Library Standards Support
Inspired by the American Association of School Librarians1, the reference points that are bolded below showcase unique and innovative ways to support diversity, analyze your collection, and share resources to empower your learning community.
Inquire
Promote inquiry by engaging students' curiosity and questioning while using resources to enrich literacy instruction and deepen connections to books.
Explore the Immigrant / Refugee Collection to foster conversation about the histories, cultures, and perspectives of refugees and their families living anywhere in the world.
Access the Reader’s Advisory page to engage students’ curiosity and interest in related authors, titles, and subjects.
Support ELA Reading Standards using this teacher’s guide for M.T. Anderson's Symphony for the City of the Dead—a book that demonstrates the power of culture, history, and music.
Spark interest for an animal research project by viewing the book trailer for Unusual Creatures by Michael Hearst, Jelmer Noordeman, Christie Wright, and Arjen Noordeman.


Include
Promote inclusion by creating displays, lists, and lessons that foster empathy and equity with diverse resources.
Connect readers to audio, video, and other resources that bring books to life using Book Promotion ideas.
Receive immediate insights into your collections and lists by using the Collection Analysis Toolkit.
Provide time for Cultural Representation Reflection lessons to pause and reflect on the representation of characters, setting, and events like this one for Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson.
Facilitate discussion after watching Kao Kalia Yang read The Rock in My Throat where she reveals her struggles with learning to speak a new language.
Collaborate
Promote collaboration by utilizing the sharing tools which provide direct access to resources that broaden perspectives, deepen understanding, and offer strategies for solving problems.
Feature new content each day by using these easily embeddable widgets on your websites and blogs that champion literacy and encourage reading.
Cultivate relationships by sharing resources in print and on digital platforms so all stakeholders can fully connect with books and authors.
Discover this collection of For Teachers, By Teachers blog posts where teachers share their journeys of becoming authors and illustrators.
Create a Shelf Talker for Lynda Mullaly Hunt’s Meet-the-Author Recording for Fish in a Tree where she explains how one teacher helped her succeed in reading and writing.


Curate
Provide equitable access and opportunities to discover and reflect on curated resources that support curriculum and student needs.
Build and embed Custom Reading Lists to promote awareness of featured titles for required or independent reading.
Feel confident about existing collections and forthcoming purchases with professional credentialed information found within Book Resumes.
Bridge library-to-home connections by extending lessons with Story Time Activity Kits.
Compare resources in a variety of formats like these interviews with Kate Messner.
Explore
Promote exploration with authentic author voices and experiences that spark curiosity for further learning.
Install the TeachingBooks Chrome Extension on devices to enrich searches with connections to children’s and young adult books.
Design interactive spaces using QR Shelf Talkers and Labels for featured titles to invite conversation and wondering.
Print bookmarks for access to resources like this Meet-the-Author Recording with Deborah Heiligman on Torpedoed, which allows readers to consider how experiences can bring out the best and worst in people.
Create opportunities for authentic learning using Virtual Book Tour blog posts which build personal connections with book creators like Amy Alznauer.


Engage
Promote engagement for students, staff, and families with resources that can legally be shared and illuminate the creative process, inspiration, and research behind books.
Model how to find and cite any resource with the sharing tools.
Prompt students to consider the impact, history, significance, or joy of a name with Audio Name Pronunciations like this one from Padma Venkatraman.
Reflect on Sharon Draper’s inspiration in her Meet-the-Author Movie where she shares how a student challenged her to become a writer.
Connect with Patricia Newman's research process in this Meet-the-Author Recording for Planet Ocean to better understand the complexities of producing a high-quality nonfiction book.
1. Referenced from American Association of School Librarians. 2018. National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries. Chicago: ALA. https://standards.aasl.org/.