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2 weeks ago | 
slj.com | Kara Yorio |Kathy Ishizuka |Jess deCourcy Hinds
As of September 1, 2026, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) will no longer exist. At ALA Annual in Philadelphia at the end of June, the ALA Council will vote on a recommendation for the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) to absorb YALSA, which would be dissolved as a division of ALA. It is expected to pass, and governing bodies for both divisions are working under that assumption and planning for the future as they mourn the loss of YALSA.
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3 weeks ago | 
slj.com | Kara Yorio |Kathy Ishizuka |Jess deCourcy Hinds
ALA Annual 2025 has featured speakers and author panels, allowing attendees to hear from Gretchen Whitmer, George Takei, Angeline Boulley, Grace Lin, Ellen Oh, Geena Davis, and others. SLJ Montage/Getty Images Attendees of the annual American Library Association conference have gathered in recent years amid censorship attempts and attacks on libraries.
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3 weeks ago | 
slj.com | Kathy Ishizuka |Jess deCourcy Hinds |Kara Yorio |Erica S. Perl
In April, school librarians from the United States attended the Sharjah School Librarian Conference in the United Arab Emirates. The American Library Association (ALA) and the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) partnered with the Sharjah Book Authority and the Emirate Library and Information Association for the two-day conference, which focused on literacy and reading promotion.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
slj.com | Kathy Ishizuka |Kara Yorio |Jess deCourcy Hinds
Montage by SLJ. Source art: Getty Images I was out for one day. One. It was my final year as a fifth to eighth grade language arts teacher. I was studying to become a library media specialist, and the class I was taking at the time was Cataloging and Curation. I had call numbers, genres, and access on my mind. Inspired, I decided to have my seventh and eighth graders genrefy our classroom library, which was previously organized only in terms of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
slj.com | Kathy Ishizuka |Kara Yorio |Jess deCourcy Hinds
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. (BCALA) and School Library Journal (SLJ) proudly announce the winners of the Children & Young Adult Literary Awards. These awards honor outstanding books that celebrate the diversity of the Black experience, offering young readers essential windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors to see themselves and their communities reflected in literature.
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
slj.com | Kathy Ishizuka |Karen Jensen |Kara Yorio |Jess deCourcy Hinds
Herewith, the topics that drew reader attention in an eventful first week of February 2025. Parse away. School Librarians Celebrated at Sundance Film Festival Screening of Documentary, ‘The Librarians’By Kara YorioThere were tears and standing ovations as librarians, including Martha Hickson and Amanda Jones, watched their stories of fighting against censorship chronicled in the new film. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion. Now More Than Ever.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
businessinsider.com | Jess deCourcy Hinds
Education The author sent handwritten notes to her kids' teachers since she couldn't be there for drop-offs and pick-ups. Cavan Images/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . I'm a working parent and can't drop off or pick up my kids from school. I still wanted to have a relationship with their teachers, so I started sending handwritten notes.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
businessinsider.com | Jess deCourcy Hinds
Parenting A baby helps with placing money in the "college fund" jar. Jamie Grill/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . When I was pregnant with our first child, we started a college fund. We set aside $150 every month for her 529 account even when it was hard financially. We are now withdrawing from her plan to pay for middle school.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jess deCourcy Hinds
8 hours agoMy friends have more money than me and always want to take trips that I can’t afford. But I hate missing out on being with them. What should I do? This is a super frustrating problem, compounded by the fact that the language we use around money (or lack thereof) is often dizzyingly non-specific. …
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
businessinsider.com | Jess deCourcy Hinds
Education The author, not pictured, is a teacher who used to come out to her students. kali9/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Every school year, I came out to my college students and was usually accepted. But coming out was mentally taxing, so I'm not coming out to my students this year.
