Feb
11
Greetings librarians from SCASL-land. Heather Thore and I are busy representing you at the AASL Affiliate Assembly at the ALA Midwinter Conference in Denver. It has been super cold and even snowy (all day yesterday), but we have been learning and gathering information to share with you very soon. Hot topics here are the new standards, an ESSA update, and the upcoming ALA elections.
Don't forget tomorrow morning at 10AM east coast time, the ALA Youth Media Awards will be broadcast live from Denver. If you didn't know, this is the annual announcement of the big book award winners including the highly coveted Caldecott, Newbery, and Coretta Scott King Awards. Her is the link http://ala.unikron.com/2018/index_home.php Wouldn't this make an awesome viewing party at school--of course with only books and authors to entertain your guests. You can also follow the hashtag #alayma on social media. This is a big day for us, as the highly anticipated SC Book Award 2018-2019 nominees will be released shortly after by the SCASL Book Award Committee.
We'll report in again later, as on the slate for today, we'll be attending the ALA President's Program, where our very own SCASL Member and USC-SLIS Director of SLIS, Dr. Lankes is on a panel discussing Libraries and Neutrality. Heather and I are eating lunch with Dr. Lucy Green from SLIS and hanging out with the SCLA peeps and USC SLIS peeps at a get together this evening.
