Library Media News

Keep updated about important developments in the school library media profession.

• OELMA’s Plans for Past-Presidents Planning Grant for National School Library Standards
• Forgot Password? Password Manager Help
• Planning for Success with the School Library Standards
• Summer Reading List for Adults
• What’s Your Passion, Learner-Ready Librarian?
• Something to buzz about: Implementing AASL Standards in my library
• Alabama Affiliate to Use ABC-CLIO Grant Support for Leadership Summit
• Three Ways We’re Improving Our Reading Culture
• Pairing Picture Books and Primary Sources: Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell
• Bringing My Library into the Twenty-First Century with the Inspire Collection Development Grant

• A Summer of Mid-1940s Melodies: Processing Master Recordings from the Decca Label
• My Job at the Library: Researching African-American Genealogy
• Junior Fellow Builds Access to Postwar Poetry Archive
• Pic of the Week: Facilitating Access to Hebrew and Yiddish Periodicals
• My Job at the Library: Bringing Collections to the Public Through Books
• Inquiring Minds: Exploring the Culture of Jazz Through Music and More
• Pic of the Week: Mandela Grandson Shares Lessons He Learned from His Grandfather
• Baseball Americana: The ‘Unchanging’ Game
• New Online: Papers of the President People Love to Hate
• Baseball Americana: A House of Cards

• On practicing safe search: fine tuning, privacy-friendly searches, and learning more
• A new kids app on the block: Khan Academy Kids launching learning fun for little learners
• A little help from our academic friends: Five fine portals for instructional fodder
• Libraries Ready to Code Beta Collection Release
• Artstor shares more than a million images @ library.artstor.com
• The news from ISTE
• Best Websites and Best Apps, my faves and a brief reflection on when it really needs to be an app
• Off to ALA and ISTE (and how to follow along when you’re #notat . . .)
• Highlights Hangout launches: a sonic spin on a classic kids favorite
• The Great American Read and its sweet by-products

• Returning to Australia: Keynote, USQ, National Library
• ALA Presentation: On the Ground, Online & Operative – Perceptions & Effectiveness of Public Library Staff Professional Development
• Asia Pacific Library & Information Conference 2018 Intro Video
• Call for Participation: Australian Public Librarian’s Stories of Professional Development
• Small Town Library Director by TTW Contributor Justin Hoenke
• Supporting Peter Hepburn for ALA President
• Thanks to all who attended my SD Webinar today!
• I’m on Sabbatical! Or “Why So Quiet?”
• Look at this 36 year old – A TTW guest post by Megan Price
• How soon is now – A TTW guest post by Megan Price

• The Unquiet Librarian: An Epilogue
• War Eagle Writers in the Research Sandbox, Part 2: Crafting Learner Ready Instruction, Scaffolding Writing, and What We Learned Together
• Inquiring, Sharing, and Igniting Idea Sparks with 5 Corners
• My End of Year Self-Assessment, Part 1
• Sharing and Broadening Our Thinking With a Perspective Walk
• War Eagle Writers in the Research Sandbox, Part 1: Selecting and Narrowing a Topic, Presearch, Evaluating Information, and Generating Research Questions
• Resilience: The Most Undervalued Information Literacy Disposition
• Joy.  Writers. 
• Nurturing Seeds of Writing Joy with Greenbelt Writing
• Crowdsourcing Our Knowledge With a Conversation Hotspots Gallery Walk

• Are You AI-Ready?
• Scopus – Author Citation Alert, Citations for Barbour, Michael K. (Author Identifier 7005949699)
• EDTECH537 – Examining Generational Differences
• EDTECH537 – Week 5
• 20-22 July 2018: Google Alert – LRN