children's services

Children’s Libraries

Posted: May. 25, 2011.
Noyes Library for Young Children

Q. Are there stand-alone libraries serving children (other than those in schools, that is)?

A. We know of eight administered by public libraries, one at an academic institution, and one at a university medical center.

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Nominations sought for Sullivan Award

Submitted by Cheryl Malden on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 09:23
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CHICAGO - The American Library Association (ALA) is seeking nominations for the Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children. The award honors an individual who has shown exceptional understanding and support for library service to children while having general management/supervisory/administrative responsibility that has included public library s

ALSC, YALSA launch new youth literacy program with grant from Dollar General Literacy Foundation

Submitted by Stephanie Kuenn on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 10:01
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CHICAGO - The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded $210,000 to two divisions of the American Library Association. The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the Young Adult Services Association (YALSA) will receive funding to support Everyone Reads @ the Library, a new youth literacy program.

Introducing Children’s Programming Monthly

Submitted by Rob Christopher on Wed, 09/22/2010 - 12:15
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CHICAGO—ALA Editions, the publishing imprint of the American Library Association, announces the launch of Children’s Programming Monthly .

In Their Own Words

presidential authors
By Roberta A. Stevens

“Our Authors, Our Advocates” was launched at my Inaugural Banquet during Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., in June. I was deeply honored to have as my special guests four wonderful authors who spoke so eloquently. They were, by turns, funny, passionate, compelling, and thoughtful, and they illustrated how authors can partner with us to advocate for the essential role libraries play in this nation’s economic and educational success.

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What Came Home from D.C.

By Jennifer Burek Pierce

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Designing Space for Children and Teens

By Sandra Feinberg and James R. Keller
Envisioning a new youth services space is a joint effort on the part of the architects, design professionals, staff, board, and community....

Bears Find Perfect Home

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Students from Shadow Ridge Middle School in Flower Mound, Texas, part of the Lewisville Independent School District, show off their knitted bears destined for PediPlace, a local facility that provides health care for area children who have no access to services due to economic, geographic, or cultural barriers. Each year, the students have a Teddy Bear Tea send-off when the bears are distributed. The program is the brainchild of librarian Deborah Svenson.

ALA Seeks Exemption for Children’s Books from Anti-Lead Law


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