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May 1, 2014 
Serving our diverse users
Rebecca T. Miller, Editor-in-Chief


The editors of SLJ are proud to roll out our May print issue devoted to diversity today. It is filled with powerful opinions and thoughtful insights into how we can better serve our increasingly diverse population. The feature well is already live on slj.com, where you will find a wealth of related content. A special edition of Extra Helping on May 7 will have the full lineup. Subscribe here, if you don't already.

In related stories, “Program Diversity: Do Libraries Serve Kids with Disabilities?” writer Carly Okyle shines a light on librarians like Barbara Klipper, Renee Grassi, and Amy Price, who saw need and created what wasn’t there─library programming that serves child patrons with disabilities such as autism and other sensory processing disorders.

And, 82 percent of LGBTQ students report verbal harassment, and other forms of bullying, and librarians are uniquely positioned to offer support to these students with a place of refuge as well as services and materials as explored in SLJ’s feature “LGBTQ & You: How School Librarians Can Support Students.”  There's much more─check it all out when you can.  
  
TOP STORIES 
Program Diversity: Do Libraries Serve Kids with Disabilities?
By Carly Okyle

The Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990, and physical accessibility in libraries became federal law. However, there is no language in the law requiring library services be disability-accessible. Individuals, like Barbara Klipper and Renee Grassi, have taken on the charge of creating programs and tools for patrons with disabilities for other librarians to model.

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LGBTQ & You: How School Librarians Can Support Students
By Lauren Barack

Eighty-two percent of LGBTQ students report verbal harassment, among other forms of bullying. School librarians can provide support through their very presence as well as their services.

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Google Announces It Has Stopped Mining Student Gmail
By Gary Price

Following a lawsuit filed last year against Google by students and other Gmail users in California claiming that Google’s data-mining of student email violated wiretaps laws, the company announced it has ceased this practice. 

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Students Worldwide Choose Bank Street’s Children’s Literature Prize Winners
By SLJ Staff

Students from classrooms all over the world have chosen the two winners for the Bank Street Center for Children’s Literature Irma Black Award and Cook Prize.

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Academic Mover & Shaker: In Depth With Makerspace Librarian Vincent Scalfani
By Ian Chant

Library Journal talks to University of Alabama librarian Vincent Scalfani, who oversees the university’s 3-D printing studio, while also teaching classes in the chemistry department. 

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Touch & Go 
Who Said Poetry Month is Over?
By Daryl Grabarek

While National Poetry Month may be officially over, interest in great poems well-delivered never wanes. Here we look at three very different digital anthologies that include verse. To quote the editors of one collection, we have poets "ancient and modern, fusty and frisky, famous and forgotten." Plus a few rising stars.

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SLJ Webcasts 
Text Sets: Blueprints for Curriculum Building

Educators have witnessed the power of children’s and young adult literature to engage students, inspire deep content exploration, differentiate instruction, and understand the potential of multimodal texts to transform classrooms. Join us on Thursday, May 1st at 3pm EDT as Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Dawes, co-authors of Teaching with Text Sets, take educators on a nuanced tour of the role of multimodal, multigenre text sets in the classroom. An overview of text sets and a discussion of the presenters’ process for creating them will offer attendees instructional models to serve as blueprints for curriculum building.

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Blog Spotlight: A Fuse #8 Production 
A Librarian’s Challenge: RePotterfy Harry Potter
By Elizabeth Bird

Librarian and SLJ blogger Elizabeth Bird dares you to take any scene from the “Harry Potter” series and re-interpret it in the style of a children’s author.

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Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Releases Interactive Online 3-D Artifacts Library
By Gary Price

Housing over 80,000 ancient Egyptian artifacts, the University College London’s Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology has released an interactive online 3-D artifacts library that allows the user to click a mouse and pore over items like a curator.

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Blog Spotlight: 100 Scope Notes 
Librarians, Submit a Photo of Your Holdshelf
By Travis Jonker

This is your last chance to take a photo of your holdshelf. Submit photos to “Mr. Schu Reads” via Gmail or using the hashtag #holdshelf by 8 pm EST May 5. 

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SLJ Reviews 
A Young Saudi Arabian Girl Refuses to Conform in Wadjda | DVD Pick
By SLJ Staff

This nuanced, achingly poignant story of a rebellious girl navigating the difficult terrain of a repressive culture will invite comparisons to Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s film, Persepolis.

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Blog Spotlight: 100 Scope Notes 
A Roundup of Headlines
By Travis Jonker

SLJ blogger Travis Jonker serves up headlines from the school library world. 

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New York Public Library Announces Partnership with Cousera Online Learning Hub
By Gary Price

The New York Public Library (NYPL) has announced a partnership with Coursera to support online courses through Coursera’s Learning Hubs program. Several NYPL branches will provide weekly in-person class discussions with trained facilitators, in addition to providing Internet and wi-fi access.

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