Why are School Libraries Important for Student Success?
By: JLG Marketing | April 13, 2023 |
School libraries are essential to learners; they provide the foundation to student learning and help students achieve their goals. In order to combat the decrease in school libraries, we must advocate for their existence and funding and demonstrate how eliminating them negatively impacts our schools, students, and communities.
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Jobs of the Modern School Librarian
By: JLG Marketing | April 05, 2023 | School Library
A modern school librarian’s day is filled with more than you can imagine—you might be surprised to hear about what is included in their jam-packed schedule!
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New voices, new talent: Debut authors coming from JLG this fall
By: Rhonda Mihalic | July 13, 2021 |
At JLG, our editors keep their ears to the ground and listen for the whispers gradually building about new authors. These debut selections coming this fall earned the JLG Gold Standard seal of approval.
Tips to Advocate for More Library Funds
By: Harlee Rozell | March 31, 2021 |
Federal relief funding is soon coming to schools across the nation, giving you the opportunity to champion for more budget this year and help get your collection back on track with new release titles your readers will enjoy. Here's how JLG can help!
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Librarian of the Month: June 2020
By: Esther Goodell | June 30, 2020 |
JLG’s June Librarian of the Month honor goes to Anna Porter Public Library and librarian Kelsey Collins. We could tell from seeing her library’s social media posts that she and her library had a heart for their community. Read on to learn more about Kelsey...
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Librarian of the Month: May 2020
By: Esther Goodell | May 28, 2020 |
JLG’s May Librarian of the Month honor goes to Louise Durham Elementary and Tiffany Williams. We could tell from seeing her social media posts that she was always willing to go the extra mile to get students to engage with books, whether through sensory mats to form a check-out line or loading up her cart to deliver books to classrooms. Read on to learn more about Tiffany...
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We are all in this together: Finding growth and gratitude in the midst of COVID-19
By: Sean Lockwood | May 18, 2020 |
JLG General Manager Sean Lockwood reflects on the disruption of COVID-19 and what an honor it has been to stand shoulder to shoulder with our incredible library partners as they respond to the impact of the novel coronavirus and rapidly move their on-campus instruction to remote teaching.
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Librarian of the Month: April 2020
By: Esther Goodell | April 29, 2020 |
JLG’s April Librarian of the Month honor goes to Billerica Memorial High School and Rachel Bouhanda. She has been a school librarian for over a decade and has been creating new resources for students all while transitioning to a new library space!
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Connect in New Ways with Your Students!
By: | March 20, 2020 |
Are you missing your students? Feeling adrift in a sea of unknown? Here are some ideas for virtually connecting.
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Librarian of the Month: March 2020
By: Esther Goodell | March 12, 2020 |
JLG’s March Librarian of the Month honor goes to Hilliard Weaver Middle School and its dedicated staff of one, Christina Dorr. She has been a JLG member for many of her 30+ years as a school librarian. We had the chance to meet her at a local conference recently, and in our 5-minute interaction we knew we needed to share her story.
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Librarian of the Month: February 2020
By: Esther Goodell | February 21, 2020 |
JLG’s Librarian of the Month honor goes to Rippon Middle School and its dedicated team of Tamara Ingalls, librarian, Debra Gish, librarian, and Denisha Price, library assistant. Read their story!
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Congrats to the 2020 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Awards finalists!
By: Katie Lynch | December 23, 2019 |
JLG is proud to announce that 4 out of the 5 2020 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Awards finalists are JLG selections. The Nonfiction genre is revolutionizing thanks to the talent and commitment of these authors, and our editors know outstanding work when they see it!
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JLG selects Caldecott & Newbery winners for 20 years
By: Sarah Cooke | September 11, 2019 |
Our renowned Editorial team has long been on the forefront of selecting books that go on to earn starred reviews, industry awards, honors and prestigious acclaim. Case in point: They've selected the Newbery and Caldecott Medal winners nearly every year for the last 20 years (before they were even published!).
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JLG Back-to-School Book Bundle Giveaway!
By: Rhonda Mihalic | August 14, 2019 |
Check out the five back-to-school author-autographed book bundles that were part of our giveaway. It's too late to enter—but find out how you can catch the next one!
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Ohio author launches book drive for town hit by tornadoes
By: Rhonda Mihalic | July 09, 2019 |
In Celina, Ohio, more than 50 homes were destroyed by tornado and everything was lost: furniture, clothing, photographs, mementos and, central to this story, books. So a local children's author started a book drive.
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ALA 2019: The week I became a library
By: Rhonda Mihalic | July 01, 2019 |
I asked myself, “If you had to sum up your ALA experience in three words, what would they be?” Easy, I thought: Inspiration, innovation and interaction.
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Countdown to summer reading
By: Julia Bannon | May 03, 2019 |
It’s time to get ready for your summer reading program! With this year’s theme celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the moon landing, we’ve got lots of ideas for you to make this the best summer yet. Launch into a summer of space with great books, STEM activities and display ideas.
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Forgiving fines through reading gets more kids into the library
By: Julia Bannon | April 05, 2019 |
A librarian’s dream is to have every seat in their library filled with eager young readers. But what if kids stay away because of fines? One library system is allowing kids to read their fines away - and it’s bringing students back in droves.
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Webcast Recap: Enrich Your Summer Reading Program: Tips and Resources K-12
By: Deborah B. Ford | May 09, 2017 | Shelf Life
In our webcast today, my guest Nick Glass, Founder and Executive Director of TeachingBooks.net, and I talked about creative ways to promote summer reading programs, from supporting student choices using recommended booklists to modeling booktalks after Meet-the-Author book readings...and much more. Read More
Webcast Recap: 4 Ways to Strengthen Diversity in Your Library Program
By: Deborah B. Ford | February 09, 2017 | Shelf Life
In our webcast today, I shared four ways to strengthen diversity in your library program. As I said, every effort you make towards inclusion and diversity matters to someone. By being aware, keeping up with the literature, shaking up your programming and bringing in outside resources, the impact you can make is so valuable. Read More
Tech Tuesday: Using Video in Social Media
By: Deborah B. Ford | December 20, 2016 | Shelf Life
You can teach an old dog new tricks! Woof! Woof! Yesterday Kayleigh and I played around with video on social media. It was Christmas sweater day, so I brought out my Mrs. Claus outfit. Nostalgic for winter booktalks with my kids, I did my first Facebook Live. How hard was it to shoot live? Read More
10 Scary Librarian Super Powers
By: Deborah B. Ford | October 03, 2016 | Shelf Life
What are your Super Powers? Are you willing to try anything once? Can you use the power of duct tape to keep a much-loved book together for a half dozen more reads? Do your technology skills allow you to create infopics that drive new customers through your door? Do you know everything?! (or at least where to find the answer?) Then you, my colleague, have Super Powers. Read More
Three Cool Online Tools for Engaging Presentations
By: Deborah B. Ford | July 05, 2016 | Shelf Life
As I polished my Presentation Tools for the 21st Century workshop this morning, I also updated the 101+ (Mostly Free) Online Resources LiveBinder. With the ever-changing world of presentation tools, it seems impossible to keep up. However, AASL just released their new list of Best Websites and Apps for Teaching and Learning. There you'll find a crossover of tools that are both website and apps. These vetted tools will help you whittle down the options. I, myself, am venturing out from PowerPoint and using one of last year's tools for most of my presentations. It's called Haiku Deck. Read More
Tech Tuesday: Book Infographic
By: Deborah B. Ford | May 03, 2016 | Shelf Life
While pinning things you should know from my email, I was reminded that May is National Pet Month. Wouldn't it be fun to have an infographic about 9 Books about Pets for Celebrating Pet month? You see those graphics all the time on Pinterest. What are people using? Can I do it in Word? Would a table be better so the holes are filled? I asked my graphic designer, but she's a Mac girl, and wasn't sure Word would let me do it. Determined to find an answer, I opened a new Word doc. Here's what I learned. Read More