#school library journal

[aluhnim]

Imaging a World with You

A poster was created in collaboration with the School Library Journal and Children’s Book Council to support LGBTQIA+ children and teens. I was honored to make a piece in support of acceptance in literature, especially with how incredibly hostile folks have been to books in this, to quote Carl Lennertz, “era of intolerance and censorship”.

The poster is available for free download here.

[renstrapp]

I'm gonna be on a panel this afternoon at 3:50ET with Library Con Live! It's a free virtual event, with tons of panels happening all day. There will be recordings available after.

I'll be talking about How Could You on the Relationships & Romance panel! See you there!

[intothestacks]

If your audience leans on the younger side (e.g. pre-reading/learning how to read) make signage with images. It helps them SO much.

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Lindley was already well known to the audience of librarians, authors, and people in publishing. She is, to so many, “the Girl Scout from Virginia,” who garnered national attention for her Gold Award project to combat book banning in her county and then spoke out against those who sought to censor the proclamation honoring her achievement. The Freedom to Read Foundation citation is not her only honor for her work and advocacy against censorship in her community.

[8-rock]

I just learned that my new picture book, WHAT DO BROTHAS DO ALL DAY?, has been nominated for a 2023 School Library Journal Undies Case Cover Award! 🎉

The Undies Awards recognize the illustrated covers beneath the book jacket. WHAT DO BROTHAS DO ALL DAY? was nominated for the “Zoom In” category.

Voting ends on Friday, December 8; I would appreciate your vote.

You must vote in every category to submit your vote.

🚨 Please vote and share! 🚨

🗳️ VOTE HERE -> lnkd.in/ganj--uA

[sparklemaia]

first week of comic book school and i accidentally turned in one of my school library books to the united states postal service

immediately pANICKED

receipt:

good news though, a very amused postal worker called me and then delivered my book to the school P.O. box, and I was NOT banned from the school library for eternity as I'd feared

[elizabugz]

[riesenfeldcenter]

On this day 151 years ago, 17-year-old George Tutin, an English law student, was feeling sick and stayed in bed until 10am.

We've been thoroughly enjoying paging through this newly acquired 1872 diary, which is completely filled out and contains a lot of observations about the weather. More interestingly, it also notes what he was up to academically and personally. Tutin took a lot of walks, spent most afternoons studying, translated and read Virgil, kept up with international affairs, trimmed sheep, and unfortunately seems to have gotten a lot of colds.

November 29, 1872

Being poorly I did not go to Thirsk but enjoyed the more inviting delights of bed till 10 o'clock.

February 26, 1872

A dull wet day, I got my watch-glass broken yesterday so I send it to get mended at Ripon by the postman.

June 18, 1872

Rather fine in the morning. In the afternoon a most terrible thunder storm took place as big as marble falling. We consequently did not get to Ripon Flower Show. Papa out in the evening after the storm. The Lords have made a mess of the Ballot Bill.

[alexlibris-bookart]

Just finished the Bible, bound to black leather and decorated with hand carved the tree of life.

[tomoleary]

Will Eisner “Comic Books in the Library?!@#*” The School Library Journal (1974) Source

[medstudsposts]

Day 55/100 of productivity

Such a long day. Some flowers to make it pretty 🥀

[swaglet]

considering the state of US education in recent years, and the fact that a considerable amount of this site's userbase is like 20 or younger fresh oit of the system, it's completely understandable that almost everyone on here is a fucking moron who has developed no critical thinking skills whatsoever & probably doesn't even know how to use context clues. bomb the country NOW what are they doing to our youth

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

As educators realize how including RPGs in libraries and other school spaces can create educational opportunities as well as foster social-emotional learning skills, here are some books and graphic novels that feature the popular RPG Dungeons & Dragons.

[bazilisk]

Why does writing blurbs for library books feel like I'm extracting my own teeth

Each blurb is only a few sentences. Each book is a short children's book. Why does each blurb take me at least 20 minutes.

This isn't poetry. Maybe the struggle is in being succinct. I'm very bad at that.

[sapphicacademic]

one thing I love about majoring in english, I get to try books I never would have picked up otherwise. Weirdly entertained by Time Machine (HG Wells), thank you sci-fi course.