Winning Grants: A Game Plan
By Herbert LandauHow to write proposals that work
Posted August 24, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreDollar General Invests in the American Dream
By Leonard KniffelExpanding literacy services through libraries helps adults adapt and advance
Posted August 18, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreEarly Literacy: A Sustainable Statewide Approach
By Bonnie McCuneA coalition in Colorado may serve as a template for other regions to establish programs critical to the development of our youngest citizens
Posted August 17, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreWhen Crisis Calls
By Matthew J. BoylanNew York Public Library develops a policy on callers who threaten suicide
Posted August 13, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreReaching Undergrads: Recruitment via Internship
By Sara D. SmithAs interns, undergraduate students can cultivate a career in library and information science and technology
Posted August 10, 2010 | Comments: 3 | Read MoreInformation Commons Reduces Energy Consumption
By Ted StrandLoyola University’s library in Chicago is setting new standards for environmental friendliness
Posted August 3, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreLibrarians Head for the Hill to Rally for Reading
ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., attracts 26,000 enthusiastic professionals.
Posted July 27, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreUp, Up, and Away: A Bird’s-Eye View of Mission Marketing
By Donald H. Dyal and Kaley DanielMarketing takes more than cauldrons or brainstorming: Marketing needs a plan. Texas Tech University has that plan and truckloads of evidence that it works.
Posted July 20, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreOur Authors, Our Advocates
Four authors help kick off ALA President Roberta Stevens’s “Our Authors, Our Advocates” presidential initiative
Posted July 20, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreSpeaker Sound Bites: D.C. 2010
Notable quotes from the 2010 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
Posted July 19, 2010 | Comments: 0 | Read MoreCurrent Issue
How the World Sees Us

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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