Frontline Advocacy Is Everybody's Job
ALA President Camila Alire’s presidential initiative offers a systematic approach to staff participation
Posted May 25, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreThe Myth of Browsing
Academic library space in the age of Facebook
Posted May 19, 2010 | Comments: 2 | Read More10 Tips for Tracking Trends
Libraries can stay relevant to their users by strategically riding the wave of societal trends
Posted May 11, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreBuild Your Own Instructional Literacy
Librarians can shape ourselves into educators by devising our teacher identities
Posted April 30, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreFrom Children’s Literature to Readers Theatre
Get kids excited and engaged with books by getting them onstage
Posted April 22, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreWill Social Media Activism Rescue Besieged Libraries?
Although budget crises abound, libraries have become richer for the outpouring of support from devoted—and networked—patrons
Posted April 20, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreFixing the Federal Depository Library Program
The system must respond to the digital age and a weakened economy
Posted April 16, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreThose Who Can, Do. Those Who Can Do More, Volunteer
A thriving volunteer workforce can help libraries fill the gaping holes caused by funding reductions, staff cuts, and reduced hours
Posted April 16, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreA Literature of Risk
Teens dealing with violence and other risky behaviors can get help from young adult fiction
Posted April 15, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreGates Foundation, IMLS Research Proves Value of Online Access
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s deputy director for the U.S. Libraries Initiative analyzes the spectacular statistics in a new patron...
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Mindful of Ohio’s curriculum requirements, the school’s teachers came up with a project for the 5th graders: figure out how to reduce the noise in the library.
The only mention of libraries in “The Creativity Crisis” by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman (Newsweek, July 19, 2010), an article that supports the concept of learning through creative problem-solving and holds up the National Inventors Hall of Fame School, a new public middle school in Akron, Ohio, as an example.
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