Finding New Materials

Posted on 05/24/2019 at 12:56 PM by Pam Buysman

My individual professional development plan centered around learning how to use Camtasia so I could share tutorials or how-tos. I'm...

MackinVia Now Has Read-Alongs

Posted on 04/22/2019 at 11:39 AM by Pam Buysman

Iowa School Library Program Standards

Posted on 04/15/2019 at 08:44 AM by Pam Buysman

The Iowa Department of Education just recently published the Iowa School Library Program Standards. These standards replace the Iowa library...

E-books, audiobooks, and print books

Posted on 03/19/2019 at 10:20 AM by Pam Buysman

School libraries are often a combination of traditional and cutting-edge technology. While e-books can probably no longer be considered cutting-edge...

School Librarians: Why We Still Need Them!

Posted on 02/19/2019 at 11:46 AM by Pam Buysman

I subscribe to the monthly digital newsletter, From Now On- The Educational Technology Journal, written by Jamie McKenzie. Before Jamie's...

Navigating Digital Information

Posted on 01/25/2019 at 11:21 AM by Pam Buysman

One of the things teacher librarians are best equipped to help students with is digital literacy. I discovered a ten-session...

Collection Development - Weeding

Posted on 01/18/2019 at 04:39 PM by Pam Buysman

The beginning of the new year wasn't that long ago, so some of us might still be faithfully following our...

New Elementary Nonfiction Titles

Posted on 01/03/2019 at 12:25 PM by Pam Buysman

The Library as an Extension of the Classroom

Posted on 12/19/2018 at 12:00 AM by Pam Buysman

I was in a meeting this morning looking at a draft of the new library standards according to Iowa. One...

How Can We Promote Reading?

Posted on 11/20/2018 at 01:31 PM by Pam Buysman

"School Library Connection" conducts one question surveys on various topics of interest to teacher librarians. A recent survey asked teacher...