As part of my role as a Collection Management Librarian at Mackin, I evaluate new contemporary fiction titles for middle school and high school. This means that I get sneak peeks at the new [...]
As we move into budget season, we reflect on how students use our collection. This year, we noticed a few trends we wanted to share. Students are borrowing more books! In response to a slight dip [...]
Today we are welcoming author and illustrator K. G. Campbell to the Mackin Community blog. In this post, he invites readers into his childhood in Scotland where he grew up loving Gothic stories. [...]
I believe that World Kindness Day, taking place on November 13th, is a day that everyone should observe. The purpose of World Kindness Day is to highlight good deeds in the community, focusing on [...]
Billy Jean King once said, “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” As educators we keep trying to get things right. When I first started conferring with middle and high school readers, [...]
by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager and Makerspace Specialist at Mackin Now, more than ever, we are connected to people through social media rather than in-person interactions. [...]
Today we are welcoming Jamie Michalak to the Mackin Community blog. She is the author of the Joe and Spark early readers and other books the youngest of readers. In this post she describes her [...]
In Kia Heise and Christopher D. Park’s debut children’s book Little Sock, the reader learns the whimsical answer to a common household problem, where do lost socks go? Sock City of course! [...]
