you can Join, and there's also info on membership, such as Benefits and Details

Grants and Professionalism- 3 grants and job listings

8 awards info, including Flicker Tale and Librarian of the Year

The Good Stuff newsletter

NDLA Annual Conference planning and sites, along with other conferences. 

Children't Notable Lists

Partnership Grants

Professional Awards

Scholarships and Fellowships

Conferences and Continuing Education: Has online courses, tutorials, webinars, virtual events, etc.

Everyday Advocacy: ENTIRE OTHER WEBSITE (everyday advocacy: AN INITIATIVE OF ALSC, A DIVISION OF ALA) Updated 2022.

Member Center

Publications and Resources

PARAPROFESSIONAL RESOURCES: ALCS 2022

Basic Components of a Selection Policy
Library Mission | Support for Intellectual Freedom | Objectives | Responsibility for Selection | Selection Criteria | Acquisitions Procedures | Special Collections | Selecting Controversial Materials | Gifts and Donations | Collection Maintenance and Weeding | Policy Revision | Reconsideration

Reconsideration Procedure
Guiding Principles | Statement of Policy | Informal Complaints | Request for Formal Reconsideration | Sample Reconsideration Form | Sample Letter to Complainant | Reconsideration Committees

Appendix
Intellectual Freedom Core Documents | Challenge Support and Reporting Censorship | Bibliography of Additional Selection and Reconsideration Policy Resources

Search grants for a specific one/narrow it down with keywords. Example.


GRANT APPLICATIONS

This doesn’t seem to focus on school libraries, either. 

This one is better because it is about developing the budget and that can be either public or private or school or anything. It is the same for any library, on the basic level.  Big possibility to use this one. This one considers trustees and boards, even though in the school system, it would be you and the principal or administrators.  Includes not previously mentioned “characteristics” : Clarity, Accuracy, Consistency, and Comprehensiveness. New terms not in text: Operating and Capital cost. In Wisconsin, so has good and poor points. 

Grant elements. 

 

PRESENTATION TEMPLATE FOR WHEN I NEED TO DO A BUDGET PRESENTATION

Connecting the community/leaders/media. Focuses on public, again, but can be modified for schools.

“Sample Social Media Posts to Raise Awareness for Your Library”: Geek the Library

Intro to Sue Hall webinar, why a small community is an advantage when it comes to fundraising for a library.

 

Beyond Book SAles

Free Book kits about acceptance and antidescrimination:

Eliminating library fees

www.urbanlibraries.org/blog/how-eliminating-library-fees-advances-racial-equity 

Sustaining Rural Libraries

Driving Social Media Success

https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/drive-social-media-success.html 

Funding Brainstorming

 

Databases
- Issues and Controversies (infobase)
- Destiny Catalog
- Infobasebooks
- Gale (Cengage Company) "Databases and Primary Source Content"
- Infobase "Reference content that covers a wide variety of core subject areas."
- mentioned NYT
- Teaching Books "Thousands of book resources to enrich student's reading experiences."
- World Book "Encyclopedias and resources designed for users of all ages"

     1.1 Define the information problem

     1.2 Identify information needed

     2.1 Determine all possible sources

     2.2 Select the best sources

     3.1 Locate sources (intellectually and physically)

     3.2 Find information within sources

     4.1 Engage (e.g., read, hear, view, touch)

     4.2 Extract relevant information

     5.1 Organize from multiple sources

     5.2 Present the information

     6.1 Judge the product (effectiveness)

     6.2 Judge the process (efficiency)

The Super3 contains the same basic elements as the Big6 but is written for younger students to understand. 

When students get an assignment or a task, BEFORE they start doing anything, they should think:

In the Middle the students DO the activity. This is where they read, view, tell, make a picture, etc. 

Before finishing the product and turning it in, students should stop and think— Is this done? 

Aug 18, 2017

Reliable v. unreliable sources. 5 things that make a site/source reliable.

Texas 4 ways to distinguish…

Purdue Owl for citations, APA poster

When actually citing something, though, I used the VCSU one, which works very well. 

I also looked at Pittsburgh University’s libguide and Brown University’s libguide, as well. 

Highly Effective

Effective

Progressing Towards Effective

Ineffective

-  Building the Learning Environment

- Staffing

- PRo development

- Resources and Materials

- Resource Sharing

- Equitable Access

- Ed. Tech

- Climate Conducive to Learning

- Budget

- Facility

Works: 27,560,044

Series: 187,615

Covers Uploaded: 7,962,238

Author Pictures: 159,429

Venue Pictures: 18,844

Groups: 12,396

Topics: 245,942

Messages: 7,777,683

Touchstones: 6,016,002"

There are also recommendations, other languages, and "On This Day" on the sides. 

The "OTD" section is who was born and who died on this day (April 22nd) throughout history (authors, of course)

Author Gallery: photos...duh... and as mentioned above, the number of books on the site. It goes in order of how many books are in the catalog of them. The very least is Walter Farley at 18,566.

There is also a tag cloud. It is a list of most searched things with different Bold or sizes showing how popular they are in alphabetical order. When you click on it, it brings you to a list of the books with that tag connected to them. 

At the bottom, it says an Ngram table. 

The top also has tabs for Groups, Talk, and Explore. This seems pretty cool.

The Litsy community is a groundswell of passionate readers. Share bookish moments with Quotes, Reviews, and Blurbs. Measure Litfluence to discover your “bookprint” in the world. Explore recommendations from readers, not algorithms. Want to organize your reading list? Litsy has stacks for that, too.

It’s fun. It’s simple. It’s all about the book. Sign up and get a little Litsy."

There is a privacy notice that states "To respect member's privacy and keep things awesome, most of Litsy is hidden from Google. We let humans see and share pages, but not machines. Find out more." Which is pretty neat

There are trending hashtags, trending books, then there are a lot of fresh posts that you can go through right away. 

Okay, as I was looking, I found out that there is a light novel/manga mix of Pride and Prejudice.

YALSA interview with Director-At-Large candidate Melanie Wachsmann

 LIBFIVE: 5 key foundations for building inclusive libraries

I am pretty sure this one is above, but I will put it here again: Blue Ribbon (The proper one, not the…ahem…18+ one.

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