SLANZA Connected Librarians

So much fun and tasty too!

I am always looking for new graphic novel ideas for my students - apart from Capstone Press, I know little other US graphic novels, so his is great to extend my knowledge and collection.

Gives strategies for overcoming each of the 10 reasons listed.

Book blog written by Christchurch public librarian Zac. Great for keeping up to date with upcoming releases and often good competitions to win books. Children and Teen fiction, good for primary and secondary school.

Online book club for younger kids.

Search by ISBN for cheapest price, aggregates results for NZ bookstores & online retailers.

Some DRM-free texts suitable for YA on here.

Common Sense Media - new site reviewing and rating apps, games, websites etc for educators.

How to make sure that your infographic isn't just a digital poster

Sally Pewhairangi's presentation to the 2013 North Island Children's and Teens' Librarians' Conference in Rotorua.  Looks at the challenges to traditional forms of professional development for library staff and explores new ways of undertaking PD, including the use of Twitter.  Includes a list of 10 recommended people to follow on Twitter with a relevance to YA and Children's librarians.

Thanks for sharing this - I agree our learning environments need to be flexible and be able to adapt to change, This can be seen at this school as the Library & Information Centre (which is only 4 years old) is so popular with students we have had to adapt the space to relocate Careers here so that their student footprint will increase. Students like to study and learn here so it is having services that they need near them and adapting areas to suit this.

A Division of the American Library Association

There is an awful lot of really excellent stuff here! Thanks for sharing. This would be an excellent list to explore for some self-driven PD.

Spent some time in the holidays looking at this,it was really useful.

Extra resources for a large range of texts at all levels of schooling.  Includes setting, historical context, author biographies, video and photos, maps, glossary,etc

I really like this one too!