Q COMING NEXT ISSUE: Children CAL to Increase Frequency! the journal of the Association for Library Service to Children Libraries & Volume 11 Number 3 Winter 2013 ISSN 1542-9806 Dewey…or Don’t We? Libraries and the Bullying Epidemic Serving LGBTQ Patrons PERMIT NO. 4 NO. PERMIT Change Service Requested Service Change HANOVER, PA HANOVER, Chicago, Illinois 60611 Illinois Chicago, PAID 50 East Huron Street Huron East 50 U.S. POSTAGE POSTAGE U.S. Association for Library Service to Children to Service Library for Association NONPROFIT ORG. NONPROFIT Table Peer-Reviewed Article Contents● ofVolume 11, Number 3 Winter 2013 Notes 34 Over the Rainbow and Under the Radar 2 Editor’s Note Library Services and Programs to Sharon Verbeten LGBTQ Families By Jamie Campbell Naidoo Features 41 Playgrounds for the Mind Invention Conventions and STEM 3 Throwing Dewey Overboard in the Library Dewey Lite: A Model for Nonfiction By Roxanne Myers Spencer and Jeanine Huss Reorganization By Kiera Parrott and Elisabeth Gattullo 47 Calling All Science Explorers! Targeting Tweens with STEM 8 Wish “Granted” By Terry Ann Lawler How a Grant Saved Our Summer Reading Program 53 My First Time By Erin Warzala First-Timers Share Their Maiden Voyages to ALA Annual Conference 10 Sticks, Stones, and Sneering Tones The Librarian’s Role in Ending the Bullying Epidemic Departments By Kim Becnel 57 Everyday Advocacy 16 Portrait of an Artist as a Young The Many Seasons of Advocacy Mouse By Jenna Nemec-Loise Introducing Kids to Art through Books By Jane Breskin Zalben 59 ALSC News 20 The Stories We Tell Learning about Children’s Book Authors 59 Index to Advertisers and Illustrators through Their Memoirs By Darcy H. Bradley and Nadean Meyer 60 Index to Volume 11 27 And Tango Makes Three 64 The Last Word Introducing Family Diversity to Children By Marybeth C. Kozikowski By Jennifer Harvey ON THE COVER: Ella Grace reads with her two moms. Photo submitted by M.B. Olsen, Sun Prairie, Wis. Editor’s Note By Sharon Verbeten If you don’t like change, you’re probably in the wrong business. Seems like everything Editor we do as librarians is destined to change. Sharon Verbeten, De Pere, Wis. Dewey may be becoming a dinosaur (much like card catalogs). Editorial Advisory Committee Librarianship is taking us, more and more, out of the library. Africa S. Hands, Chair, Louisville, Ky. Christina M. Desai, Albuquerque, N.M. Books are morphing from paper to bytes, and libraries are Rita Dunn, Wyoming, Mich. becoming more like activity centers than bookstores. Joyce R. Laiosa, Voorheesville, N.Y. Cindy Lombardo, Cleveland, Ohio Tess Prendergast, Vancouver, Canada Starr LaTronica, ALSC President, Ex Officio, Vestal, N.Y. Still, change can be good. At least that’s what our ALSC Sharon Verbeten, Editor, Ex Officio, De Pere, Wis. membership indicated on a survey we took, asking what you Executive Director wanted in your association journal. You said you valued the Aimee Strittmatter print publication—so we’re continuing in that fashion, but you Managing Editor also wanted online. Beginning with the 2014 spring issue, CAL Laura Schulte-Cooper also will be issued digitally via Metapress. In addition, the past Website www.ala.org/alsc 11 volume years will be digitized and available online. Circulation Children and Libraries (ISSN 1542-9806) is a refereed journal published three times per year by To better serve our readers, we’re also increasing our fre- the American Library Association (ALA), 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. It is the official pub- quency to four times a year—affording us the opportunity to lication of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of ALA. Subscription price: members of ALSC, $20 per year, included in membership dues; nonmembers, $40 per year publish more features and attract a greater advertising base. in the U.S.; $50 in Canada, Mexico, and other countries. 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Your point of view and experi- working with children, which showcases current scholarly research and practice in library ser- ences—whether as a school or public librarian—are welcome. vice to children and spotlights significant activities and programs of the Association. (From the journal’s “Policies and Procedures” document adopted by the ALSC board, April 2004.) Think about sharing your programming tips (what worked, what didn’t), your budget-saving ideas, your experiences as Production ALA Production Services: Troy D. Linker, Chris Keech, Tim Clifford, Krista Joy Johnson, Kirstin a new (or veteran) librarian. To find out more about writing Krutsch, Chelsea McGorisk, and Rosalie Watts. for us, simply send me an email at [email protected] or Advertising visit www.ala.org/alsc and search under Communications & Bill Spilman, Innovative Media Solutions, 320 W. 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For other photocopying, reprint- ing, or translating, address requests to the ALA Office of Rights and Permissions. 2 Winter 2013 • Children and Libraries Throwing Dewey Overboard Dewey Lite: A Model for Nonfiction Reorganization Kiera Parrott relabeling the non-fiction books into the new Dewey KIERA PARROTT AND ELISABETH Gattullo Lite sections. elvil Dewey published his decimal classification sys- The project to rethink the children’s collections at Darien tem in 1876,1 more than one hundred years before the Library began in 2008, under the leadership of the then-Head Mrise of the modern public library as a “third place;” of Children’s Services Gretchen Caserotti. Fortune smiled upon before coffee shops became de rigueur in both chain and a major collection project: the library was closing its current boutique bookstores; before the nearly nationwide adoption location and reopening in a new building; as staff prepared for of the Common Core State Standards.