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Top Takeaways from the ISTE Annual Conference
PW surveyed attendees of this year’s International Society for Technology in Education Conference in Chicago about what ideas and developments in EdTech had inspired them.
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ISTE Summer Conference Catch-Up
We take a look at new developments for Future Ready Librarians and the International Society for Technology in Education, following the 2018 ISTE Conference.
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Finding Books for Teaching Social and Emotional Learning
Children’s publishers tell us about some of their recent efforts to market and promote books that encompass SEL themes.
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Social and Emotional Learning in the Field
A number of teachers and librarians share some of their favorite and most effective ways of incorporating social and emotional learning into their lessons.
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CASEL’S Core Competencies of Social and Emotional Learning
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning has devised a framework that highlights the five Core Competencies of social and emotional learning and includes some of the various methods for teaching them.
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The Power of Social and Emotional Learning
We spoke with educators and librarians from the Metro Nashville Public Schools district about how they’re helping students cope with crisis.
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A Dystopian Twist for Library E-Books
Why Tor’s decision to embargo new e-book releases in libraries is a wake-up call for librarians.
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The Week in Libraries: August 10, 2018
Nominate your local librarian for a 2018 'I Love My Librarian' award; How librarians find that elusive book you can't quite recall; And Facebook removes a purveyor of hate speech, but Twitter hedges.
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The Week in Libraries: August 3, 2018
Among this week’s headlines, Susan Orlean’s forthcoming ‘love letter’ to libraries; Tor officials brush off librarian concerns over e-book lending; And why it’s never too late to become a reader.
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The Week in Libraries: July 27, 2018
Why librarians should thank Forbes for its misguided (now retracted) anti-library editorial; The Library Publishing Coalition releases an “Ethical Framework for Library Publishing”; And, Facebook faces the music.
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The Week in Libraries: July 20, 2018
Making headlines this week: Library groups respond to Tor's decision to scale back e-book lending; Progress on net neutrality; And, is Amazon really so bad?
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Tor Scales Back Library E-book Lending as Part of Test
Tor's e-books are now being made available to libraries four months after the book's publication as part of a test to see whether "library e-book lending is one of the contributing factors" to declining e-book sales.
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The Week in Libraries: July 13, 2018
Among this week's headlines: The FCC continues to generate controversy; Should "hate groups" get to use the library meeting rooms?; And you know all those new books piling up on your shelves? The Japanese have a word for that.
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Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Thinks Net Neutrality Was Unconstitutional
Kavanaugh, in a 2017 dissent, likened ISPs to bookstores, and calls the FCC’s net neutrality rules “half-baked” and “foreign” to the First Amendment.
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ALA 2018: A Headline Grabbing ALA Annual Conference Wraps Up in New Orleans
A star-studded slate of authors and speakers energized and inspired librarians from the show’s main stages.
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The Week in Libraries: June 29, 2018
PW rounds up the news and issues making headlines in the library world this week, including good news for libraries from Capitol Hill, and the swearing in of ALA's next president, Loida Garcia Febo.
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ALA Annual 2018 in Photos
See photo highlights from the American Library Association’s Annual Conference and Exhibition, which took place June 21–26 in New Orleans, bringing together librarians, educators, authors, illustrators, and publishers.
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B&T, Penn Foster Team to Provide Education, Training Via Public Libraries
The partnership will make Penn Foster’s extensive library of courses, degree, and certificate programs available to public library patrons nationwide through Baker & Taylor’s Axis 360 platform.
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ALA Strips 'Laura Ingalls Wilder' Name from Children's Book Award
The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, voted on Saturday to rename the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, in response to the long-running discussion around prejudice in the author’s work.
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ALA 2018: Librarian of Congress, National Archivist Trade Quips
Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, and David S. Ferriero, U.S. Archivist, touched on the challenges of public outreach, preservation, and POTUS.



