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Novel-Ties Videos Available, Bridge to Reading Award Nominees Announced
Novel-Ties Videos Offered by Multnomah County Library: Check out this new resource from the Multnomah County Library (Oregon): Novel-Ties! https://multcolib.org/educators/school-corps/novelties. Multnomah County Library School Corps librarians wanted to share these videos, in hopes they will be [continue reading]
Reading While White Blog, Star Wars Reads Day, New BayNews from ACL
Reading While White Blog: A new blog, “Reading While White” debuted this week, co-created by Nina Lindsay of the Oakland Public Library, along with Sam Bloom, Allie Jane Bruce, K.T. Horning, Angie Manfredi, and Megan [continue reading]
ACL Meeting Reminder, Heavy Medal Blog Is Back, NY Times Article on Love and Loss
ACL Meeting Friday, September 11, 2015: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, September 11, 2015, from 9am–12:30pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Berkeley Library Director Resigns, Barefoot Gen Anniversary Project Announced
Berkeley PL Director Resigns: Jeff Scott has resigned from his post as director of the Berkeley Public Library (CA) after opposition to his policies on weeding materials from the collection: www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_28734895/berkeley-library-director-resigns Barefoot Gen Anniversary Project: [continue reading]
Intern Needed for Children’s Fairyland
San Jose State Univ. iSchool Student Needed for Internship at Children’s Fairyland: Oakland Public Library, Children’s Services, www.oaklandlibrary.org 125 14th Street, Room 6, Oakland, CA 94612 JOB TITLE: Fairyland Librarian JOB DESCRIPTION: Children’s Fairyland is a storybook [continue reading]
ALA Conference Report, Part 3
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]
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]