ALA Student Chapter - Kent State University

04/23/2025

Today!! Email SCALA president Jessica Wise at [email protected] for the Teams link if you’re not on the listserv!

You're invited to SCALA's virtual event "Student to Career Strategy" with Kim Dority. You’re investing time, energy, and tuition dollars to master critical skills and information. Are you also building your career platform as you do your assignments, listen to guest speakers, and consider participating in student activities? At the same time, how can you most effectively identify and explore your career options, both traditional and nontraditional? Join us as we discuss the actions you can take to position yourself with potential employers and job opportunities while you’re completing your program.

Please join us Wednesday, April 23, from 7-8 to hear from Kim about ways to make the most out of your graduate program to set you onto a successful future career in an information profession. This event is brought to you in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh's SCALA.

ISchool students, please join us after the event for an informational meeting about Fall 2024 SCALA officer opportunities.

04/23/2025

📚 NEW Picturebook Spotlight: The Yellow Bus 🎨
Author and Illustrator: Loren Long
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press (2024)
Age: Picturebook (0-8)
🚌 Experience the life of a yellow school bus, from her early days carrying kids around to her later years when she’s been all but forgotten.📖

🌟 Key highlights:
🐟 Bright spots of yellow amidst a gray landscape
🐠 A charmingly relatable anthropomorphized Yellow Bus
🐡 Adorable goats!

🗣️ Reviewer Jessica Wise says: The Yellow Bus fades with time and use. But as she decays, she also grows and learns to accept and adapt with the change of time. Perhaps people should learn to be more like the Yellow Bus.

🐐Time comes for everyone, but readers can learn from a Yellow Bus on how to handle change and decay with grace and dignity.
📖 Read the full review by Jessica Wise on Reinberger Children’s Book Reviews: https://reinbergerchildrensbookreviews.org/

04/22/2025

TOMORROW!

You're invited to SCALA's virtual event "Student to Career Strategy" with Kim Dority. You’re investing time, energy, and tuition dollars to master critical skills and information. Are you also building your career platform as you do your assignments, listen to guest speakers, and consider participating in student activities? At the same time, how can you most effectively identify and explore your career options, both traditional and nontraditional? Join us as we discuss the actions you can take to position yourself with potential employers and job opportunities while you’re completing your program.

Please join us Wednesday, April 23, from 7-8 to hear from Kim about ways to make the most out of your graduate program to set you onto a successful future career in an information profession. This event is brought to you in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh's SCALA.

ISchool students, please join us after the event for an informational meeting about Fall 2024 SCALA officer opportunities.

04/16/2025

You're invited to SCALA's virtual event "Student to Career Strategy" with Kim Dority. You’re investing time, energy, and tuition dollars to master critical skills and information. Are you also building your career platform as you do your assignments, listen to guest speakers, and consider participating in student activities? At the same time, how can you most effectively identify and explore your career options, both traditional and nontraditional? Join us as we discuss the actions you can take to position yourself with potential employers and job opportunities while you’re completing your program.

Please join us Wednesday, April 23, from 7-8 to hear from Kim about ways to make the most out of your graduate program to set you onto a successful future career in an information profession. This event is brought to you in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh's SCALA.

ISchool students, please join us after the event for an informational meeting about Fall 2024 SCALA officer opportunities.

04/16/2025

📚 NEW Picturebook Spotlight: Nana in the Country 🧓🏻
Author and Illustrator: Lauren Castillo
Publisher: Clarion Books, and imprint of HarperCollins (2024)
Age: Picturebook (0-8)
🏡 When Nana comes to the country from the city, her grandson is so excited to show her what country life's all about! But Nana seems to already know everything about country life. 📖

🌟 Key highlights:
🐑 Cozy illustrations that feel nostalgic
🐑 Wide open pages that emulate the feel of country life
🐑 A young boy’s moment of courage

🗣️ Reviewer Jessica Wise says: These moments of joy in a child’s life, when they go from being solely a learner to someone who can be the teacher are part of the self-actualization of a child, and it’s important for adults to help foster this.

🧑‍🌾This book captures the moment in a child’s life when they go from being only a learner to a teacher for the first time.
📖 Read the full review by Jessica Wise on Reinberger Children’s Book Reviews: https://reinbergerchildrensbookreviews.org/
in the country

03/30/2025

LeeAnn Anna, Library Services Administrator at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP)-Main and former Teen Services Coordinator for CLP-Lawrenceville https://www.linkedin.com/in/leeann-anna-a6830a2/

Jennifer Styran, Assistant Director for Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Main and Allegheny County Law Library
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jen-pickle-styran/

This event will focus on leadership and management in public libraries, including grant writing and the life cycle of service design. There will be an opportunity for Q&A.

03/18/2025

Today’s the day! Join us in the Reinberger Children's Library Center for a Party with the Profs and to hear from the author/illustrator in residence! Light refreshments provided. RSVP at the link sent on the listserv!

The Kent State Student Chapter of the ALA (SCALA) invites you to a “Party with the Profs” on Tuesday, March 18th from 4:30pm-6:30pm in the Reinberger Children's Library Center. Please join iSchool professors, staff, and students for a chance to mingle and meet your SCALA officers in person.

We will also be hearing from the Reinberger's author and illustrator-in-residence Afsaneh Sanei! Please feel free to dop in at any point throughout the night and stay for all or even part of the festivities. Light refreshments will be available.

If you plan on attending, please RSVP at the link below so we can have an idea of how many to prepare for.

Https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNqWBSZQEhRKWZoxQqzA9IAUdpsLcUiq-GUKDq_gMwZlpdDA/viewform?usp=header

While this is intended as a face-to-face event, if you’re unable to come to campus but would like to attend virtually, there will be a Teams link for Afsaneh’s presentation.

03/06/2025

The Kent State Student Chapter of the ALA (SCALA) invites you to a “Party with the Profs” on Tuesday, March 18th from 4:30pm-6:30pm in the Reinberger Children's Library Center. Please join iSchool professors, staff, and students for a chance to mingle and meet your SCALA officers in person.

We will also be hearing from the Reinberger's author and illustrator-in-residence Afsaneh Sanei! Please feel free to dop in at any point throughout the night and stay for all or even part of the festivities. Light refreshments will be available.

If you plan on attending, please RSVP at the link below so we can have an idea of how many to prepare for.

Https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNqWBSZQEhRKWZoxQqzA9IAUdpsLcUiq-GUKDq_gMwZlpdDA/viewform?usp=header

While this is intended as a face-to-face event, if you’re unable to come to campus but would like to attend virtually, there will be a Teams link for Afsaneh’s presentation.

03/05/2025

📚 NEW Picturebook Spotlight: Just Like Millie 🐶
Author and Illustrator: Lauren Castillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press (2024)
Age: Picturebook (0-8)
🐕 A story of anxiety, new places, new friends, and a lot of courage. 📖

🌟 Key highlights:
🟡 Little moments of a lot of bravery
🟡 An authentic look at anxiety in children
🟡 Unconditional love

🗣️ Reviewer Jessica Wise says: It can be hard to be brave for ourselves, but the young girl finds she can be brave for Millie and brave for others...

💞For anyone who’s ever felt lonely or anxious but found the courage to be brave for others.
📖 Read the full review by Jessica Wise on Reinberger Children’s Book Reviews: https://reinbergerchildrensbookreviews.org/

02/28/2025

Check out these books for Black History Month! These books are recently published and are all winners or honor books on ALA award lists such as the Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award.
Find the list at https://reinbergerchildrensbookreviews.org/

02/25/2025

Join Honesty for Ohio Education for a free Lunch and Learn this Friday! Register at the link below!

02/19/2025

📚 NEW Picturebook Spotlight: Luigi: The Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten 🕷️
Author: Michelle Knudsen
Illustrator: Kevin Hawkes
Publisher: Candlewick Press (2024)
Age: Picturebook (0-8)
🐈 Read along with Luigi the spider as he tries to be a kitten - is he able to keep up the charade? 📖

🌟 Key highlights:
🕸️ By the author and illustrator of The Library Lion
🕸️ A cozy spider that you just want to cuddle!
🕸️ Tender messages about love

🗣️ Reviewer Jessica Wise says: The right people will love us no matter what we look like or what we really are - we don’t need to change anything about ourselves to be worthy of love or to be loved. Luigi may be just a spider, but this book reminds readers that all creatures deserve to be loved and cherished no matter what’s on the outside.

🕷️A cozy book that can be enjoyed by bug lovers and bug avoiders alike!
📖 Read the full review by Jessica Wise on Reinberger Children’s Book Reviews: https://reinbergerchildrensbookreviews.org/