Association for Library Service to Children

CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the Public Library Association (PLA) announce the release of a new Every Child Ready to Read® product. The Every Child Ready to Read® your Library® Toolkit for Spanish-Speaking Communities is now available as a digital download from the ALA Store.

CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) announced that award-winning author and editor Andrea Davis Pinkney will present the Closing General Session at the ALSC National Institute in Oakland, Calif. This event will take place at the Oakland Marriott City Center on Saturday, September 20, 2014 and is sponsored by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has selected its 2014 list of Notable Children’s Recordings. The list includes recordings for children 14 years of age and younger of especially commendable quality that demonstrate respect for young people’s intelligence and imagination; exhibit venturesome creativity; and reflect and encourage the interests of children and young adolescents in exemplary ways.

The recordings selected are:

“And Then It's Spring.” Weston Woods

CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has announced that the LGBT Center of Raleigh Library in Raleigh, N.C. is the recipient of the 2014 Light the Way: Library Outreach to the Underserved Grant. As the winner of the grant, the library will receive $3,000 for its LGBT Family Story Time project.