From the Chicago Sun-Times: Struggling students will soon have an easier time getting one-on-one help with their homework and vexing science projects at Chicago Public libraries. Teacher in the Library, a popular and privately-funded program serving 58,000 kids each year at 57 libraries, is being expanded next fall to the 21 libraries without it, thanks [...]
Chicago: Mayor Puts More Teachers in Libraries to Help Kids with Homework
Filed by on January 10, 2013
All Electronic: A Minnesota School Library Gets Rid of Entire Book Collection
Filed by on December 26, 2012
From the The Star Tribune (Minneapolis): The school library inside Benilde-St. Margaret’s junior and senior high is now nearly barren of books. [Clip] But the tall stacks of 5,000 books that towered in the main room last school year are gone. Teachers brought a few into classrooms, but most were donated to schools in Africa. [...]
Children Borrowing More Books From Japan’s School Libraries & More New Library Statistics
Filed by on November 3, 2012
From Kyodo News Service (via The Japan Times): The number of books checked out by elementary school children from libraries nationwide reached a record average of 26 per child in fiscal 2010, the education ministry said. The increase from 18.8 per child in the previous survey in fiscal 2007 apparently reflects the trend of refraining [...]
Pilot Project: New Chicago High School Will House Public Library
Filed by on June 13, 2012
From the AP: When the Wall-to-Wall International Baccalaureate School opens in 2013, it will house a full-service library that’ll be open to both students and members of the Back of the Yards community. Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the new facility will become an anchor in a neighborhood that has been without a library for a [...]
Utah School District Places Book About Lesbian Moms Behind Counter
Filed by on May 31, 2012
Update (June 1, 2012): Utah Librarians Fear Decision About Lesbian Mom Book Sets Bad Precedent (via SLT) From The Salt Lake Tribune: A picture book about a lesbian couple raising a child was removed from the shelves of elementary school libraries in Davis County after a group of parents raised objections about the suitability of [...]
Serials: New Website, New Look for School Library Research; Three New Research Papers Also Released
Filed by on May 1, 2012
From the American Association of School Libraries: The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has launched a new website for its online, referred research journal, School Library Research (SLR). The new website coincides with a new name for the journal formerly known as School Library Media Research (SLMR). The name change reflects the adoption of [...]
Canada: Cuts to Nova Scotia Librarians Match Trend Seen in Ontario
Filed by on April 16, 2012
From the Canadian Press (via CBC): A Nova Scotia school board’s proposal to cut all of its 41 librarians to balance its books highlights a larger trend at some Canadian schools as libraries become victims of continued budget cuts, a development that some argue is having an impact on the quality of children’s education. And [...]
Joint Project Announcement From IFLA School Libraries and Resource Centers Section & International Association of School Librarianship
Filed by on April 4, 2012
via the IFLA Web Site: The Joint Committee of the IFLA Section of SLRC and IASL is delighted to announce that the Joint Committee has been awarded funding by the Professional Committee of IFLA for year one of a two-year project to develop a module of training materials for school library advocacy titled “School Libraries [...]
Newark, CA: Schools to Lose Librarians Unless Alternative Funding is Found
Filed by on April 4, 2012
From the Newark Patch: Starting next year, most school libraries in Newark will be missing a key aspect – librarians. That is unless the Newark Unified School District and its Board of Education choose to reverse cuts to library services that were approved in December 2010 But as of late last week, Superintendent of Schools [...]
Boston Globe: "Libraries in Schools Keeping Up With Times"
Filed by on April 2, 2012
From The Boston Globe: “The resources really are limitless,’’ said Eleanor Rogers, Dedham High School librarian. Dedham High School uses netbooks (small laptops), Kindles, a program that allows students to download a book or periodical onto any device such as an iPad or smartphone, and an educational adaptation of YouTube. [Clip] Rogers aims to please [...]
