The State Library of Ohio is hosting an event that will focus on ways in which school libraries, public libraries, and communities can work together to build learning communities that foster high levels of student achievement. Rich Harwood from the Harwood Institute and Maureen Sullivan, Library Consultant and current ALA president,...

 

I'm teaching a new 1-credit class through Ashland in the Columbus area!  June 11, 12, & 14 from 9:00-1:00.   Participants will focus study on the Common Core English Language Arts informational text research standards grades K-8, explore various models of inquiry, be exposed to new nonfiction trade books useful for...

Posted by Andrew Robitaille   This August I began my first year as a certified library media specialist.  I oversee the Learning Commons library and media center at Jackson Memorial Middle School in Massillon (Stark County).  One of the priorities of my administration was to modernize the library and to integrate...

  Librarians know that picture books contain some amazing art and The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats is no exception. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s quote “Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art” (www.brainyquote.com) could be talking about Keat's The Snowy Day, the book which featured the first African...