February 8, 2012 by Rachel Wadham
The American Library Association Children’s Book Awards were announced on January 23rd. Here are the titles awarded the Caldecott medal for superior illustration are listed below with call numbers for the juvenile collection in the HBLL are below. Happy reading of these award winning books!
Winner: 
A Ball for Daisy, written and illustrated by Chris Raschka Call number: 813 R18312bd
Honor Books:
Blackout, written and illustrated by John Rocco Call number: coming soon!
Grandpa Green, written and illustrated by Lane Smith Call number 813 Sm61419gg
Me … Jane, written and illustrated by Patrick McDonnell Call number: 813 M1466111m
February 1, 2012 by Rachel Wadham
The Dolly Gray Children’s Literature Award was presented on January 19, 2012 at the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities (DADD) international conference in Miami Beach, Florida. The intermediate/young adult award was presented to Kathryn Erskine, author of Mockingbird and Beverley Brenna, author of Waiting for No One. In the picture book category, the awards went to Rebecca Elliott, author/illustrator of Just Because, and Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete (authors) and Shane W. Evans (illustrator) for My Brother Charlie.
The Dolly Gray Award recognizes high quality fiction/biographical books for children, adolescents, and young adults that authentically portray individuals with developmental disabilities. Special Needs Project, a worldwide leader in the distribution of books related to disabilities, co-sponsors this award.
Fran Prezant, disability consultant, author, presenter, and Dolly Gray Award panelist notes, “Engaging books that feature people with disabilities as individuals with personalities, strengths and talents as part of the story line, have the exponential power to change attitudes and promote inclusion in education, jobs and community life. These are important, not only for young readers with and without disabilities, but for parents and teachers who read books to them and model societal attitudes through words and actions. This year, it is wonderful to see so many positive contributions to the literature choices compared to a decade ago when people with disabilities were rarely featured in positive ways if at all, in children’s books. The Dolly Gray Award has been a positive vehicle to call attention to this and authors and progressive publishers should be commended and encouraged to put more of these books into the hands of readers.”
New this year is the Dolly Gray Children’s Literature Award Special Collection at the Harold B. Lee Library on the Brigham Young University campus in Provo, Utah. This collection will house all books considered for the award since its inception in 2000, and is likely to be the most complete collection of children’s books that include individuals with developmental disabilities. A list of all books eligible for the award, procedures, and submission guidelines are available on the DADD website: http://daddcec.org/Awards/DollyGrayAwards.aspx.
January 25, 2012 by Rachel Wadham
The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) provides access to a variety of high-quality preK-12 educational resources at their website PBS Teachers. From lesson plans to on-demand video there is a wide variety of classroom materials suitable for akll content areas and grade levels. Correlated to state and national educational standards and linked to PBS’ on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions, these resources will inform and inspire your teaching and learning.
January 18, 2012 by Rachel Wadham
Education and Information Technology Library provides access to peer-reviewed journal articles as well as published proceedings papers. Often the only source for finding seminal conference papers on topics related to information technology this library will be ideal for those interested in e-learning, mobile learning, or other current research and developments in the field.
Find the link to this database on the Education Subject Guide in the box labeled Specialized Databases.
If you need any help with this or other library databases please contact the Education subject librarian Rachel Wadham: Rachel_Wadham@byu.edu
January 11, 2012 by Rachel Wadham
The HBLL is pleased to announce the formation of the Dolly Gray Book Award Collection. The Dolly Gray Award for Children’s Literature in Developmental Disabilities (http://daddcec.org/Awards/DollyGrayAwards.aspx) was initiated in 2000 by members of the Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities (DADD) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). Given every even year the award recognize authors, illustrators, and publishers of high quality fictional children’s books that appropriately portray individuals with developmental disabilities. The Dolly Gray Book Award Collection will include books both nominated for the award and those that have won. The HBLL acknowledges the support of Dr. Tina Dyches in supporting this collection.
To find the Dolly Gray books, please search “Dolly Gray Award” in the books and more search on the library homepage: www.lib.byu.edu. The current collection contains books nominated for the 2012 award, award winners and nominated titles from previous years will be added in the months to come so keep checking back.
January 6, 2012 by Rachel Wadham
Looking to start off the new year with something new? Why not try these recently published books that just arrived in the library:
The mobile academy: mLearning for higher education by Clark Quinn. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2012. Call number: LB 2395.7 .Q56 2012
This books offers information on ways that mobile devices can be effectively used in higher education.
Getting smart: how digital learning is changing the world by Tom Vander Ark. San Francisco: Josey-Bass, 2012. Call number: LB 1028.5 .V26 2012
Shares how both online and in-person learning can be used to address students learning needs and prepare them for their economic futures.
Preserving the public in public schools: visions, values, conflicts, and choices by Phil Boyle. Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012. Call number: LA 217.2 .B695 2012
An exploration of the purpose of public schools and how the competing visions of education shape our school environments.
Beyond learning by doing: theoretical currents in experiential education by Jay W. Roberts. New York: Routledge, 2012. Call number LB 1027.23 .R63 2012
Looking at the power of “learning-by-doing” including at its history and theoretical construct.
December 28, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
http://ourmothertongues.org/Home.aspx
Produced by by Makepeace Productions in partnership with Cultural Survival and Interactive Knowledge with funding from the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the website Our Mother Tongues provides interesting information about American’s native languages including:
- LANGUAGE MAP: Explore Native American language programs from Alaska to North Carolina.
- VOICES: Meet heroic American Indian first-language speakers and teachers, and hear from dedicated second-language learners.
- SEND ePOSTCARD: Send an e-greeting in a Native American language to entertain friends and raise awareness about America’s indigenous languages and the people striving to save them.
- VIDEO CLIPS: View additional footage from We Still Live Here; learn about cultural clues embedded in languages, and hear from American Indian leaders about the importance of learning
one’s mother tongue.
- BLOG: Read stories and share your own.
December 21, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Education Index Retrospective provides an index to more than half a century of articles from an international range of over 500 English-language periodicals. This database provides extensive historical coverage of the literature in education and will be helpful to anyone doing historical research or looking at theories that were prominent in the 20s and 30s such as those of Maria Montessori or John Dewey.
Find the link to this database on the Education Subject Guide:
If you need any help with this or other library databases please contact the Education subject librarian Rachel Wadham: Rachel_Wadham@byu.edu
December 14, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Wonders of the world by Philip Steele. New York: Kingfisher 2011. Call number 930 St32w 2011
From the ancient to the modern this book uncovers the world’s greatest marvels from the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to the Three Gorges Dam in China.
Nurse, soldier, spy: the story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War hero by Marissa Moss illustrated by John Hendrix. New York: Abrams Books, 2011. Call number 923.5 Ed57m 2011
At age nineteen Sarah Emma Edmonds disguised herself as a man to fight in the civil war where she distinguished herself by services as a nurse and a spy.
Bugs A to Z by Caroline Lawton. New York: Scholastic, 2011. Call number 411 L448b 2011
Chocked full of creepy crawly bug facts all organized from A to Z
How they croaked: the awful ends of the awfully famous by Georgia Bragg. New York: Walker & Company, 2011. Call number 920 B725h 2011
Revealing the messy details of how nineteen famous men and women died.
December 7, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
We are pleased to announce that through one of our consortia, CCLA, we have acquired system-wide access to the Alexander Street Press’ “Filmakers Library Online.”
Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. This release now provides 941 titles, equaling approximately 746 hours.
You can find it on the library databases A-Z list, or the direct url is: http://dbs.lib.byu.edu/film
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