|
Trouble viewing this email? Click here.
To ensure our emails reach your inbox, add ExtraHelping@email.schoollibraryjournal.com to your address book. Click here to learn how.
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Our Web site is sure looking fresh these days. We’ve got two new blogs debuting this month: Heavy Medal, a Mock Newbery Blog, and Good Comics for Kids. Welcome to both, and happy reading.
|
 |
|
ADVERTISEMENT |
|
| TechTrends |
Ed Tech Leaders to McCain, Obama: Make Modern Classrooms a Priority
Four leading education associations have launched a new public service announcement (PSA) campaign urging federal support of education technology. A new 30-second radio PSA will complement One Giant Leap for Kids, a print campaign which urges the Presidential candidates to make K–12 student access to education technology and modern learning environments a top national priority.
The PSAs, which were developed by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), the National Education Association (NEA) and the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), press presidential candidates Senators John McCain and Barack Obama to recognize that investments made today in technology ensure the future ability of U.S. students to compete and succeed in the increasingly competitive 21st-century global workforce. read more... |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
 BOOKS
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford
From SLJ Oct-08
 Gr 8 Up–In this fictionalized memoir, Weatherford has composed nearly 100 first-person narrative poems that detail Holiday’s life from birth until age 25, the age at which she debuted her signature song, "Strange Fruit." |
|
 VIDEO/DVD
John Adams
Gr 9 Up–Based on historian David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book (S & S, 2001) and produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, who also brought Band of Brothers to television, this astonishing miniseries dramatizes the adult life of John Adams. |
|
 AUDIO
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
Gr 4-8–Couplets, blank verse, and prose bring children living in a medieval village in 1255 to life in this Newbery Medal-winning book (Candlewick, 2007) by Laura Amy Schlitz. |
|
|
| News and Views |
| CBC Launches National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Web site |
Author Jon Scieszka received the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature medal on Friday from Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.
Scieszka told an audience of about 50 fourth and fifth graders from Brent Elementary School in Washington, DC, about his first year as national ambassador, a position that was created last January by the Children’s Book Council (CBC) and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress to raise national awareness of the importance of young people’s literature when it comes to “lifelong literacy, education, and the development and betterment of the lives of young people.” read more... |
|
| Columbia, OH, Library Stays Open for Students, Closes to Public |
After serving as a public and school library for more than six years, the Central Crossing Library near Columbus, OH, will no longer serve the public after June 2009.
The board of trustees of Southwest Public Libraries (SPL) recently voted to cease operation at Central Crossing due to lack of money. The library system says its budget has been “seriously damaged by several years of declining or stagnant funding,” which was further compounded by a loss of $102,000 this year and an additional 2 percent cut expected from the state in 2009. read more... |
|
| Watch and Read: Spotlight on Media Tie-ins |
|
 High School Musical Finale
The Wildcats make a break for the big screen in Walt Disney Pictures’ High School Musical 3: Senior Year (G), scheduled for release in theaters on October 24, 2008. The latest in a series that has become a media phenomenon and fan favorite, this feature film follows two Disney Channel made-for-television movies, High School Musical (2006) and High School Musical 2 (2007). Kenny Ortega returns as director and choreographer, Peter Barsocchini has again penned the screenplay, and all six main characters have reprised their roles. read more... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Supervising Librarian A - Family & Youth Services |
City of Newport News
Newport News, VA
Bring your passion and talent for youth services to scenic, historic Hampton Roads, VA. The Newport News Public Library System seeks enthusiastic applicants for the SUPERVISING LIBRARIAN A – Family and Youth Services position. read more...
To see all positions available through the SLJ Career Center, click here...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
