The best digital content for children and teens from School Library Journal
SLJ's Summit Explores the Future of Content By Rocco Staino - 11/24/2008
Librarians, technology leaders, publishers, authors, and editors gathered on November 14 and 15 for School Library Journal’s fourth annual leadership summit to explore where content is headed and how librarians can take advantage of its evolution to fully engage students and teachers. More
Digital Resources: The National Science Digital Library By Shonda Brisco - 02/01/2010
As budgets get tighter and educational requirements grow broader, it's become more difficult to find science and math databases that won't devour the entire library budget. However, there's one digital database that provides standards-based instructional resources, K-12 lesson plans, digital downloads, streaming video, and 2.
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Fight Content Filters By Lauren Barack - 02/01/2010
Buffy Hamilton thinks one shouldn’t take online content filters lying down, but instead build a well-supported case to get them removed. “I think out of an effort to be proactive, keep children safe, and avoid litigation, schools may err on the safe side,” says Hamilton, school librarian at Creekview High School in Canton, GA.
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Black History Trove: Librarian Mayme Clayton's collection will offer teacher resources By Kathy Ishizuka - 02/01/2010
While the personal papers of Martin Luther King Jr. will be shared with the public for the first time at the Atlanta University Center beginning this month, another important, though lesser-known collection is also seeing the light of day. The Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum in Culver City, CA, houses the largest privately held collection of African-American materials, with more than 30...
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The Buzz: Tools, trends, and gizmos Kathy Ishizuka - 02/01/2010
A Whiteboard on any Surface Interactive whiteboards (IWBs) inspire passionate opinions among educators. Now, a product launched by Epson offers a new wrinkle. The Brightlink 450Wi Ultra-Short Throw Projector turns almost any surface into an IWB. Offering a larger, more flexible working area than dedicated IWBs at a cheaper price, the Brightlink delivers WXGA (wide-screen) resolution, and is US...
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A How-To for Fighting Content Filters Lauren Barack - 01/19/2010
Buffy Hamilton believes school librarians should never take online content filters at face value. When presented with a digital roadblock, media specialists should instead devise reasoned, well-resourced arguments with which to open these doors.
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Digital Resources: Early Learning Made Easy By Shonda Brisco - 01/01/2010
Finding new tools to meet the educational needs of early childhood educators and their students can be a difficult task. With hundreds of toys, games, and software programs available for instruction, it becomes a major research project to identify the best resource for an individual child, along with a measurable outcome.
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Let It Snow: Create your own snowflakes and other cool, seasonal things to do online By Gail Junion-Metz - 01/01/2010
Bentley Snow Crystal Collection www.bentley.sciencebuff.org Born in 1985, Wilson Bentley grew up in a small town in Vermont, where as a teenager he became fascinated with snowflakes. Not only did he photograph them using a camera mounted on a microscope, but he also studied how flakes formed. Bentley became a snowflake expert, and his photographs of these icy wonders are now part of the Buffalo...
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Good Comics for Kids Brigid Alverson, Comics Journalist, School Library Journal October 9, 2008 Good Webcomics for Kids
Webcomics for children: Yes, they exist, and the overall quality seems to be higher t... More
Brian Unbound Brian Kenney, Editor in Chief, May 3, 2007 Does Print Still Matter?
Not to spoil the plot, but of course print still matters. But electronic content is c... More
2009 National Book Awards On the red carpet with nominees in the Young People's Literature category.
Photos by Rocco Staino.
SLJ Covers 2009 A bigger and better view of SLJ's covers from 2009
BookExpo America 2009: SLJ's Day of Dialog School Library Journal held a Day of Dialog in conjunction with the annual BookExpo America on May 28, 2009 at the Brooklyn Public Library. Full story: bit.ly/1a0G7o
Rockin’, Rollin’ and Ridin’ with Rebecca Frezza & Big Truck. CD. 23 min. Prod. by Big Truck Music. Dist. by CDBaby.com. 2009. $8.99.
Gr 1-5–A veteran of Noggin Channel and PBS Kids, Frezza created these eight exceptional rock ‘n roll songs for elementary grade children who are too old for Raffi, but not old enough for adult pop music.
Friends and colleagues of the late Effie Lee Morris may enjoy this photo of the children's librarian, which Nicholas Glass, founder and executive director of Teachingbooks.net, recently found on his computer. It was taken at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, and features (from left) Ashley Bryan, Christopher Myers, and Morris, also an advocate for children's literature and library service to youngsters with impaired vision, who died of cancer on November 10, 2009.
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Rockin’, Rollin’ and Ridin’ with Rebecca Frezza & Big Truck. CD. 23 min. Prod. by Big Truck Music. Dist. by CDBaby.com. 2009. $8.99. 
