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On the AISL blog today: do you survey your students about reading? Rebecca Moore shares some interesting insights from middle schoolers, as well as tips for creating a great survey!

Reading Culture Survey At the start of the year, wanting to build our reading culture, a few teachers and I formed a reading culture committee. For our first action, we decided to survey the students about their reading.…

On the AISL blog today: Solutions Journalism: A Happy Habit, A Happy Use-case for Information Literacy.

Solutions Journalism: A Happy Habit, A Happy Use-case for Information Literacy Happy new year!Fortunately, I am getting to start my new calendar year at school with Global Week, our ever-inspiring intersession. This year, our theme is “Bridging Divides: The Art of Liste…

On the AISL blog today, your guide to escape rooms.

Escape Rooms When I first heard about escape rooms several years ago, I thought they sounded like an amazing activity the kids would love, but I doubted my ability to put one together. Then a teacher approached…

Did you set goals at the beginning of the school year? Kate Lewallen checks in to see how it's going...

Mid-Year Check In Back in August, I shared my 3 big goals for the year – weeding, dynamic shelving, and signage. Now that we’ve reached the end of semester, I thought I might share my progress on these g…

Check out the new post on the AISL blog: The Joy of Museum Exhibition Design.

The Joy of Museum Exhibition Design Well, we are deep in History Final Projects season once again! I have an in-box full of research assistance requests, so I am going to share the joyous discovery I made through a new collaboration …

SLJ blogger Betsy Bird is sharing her annual 31 days, 31 lists this month! This round-up of 2024 releases is always interesting to read, and I buy lots of titles she recommends. Today: Rhyming Picture Books:

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Rhyming Picture Books Today we celebrate the successful rhymers! These are the books that scan beautifully and give us good reasons for loving that particular type of tricky verse.

Looking for some fun activities as we head towards winter break? Check out this post on hosting a Library Olympics, on the AISL blog today.

https://aislnews.org/its-time-for-library-olympics/

Collaboration and connection - on the AISL blog today:

On Collaboration and Success…. I love my job. I began my career as a university librarian and soon realized that the part of my job I liked best were the student and faculty interactions, but I was not able to spend as much tim…

TONIGHT! Join us for a chat with Amanda Jones - 'That Librarian'. AISL members, check your email to register, and for the zoom link!

A new way to teach citations, by Rebecca Moore - on the AISL blog today!

Citation Puzzles One of my orientation sessions with our 5th graders covers citations. To start, we talk about what citations are, why it’s important to cite your sources, and what sort of information citations inc…

Do you teach your students how to use an index? Some thoughts from Stephanie Gamble, on the AISL blog today.

Indexing Knowledge Up until recently, I was fine with acknowledging that while our students don’t know how to use a print encyclopedia (it’s just sad to watch, really), that searching in our online reference is what …

Join AISL on Thursday, November 21 at 6:00PM CST for a discussion and Q&A with Amanda Jones. See the listserv for more details, and a link to register! 📚

Today on the AISL blog, Tasha Bergson-Michelson offers a great tip for figuring out which journal is covered in which database:

Do you have that pink book about Rosa Parks? On “impossible” questions becoming “possible” I was fully looking for something cheerful to post about today, and it turns out that “cheerful” in this instance means finding a use for something about which I have historically felt …

New on the AISL blog: Predictability, Personal Curation, and a Radio Station by Christina Pommer.

Predictability, Personal Curation, and a Radio Station I’ve continued to build on my “Christina’s Highlight’s 2024” playlist since my last post. Yet several times this fall when music was playing in the background while I worked, a seemingly unfamiliar…

On the AISL blog today, Rebecca Moore shares an AI Poem Comparison Lesson.

AI Poem Comparison Lesson At the start of the year, I have eight thirty-minute sessions with the fifth grade, to introduce them to the library and its resources. This year, I decided to swap out one of our sessions for an i…

On the AISL blog today: thoughts on Wikipedia and AI, by Tasha Bergson-Michelson.

Unpacking AI and Wikipedia quality With gratitude for the collaboration of Amy Pelman (Harker), Robin Gluck (Jewish Community High School of the Bay), Margi Putnam (Burr and Burton Academy), Hillel Gray (Ohio University), Sam Borbas…

On Thursday 11/21, AISL will be hosting an online chat with Amanda Jones. She'll be sharing insights from her new book That Librarian, as well as answering your questions in a brief Q+A. Amanda was the 2021 School Library Journal Co-Librarian of the Year and was also the recipient of the 2023 AASL Intellectual Freedom Award.

AISL members, check your email for info and registration!

That Librarian: Amanda Jones - My Book Preorders: Cavalier House Books (autographed, personalized, and unautographed options available) Baldwin & Co Tubby and Coos Barnes & Noble and Amazon

How do you share what you do with your community, when so much of your job is 'invisible work'. Some thoughts from Diana Holden, on the AISL blog, today.

Invisible Work I recently posted a question to the listserv asking for ideas on how to track the invisible work I do in the library. Recent changes in the structure of library services at my school confirmed that…