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Greetings! and Farewell | Consider the Source
Dear Readers, I wrote this column as I prepared to leave for the American Library Association Annual (ALA) conference in Orlando, FL. Along with Annette Goldsmith and Doris Gebel, I took part in an...
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Presentation Tools Worthy of the Content | Consider the Source
One of the many ways I learn from my students in the Master of Information program at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information is through the digital presentations they craft. Students are...
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The Three Faces of the Bologna Book Fair
I’ve just returned from the Bologna Book Fair with 10 students from my international children’s lit class at Rutgers. The atmosphere at the fair was alive and filled with a sense of excitement....
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He Said What? Making Sense of the Presidential Campaign
Every day seems to bring a new “I-can’t-believe-that-just-happened” moment in the election campaigns—and not only here in the United States. Donald Trump whips crowds into frenzies with “USA, USA”...
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Translation Blues | Consider the Source
This semester, I have the good fortune of teaching a class on international children’s books at Rutgers. In April, many of my students will be coming with me to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in...
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Is the Common Core Just a Scam to Sell Books? | Consider the Source
“What, are you crazy? It’s all about the money.” According to a video secretly recorded by a group called Project Veritas, these are the exact words of a (since-fired) executive at a major publishing...
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Facing Adversity: 72 Hours in the Life of a Librarian | Consider the Source
Earlier this month, Ferguson, MO, Library Director Scott Bonner, and Dr. Carla Hayden, past president of the American Library Association and currently the CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in...
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Meet “Homo naledi”| A Fascinating Discovery Surfaces
I hope you were as transfixed as I was by the announcement of the discovery of Homo naledi. The discovery itself is only the beginning; the great news about this remarkable find is that it throws the...
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Minding the Curriculum Gaps | Consider the Source
Last week, I moderated the SLJ SummerTeen panel “New Age of Young Adult Nonfiction,” where authors Paula Ayer, M.T. Anderson, and Susan Campbell Bartoletti presented their newest (and in two cases,...
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The Nonfiction Transmedia Challenge | Consider the Source
Back in November, 2011, the author Patrick Carman wrote an article for School Library Journal titled “Read Beyond the Lines: Transmedia has changed the very notion of books and reading.” As many of...
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Defining Excellence in Nonfiction | YALSA Action Required
In my April 23 column, “What Does Excellence in Nonfiction Mean to YALSA?,” I suggested that the Young Adult Library Services Association’s definition of nonfiction needed more clarity—both to make...
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Mathical: A New Book Award Honors the Magic of Mathematics
What subject area is the ugly duckling of your library? The one that doesn’t get much attention, isn’t seen as appealing or as much fun as the other sections—but just may be as attractive and exciting?...
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What Does “Excellence” in Nonfiction Mean to YALSA? | Consider the Source
One of the questions I ask students shortly after I’ve been introduced to a school assembly as an author of nonfiction is, “What is nonfiction?” Usually someone will raise his or her hand and mention...
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Books I’d Like to See | Consider the Source
I thought I’d use this column to begin an occasional feature: subjects, formats, and treatments that I’d like to see in books for children and teenagers, but which—as far as I know—don’t exist yet....
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The World Builder’s Sandwich | Consider the Source
I’ve been thinking a lot about a central challenge in writing (and reviewing) young adult nonfiction: context. In the obvious sense, we need to provide context so readers can follow the story we are...
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STEM Is Busting Out All Over | Consider the Source
On March 6, Sue Bartle, an Erie 2-CC BOCES system director, and I spoke at a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Forward conference near Buffalo, NY. It was a lively day filled with...
View ArticleLibrarians and the Changing Job Market | Consider the Source
Did you see the fascinating graphic in the New York Times article by Gregor Aisch and Robert Gebeloff titled, “The Changing Nature of Middle-Class Jobs?” The graphic focuses on American jobs that pay...
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PARCC and You | Consider the Source
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) tests are coming to 10 states this spring. If you work in a school or public library, how can you help colleagues, parents,...
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Let’s Talk About “Selma”| Consider the Source
Let’s talk about Selma—the movie. There’s the film, and the reactions: the Oscar snubs, protests from the members of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s cabinet and a number of historians, and defense from...
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Breaking the Hypnotism of the Now | Consider the Source
Hello everyone, glad to be back and posting after the winter break. An article that I read while away, “Revisiting the Long Tail Theory as Applied to Ebooks,” seemed appropriate to share with you....
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