Booklist launches free webinar series

Contact: Mary Frances Wilkens


General Manager


Booklist Publications


312-280-5715


mwilkens@ala.org

NEWS


For immediate release


September 3, 2009

CHICAGO—
Booklist is launching a free webinar series on Sept. 22, building on previous popular Booklist Online webinars.

The first in the new series, “The Scoop on Series Nonfiction: Best Uses, Best Practices, and Best New Titles for Fall,” will be useful to anyone involved in engaging reluctant readers, promoting reading success and keeping the library relevant in this era of accountability. Booklist youth editors will moderate as four top series nonfiction publishers—Lerner Publications, ABDO Publishing Company, Norwood House Press and Cherry Lake Publishing—share their expertise and introduce a selection of their fall titles. Webinar participants will also get a sneak peek at Booklist’s Oct. 1 Series Nonfiction Spotlight, including a focus on a new trend: series nonfiction for early primary children. You can sign up
here or through
Booklist Online.

Other topics will be announced throughout the fall; updates will be available on the
Booklist Online webinars page.

Booklist is the book review magazine of the American Library Association, considered an essential collection development and readers advisory tool by thousands of librarians for more than 100 years.
Booklist Online includes more than 125,000 reviews as well as a free Web site and blogs offering the latest news and views on books and media.

Book Links (a quarterly Booklist supplement) offers literature-based resources for the curriculum and has helped librarians, teachers, and parents connect children with high-quality books for nearly 20 years. This practical, easy-to-use publication with thematic bibliographies, author features, and articles that tie books to national education standards is a one-stop resource for librarians and teachers who want all the teaching sources on a subject at their fingertips.