While I've never been a fan of New Year's Resolutions, I understand the urge to make goals and aspire to something greater as one year...

A few days ago, Joyce Valenza posted a video and script of what she called a School Library Story.  Both are a testimonial of sorts.  A...

Note: this post originally appeared in Connected: a publication of the School Library Association of New Zealand.  I was honored to be...

UPDATE:  Ed Geek Cast Live! was so much fun! I had a blast doing the show and posted a link to the archived show below.  Also, some...

I've being doing workshops on Twitter and other tools to help librarians get connected for a long time - and, honestly, I've never been...

Yesterday I had the opportunity to work with a fun group of librarians in the northern part of my state who had some questions about...

The things I post here don't, typically, generate a lot of comments.  Which is fine.  I decided a long time ago that this space would be...

I don't know a single teacher-librarian who doesn't have a story like this... So... a _______ [teacher/parent/principal/student/someoneel...

All my life I've been jealous of people who could draw or paint or make other types of visual art.  I love art.  And I've always longed...

Zombie Librarians do the same old thing - year after year after year after year (after year).  Their motto is "hey, even if it IS broken,...

meme** noun An element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by...

I've gotten a few requests lately for resources on how to teach kids (and adults!) about copyright.  I've written before about how I...

Recently, I've been sharing with the groups I work with that this is the first time in 17 years that I haven't been in traditional "back...

I was recently asked to give the luncheon keynote at a small ed tech conference in North Carolina where I was, essentially, given free...

Zombie Librarians have stopped learning. You know these folks.  They've made an art out of being a disconnected educator, they've done no...

So, here's what happened... First, ALA President Barbara Stripling created this document - a Declaration For The Right To Libraries....

Zombie Librarians don't share.  Instead, they hide in their offices counting library fine money while lamenting the fact that no one in...

This weekend I had the honor of being they keynote speaker at the Alabama School Library Association Summer Conference in Birmingham,...

My last principal used to call May "the month of mayhem." And for good reason.  In the northern hemisphere anyway, May means warmer...

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude.”   ― A.A. Milne,...