Sentences with phrase «by our librarian on»

Every Day by David Levithan (RH / Knopf Books for Young Readers; Listening Library) is heavily anticipated by librarians on both our YA and adult GalleyChats.

Not exact matches

The fastest - growing wage, meanwhile, belongs to librarians, whose salaries have increased on average by 39 % over the past five years, due, in part, to the changing nature of their work.

It's like saying you should kill yourself because you have a blemish on you face or that reading is evil because you were molested by a librarian.

The essays in the Sigmund volume address both the challenge of religious pluralism in Latin America and the challenge of Hispanic immigrants coping with a very different religious circumstance in the U.S. Especially noteworthy in the Witte «Bourdeaux volume is an essay by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington on the vitality of Orthodoxy in Russia and what Christianity in the West has to receive from it, notably the witness of the martyrs.

G. E. Lessing (1729 - 81), a leading figure in the German Enlightenment, found the manuscript in the library at Wolfenbüttel, on his appointment there as librarian in 1770, and published parts of it as «Wolfenbüttel Fragments by an Unnamed Author» between 1774 and 1778.

His newtitle, actually bestowed upon him by the Librarian of Congress on June 14, isby far the best thing that can happen to a poet.

A broad consensus on the need to enable public access to all U.S. federal research emerged in a report published in January by the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, a panel of librarians, academic leaders and publishers convened last June by the OSTP and the House Committee on Science and Technology.

Although I was captivated by the skort, I must say your recent posts on rain boots and the student / librarian fashion interpretations are my favorites.

He served two terms as President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, votes for films to be selected for the National Film Registry, and was appointed by the Librarian of Congress to sit on the Board of Directors of the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Herb and Dorothy (Unrated) Salt - of - the - Earth bio-pic about the Vogels, a modest married couple with an eye for art who stupefied the experts by amassing a priceless contemporary collection containing over 4,000 pieces on the salaries of a postal clerk and a librarian.

He served two terms as President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, is a voting member of the National Film Registry, and was appointed by the Librarian of Congress to sit on the Board of Directors of the National Film Preservation Foundation.

After reading Silver's article, the librarians analyze, reflect on, question, and add to it by walking around the room and writing their thoughts and opinions on giant pieces of paper.

Colleen was awarded the School Library Journal School Librarian of the Year Co-finalist Award in 2014, named by Scholastic as one of the Top 10 School Librarians to follow on Twitter in 2015 and was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2016.

To start the day, librarian educators explore Jay Silver's article «Invention Literacy» by using a write - around text - on - text activity I discovered on Buffy Hamilton's blog.

Melissa Techman, the librarian at Broadus Wood Elementary, empowers her students» voices by asking for feedback on the work, look, and usability of the library, and she uses social media for connecting students across the district to foster that discussion.

Inspired by the drums she brought to class, the Spanish teacher's advanced students studied African influences on Latin American music, while the high school librarian added African authors to her book collection.

☐ Is overseen by an elected school board ☐ Submits to a financial audit on a regular basis ☐ Follows state class - size mandates ☐ Adheres to health, safety, and civil rights laws ☐ Teaches a curriculum aligned to state standards ☐ Is a brick - and - mortar school (not an online one) ☐ Doesn't teach religion ☐ Is in session at least six hours a day, 180 days a year ☐ Follows state teacher - pay guidelines ☐ Participates in annual assessments ☐ Has at least one librarian, nurse, and counselor ☐ Does not practice selective admissions ☐ Demonstrates at least minimal growth in student achievement ☐ Employs unionized teachers ☐ Keeps student suspensions to a minimal level

We propose the active participation of the school library media program toward the development of STEM identities among young people by having school librarians (1) provide advisory information on the science - infused books and programs that young people can read — the school librarian as the information specialist; (2) collaborate with STEM teachers and provide intellectual and physical access that further enrichs the STEM learning — the school librarian as the instructional partner; and (3) act as technology allies to help educators and students experiment with new media tools and online communities.»

Under the bill, the commissioner, in consultation with the State Librarian, will develop a system for evaluating the effectiveness of instructional programs on information literacy established by school districts pursuant to the bill's provisions.

Where Inquiry Meets Research: Teacher - librarians can't help but be excited by the explicit focus on inquiry in all areas of education today.

To help design new courses on fake news, school librarians throughout Connecticut are signing up for webinars and workshops, many offered by the Connecticut school library association.

Countless research studies have shown certified school librarians who's program is supported by needed resources are a significant factor on student's learning and achievement on high stakes tests.

Yes, we were fortunate to have good teachers and school librarians (who are also certified teachers, by the way), who worked together on lessons and made us realize there are «curricular connections».

These maker spaces are frequently led by librarians and located within school libraries, which have been reconfigured and redesigned to include workstations where students work on projects involving coding and robots, inquiry - based building, and even 3 - D printing.

From the front page the doors open to the best on - line resources, databases, tools and tutorials assembled collaboratively by the teacher librarian, other teachers and students to support all learners in all disciplines.

«This is required reading by every teacher librarian, because as you recognize a teacher like Mark in your building who is doing something different, pounce on that person to help out and partner in the experimentation!»

That's why there's a new porcine - nostrilled billet grille (a flashier take on what we saw introduced on the Rebel) also transmitting the «RAM» message loud enough to get shushed by passing librarians.

Another recently targeted book was the YA historical novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, who fought book banning on her own by sending Speak to libraries, encouraging librarians to form their own opinions.

With the launch of Guide on the Side, the UA Libraries turned 12 years of lessons learned by developing e-learning tools into an open - source software package that librarians worldwide can download and use to quickly and easily create online interactive tutorials based on principles of authentic and active learning.

These systems are designed to simplify librarians lives, by reporting on checkouts, sales, and all aspects of daily library life.

Completed reviews run on the BlueInk website, which has special features designed to help publishers and literary agents find promising new material and to help librarians and booksellers discover titles their patrons will be interested in, such as those written by local authors or set in their regions.

If they go forward, we post the review on our website, send it to many other venues, and consider it for publication in our monthly newsletter read by librarians, agents and editors and our column in Booklist magazine, which reaches 65,000 librarians.

By including ODILO in iPage, librarians can more easily serve the evolving needs of their communities by offering content in the languages they read and ordering it on the platform they trust,» said Dan Sheehan, VP and General Manager of Ingram Library Services, part of Ingram Content GrouBy including ODILO in iPage, librarians can more easily serve the evolving needs of their communities by offering content in the languages they read and ordering it on the platform they trust,» said Dan Sheehan, VP and General Manager of Ingram Library Services, part of Ingram Content Grouby offering content in the languages they read and ordering it on the platform they trust,» said Dan Sheehan, VP and General Manager of Ingram Library Services, part of Ingram Content Group.

By introducing DRM - free to your collection, users and librarians discover, access and easily download DRM - free and DRM - protected e-books on a single, unified platform.

No one is surprised that makerspaces are taking the country by storm, and now school libraries are following suit; however, some librarians are concerned that the lack of focus on books and reading means students will miss out on other useful lessons.

On top of that, our editors will consider it for publication in Kirkus Reviews magazine, which is read by librarians, booksellers, publishers, agents, journalists and entertainment executives.

Based on the widely implemented Atom Syndication Format, OPDS Catalogs have been developed since 2009 by a group of ebook developers, publishers, librarians, and booksellers interested in providing a lightweight, simple, and easy to use format for developing catalogs of digital books, magazines, and other content.

Erica Friedman of Okazu celebrates the people on the front line, Librarians, by talking about two titles that feature Librarians fight overt censorship and keeping book free for everyone to read.

Neil Gaiman has long been on record as a fan of libraries, sometimes even calling himself a «feral child» raised by librarians among the stacks.

When the U.S. incarcerated more than 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast during World War II, librarian Clara Breed made a difference in their lives by sending letters and care packages to them while they were interred.

School librarians usually choose books recommended on Booklist, or by reading the book.

Background: Based on the charge given them (see below), the School Library Group for the Julie Todaro's ALA Presidential Initiative, Libraries Transform: The Expert in the Library, developed tools for use by school librarians to improve their professionalism in practical, philosophical and pedagogical ways.

On March 29, 2017, The Chicago Tribune published a commentary by Sam Weller entitled Without School Librarians, We're On a Dystopian Path.

Librarians from the Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC) award the Newbery Medal and the Caldecott Medal while the Printz Award is decided on by a committee from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).

This document summarizes findings by the Library Research Service on the impact of school librarians on Colorado students» CSAP (Colorado Student Assessment Program) scores from 2005 to 2011.

The nominees and winners of these awards are decided on by a committee of librarians.

On her way home from the annual Horse Thieves Picnic, 16 - year - old Blythe is kidnapped by Dobbs Hordin, the mild - mannered librarian in their small town of Eudora, Kansas.

Great minds think alike: Librarians can't wait to get their hands on Circe by Madeline Miller, an inspired retelling of the myth of the maligned Greek sorceress Circe, which is also our April Fiction Top Pick.

Librarians can control the length of time a particular title is checked out for, and can put an age lock on an individual title or by genre.

This was posted by a librarian yesterday on the SW blog, and I think, goes to the point about some sort of quality control being needed by librarians: «I do the e-book purchasing for my library and I'm currently spending about $ 500 a month on Smashwords titles... HOWEVER:... «1.