Librarians will be key players in executing NCTE's new policy statement on including more nonfiction across subjects K-12.
The 2023 Youth Media Awards and librarian opinions about the Newbery dominated reader attention.
Greater representation serves young library users and the profession. But more effort is needed to bring in—and retain—Black librarians.
SLJ spoke with five school librarians about how they came to the profession, the work they do each day, and their connection with students.
From Virginia Florence, the first Black woman in the U.S. to receive a library science degree, to Clara Stanton Jones, the first Black president of the American Library Association, pioneers of the profession.
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