Social Networking Guru danah boyd By Debra Lau Whelan - 03/25/2009
When danah boyd talks, people listen. The academic, blogger, and rock star of social networking research has just completed her PhD dissertation, “Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics." SLJ caught up with her to talk about the way American teens socialize on sites like MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, Xanga, and YouTube. More
Dumping on 'Digital Natives.’ It's time to send the natives, immigrants dichotomy packing. By Christopher Harris - 02/01/2010
Forget all that malarky about digital natives and immigrants. It never did work to describe the reality of technology adoption. I’ve been using computers all of my life. But am I still a digital native even if I don’t tweet as much as others and can’t be bothered to update my Facebook status? Is someone like retired librarian and educator Alice Yucht a digital immigrant becaus...
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Email Prank at Brooklyn Tech: A Lesson for All Lauren Barack - 01/11/2010
Brooklyn Technical High School (BTHS) students may have found the last week’s prank email that tried to close school for a day amusing. Yet technology experts say educators and administrators should view the spoof message as anything but funny.
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The Future of Reading: Don't worry. It might be better than you think. By John Green - 01/01/2010
Earlier this year, several nerdfighters¹ sent me a link to the Web site ThisIsNotTom.com, which features a picture of a man, seated, wearing only a bathrobe. At the bottom of the page is written, “The quck brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” The “i” is missing from that sentence; click on the eye of the guy in the photograph, and you are taken to another riddle; sol...
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A Date with Destiny: First-time author Rachel Ward talks about 'Numbers,' her new thriller By Rick Margolis - 01/01/2010
Jem has a disturbing secret: whenever she looks into people’s eyes, she sees the exact date of their death. Moments before a terrorist attack, she realizes that many of the bystanders are about to die. But when she and her classmate Spider flee the scene, they’re suspected of being part of the plot.
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Peer-to-Peer Sex Ed Goes High-Tech By Lauren Barack - 12/08/2009
For a teen, getting a pamphlet on safe sex from an adult is an instant tune-out. But getting a text from a peer to come to a meeting on the subject is much more powerful.
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Have You Heard the Word? For a low-budget way to get kids wild about reading, try readers theater. By Avi - 12/01/2009
What happens when you combine the thrill of theater with the magic of books? You get readers theater. Where do you turn to use literature in a lively way that enhances young people’s reading pleasure and writing skills? You turn to readers theater. What do you do when you have little or no money, but need to create a book program that takes advantage of “out loud culture” (kid...
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Libraries Rock National Gaming Day Kathy Ishizuka - 11/16/2009
Libraries were buzzing this weekend over National Gaming Day (NGD), the annual event sponsored by the American Library Association, which took place Saturday, November 14.
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A Fuse #8 Production Elizabeth Bird, Children's Librarian, Children's Center at 42nd Street June 11, 2007 Jay Goes Walkabout
So I'm in my library, minding my own business, and who should walk through the door b... 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. 
