It often presents films which both culturally authentic and thought provoking and which provide information or viewpoints not easily found elsewhere.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
ADIFF presents the Best of ADIFF in New York City 1/18/12-1/20/12
The African Diaspora Film Festival presents selections which would be of interest to second language teachers of Spanish, French and Portuguese as well as teachers and professors of multicultural studies and intercultural communications studies.
It often presents films which both culturally authentic and thought provoking and which provide information or viewpoints not easily found elsewhere.
It often presents films which both culturally authentic and thought provoking and which provide information or viewpoints not easily found elsewhere.
Monday, January 14, 2013
New Jersey Library System Holds Mock ALA Awards
On Friday, January 11 the BCCLS (Bergen County Cooperative Library System in New Jersey )Youth Services Committee
held its annual mock awards program. Reportedly after some spirited discussion, the following books were chosen.
Printz:
Award: Code Name Verity/ Elizabeth Wein
Honors: The Fault in our Stars/ John Green
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew
Shepard/ Leslea Newman
Newbery:
Winner: Wonder/ R.J. Palacio
Award: Temple Grandin/ Sy Montgomery
Splendors
and Glooms/ Laura Amy Schlitz
Same Sun
Here/ Silas House
Caldecott:
Winner: Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad/
Henry Cole
Award: Extra Yarn, written by Mac Barnett; illustrated by
Jon Klassen
One Special
Day/ Lola Schaeffer
(Thanks to Sharon Kalman for sharing this information)
How close did the BCCLS Mock Awards come to the actual youth media awards of the American Library Association? You'll have to wait until January 28th, 2013 to find out.
The Book and Media Awards of the American Library Association will be held on January 28, 2013 at 8 a.m. PT (11am EST) on Jan. 28, from the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.
Webcast
Approximately 12,500 webcast viewers will join more than 1,300 onsite audience members for the 2013 announcements. Virtual seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Facebook and Twitter
Those that are not able to join the webcast can still follow results in real-time by logging on to the ALA Youth Media Awards Facebook page, or via Twitter by following hashtag #ALAyma.
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Emancipation Proclamation anniversary
Today is not only the New Year, but
also the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Having just finished reading the new non-fiction young adult book, The
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln
and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden, the significance of this day is
greatly enhanced.
This is the history we never learned
in school.
Bolden plunges the reader into the
social and political climate leading up to the event, and the enigmatic
character of Abraham Lincoln. She begins the book with a quote by Frederick
Douglass, “We were waiting and listening as for a bolt from the sky…we were
watching, as it were, by the dim light of the stars, for the dawn of a new day;
we were longing for the agonizing prayers of centuries.”
Voices from contemporary participants
and observers such as Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, John Charles
Fremont, Harriet Tubman, Charlotte Forten, Sandy Cornish and many others are
recounted. (If you don't recognize some of these names their stories will
become very meaningful to you after reading the book.) The text is delivered in
an active, present tense similar to a news report, so that there is immediacy
to all the events. (Some may note that
not much has changed, when the political animosity of congress members is
described.) Illustrated with contemporary paintings, political cartoons and
photographs, each with detailed captions, noting the social, political or
ideological markers that may be lost on present-day readers, the visual
literacy of the reader is greatly enhanced.
Lincoln is revealed in all his
contradictory statements and philosophies, which illustrate his difficulty in
coming to a decision which satisfied his moral, political, legal and
constitutional views. Bolden inserts parts of the constitution and the evolving
proclamation, so that the problems in coming to a consensus on a difficult
issue can be understood.
In the Epilogue, a measured yet personal
examination of Lincoln and the proclamation is presented, which will be a spur
to lively discussions and reflection in the classroom.
For the New Year, and for this
anniversary, may teachers and students use texts such as these to create a
greater understanding of our history.
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
2011 ALA Banned Books List
Celebrating Banned Books Week this week?
Read a Banned?Frequently Challenged Book!
1.ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
Juv. M9975tt
Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
2.The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
(On order)
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
3.The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
Juv. C7136
Reasons: anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence
4.My Mom's Having A Baby! A Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
(On order)
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
5.The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Juv. A387a
Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
6.Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Juv. N333
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint
7.Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
PR6015.U9 B65 1999
Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit
8.What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
Juv. S 698w
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit
9.Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Juv. V9489w
Reasons: drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit
10.To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
PS 3562.E353 T6 1995
Reasons: offensive language; racism
For more information see http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/21stcenturychallenged
Read a Banned?Frequently Challenged Book!
2011 Most frequently Challenged Books
1.ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
Juv. M9975tt
Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
2.The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
(On order)
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
3.The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
Juv. C7136
Reasons: anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence
4.My Mom's Having A Baby! A Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
(On order)
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
5.The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Juv. A387a
Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
6.Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Juv. N333
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint
7.Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
PR6015.U9 B65 1999
Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit
8.What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
Juv. S 698w
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit
9.Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Juv. V9489w
Reasons: drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit
10.To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
PS 3562.E353 T6 1995
Reasons: offensive language; racism
For more information see http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/21stcenturychallenged
Saturday, September 22, 2012
NJ Education Commissioner Cerf comes to NJCU
Are you Interested in Education issues in New Jersey?
Attend the Public Hearing with state Education Commissioner Cerf ( with Senator Sandra Cunningham)
Monday, September 24, 2012, 5-8pm
Gilligan Student Union Building,
Multipurpose Room B
New Jersey City University
2039 Kennedy Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07305
Call (201) 451-5100 for more information
see also:
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2012/09/education_commissioner_chris_c.html
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2012/09/cerf_to_discuss_education_in_j.html
An NJToday report on the meeting is available here
Attend the Public Hearing with state Education Commissioner Cerf ( with Senator Sandra Cunningham)
Monday, September 24, 2012, 5-8pm
Gilligan Student Union Building,
Multipurpose Room B
New Jersey City University
2039 Kennedy Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07305
Call (201) 451-5100 for more information
see also:
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2012/09/education_commissioner_chris_c.html
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2012/09/cerf_to_discuss_education_in_j.html
An NJToday report on the meeting is available here
Friday, August 24, 2012
No current full text for ERIC-UPDATE
UPDATE from ERIC (8/20/12)
ED has approved for all full-text peer reviewed journals and IES publications to become available again. Our contractor is working to release these documents and we expect to have them on the site by the end of the week or early next week.
These will be the only documents available at this time due to privacy concerns about information contained in some of the collection. Although the documents in ERIC had been publicly available in ERIC microfiche for many years, the advent of the Internet has amplified the possibility that someone could make improper use of information in these ERIC documents.
We are seeking to restore access to the rest of the collection as soon as possible. Our number one concern is to ensure that any full-text documents we provide do not violate any individual's privacy. We believe that if any of us were to have our privacy compromised by an ERIC document, we would want the same consideration.
UPDATE 8/23/12
We have made all peer reviewed articles publicly available again—this is approximately 20,000 full-text articles. We are also in the process of creating a request process for individual records to be given priority in being returned to the site. ore information on that process will be provided in the next week.
UPDATE 9/6/12 (http://eric.ed.gov/pdf_availability.html)
We are seeking to restore access to documents as soon as possible. In order to restore access to ERIC, we have to check every document to see if it contains personally identifiable information. Due to the quality of many of the documents, a large portion of the search has to be done by hand. This is a large undertaking and we are in the process of hiring a team to help restore access in a fast and responsive manner. We hope to get this team in place by late September and releasing large numbers of ERIC documents by the end of October. We will continue to release documents after that point on a rolling basis.
To minimize the burden on our users, we will prioritize searching the documents that users request. If you would like to request a PDF to be returned online, please email ERICRequests@ed.gov with the record number (such as ED263102). Documents will be returned on a rolling basis and may take several weeks, but we are working as fast as possible.
Update 9/17/12 (excerpt)
We are seeking to restore access to documents as soon as possible. In order to restore access to ERIC, we have to check every document to see if it contains personally identifiable information. Due to the quality of many of the documents, a large portion of the search has to be done by hand. This is a large undertaking and we are in the process of hiring a team to help restore access in a fast and responsive manner. We hope to get this team in place by late September and releasing large numbers of ERIC documents by the end of October. We will continue to release documents after that point on a rolling basis.
http://eric.ed.gov/pdf_availability.html
ED has approved for all full-text peer reviewed journals and IES publications to become available again. Our contractor is working to release these documents and we expect to have them on the site by the end of the week or early next week.
These will be the only documents available at this time due to privacy concerns about information contained in some of the collection. Although the documents in ERIC had been publicly available in ERIC microfiche for many years, the advent of the Internet has amplified the possibility that someone could make improper use of information in these ERIC documents.
We are seeking to restore access to the rest of the collection as soon as possible. Our number one concern is to ensure that any full-text documents we provide do not violate any individual's privacy. We believe that if any of us were to have our privacy compromised by an ERIC document, we would want the same consideration.
UPDATE 8/23/12
We have made all peer reviewed articles publicly available again—this is approximately 20,000 full-text articles. We are also in the process of creating a request process for individual records to be given priority in being returned to the site. ore information on that process will be provided in the next week.
UPDATE 9/6/12 (http://eric.ed.gov/pdf_availability.html)
We are seeking to restore access to documents as soon as possible. In order to restore access to ERIC, we have to check every document to see if it contains personally identifiable information. Due to the quality of many of the documents, a large portion of the search has to be done by hand. This is a large undertaking and we are in the process of hiring a team to help restore access in a fast and responsive manner. We hope to get this team in place by late September and releasing large numbers of ERIC documents by the end of October. We will continue to release documents after that point on a rolling basis.
To minimize the burden on our users, we will prioritize searching the documents that users request. If you would like to request a PDF to be returned online, please email ERICRequests@ed.gov with the record number (such as ED263102). Documents will be returned on a rolling basis and may take several weeks, but we are working as fast as possible.
Update 9/17/12 (excerpt)
We are seeking to restore access to documents as soon as possible. In order to restore access to ERIC, we have to check every document to see if it contains personally identifiable information. Due to the quality of many of the documents, a large portion of the search has to be done by hand. This is a large undertaking and we are in the process of hiring a team to help restore access in a fast and responsive manner. We hope to get this team in place by late September and releasing large numbers of ERIC documents by the end of October. We will continue to release documents after that point on a rolling basis.
http://eric.ed.gov/pdf_availability.html
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
No current full text for ERIC
ERIC Documents are no longer available in full text format since last week. This includes access through databases such as EBSCO.
The following message was sent out on April 15, 2012:
The full text documents for ERIC have been temporarily disabled due to a privacy concern. We apologize for the inconvenience and are currently working to isolate the affected documents and return full text access to users as quickly as possible. Please stay tuned to eric.ed.gov for an update on when they will become available again.
The reason for the unavailability is due to privacy concerns connected with some of the older documents. These issues were not suitably addressed when the documents were digitized.
According to messages, alternate sources of resolution of this issue are being sought.
The result is that there is no access to full text ERIC documents other than microfiche. The total lack of online digital access may hamper students and other researchers, especially as we are only a few short weeks from the beginning of the fall term. Some libraries have weeded their ERIC microfiche as these have been digitized, so this may be a burden for researchers needing older documents.
The following message was sent out on April 15, 2012:
The full text documents for ERIC have been temporarily disabled due to a privacy concern. We apologize for the inconvenience and are currently working to isolate the affected documents and return full text access to users as quickly as possible. Please stay tuned to eric.ed.gov for an update on when they will become available again.
The reason for the unavailability is due to privacy concerns connected with some of the older documents. These issues were not suitably addressed when the documents were digitized.
According to messages, alternate sources of resolution of this issue are being sought.
The result is that there is no access to full text ERIC documents other than microfiche. The total lack of online digital access may hamper students and other researchers, especially as we are only a few short weeks from the beginning of the fall term. Some libraries have weeded their ERIC microfiche as these have been digitized, so this may be a burden for researchers needing older documents.
Monday, August 13, 2012
12/12/12 is Museum of Mathematics Opening Day
On 12/12/12 the Museum of Mathematics will hold its opening ceremony. The museum is located in Manhattan at 11 East 26th Street, NY, NY. The event is by ticket only.
The museum opens to the public on December 15, 2012.
At the museum's website at http://momath.org/ , you can find links for many different activities and events, including :
Math Encounters, http://www.youtube.com/museumofmathematics, videos of programs that were previously held:
Math Mondays http://momath.org/home/math-monday/ ,a weekly column discussing fun, experiential, and puzzling topics in mathematics
Activities http://momath.org/home/activities/
Math Midway, http://mathmidway.org/, which looked like a lot of fun. You can see if it will be coming to a location near you!
(The Museum of Mathematics began in response to the closing of a small museum of mathematics on Long Island, the Goudreau Museum. A group of interested parties (the “Working Group”) met in August 2008 to explore the creation of a new museum of mathematics — one that would go well beyond the Goudreau in both its scope and methodology.)
Visit the sites and see what you think.
The museum opens to the public on December 15, 2012.
At the museum's website at http://momath.org/ , you can find links for many different activities and events, including :
Math Encounters, http://www.youtube.com/museumofmathematics, videos of programs that were previously held:
• July 31-August 1, 2012 – The Topology of Twisted Toroids
• July 11, 2012 – Intuition Gone Awry: Puzzles that S-T-R-E-T-C-H Your Mind
• June 6, 2012 – Blown Away: What Knot to Do When Sailing
• May 2, 2012 – Shape Transformers: Forms That Fold Two Ways
• April 4, 2012 – Proofs from The BOOK: Putting Pieces Together
• March 7, 2012 – ABC Easy as 123
• February 1, 2012 – The Shape of Space
• January 4, 2012 – Revolution and Evolution in Math and Design
• December 7, 2011 – Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling
• November 2, 2011 – Creating the Illusion of Life with Math & Programming
• October 5, 2011 – Mathematical Morsels from The Simpsons and Futurama
• September 6-7, 2011 – Fibonacci & the Golden Ratio Exposed
• July 6, 2011 – Points to Paints
• June 8, 2011 – Soap Bubbles and Mathematics
• May 4, 2011 – The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
• April 7, 2011 – Symmetry, Art, & Illusion
• March 3-4, 2011 – The Geometry of Origami
Math Mondays http://momath.org/home/math-monday/ ,a weekly column discussing fun, experiential, and puzzling topics in mathematics
Activities http://momath.org/home/activities/
Math Midway, http://mathmidway.org/, which looked like a lot of fun. You can see if it will be coming to a location near you!
(The Museum of Mathematics began in response to the closing of a small museum of mathematics on Long Island, the Goudreau Museum. A group of interested parties (the “Working Group”) met in August 2008 to explore the creation of a new museum of mathematics — one that would go well beyond the Goudreau in both its scope and methodology.)
Visit the sites and see what you think.
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Jersey City Author Walter Dean Myers shares feelings about reading
Author and Jersey City resident, Walter Dean Myers recently was featured on PBS Newshour and shared his feelings about reading. The program shows him visiting his old school in Harlem and sharing some of his story and his love of reading with the students.Myers is the Library of Congress' national ambassador for young people's literature. ( Thanks to Fred Smith for sharing this with me!)
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Cybersecurity Bill- Speak up today for Privacy
This week (today and tomorrow) the Senate is considering
major cybersecurity legislation, S. 3414, that could let the
government collect your sensitive and personal internet
records. The bill is in flux and subject to change during floor
debate with “good” and “bad” amendments.
Your calls can make the difference.
It is imperative that you call your senators now.
For more information and a suggested call script,
check out ala.org/cybersecurity. At that site, you can
be directly connected to your senators by using
our new advocacy tool, Mobile Commons.
You can also find talking points and contact information
at the Legislative Action Center.
If you’d like to receive text message updates from the ALA
on advocacy alerts, news, events and more,
text “library” to 877877.
You can also sign up online at districtdispatch.com/textalerts
See the American Library Association
Advocacy Alert Page for more information
http://www.capwiz.com/ala/home/
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Friday, May 04, 2012
Free Comic Book Day is May,5 2012
May 5. 2012
What is Free Comic Book Day?
Free Comic Book Day is a single day - the first Saturday in May each year - when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely FREE* to anyone who comes into their stores. *Check with your local shop for their participation and rules.
Check the website for information- http://www.freecomicbookday.com and the Find a Participating Store near you!
What is Free Comic Book Day?
Free Comic Book Day is a single day - the first Saturday in May each year - when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely FREE* to anyone who comes into their stores. *Check with your local shop for their participation and rules.
Check the website for information- http://www.freecomicbookday.com and the Find a Participating Store near you!
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