Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

Please forgive my use of this space for another personal post.  My daugther Emily is a talented art teacher who moved to the Boston area this past year.  She worked as a long term sub after she arrived in the fall and was hoping for a number of interviews this spring or summer.  Despite her presence on [...]

Beth Yoke, Executive Director of the Young Adult Library Services Association, posted this news and call to action yesterday. If you value use of blogging and wikis and social networking tools in the classroom, please contact your senator. Please also take a look at YALSA’s document: Teens and Social Networking in the School and Public [...]

Please read, consider, and add your own perspective to David Warlick’s comments on the future of libraries and librarians. Is authority or value more important in information evaluation?  What will libraries look like down the road?  I read and respect David, but I suspect he and his reader responders have not seen too many 21st Century [...]

I am just back from the PSLA Leadership Conference. Facilitator Celeste Nalwasky led us in exploring paradigm shift and creating a new strategic plan. I’ll write more about that event in a later post. What resonates with me was one younger librarian’s comments. I’ll try to paraphrase: We’re all doing different stuff. The other school [...]

Because of the connection with my virtual library research, colleague Dan Fuller recently shared with me an article and development I completely missed. http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=6287 Building Blocks to Electronic Communication: A Rubric for School Web Development and Management was released back in March http://www.eschoolnews.com/schoolspanwebsiterubric.pdf I am hoping this “rubric” marks a shift away from templated content and the [...]