and User Services and IV. Knowledge, Curation, and Management of Materials.