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Spreading Joy It’s National Library Week and the theme is FIND YOUR JOY embodied so wonderfully by “The Internet Librarian” and children’s book author Mychal Threets (and expressed in his…

Did you know that Joy is good for your health and is contagious?
Connect with your Joy and then spread it.

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Do you remember card catalogs?
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Curiosity Grows Minds For a lot of people, if they curious about something, they google it. End of curiosity. It’s easy. But there are deeper questions that Google can’t answer. Those are the questions that fuel and gro…

Are you curious? Curiosity is an important part of growing. Are you inspiring curiosity in your students?
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Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

Love this.
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Librarian told to pull "upsetting" books—what happened next "ruined her career" A librarian refused to pull books the school called "upsetting," and it ruined her career.

Book Bans are happening all over.
www.newsweek.com/librarian-to...

Six Steps to Improve Your Active Listening Can you hear me now? A familiar question when one is presenting and you’re worried if there’s a problem with the equipment. But the question is even more important when we are communicating with ot…

Are you really listening? If you are not, you are not being all that you need to be as a leader.
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Banning is occurring everywhere. So is fighting back.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Jersey schools makerspaces build creativity, life skills Inside the Jersey school libraries, where robots and power tools are reshaping learning

Do you have a Makerspace in your library?
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Tennessee librarian is fired for refusing to move over 100 LGBTQ books from children's to adult section Luanne James argued that relocating the books would violate her and county residents' First Amendment rights and compromise her professional obligation against government-mandated viewpoint discrimina...

What censorship is doing.
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It's National Poetry Month. Here are some Middle School activities you can use.
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Librarian 'gobsmacked' after school uses AI to remove 200 books from shelves including Orwell's 1984 and Twilight | LBC Senior staff at the secondary school in Greater Manchester used AI to earmark 200 books for removal from its library that were deemed

Inappropriate? No, vital.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/libr...

Build information literacy with AI: a teaching librarian approach Teach students to use AI appropriately for research tasks by showing them the tools’ strengths and limitations and by promoting critical reflection, says Callum Perry

Meant for the college level but can be used in high school.
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/build...

Nine Black College Students Were Arrested in 1961 for Reading at a Segregated Public Library. Their Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement Have Long Been Overlooked Known as the Tougaloo Nine, the demonstrators staged a sit-in that helped the NAACP push for the desegregation of public spaces in Mississippi's capital

A reminder.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nine...

Celebrate school librarians too. I love this "wouldn't it be nice" list.
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In 2013, Chicago Public Schools tried to ban a book. It didn’t go well. A new graphic novel tells the tale CHICAGO — Thirteen years ago, at Lane Tech College Prep High School on Addison Street, a school administrator approached an English teacher and told her that he needed all of

A look back with contemporary meaning.
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‘Quiet’ book bans threaten freedom of expression in North Dakota libraries • North Dakota Monitor There is a growing phenomenon of “quiet” book bans that take place outside the rancorous but democratic arena of public board meetings.

Share this.
Books that make you uncomfortable are not bad. It's what helps you become a better person.
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Cherity Pennington: Collaborator | 2026 School Librarian of the Year Finalist Shawnee (OK) Middle School librarian Cherity Pennington is a tireless and creative collaborator.

Congratulations to Cherity.
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MOWMT 26: Diving into the Details with Lisa Rogers It’s All in the Details by Lisa RogersPrecision in writing can be hard-won. As writers, we can get carried away by our words, without making sure that each one communicates what we intend. Sometimes, ...

500 words. That's all children's authors have to surprise, delight, inspire, inform. These mentor texts exemplify precision in creating resonance & meaning.
#amwriting #kidlit #booksky #mentortexts #MOWMT #amreading #picturebooks #12x12PB #schoollibrarian

www.rateyourstory.org/post/mowmt-2...

Good thinking.

School Library Month School Library Month is the American Association of School Librarians' celebration of school librarians and school libraries.

Resources to help celebrate School Library Month in April.

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Research-Backed Strategies to Keep Students on Task Teachers can help students build their capacity to stay on task by ensuring that they have a clear path to start working, reasons to continue, and support when they lose focus.

Good strategies to put into place.
www.edutopia.org/article/rese...

The 5th Law of Library Science In 1969, Laurence J. Peter proposed what has become known as “The Peter Principle.” It basically states that in the work world people rise to their level of incompetence. They get to the highest po…

The Peter Principal and Ranganathan.

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Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the U.S.
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The National Education Association has also put out a call to action against HR 7661: www.nea.org/.../take.../...
Please contact your US House Rep to oppose this censorship bill. The ALA 'one click' link or the NEA action make it easy to do.

Trump administration is deporting parents without their children in violation of its own policies, report finds Dozens said they weren’t given chance to arrange care for their kids after being deported at short notice, study shows

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for copyright and trademark infringement The company behind Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster claimed that OpenAI used copyrighted content and made false attributions.

Hope they win.

www.engadget.com/ai/encyclope...

Three Steps to Handle Pressure Leaders are always dealing with pressure. It goes hand in hand with working toward a powerful Vision. But the short-term pressures can be unendingly draining. Every day as you walk into your school…

Don't let pressure derail your work-- and home life. Here are ways to tamp it down.
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Two weeks into war with Iran, Trump has been knocked back on his political heels Two weeks of war in Iran has President Donald Trump increasingly knocked back on his political heels.

He is a great planner.
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Obamas, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush Among 1,500 Books Banned in Texas School District Barack and Michelle Obama have joined the ranks of banned authors thanks to a sweeping ban of 1,500 books from Texas Hill Country.

The New Braunfels ISD has removed, restricted, or aged-up more than:
*600 bks from high schools
*800 bks from mid schools
*abt 60 from elementary school libraries since June 1, 2025

Trying to comply w/TX SB 13, the district said it is using AI to identify books 4 review

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