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You'll find below a selection of quotes devoted to places and people deserving most attention: libraries and librarians.
Libraries are essential in a process of giving citizens access to knowledge. In digital times they are needed more than ever before.

Get your library card, and you'll be able to borrow a print or electronic book, use free internet, or attend a course that will improve your digital skills.

Most importantly, however, libraries are the places where you can expect smart and clear answers to even most difficult questions.

Neil Gaiman perfectly describes what's happening in digital times: "Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one."

In times of the internet, everyone can visit a library without leaving home. It's just a matter of opening a library website, and you can not only borrow an ebook but also ask the librarian an online question.

Where are you heading with your life? Each direction is good if there is a library along the way.

Please share the library quotes that are still missing. We'd be more than happy to add them. You can use the comments section below, or reach us on social media. Thanks!
An extended list of the most inspirational book quotes of all time: J.K. Rowling, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, Neil Gaiman, John Green, among others.
50 quotes about libraries and librarians

When in doubt go to the library.

-J.K. Rowling

One of the most famous quotes by J.K. Rowling in one of the most stunning visualizations - obviously by Risa Rodil. You can get this particular design from Redbubble, placed on many items, including wall art, apparel, iPad cases, mugs, tote bags, and even duvet covers! ⇢ Redbubble.

Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities.

-R. David Lankes

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

-Stephen Fry

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

-Carlos María Domínguez

When I got my library card, that's when my life began.

-Rita Mae Brown

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

-Ray Bradbury

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

-Albert Einstein

Adorably illustrated by Simini Blocker, the quote by Albert Einstein would make a great welcome poster in every library! ⇢ Inprnt.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

-Anne Herbert

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

-Paula Poundstone

When you absolutely positively have to know, ask a librarian.

-American Library Association

The most important asset of any library goes home at night - the library staff.

-Timothy Healy

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.

-Linton Weeks

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

-Saul Bellow

The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.

-Libba Bray

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

-Laura Bush

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

-John le Carre

Libraries were full of ideas - perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

-Sarah J. Maas

A quote by the NYT bestselling author Sarah J. Maas is available on almost 50 items, including home decor, stationery, cases and skins for phones and tablets, or clothes. ⇢ Redbubble.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

-Norman Cousins

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

-Virginia Woolf

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life.

-Sidney Sheldon

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

-Cornelia Funke

Libraries always remind me that there are good things in this world.

-Lauren Ward

This wonderful quote comes from Lauren Ward and is visualized beautifully by herself. ⇢ Society 6.

Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague.

- Eleanor Crumblehulme

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

-Frank Zappa

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

-Patrick Ness

Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed.

-Charles Medawar

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

-Lily Tomlin

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

-Doris Lessing

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.

-Jo Godwin

Good folks from Bookish Birds offer this bold quote from Jo Godwin placed on a page from a dictionary that was destined for the trash bin. A perfect gift for a library lover in your life! ⇢ Etsy.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

-Cornelia Funke

Libraries raised me.

-Ray Bradbury

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

-Henri Frederic Amiel

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

-Peter Singer

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

-Patrick Ness

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

-Laura Bush

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

-Lemony Snicket

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.

-Neil Gaiman

You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!

-Russell T. Davies (Doctor Who)

From Aenaon Art Work comes a typographic poster with a famous quote from Doctor Who TV series: season 2, episode 2 - "Tooth and Claw". ⇢ Etsy.

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

-Vicki Myron

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

-John Braine

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

-Lady Bird Johnson

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

-Willard Scott

My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything.

-Peter Golkin

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

-Germaine Greer

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

-Germaine Greer

Nothing is pleasanter than exploring a library.

-Walter Savage Landor

Libraries are our friends.

-Neil Gaiman

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

-Neil Gaiman

Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.

-Marc Brown

Stylish design by Joseph Wang is available in a few colors, and you can get in on a woman's or man's t-shirt. ⇢ Redbubble.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

-Spider Robinson

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

-Harold Howe

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

-Alan M. Dershowitz

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

-Shelby Foote

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

-Joan Bauer

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

-Richard Powers

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

-Alberto Manguel

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

-Archibald MacLeish

Libraries are the future of reading.

-Courtney Milan

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

-Isaac Asimov

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

-Henry Ward Beecher

Another great library poster from Bookish Birds, with the hand-lettered quote by Henry Ward Beecher. ⇢ Etsy.

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Where to buy library quote posters?

Do you think any of the above quotes would be perfect for the classroom or library? There are many sites where you can order your favorite quote printed on a poster, mug, t-shirt, and tons of other products.

Below, we list the sites that offer high-quality library quote designs on a large selection of items.

Etsy - it's the top destination for anyone who wants to express the love for books and libraries. The largest marketplace with hand-crafted goods offers thousands of literary quotes - on posters, jewelry, personal items, electronic accessories, and clothes.

Redbubble - a marketplace for custom-designed items, including prints, stationery, cases & covers, or t-shirts. Opposite to other sites, such as CafePress, the quality of artwork is very high.

Zazzle - the site offers a huge variety of merchandise, from clothing, to home decor, to personal accessories. What's more, users can upload their image and create a personal design. You can order your own library quote here!

Amazon Handmade - if you don't want to sign up to other online stores, you can start exploring Amazon's own section with hand-crafted items. It's quickly growing, and you'll find here posters, home decor, and stationery.

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I scoured Pinterest for some cute printable bookmarks, and here are the results: 50 of the cutest, most inspiring, most aesthetic bookmarks you can download for free and print today.

That's enough for you to use and lose a different one for each of the books you read for a fifty book challenge.

I'm notorious for losing bookmarks. I collect cute ones from libraries and bookstores, but they often end up tucked in the back of the book I just returned to the library, never to be seen again.

That's why I've compiled a list of free printable bookmarks. If (okay, when) I lose them, I can easily replace them. No more resorting to a miscellaneous receipt dug out of my purse or a shred of notebook paper.

For your browsing ease, I've divided these printable bookmarks into 7 categories: bookish quotes from famous authors, bookish phrases, pretty designs, black and white (for coloring), cute animals, miscellaneous, and Harry Potter, which obviously needed an entire category to itself.

Click the caption below each picture to go straight to the designer's website for the download link. Minimal assembly required-just print on card stock and cut into rectangles.

Printable Bookmarks with Quotes from Famous Authors

These watercolor bookmarks with quotes about reading feature Jane Austen, Dr. Seuss, and J.K. Rowling. Design by Courtney of Paperelli.

Speaking of Dr. Seuss, check out these two Seussical quote bookmarks by One Artsy Mama.

Just a few more Dr. Seuss bookmarks from Artsy-Fartsy Mama, these featuring your favorite Seuss characters.

Matilda is one of the biggest literary bookworms; channel her reading fervor with these Roald Dahl bookmarks, also from Artsy-Fartsy Mama.

My life motto is, "Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." Now when anyone questions my bulky purse decisions I can pull out this Lemony Snicket bookmark and wave it in their face.

Ten more printable bookmarks with quotes from C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and George R.R. Martin, and some cute bookish phrases from Inside the Fox Den.

Printable bookmarks with quotes about reading on watercolor backgrounds from College Life Made Easy (a fitting source for the George R.R. Martin quote "Sleep is good, and books are better").

A few more bookmarks with bookish quotes from Stephen King, Jane Austen, George R.R. Martin, and Neil Gaiman. Design by L'atelier de Magie.

Floral bookmarks with Neil Gaiman quote "A book is a dream you hold in your hand," designed by Inkstruct.

Bookmarks with quotes by Jane Austen featuring your favorite heroines. Designed by The Happy Honeybee.

Bookmarks with quotes by John Green, these from The Fault in Our Stars. Designed by Delicious Reads.

Printable Bookmarks with Bookish Phrases

Booknerd bookmarks by Jenetta Penner.

The perfect bookmark for Book Rioters: I like big books and I cannot lie. Designed by Oh My! Handmade.

Encouraging bookmarks

Encouraging bookmarks for the slow-readers among us by Alpha Mom.

Bookmarks with bookish phrases from Marilyn Nassar.

Cool bookmark designs featuring the word "read" by Pickle Bums.

Keep Calm and Read On bookmark and more by Blooming Homestead.

Printable Bookmarks with pretty designs

Didn't see your favorite quote above? Then write it in the center of one of these Floral frame bookmarks by Cultura Creas.

Botanical bookmarks by Lilac-n-Lavender.

Vintage map bookmarks by Bookmark Bee.

Vintage map of London bookmarks by The Prudent Homemaker. Even more gorgeous in color!

Vintage hot air balloon bookmark by Winged Bullet.

Ombre watercolor bookmarks by Molly at Almost Makes Perfect.

Floral patterned bookmarks by Lemon Squeezy.

Pretty patterned bookmarks by Carrie Elle.

Marble and gold bookmarks by Savor and Savvy. Choose from nine colors!

Roses and vintage music bookmarks by Vintage Glam Studio.

Black and White Printable Bookmarks To Color

Don't have access to a color printer? Here are some designs you can print off in black and white. They're designed to color in, too, so knock yourself out with some colored pencils.

Black and white bookmarks with geometric patterns by Hanna Nilsson Design

Floral bookmarks to color feat. my favorite quote from the new Cinderella film: "Have courage and be kind."

Printable bookmarks to color with bookish quotes by Dawn Nicole. (I particularly like: "I like to party! And by party I mean read books!")

Winter-themed bookmarks to color, also by Dawn Nicole.

cute Printable Bookmarks with animals

Owl feather bookmarks by Sash-kash on Deviantart

Cute cat bookmarks by Mr. Printables.

The Cheshire cat is an infamous character, but a cat nonetheless, so I'm including this Lewis Carroll bookmark here.

Cute fox bookmarks by Lemon Squeezy.

More cute fox bookmarks, these by Bookmark Bee.

Adorable dinosaur bookmarks for World Book Day, designed by Mr. Wonderful. The website is in Spanish, but the bookmarks are available to download in English, too, as well as Catalan (just click "Descargar Punto de libro en inglés ").

Fun Miscellaneous Printable Bookmarks

Motivate yourself (or the kids in your life) to read more with these punch-card bookmarks from Over the Big Moon! Treat yourself when you finish a row.

Track your reading in 20-minute stints or motivate yourself to find out what happens next with these super-reader bookmarks by Organize and Decorate Everything.

Cute patterned bookmarks by Sharon Rowan. You can write your name in the left one, and fill out the one on the right for a specific genre.

You can mark your spot with words like "higgledy-piggledy" and "squelch" thanks to Mr. Printables.

Enjoy these eight Disney bookmarks featuring iconic animated characters reading. My favorite is the Winnie the Pooh bookmark that says "Reading is never a bother."

Cute Star Wars bookmarks, complete with corny quotes like "Reading: it's out of this world." Design by Our Handcrafted Life.

A few more Star Wars bookmarks because they're just too cute, these by Carrie Elle.

On the fandom bandwagon, here's a ridiculous Doctor Who bookmark from Doodle Craft Blog featuring David Tennant peeking over the top of your book.

Printable Harry Potter Bookmarks

It was very important Harry Potter bookmarks receive their own category.

Adorable cartoon Harry Potter bookmarks by Artsy-Fartsy Mama.

Watercolor Hogwarts Houses

She also made some watercolor Hogwarts house bookmarks.

Classic Hogwarts Houses

Or, go for bookmarks with the more classic Hogwarts house designs.

I'm not crying about this Dobby bookmark, you are. Design by Christine of Books Are My Paradise. Also available in Russian.

Let Dumbledore remind you every time you read that "Happiness can be found in the darkest places, when one only remembers to turn on the light." This Dumbledore quote bookmark is absolutely beautiful.

That's all 50 free printable bookmarks! If you're looking to be a little fancier with your bookmarks, get crafty with Amanda's post on DIY bookmarks or Susie's on how to make origami bookmarks! Can't get enough? Here's 50 more nifty bookmarks.

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Looking for fun ways to update your library, with a dash of whimsy? Take some tips from these resourceful librarians and teachers.

Above left: Jessi Casler, a fourth grade teacher from Thornton, CO, made these colorful seats for her classroom out of old tires she found on Craigslist. She washed the tires at a car wash, lightly sanded them, and applied one to two coats of spray paint. For more on this project, check out Casler's Instagram.

Above middle: Jennifer Dowell, a teacher at Stuchbery Elementary School in Houston, TX, made these stylish stools by sanding and painting five-gallon paint buckets and upholstering the lids.

Above right: A few coats of paint can completely transform boring furniture, as demonstrated by this chair that got a makeover from Joy Scaglione at Sandhills Elementary in Swansea, SC. A little spray paint gave it new life.

Above left: Looking for an easy way to make a green screen that's easy to roll up and store? Take a tip from Angel Wohel from North Buncombe Elementary School in Weaverville, NC. She painted an old map green, and whenever she or students are ready to film, they just pull it down.

Above middle and right: Create free, attractive signage by going to websites such as Lucidpress.com or Canva.com. To make signs that are poster-sized, open a saved image in Microsoft Paint change the "Page Setup" to allow it to fit to multiple pages. Do the same thing with PDF posters by printing out from Adobe Reader. The just cut, glue, and laminate for a professional-looking poster.

Above left: Is ugly or ripped furniture creating eyesores in your library? You can always do what iCrossing Chicago team members Kayu Tai and Brett Ekblad did: make over their furniture with duct tape. (" Chicago Office Decor" ( CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by iCrossing.)

Above middle: If you find yourself constantly putting furniture back to its rightfulplace in the library, here's a hint: take a picture of each area arranged the way you want it to be, and post the photograph. You can also create a furniture diagram using a website such as gliffy.com so that students have a clear guide to tidying up.

Above right: To brighten up windows in your library, Crystal Jahnig at Crockett Elementary in Brentwood, TN, suggests using tissue paper and painters tape to make fun, stained-glass style mosaics.
Katie Darty is a librarian at North Buscombe High School in Weaverville, NC.

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Just released: Horizon Report K12 (and how we’re leading these changes!)

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As school leaders, you'll want to dig into the NMC/CoSN Horizon Report: 2017 K-12 Edition.

The annual K12 Horizon Report regularly identifies and profiles six key trends, six significant challenges, and six developments in educational technology likely to impact teaching and learning.

This year, especially, you will find many opportunities for connections to our own mission and practice. But while this year's K12 report practically screams school libraries to me, it does so rather quietly in PDF.

This chart from page 9 presents, in summary, the 18 topics selected by the report's expert panel.

Let's take a look at the 10 highlights-big picture themes of educational change-the report identifies in its Executive Summary. And, how about we examine some easy evidence of librarians leading change in these directions?

On my desk are stacks of recent issues of the journals of our profession that address nearly all of those big-picture themes.

But we needn't go much further than a scan of the work and thinking of the practitioners and LIS educators who regularly contribute to AASL's Knowledge Quest blog. Their posts document how school librarians exemplify these themes of educational change on a daily basis.
1. Advancing progressive learning approaches requires cultural transformation. Schools must be structured to promote the exchange of fresh ideas and identify successful models with a lens toward sustainability - especially in light of inevitable leadership changes.
Mark Dzula addresses Library as Incubator and his conviction that

Libraries fulfill their promise when they feed curiosity, nurture passion, and encourage experimentation. In this way, school libraries can serve as natural incubators for innovative programs, thus extending their institutions' capabilities.

2. Learners are creators. The advent of makerspaces, classroom configurations that enable active learning, and the inclusion of coding and robotics are providing students with ample opportunities to create and experiment in ways that spur complex thinking. Students are already designing their own solutions to real-world challenges.
Check out the Professional Development category for many more leadership ideas, including Sedley Abercrombie's School Libraries and their Influence on School Culture

On page 41, the Horizon Report looks to the Dawson Library at St. Columba Anglican School in Australia, which is

home to the continent's first permanent makerspace in the K-12 sector. The space is dynamic and constantly updated; students are exposed to the latest technologies as they emerge, learning to use Oculus Rift, Goldieblox, Alienware computers, and more. Dawson Library also melds the physical and digital realms with virtual spaces that enable students to connect and collaborate with peers from other schools.

3. Inter- and multidisciplinary learning breaks down silos. School curricula are increasingly making clear connections between subjects like science and humanities, and engineering and art, demonstrating to students that a well-rounded perspective and skill set are vital to real-world success.
And, among her many other posts, check out Diana Rendina's How to Build a Maker Culture in Your Library. Also, browse the many other student-as-creator themed posts in the Makerspace/Learning Commons category.

School librarians always make connections with a big-picture lens across curricula and so much of that is implied in the KQ posts. Tom Bober examines the power of Pairing Picture Books with Primary Sources, using photographer Dorothea Lange's images to inspire historical inquiry. In Monday Means Leadership: Supporting Electives and Specialists, Deanna Harris shares that some of the best teaching she can remember involved partnerships with her arts teachers:
4. The widespread use of technology does not translate into equal learner achievement. Technology is an enabler but does not alone compensate for gaps in student engagement and performance attributable to socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, and gender.

integrating research, inquiry and critique writing with dance classes; creating and implementing interdisciplinary lessons with visual arts and language arts classes; researching and creating audio projects with music classes.

Daniella Smith writes about Equity, Access, and Individualization: 16 Ideas. She introduces an extremely helpful strategies chart with a statement that clearly resonates commitment to core library values:

While the schools we serve may reside in districts representing various socio-economical levels, equity and access continue to be a defining factor in the education of our youth. We are familiar with individualizing learning, ensuring equity, and providing access to information. As society changes, different situations arise that cause us to redefine the meaning of equity and to think of creative ways to safeguard access.

5. Continuously measuring learning is essential to better understanding learners' needs. Analytics technologies are providing teachers, schools, and districts with both individual and holistic views of student learning, informing strategies for serving at-risk and gifted populations.
6. Fluency in the digital realm is more than just understanding how to use technology. Learning must go beyond gaining isolated technology skills toward generating a deep understanding of digital environments, enabling intuitive adaptation to new contexts and co-creation of content with others.
Elizabeth Burns addresses analytics in Articulating an Impact on Student Learning and suggest librarians measure the impact our programs have on student learning throughout the school and the curriculum.

Of course, we are about fluencies and literacies of all flavors, across devices and platforms and that dedication is prevalent across KQ posts. Check out posts widely spread across the topics, but especially in the areas related to Collection Development and Student Engagement/Teaching Models.

7. Authentic learning is not a trend - it is a necessity. Hands-on experiences that enable students to learn by doing cultivate self-awareness and self-reliance while piquing curiosity. Virtual reality and makerspaces are just two vehicles for stimulating these immersive opportunities.
8. There is no replacement for good teaching - the role is just evolving. No matter how useful and pervasive technology is, students will always need guides, mentors, and coaches to help them navigate projects, generate meaning, and develop lifelong learning habits. School cultures must encourage, reward, and scale effective teaching practices. 9. Schools are prioritizing computational thinking in the curriculum. Developing skills that enable learners to use computers to gather data, break it down into smaller parts, and analyze patterns will be an increasing necessity to succeed in our digital world. While coding is one aspect of this idea, even those not pursuing computer science jobs will need these skills to work with their future colleagues.
We've been about authentic learning as long as I've been around libraries. Check out Ashley Cooksey's Just Let the Kids Do It. Maureen Schlosser gathered a list of Citizen Scientists: Resources to Find the Perfect Project.
10. Learning spaces must reflect new approaches in education. The pervasiveness of active learning pedagogies is requiring a shift in how learning environments are being designed. Emerging technologies such as making, mixed reality, and the Internet of Things are requiring more flexible and connected plans.
Mark Dzula offers a thoughtful piece on the social dimensions of learning with School Libraries as Space for Situated Learning. Check out the wide variety of teaching strategies addressed in the Student Engagement/Teaching Models category as well as the involvement of librarians in transforming teaching in the Professional Development area.

Check out Daniella Smith's Beginner Tips for Coding with Students as well as many other posts in the STEM/STEAM Category as well as ALA's Google sponsored Ready2Code initiative.

In A Peek into the Future School Library, Hannah Byrd Little considers new directions for her space and collection. Becca Munson describes the excitement students experience as they Explore the World with Google Expeditions. For more, check out the KQ Blog's Technology Topic.

While page 18 of the Horizon Report acknowledges libraries are leading in the area of new approaches to learning, I take exception to the phrase least utilized, as well as the use of the word purging:

New pedagogies that leverage technology are impacting the design of learning spaces. Blended learning includes a variety of activities such as small-group work, hands-on activities, and individual work on computing devices. . . School libraries are also at the nexus for rethinking learning spaces because they are the largest yet often least-utilized spaces. Experiential learning through robotics, 3D printing, and virtual reality often occurs in the library media centers, requiring the purging of some reference items to create more room for these activities.

When the Horizon Report comes up in your faculty meetings this fall (or when you bring it up), consider sharing the ways your practice already addresses the identified themes and trends and think about how you might amplify and accelerate your impact in leading a positive response to what's coming down the road.

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Librarians, teachers, and parents who have a child reading at an advanced level and seek challenging but age-appropriate books have a new resource from the Children's Book Council. The Reading Beyond book lists are the brainchild of the American Library Association-Children's Book Council Joint Committee.

There are three provided lists: for kindergarten through first graders reading at a third grade level, second and third graders reading at a fifth grade level, and fourth and fifth graders reading at a seventh grade level. Each listing contains 25 titles. The 75 books were chosen from more than 600 submitted by publishers and librarians, initially evaluated by the ALA member librarians of the committee and then finalized by the full committee. The books were evaluated for their content as well as the challenge they would present to advanced readers. The committee also considered a variety of genres and formats.

The lists took years to develop. The project was originally called Reading Up. The group chose to change the title to Reading Beyond because they wanted to encourage reading beyond levels and limits.

"Reading Up implies advanced comprehension, and certainly that's part of the profile of the readers for whom we built the list," said committee cochair Susan Polos. "Reading Beyond considers children's developmental readiness for some content." The committee recognized that voracious readers need more suggestions than are found on many reading lists, and theirs offer a strong mix of genres and diverse titles.

Committee member Christi Showman Farrar, consultant at the Massachusetts Library System, shared the recommendations with youth consultants at the ALA's annual conference in Chicago, where it was warmly received.

"This is awesome," exclaimed Danielle Margarida, youth services coordinator with the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services. "I wish I had this as a resource for all the parents of every advanced five-year-old interested in reading The Odyssey. " Parent and author Diana Peterfreund called the list, "so amazing and so useful for kids like my Q, who has a hard time finding books that are interesting to her but also provide appropriate reading levels. "

The suggestions contain such award-winning authors and titles as Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick (Scholastic, 2011) and The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz and illustrated by Hatem Aly (Dutton, 2016). The Book of Nature Poetry: More than 200 Poems with Photographs That Float, Zoom, and Bloom!, edited by J. Patrick Lewis and photographs by National Geographic (National Geographic, 2015), and Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet by Alexandra Siy (Charlesbridge, 2009) are also mentioned.

The fully annotated 2017 Reading Beyond list can be downloaded at CBCbooks.org.

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Rocco Staino @RoccoA is the retired director of the Keefe Library of the North Salem School District in New York. He is now a contributing editor for School Library Journal and also writes for the Huffington Post.

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Libraries across the country are working in a variety of ways to improve the full spectrum of library and information services for the approximately 58.6 million Spanish-speaking and Latino people in the US and build a diverse and inclusive profession.

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins September 15, Google Cultural Institute has collaborated with more than 35 museums and institutions to launch a new platform on September 7 within Google Arts & Culture: Latino Cultures. The platform brings more than 2,500 Latino cultural artifacts online and-through immersive storytelling, 360-degree virtual tours, ultra-high-resolution imagery, and visual field trips-offers first-hand knowledge about the Latino experience in America.

The American Library Association's (ALA) President-Elect Loida Garcia-Febo says she is excited about this new resource, which she believes will help libraries continue to draw attention to the rich legacy of Latinos and Latinas across America.

"Nationwide, libraries are celebrating Latino cultures by offering programs that highlight our music, cuisine, art, history, and leadership," says Garcia-Febo. "I know this platform will be a great springboard as we continue to reshape our library collections to include Spanish-language and Latino-oriented materials."

Latino Cultures pulls from a wide variety of collections to recognize people and events that have influenced Hispanic culture in the US. For example, it highlights the Voces Oral History Project's interviews with Latinos and Latinas of the World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War generations. Likewise, the platform showcases luminaries such as Mari-Luci Jaramillo, the first Latina to serves as US ambassador to Honduras, and civil rights activist and labor leader Dolores Huerta, who cofounded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez in the 1960s.

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"Libraries must make sure that more than the basic services are available to Latino Americans," says Garcia-Febo. "We have to provide respectful spaces for Latino voices and perspectives."

Google Cultural Institute aims to inspire Americans to learn more about the cultures of Latinos and Latinas in the US. As a complement to the platform, the institute is creating lesson plans that support bringing content into classrooms, afterschool programs, and other organizational programming.

Office for Information Technology Policy Director Alan Inouye considers it ALA's responsibility to bring these resources to the attention of all libraries.

"We are especially excited about this new resource in terms of our policy work," says Inouye. "Issues of race, ethnicity, and immigration are front and center on the nation's policy agenda, and diversity and inclusion are central to ALA's strategic priorities. No doubt, the Latino Cultures platform will be a wonderful resource for libraries to leverage in their programs and services."

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The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books

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They were known as the "book women." They would saddle up, usually at dawn, to pick their way along snowy hillsides and through muddy creeks with a simple goal: to deliver reading material to Kentucky's isolated mountain communities.

The Pack Horse Library initiative was part of President Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA), created to help lift America out of the Great Depression, during which, by 1933, unemployment had risen to 40 percent in Appalachia. Roving horseback libraries weren't entirely new to Kentucky, but this initiative was an opportunity to boost both employment and literacy at the same time.

The WPA paid the salaries of the book carriers-almost all the employees were women, making the initiative unusual among WPA programs-but very little else. Counties had to have their own base libraries from which the mounted librarians would travel. Local schools helped cover those costs, and the reading materials-books, magazines, and newspapers-were all donated. In December 1940, a notice in the Mountain Eagle newspaper noted that the Letcher County library "needs donations of books and magazines regardless of how old or worn they may be."

Old magazines and newspapers were cut and pasted into scrapbooks with particular themes-recipes, for example, or crafts. One such scrapbook, which still is held today at the FDR Presidential Library & Museum in Hyde Park, New York, contains recipes pasted into a notebook with the following introduction: "Cook books are popular. Anything to do with canning or preserving is welcomed." Books were repaired in the libraries and, as historian Donald C. Boyd notes, old Christmas cards were circulated to use as bookmarks and prevent damage from dog-eared pages.

The book women rode 100 to 120 miles a week, on their own horses or mules, along designated routes, regardless of the weather. If the destination was too remote even for horses, they dismounted and went on foot. In most cases, they were recruited locally-according to Boyd, "a familiar face to otherwise distrustful mountain folk."

By the end of 1938, there were 274 librarians riding out across 29 counties. In total, the program employed nearly 1,000 riding librarians. Funding ended in 1943, the same year the WPA was dissolved as unemployment plummeted during wartime. It wasn't until the following decade that mobile book services in the area resumed, in the form of the bookmobile, which had been steadily increasing in popularity across the country.

In addition to providing reading materials, the book women served as touchstones for these communities. They tried to fill book requests, sometimes stopped to read to those who couldn't, and helped nurture local pride. As one recipient said, "Them books you brought us has saved our lives." In the same year as the call for books, the Mountain Eagle exalted the Letcher County library: "The library belong to our community and to our county, and is here to serve us ... It is our duty to visit the library and to help in every way that we can, that we may keep it as an active factor in our community."

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