Are you planning to take part in National Novel Writing Month, which takes place every year in November?  I wasn’t going to do this, until this year I took part in the last day of WritePath 2011, adults day, and found that I absolutely loved writing the stories, and unlocked a creativity that I hadn’t [...]

CILIP, the SLA and ASCEL are joining forces for a new campaign to Shout About the value of school libraries and school library services.  We are all asked to join forces and talk about, blog and tweet the value of school libraries.  If you tweet, please include the hashtag #SHOUTABOUT,  and follow @anniemauger (CEO CILIP) [...]

Alan Gibbons, author and library campaigner, writes in his blog about an interesting experiment that is going on in Holland.  Public libraries have teamed up with schools to supply a library service in primary schools.  This has resulted in an increase of 65% in borrowers and 115% borrowed books.  The public libraries put together a [...]

Read this very funny, but straight talking guest blog post by Joe Craig on the best and worst author visits.  It gives some really good tips from the author’s perspective – and I know I had fun identifying whether my school visit with him had more of the School of Perfection or Hellsville!  Read it [...]

The School Library Association has named Carol Webb, of Forest Hill School in London today the eighth proud holder of this very prestigious award which recognizes the work of excellent school librarians in the UK.  You can read more about Carol and why she won the award here.  Congratulations to Carol, and the excellent runners up [...]

There is a very interesting new piece of research into children’s digital fluency, which can  be accessed either from a link on the Evidence page of Heart, or downloaded from the Reports section of the Box files.  It talks about how children rely on the internet for their sources, and how reliable that is.   [...]