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Honoring the Greats: The Power of the Newbery Medal
No full textThe Archie M. Griffin Grand Ballroom at The Ohio State University (OSU) was a-buzz with activity on November 15, 2024, when more than three hundred fifty teachers, librarians, Columbus City School students, and other lovers of children’s literature gathered for the Newbery Award Symposium, honoring the first children’s book award in the world
Get to Know …
No full textArlene Weible may not have realized she was destined to be agovernment information librarian when she was first hired asa student assistant in the library at Whitman College. Fortunately,the director helped to develop her interest in librarianship, andArlene subsequently obtained her MLIS degree from the Universityof Arizona. In Charley Seavey’s government documentsclass, she found the perfect mesh of her interests in cataloging,political science, and history
From the Chair
No full textI first joined GODORT in 2013 when I was a baby librarian.Having earned my MLIS from Wayne State University in 2011,my experience was limited to a single role as an Assistant CopyrightLibrarian before embarking on my government informationjourney. The ALA behemoth was intimidating, yet I was eagerto find my place. While I had been active in the New MembersRound Table, I yearned for a true professional home—and Ifound it in GODORT
Don’t Forget the Dads!: Creating Father-Centric Programming
No full textWhile youth service librarians are dedicated to ensuring youth of all ages benefit from programming, there has been little to no focus on engaging fathers in public library youth programming. A range of services from in-person and virtual storytime1 to tutoring, workshops, and college preparation strive to promote literacy, learning, family bonding, and community well-being.2 However, recent events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to ban books focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion, have challenged library workers to ensure that all populations feel welcome in public library spaces
A Focus on Summer: National Summer Book Award Initiated at NSLA Summit
No full textThe setting: a glittering ballroom holding twelve hundred people all gathered to think, learn, work, and grow together around the issues related to providing equitable access in the summertime.The event: The Library and Literacy Professional Learning Community (PLC) awarded the inaugural National Summer Book Award at the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) Annual Summit. The NSLA is the nation’s only non-profit laser-focused on increasing access to summer programs. It works to ensure all of America’s students, regardless of background, income, or zip code, can access and benefit from a high-quality summer learning experience every year
Building from the Ground Up: A Path Toward Co-Creation
No full textThrough a co-creative methodology, we have worked to foster a shared sense of ownership and purpose between branch staff and leadership. We utilized a variety of familiar strategies to build a vision for New York Public Library’s (NYPL) children’s department that centered on patron and branch staff perspectives—including active listening, returning to the vision, and building a community of practice that centers on appreciation.We spent 2022 and 2023 listening to library patrons and staff to hear what programs and services they needed most. We have myriad ways for our community, patrons, and staff to share and create with us. Our vision incorporates the nuanced lens of the neuroarts (science-backed ways that tell us how the arts impact our brains, bodies, and behaviors). Because this particular lens was new, but the concepts familiar, we leveraged consistent ways to incorporate voices other than our own
The UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals: Cultivating Programs and Partnerships to Change the World
No full textThe potential of a dynamic, maintained school and public library partnership cannot be underestimated. School librarians are in a position to encourage global involvement of their entire school community through an inspiring school library program. Public youth librarians, who often serve youth throughout the community and have existing relationships with community leaders, offer valuable partnership opportunities for their school counterparts. Together, school and public librarians can leverage their influence and expertise to create change throughout their entire community on a variety of topics and social issues. One way to harness this relationship to affect global and sustainable change is to collaborate in support of the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)
Get to Know …
No full textVeteran documents librarian Aimée Quinn draws on herexperience in a variety of settings for her current positionas Campus Librarian for Northern Arizona University (NAU)in Yuma. As the sole librarian, she does it all: reference, instruction,and collection development. In addition, she is in chargeof the Student Research Symposium and is delving into AI sothat she can teach students to use it ethicall
Protecting Privacy, Protecting Democracy: Government Surveillance in U.S. Libraries
No full textIn the first fifty days of President Trump’s second term, ImmigrationCustoms and Enforcement (ICE) made 32,809 arrestsrelated to immigration enforcement, more than the entirety ofthe prior year under President Biden’s administration.1 8 U.S.C.§ 1357 gives ICE agents the power to “interrogate any alien orperson believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remainin the United States” without a warrant.2 This increase in ICEactivity is particularly relevant to librarians, as la