Best Practices
Adaptive Gaming:  Leveling the Playing Field

Adaptive Gaming:  Leveling the Playing Field

By Carrie Banks Forty-six bleary-eyed librarians got up early on Saturday morning to find out how to develop adaptive gaming programs.  They left wide awake and energized! Gaming Rocks Adaptive gaming is simply gaming designed to include people with disabilities.  Mark Bartlet is the President of the Able Gamers Foundation, which works to change the...

Program Report: Passages Academy Libraries

Submitted by Regan Schwartz, School Librarian, Passages Academy The Passages Academy Libraries team enjoyed the opportunity to share our experiences creating and growing arts programs and partnerships in our libraries during the ALA Conference in Chicago this summer. Serving New York City’s youth in detention, nonsecure detention, and nonsecure placement requires a certain amount of creativity...

Program Review: Beyond Brainstorming: Making More Effective Decisions

Submitted by Lily Sacharow, MS Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science Great Expectations: Decision-Making Unpacked at ALA A program review of “Beyond Brainstorming: Making More Effective Decisions” My ALA 2013 started off with a bang when I attended “Beyond Brainstorming: Making More Effective Decisions,” an ASCLA-sponsored program given...

New Report from OCLC on Library Consortia

OCLC recently released a new report: U.S. Library Consortia: A Snapshot of Priorities & Perspectives. This report details findings from a study OCLC conducted with U.S. library consortia in 2012 to learn about the demographic make-up of their groups, their strategic initiatives, their groups’ challenges and top methods for communicating with their members. The report is available HERE....

Brooklyn Public Library’s English Conversation Group Program

While Brooklyn Public Library’s English Conversation Groups provide a wonderful opportunity for English language learners to increase their listening and speaking skills, they have also become essential for another reason as well. Many English language learners often mention that it can be difficult to use the new language skills they have acquired because they lack the...