Lone Star Grant Pushes Austin Library’s Reach By Lauren Barack - 02/08/2010
Austin Public Library’s (APL) youth services group gets together each year to figure out a budget for its wildly popular summer reading program, and every year it gets scrapped because there's not enough money. Luckily, a recent $300,000 grant from the Lone Star Libraries will meet this summer’s need.
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President Obama Proposes Eliminating Federal School Library Funds By Debra Lau Whelan - 02/01/2010
President Obama has delivered a slap in the face to school librarians. In his FY2011 budget proposal to Congress on Monday, he completely eliminated the Improving Literacy for School Libraries grant program, designed to boost academic achievement by providing students with access to up-to-date school library materials. More
Pasadena Proposes Eliminating School Libraries By Lauren Barack - 01/20/2010
Students in the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) may be facing school days without a library under a proposal to balance the district’s $20 million deficit.
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Money Hungry: These Web resources help you through the grant seeking process By Gail Junion-Metz - 11/01/2009
ALA Grants & Fellowships bit.ly/1lNIAb The American Library Association (ALA) has created numerous grants and awards to help support programs and provide funds to individuals wanting to attend professional meetings. This handy page provides links to not only ALA grants, but also awards sponsored by the various divisions, including PLA (Public Library Association), YALSA (Young Adult Library...
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How Are You Doing?: A librarian fights to retain positions in her district 11/01/2009
I fought for the retention of our elementary librarians this past year. I did everything I knew how to do and still 100 percent of the positions were cut (10 librarians covering 18 schools). We now have volunteers that are “running” the show. When I found out cuts were in the air, I contacted [author] Ann Martin, she wrote letters to our superintendent, commissioner of education, an...
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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. 
