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Through a Librarian’s Eye: Understanding Dysgraphia and Dyslexia
No full textWhen my son was six years old and preparing to start first grade, he was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). By the end of his first year of school, he struggled with handwriting and continued to write several of his letters backward.When I mentioned my concern at a pediatrician appointment, the doctor advised me that it could be a sign of dysgraphia, which is common among students with ADHD. Dysgraphia? I was aware of dyslexia but never heard of dysgraphia before. I filed that information away and continued working with him on his other ADHD symptoms
President’s Address: Creating Stone Soup Together
No full textAs I head into the final months of my term as your 2022–2023 ALSC President, I find myself reflecting on all of the activities that have taken place during my term and all of the gifts fellow members have shared to make them possible. You’ve got a sampling of those gifts in this and every issue of Children and Libraries—articles from colleagues across the ecosystem of library service to children sharing effective practices, exciting ideas, and words of encouragement and support for all of us and the work we do each day. It is never lost on me that ALSC is a member-driven association. Without the talents, time, and commitment of our members, we would have very little to show for ourselves as an association
Granting Success: Talk Story as a Community of Practice
No full textAs members of the Asian/Pacific American Library Association (APALA) Family Literacy Focus committee, we manage the Talk Story grant program. We hope this article will prepare you and your organization for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (AANHPI), and American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) storytelling-centered programming. We strive to provide informational and monetary resources for libraries and community organizations to implement culturally competent programming for AANHPI and AIAN communities
At the Margins: Answering the Call of Newly Arrived Communities
No full textA multilingual, art-driven packet in development by NYPL.There were more than 108 million forcibly displaced people worldwide at the end of last year. Among the numerous serious challenges they have faced is the interruption to ongoing education that such displacement entails.Now more than ever, public librarians have a crucial role in ensuring that learning happens everywhere. We must be prepared to provide quality, holistic learning experiences for every learner within increasingly diverse settings. Amid teacher shortages, the disruptive effects of the pandemic and the climate crisis on formal education, refugees, asylum seekers, and other historically and systemically marginalized communities—all face limited access to quality education. With the wide range of services and the welcoming community spaces offered, libraries are well positioned to meet the social, emotional, and educational needs of these communities
The Softer Side of Censorship
No full textThis essay aims to take an introspective look into soft censorship’s complexities and demonstrate how conforming to the ideals of soft censorship makes libraries perpetrators of implicit bias. It begins by defining the concept of book banning before delving into its long and complicated history, which dates back to 212 BCE. By initially looking back at the chronology of book banning, the authors aimed to make a case for how the practice of book banning has continuously been a concerted effort to whitewash and sugarcoat history and to continue dismantling our public educational institutions. The essay dives into disseminating implicit bias through soft censorship in libraries and information sciences. The authors justify how soft censorship directly undermines the intellectual freedoms of library users and readers and demonstrate how, by engaging in soft censorship, libraries are not only perpetrators of implicit bias but are also catalysts of inequity within their institutions. The essay then gives readers a step-by-step guide on resisting censorship in their respective roles. After that, it urges readers to take action and concludes with an important message emphasizing the need for a cultural approach to combat censorship. By doing so, we can begin dismantling the inequities plaguing the library and information science field
Confronting the Intersection of COVID-19 and Privacy
No full textWhen I first proposed this special issue in the spring of 2021, I had hoped the resulting articles would be a retrospective—looking back at how we had met the challenge of COVID-19, conquered it, and taken the lessons that it gave us into the future. Writing this editorial now, it is clear that is not what has happened. COVID-19 and its variants of concern, most recently BQ.1, continue to wreak havoc on our public institutions. This is, of course, most notably felt in the healthcare system, but all public services must grapple with balancing serving their customers with ensuring the safety of their employees—and the privacy of both
Scholarly Book Authors’ Bill of Rights
No full textI published my first single-authored book in 1979, my first edited book the same year; my most recent in September 2022. Although there never was “a golden age” of scholarly publishing, many elements have deteriorated significantly since that date. I write about some aspects of change in a continuing series of essays. (See my “Peer Reviewing is Becoming More Cavalier, Self-Serving and Ignorant,” Times Higher Education, June 2, 2022; “Editors Have Become So Wayward that Academic Authors Need a Bill of Rights,” Times Higher Education, August18, 2022; “The US’ New Open Access Mandate Must Not Line the Pockets of Grifters,” Times Higher Education, Nov. 17, 2022; “Demythifying: An Author and Retired Professor Challenges Some Long-Held University Press Assumptions,” Publishers Weekly, Dec. 19, 2022; “Demythifying the University Press,” Publishers Weekly (online), Dec. 16, 2022; “Pay to Play—Publish for a Price: The Myths and Manipulation of the New Corporate Open-Access Journals,” forthcoming.
Get to Know . . . Dominique Hallett
No full textDominique Hallett’s enthusiasm for government information is immediately apparent as she exclaims, “NASA is cool!” while explaining how she uses NASA publications in information literacy instruction. As the Government Documents Coordinator and STEM Librarian at Arkansas State University’s Dean B. Ellis Library, she is responsible for reference, instruction, and cataloging for government documents. As Dominique put it, “Basically, I’m the department here. I’m pretty much it.
“The Twilight Zone”: Congressionally Chartered Organizations
No full textGovernments worldwide have established a variety of corporations, instrumentalities, quasi-official agencies, quangos, and other “hybrid” entities. This paper explores congressionally chartered organizations (CCOs) in the United States. First, it seeks to explain why CCOs exist and why Congress establishes them. Next, it reviews the cases of some specific organizations to illustrate the complexities of these anomalous entities. It concludes with a discussion of how CCO publications are treated in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and how laws that promote public access may not be applicable to CCOs