Free Webinar: Ditch Dewey and Watch Your Circulation Grow

Is your nonfiction circulation less than desirable? Are your kids struggling to find the nonfiction books they want to read? Does your nonfiction section need a facelift? Find out how two Texas librarians collaborated on a process to overhaul their nonfiction section and "Ditch the Dewey."

This webinar will offer a step-by-step process to help you do the same. Learn how to tackle this project without fear and watch your nonfiction circulation increase dramatically.

Register And Attend the Literacy for Texas Webinar For A FREE Hour Of PD + The Chance To Win 25 FREE Books!

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Webinar: Shake Up Your Shelves - April 14, 2022

Join HarperCollins Children's Books for this exciting webinar, 

Shake Up Your Shelves: Examining AAPI Representation in Library Collections and Classrooms

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Now more than ever, it is important for teachers and librarians to include culturally authentic books in curricula and library collections that uplift and center Asian-American and Pacific Islander voices. Join NEWBERY MEDALIST LINDA SUE PARK as she leads a discussion on how we can Shake Up Our Shelves by examining AAPI representation in our current collections and asking what to consider when adding new books by or about AAPI community members. You’ll also hear from NEWBERY MEDALIST ERIN ENTRADA KELLY, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOANNA HO, 2022 NEWBERY HONOR AUTHOR RAJANI LAROCCA, and DEBUT AUTHOR XIXI TIANM as they share what it means to be part of the AAPI community and the process of writing those lived experiences for children today. Please join HarperCollins Children's Books and Booklist for this free, one-hour webinar on April 14th at 9 AM PST.

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Free Webinar from HarperCollins Children's Books: Picture This!

Picture This!

Featuring Lian Cho, Kevin Henkes, Oge Mora,

and Dan Santat

October 20

9AM PST

Over the last year and a half, the words “home” and “community” have taken on new meaning. “Home” has become office, school, and safe haven. Home has become the place we’ve stayed to protect our community as we have learned how interconnected the health and well-being of communities truly are. Libraries, which are so central to the foundation of our communities, have also been drastically affected this past year. We are so glad that through creativity, perseverance, and technological innovation, the book world has been able to reach far and wide to those who may not be able to meet in person.

Four new picture books look at these concepts of what and who are home and community to young readers. Home can be a house through the seasons, home can be a beloved companion (stuffed or otherwise). Community can be those who share your red brick walls and those who share this planet. Hear from four of today’s best illustrators, Kevin Henkes, Dan Santat, Lian Cho, and Oge Mora, on how their art processes were informed by these themes and how creativity has given them a sense of home throughout their careers and particularly in the last year.

FREE Event! Future Ready Librarians® Fall Summit

Future Ready Librarians® Fall Summit
Thinking Critically About Media and News Literacy
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Future Ready Librarians® summits are FREE, live, virtual, interactive, high-quality professional learning experiences for librarians interested in learning, growing, and expanding their professional practice through collaboration and networking with like-minded colleagues from across the country.

During this summit, we will reflect and collaborate around the following questions:
How has the conversation about information and media literacy evolved?
What are current and emerging best practices for teaching media literacy?

What roles can teacher librarians and school libraries play in leading media literacy?

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Literacy for Texas & Amanda Hunt Present: Social Media 101

Social Media 101 Webinar

October 4th @ 2:30pm PST!

Join Literacy for Texas and Amanda Hunt for a special presentation that will share how librarians can use apps such as Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter to share ideas, collaborate, learn and grow from other librarians and professionals.

This free session will offer tips and tricks to get started, as well as how-to videos, examples, links to other presentations, and more to get you started and be successful!

Free SLJ Webinar: She Blinded Me with SCIENCE! Women Writing STEM

She Blinded Me With Science: Women Writing STEM
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
3:00-4:00 PM ET, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM PT

A STEM education creates critical thinkers, ignites curiosity to explore the way the world works, and inspires a new generation of innovators. We live in an era that has seen the rate of scientific and technological advancement increase dramatically. Making sure kids are not only prepared, but are enthusiastic participants and leaders in the coming waves of advancement is a difficult task made easier with resources kids can sink their minds into. Join four inspiring women authors who are writing exciting science books for young readers covering astrophysics, anthropology, biology, and engineering and technology.

Executive editor Alyssa Mito-Pusey joins Pamela S. Turner, Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano, Heather L. Montgomery, and Kristen Nordstrom to discuss their fascinating new books that explore the many possibilities of science, writing about evolving science, and how kids are natural scientists—always exploring and always discovering. Attendees take away a guide filled with practical classroom activities, as well as a whole lot of inspiration.

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Presenters:

Pamela S. Turner, Author

Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano, Author

Heather L. Montgomery, Author

Kristen Nordstrom, Author

Moderator:

Alyssa Mito Pusey, Executive Editor, Charlesbridge

Can't make it September 15th? No problem!
Register now and SLJ will email you when the webcast is available for on-demand viewing.


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SLJ Summit 2021: In Community -- FREE event

Join School Library Journal on Thursday, October 28 for SLJ Summit: In Community. Beyond geography, community can mean a lot of things. We all work and live in the context of community, and the fact of our interdependence—how all aspects of our lives, our very fates, rely on how we function together—has never been made more apparent than in our shared experience of the pandemic.

Date: Thursday, October 28

Time: 6:00 AM - 2:00 PM PST

Cost: FREE

MacKids School & Library: "Winter 2022 Preview -- FREE Event

 

Join MacKids School & Library for their exciting Winter 2022 Preview!

MacKids School & Library will preview their Winter 2022 list of titles, including picture books, chapter books, middle grade, and young adult titles from all of their imprints at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. Special guests include Lizz Huerta, young adult debut author of The Lost Dreamer, and Gary Paulsen, three-time Newbery Honor winner and author of the upcoming middle-grade novel Northwind. Register to receive digital review copies of The Lost Dreamer and Northwind, plus access to their Winter 2022 featured titles.

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JLG: Fueling Young Minds & Bodies webinar

Do you ever wonder what happens inside your body after you eat? Take a journey through the digestive system and get a better picture of how what you eat affects you. Helping kids understand how the different systems in their bodies work from a young age can teach them how to take care of themselves and encourage them to make wise choices as they get older, all while having fun and a laugh.

Join Junior Library Guild (JLG) Thursday, August 19 at 3pm ET as they sit down with Dr. Jennifer Gardy in honor of August’s Kids Eat Right Month. They’ll be chatting all about her new book, It Takes Guts, the importance of educating our kids about eating well, and how we can best prepare them as they go back to school.

SLJ Teen Live! What's Next - Free Virtual Event

Join School Library Journal on Thursday, August 5, 2021 for their tenth annual SLJTeen Live! virtual event!

With hope on the horizon of an unprecedented, traumatic year, educators, librarians, and students are wondering: Where do we go from here?

So much of adolescence is preparing for the future—college, careers, adulthood, the next grade—and that's even tougher when no one knows what the future will look like. As we adjust to a new normal, we must move forward while remembering where we’ve come from. After a pandemic and amid continued tragedies of racist violence, teens and adults alike are called to heal and grow, to learn more, and to further conversations about history and justice. Through it all, books reflect and illuminate our lives, telling boundary-pushing stories that take publishing to the next level. As teens consider what comes after childhood, we all must think about what the future holds for students and storytelling.

The conference’s author panels and library programming sessions will help you support and engage teens in this new moment and beyond.

 

Event Hours: 6:00 AM PST - 2:00 PM PST

For more information and to register, visit https://www.slj.com/?event=slj-teen-live-whats-next.

Can't make the live date? No problem!

All the sessions will be archived, and the virtual environment will be accessible for three months.

SLJ Shake Up Your Shelves: Diversify Your Book Collection! -- Free Webinar

SHAKE UP YOUR SHELVES! Join award-winning teacher and author Donalyn Miller, educator Autumn Allen, and Newbery Award Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly for an hour-long FREE webinar and get practical tips and approaches for diversifying your book collection!

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With diverse books, teachers and librarians can help young people better understand themselves and others. This hour-long FREE webinar will give you practical strategies for looking critically at the books you’re sharing with your students plus tips for SHAKING UP YOUR SHELVES by retiring titles that are outdated and by adding titles that reflect the experiences of more underrepresented groups.

Event Date and Time: Monday, May 3, 2021 | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM PST 

Presenters:

Donalyn Miller, Award-winning teacher, Author, & Staff Developer

Autumn Allen, Educator and Children’s Literature Specialist

Erin Entrada Kelly, Newbery Award Medalist

SLJ Webinar: Grant Writing for School Librarians

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Junior Library Guild Webinar for High School Educators!

Topic

Slaughterhouse-Five: Classics Get New Lives as Comics

Description

March 25 | 3pm EST (12pm PST)

Classic books are “classics” for a reason—and introducing the newest generations to books that have held esteem for decades is important. However, whether from outdated vernacular or style, many classics can be difficult not only for students to read, but also for them to understand and relate to. So how can we make them more accessible to all students? Adapting classics into graphic novel form is one of the best ways to breathe new lives into them! Through incredible graphics, and only the most important text, authors can tell some of the most difficult stories in a way that any reader can understand.

Join JLG on Thursday, March 25 at 3pm EST as they chat with the author/illustrator duo behind the Slaughterhouse Five Graphic Novel, Ryan North and Albert Monteys. Special guest Rex Ogle (Free Lunch) will discuss with Ryan and Albert how they adapted a world-renowned novel into graphic form, what it’s like working together to create a masterpiece and more.

Perfect for librarians, educators, parents and students grades 9 & up. 

Time

Mar 25, 2021 03:00 PM in Eastern Time (12pm PST)

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Free Webinar: How to Use Picture Books with Tweens & Teens -- Register today!

Description

Are you pigeonholing your picture books, limiting them to just primary grades? Join librarians and literacy luminaries Betsy Bird, Cicely Lewis, and Susannah Richards for a webinar about the benefits of and strategies for using picture books with older students—including middle grade and high schoolers! Moderated by Carol Hinz, Associate Publisher, Millbrook Press & Carolrhoda Picture Books, this panel discussion is sure to deliver solid ideas for educators and parents alike!

This powerhouse panel will cover:
1. Benefits of reading picture books—specifically for middle grade and high school readers
2. Advice for overcoming challenges and resistance—from tweens, teens, and skeptical adults
3. Tips for locating great picture books that “age up”
4. Tried-and-true strategies for book talking picture books to older students
5. Ideas for using picture books in MS/HS libraries, classrooms, and lessons

Register today and submit the questions you’d like the panel to cover, as well as your suggestions for picture books to use with tweens and teens. The presenters will compile a recommended booklist to share with all registrants following the webinar.

Time

Mar 23, 2021 01:00 PM CST / 11:00 AM PST

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FREE Discovery Education webinar series for Administrators, Educators and Instructional Coaches

 

Junior Library Guild -- Virtual Middle Grade Author Talk

Magnificent Middle Grade: Mysteries, Missions and Merengue in Middle Grade Fiction

February 24 | 2p.m. ET  (11a.m. PST)  REGISTER HERE

It is so important to provide books with relatable characters for middle grade readers. Bold heroes and heroines that readers can see themselves in bring more credibility to a story and encourage readers to dive deeper into the world created for them. 

Join JLG Wednesday, February 24 at 2pm ET as they sit down with 3 incredible authors, whose stories embrace strong heroes and heroines who solve mysteries, uncover secrets and most importantly, learn about themselves. They'll be sitting down with Newbery Award winning author Meg Medina, Newbery Honor author Christina Soontornvat, and Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner T.R. Simon, to chat all about their relatable characters, building stories for middle grade readers and more. 

Perfect for librarians, educators, parents and students of all ages.

Can't make the live webcast? Don't worry! JLG webcasts are recorded and available to watch on-demand at juniorlibraryguild.com/jlg-webcasts. 

Meg Medina, Author Merci Suarez Changes Gears	Christina Soontornvat, Author A Wish in the Dark	T.R. Simon, Author Zora & Me
Meg Medina is an award-winning and New York Times best-selling author who writes picture books, as well as middle grade and young adult fiction. Her works have been called “heartbreaking,” “lyrical” and “must haves for every collection. ”When she’s not writing, Meg works on community projects that support girls, Latino youth, and/or literacy. She serves on the National Board of Advisors for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and is a faculty member of Hamline University’s Masters of Fine Arts in Children’s Literature. She lives with her family in Richmond, Virginia.	Christina Soontornvat grew up in a small Texas town where she spent many childhood days behind the counter of her parents' Thai restaurant with her nose in a book. She is the author of many books for young readers, including The Blunders, illustrated by Colin Jack. She now lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two children.	T.R. Simon is a children's book writer. Her first book, Zora and Me, co-authored with Victoria Bond, won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent and was nominated for an Edgar award in the category of Juvenile Fiction. Her second book, Oskar and the Eight Blessings, co-authored with her husband Richard Simon and illustrated by Mark Siegel, won the National Jewish Book Award for Children's literature. Her latest book, Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground, a Junior Library Guild Selection, was nominated for an Edgar and won a Whippoorwill Book Award for Rural Children's Literature.

Live webcast with author Don Tate!

Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Time: 12:00 PM PST

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes

Start preparing for Black History Month with this special webcast event featuring renowned author/illustrator Don Tate. Children's literature and picture books present history in an accessible way for even the youngest of readers, and Don has built his career on sharing incredible stories from Black history through this beloved medium. Providing a special kind of key, his picture books unlock stories and give children a chance to see the world in a new way and from a different perspective. 

Join Junior Library Guild on Tuesday, January 12 at 12pm PST as they sit down with Don Tate to discuss the biographies that he has written and illustrated. They will talk everything from the impactful people in his stories, to how he wrote them, why he wrote them and the importance of embracing works about Black people to empower all children and give them a brighter future. 

Perfect for librarians, educators, parents and students of all ages.

Can't make the live webcast? Don't worry! JLG webcasts are recorded and available to watch on-demand at juniorlibraryguild.com/jlg-webcasts. 

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Don Tate
Author
Peachtree Publishing

Don Tate is the award-winning illustrator of numerous books for children, including Swish! The Slam- Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters, Carter Reads the Newspaper, No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas, and Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions. He is the author and illustrator of Strong As Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the Strongest Man on Earth and Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton, for which he won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. He is also a co-contributor to the Brown Bookshelf, a blog designed to raise awareness of African Americans writing for young readers. Don lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and son.

October 29 | 3p.m. ET  (12p.m. PST)

It’s October and you know what that means! We all love the thrill of being spooked, whether through haunted houses, creepy movies or even scary stories. Readers love this terribly terrific time of year and so do we! 

Join Junior Library Guild Thursday, October 29, as they celebrate all things Halloween with some of their favorite spooky story authors, Wil Mara, Kara LaReau, and Flavia Z Drago to talk about their frightfully fun stories for middle/high, late elementary, and early elementary (respectively). They'll be talking about the appeal of scary tales and how readers of all ages are drawn to books that pack the chills. (Plus, they may even dress up in costume!) 

Perfect for librarians, educators, parents and students of all ages.  

Can't make the live webcast? Don't worry! JLG webcasts are recorded and available to watch on-demand at juniorlibraryguild.com/jlg-webcasts. 

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Library Con Live! Free Virtual Event

Join Library Journal and School Library Journal for their fourth annual LibraryCon Live!, a day-long celebration of fandom-beloved stories and characters, featuring the creators behind mind-bending speculative fiction, innovative comics, and fan-favorite graphic novels. 

Network online with other fans and explore our virtual exhibit hall where you'll hear directly from publishers about their newest books and engage in live chats with featured authors. Whether you're a public or school librarian, an educator of teens and young adults, or a superfan of graphic novels and sf/fantasy, don't miss this chance to meet and interact with some of your favorite stars across these genres.

Click here to visit the Library Journal site for more information and the registration link!

Free Webinar: Digital Learning App Smash for Future Ready Librarians®

As students across the country return to learning, everything looks different from classrooms, buses, lunchrooms, playgrounds and, of course, libraries. The ways students and teachers access information, and the ways in which librarians support them, have evolved. One thing has become evident—we must find engaging, creative, and meaningful ways to engage and connect our students to learning more than ever.

During this new fast-paced and fun event, twenty Future Ready Librarians® will share twenty digital tools and how they use them with their students to create amazing experiences in face-to-face, virtual, and blended learning environments. You won’t want to miss as they share these digital tools and outline how they are used and how they support us as Future Ready Librarians®.

It’s going to be an exciting hour filled with sharing, networking, and collaborating!

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Guests

• Twenty Future Ready Librarians®
• Shannon McClintock Miller, Future Ready Librarians®Spokesperson, Preschool–12 District Teacher Librarian and Innovation Director, Van Meter Community School (IA)(@shannonmmiller) (moderator)

For questions about the webinar, contact Lia Dossin.