Booklist Online: Book Reviews from the American Library Association

Whenever I see cool products for children and young adults, I’m always envious of the librarians and teachers who get to work with these tools.  What’s gotten my envy this time is World Book’s new product, Dramatic Learning.  It is a classroom tool to help with reading fluency and comprehension, based on play scripts, skits, [...]

Mark Moran the CEO of  findingDulcinea.com says it is a “small company with an ambitious agenda.”   Called “The Librarian of the Internet,” it was suggested as a “Site That will Matter in 2009″ by readers of  PC World.  There is something here for everyone.  The daily home page gives an idea of what Dulcinea does.  Today (10/24) continues a series [...]

Featured as this month’s Reader’s Corner, the review for the 2nd edition of the Readers’ Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction appears in the October 15 Booklist.
As previously mentioned, this is a classic readers’ advisory and staff development tool and the 2nd edition has been eagerly awaited by librarians and educators.

A few days ago, during a library orientation of 6th graders, the subject of pink dolphins came up.  A teacher had asked her students to produce evidence that they did or did not exist.  (The teacher had turned a student’s question into an assignment for the class.)
On the big screen, we searched the phrase “pink dolphin” in [...]

Being inundated with information about the life of Edward Kennedy over the last two days got me thinking about biographical sources.  What role does print still play in biographical information?  Is there even a place for it?
Every time I teach reference I include a couple of biographical questions; one about a living person, one a [...]

The first time I taught the required introductory course on reference and information services I only briefly mentioned library instruction and information literacy.  In hindsight, this felt this was a serious oversight as instruction had always been a large and important of my work as a reference librarian.  Now I’ve added an assignment and class [...]