ALA Conference in San Francisco – Reports from Our Members: Helen Bloch: I attended the ALSC Leadership meeting focused on the recent white paper on Media Mentorship (www.ala.org/alsc/mediamentorship). Lisa Guernsey, a researcher from the New [continue reading]
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ACL Meeting, Kids Comics Awards Announced
ACL Meeting Friday, July 10, 2015: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, July 10, 2015, from 9am–1pm at the Oakland Main Library. Our [continue reading]
ALA Conference Report, Part 2
Report from Jessica Ormonde, Half Moon Bay Library: Saturday Ignite Session – Adventures in Preschool Science Erin Berman from the San Jose Public Library shared tips, and ideas from her preschool STEM program. They focused [continue reading]
ALA Conference Report, Part 1 – San Francisco Celebrates!
ALA Conference in San Francisco – Reports from Our Members: The ALA Conference in San Francisco kicked off big-time on Friday with the news of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on marriage equality. The positive [continue reading]
Author Judith St. George Dies, Mo Willems Sketchbooks
Author Judith St. George Dies: Author Judith St. George has died at age 84 at her home in Bloomfield, CT. Her many books included So You Want to Be President?, which earned illustrator David Small [continue reading]
New ACL BayNews, Bay Area Publishing, Motivating Reading, and LGBTQ List
New ACL BayNews Posted: The June 2015 BayNews (the newsletter for the Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California) is now available on our website: http://www.bayviews.org You will find the second part of our Spring [continue reading]
Riddell and Herrera Named Laureates, Summer Reading Lists, All of a Kind Family Blog Post
Chris Riddell Named U.K. Children’s Laureate: Author and illustrator Chris Riddell has been named the Children’s Laureate in the United Kingom, succeeding Quentin Blake and Anthony Browne. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/67058-chris-riddell-named-u-k-children-s-laureate.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=8b6ec2f050-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-8b6ec2f050-304449365 Berkeley School Libraries Offer Summer Reading Suggestions: [continue reading]
ACL Meeting Friday, June 12th, Jacqueline Woodson Named Young People’s Poet Laureate
ACL Meeting Friday, June 12, 2015: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, June 12, 2015, from 9am–1pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]