gram (NHES). 91% of homeschooled students had parents who said their con-cern about the environ-ments at schools was an important reason for homeschooling their child; 77% of homeschooled stu-dents had parents who re-ported using a homeschool-ing catalog, publisher, or individual who specializes in homeschooling materials as a source of curriculum in 2012… Article

2012, there were an esti-mated 1.8 million homeschooled students in the U.S., up from 850,000 in 1999, when the figures were first reported.

The National Center for Education Statistics re-leased Homeschooling in the United States: 2012 today, which is based on data collected as part of the National Household Education Surveys pro-

InfoDocket by Gary Price (Filed 11/1/2016) - The number of homeschooled students in the United States more than doubled between 1999 and 2012, according to estimates re-leased in a new report. In

Sponsor a Literary Landmark for Children’s Book Week 2017 Article Submitted by MaryLei Barclay

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ALA by Jillian Wentworth (Released 10/25/2016) - United for Libraries is partnering with the ALA-Children’s Book Council Joint Committee to desig-nate seven Literary Land-marks during Children’s Book Week (May 1-7, 2017).

United for Libraries, the Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader encourage groups to nomi-nate and sponsor special locations nationwide that are tied to a deceased chil-dren’s literary figure, au-thor, or their work.

Participation in the Liter-ary Landmark program includes a bronze plaque with the Literary Land-mark insignia, to be un-veiled at a dedication cere-mony held during Chil-

dren’s Book Week. This is a fitting tribute to legacy authors and children’s books celebrating publica-tion milestones.

For more information or to apply, visit Lit-erary Landmark website. Applica-tions are due December 30, 2016.

Authors honored with a Literary Landmark dedi-cation during Children’s Book Week in past years include, Margaret Wise Brown, Carl Sandberg, Harold Keith, Walter Dean Myers and Robert McCloskey. This program was spearheaded by Rocco Staino of the Empire State Center for the book and is presented in conjunction with the Children’s Book

Council.

The Literary land program is administered by United for Libraries. More than 140 Literary Landmarks across the United States

have been dedicated since the program be-gan in 1986. Any li-brary or group may apply for a Literary Landmark through United for Libraries.

More Information is avail-able on the United for Li-braries website.

United for Libraries: The Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations, is a division of the Ameri-can Library Association that supports those who govern promote, advocate, and fundraise for libraries. Article

November 7, 2016

A Look at Homeschooling in the U.S. Article Submitted by MaryLei Barclay

Inside this issue:

Training Control Center 2

Thinking Outside Arrowhead 3

Kids & Teens Broadcast 3

What’s Happenin’ Arrowhead 3

St. Louis Historical 4

Gilbert Public Library 5-6

Just the Stats 7-10

Mesabi Daily News 11

Library Journal 12-14

Puzzle 15

Comic 15

MaryLei’s Links 15

Quick Links

Minnesota Libraries Cal-endar

ALS Blog

ALS Calendar

Legacy Blog

Digital Public Library

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Training Control Center Article Submitted by Mollie Stanford & MaryLei Barclay

Rethinking Digital Literacy—ALA November 14, continuing for 5 weeks Fee $175.00—What is digital liter-acy? Do you know how you can foster digital literacy through formal and informal learning opportunities for your library staff and users? Support-ing digital literacy still remains an important part of library staff mem-bers’ work, but sometimes we strug-gle to agree on a simple, meaningful definition of the term. Register

Behind the Books: SLJ in Conver-sation with Top Children’s Book Editors—School Library Journal November 15, 3:00pm Eastern—Join Library Journal/School Library Journal reviews director Kiera Parrott for an in-depth conversation with three top-notch children’s teen book editors. They’ll discuss their how they build relationships with their authors and find new voices, share insider stories about working on manuscripts, and chat about what they make of all that award-season buzz. Each editor will also give a sneak peek at several upcoming ti-tles. Register

Organize Your Personal and Pro-fessional Life with Apps—ALA No-vember 7, Continuing for 5 weeks Fee $199.00—Have you been too busy to make best use of your mobile de-vices for organizing your life? Maybe you’ve lost or forgotten passwords or left important information on a computer at home. Or perhaps you’re concerned about privacy and security and hesi-tant to use cloud services. If so, then this eCourse will benefit you. In this eCourse, Nicole Hennig will cover four types of mobile apps in depth to help you manage your information and boost your productivity. Register

Wyoming Libraries Continuing Education—Click here

ALCTS Continuing Education

Events—Click here

Cataloging Basics for All Hori-zon Libraries—Arrowhead Library System Headquarters November 15, 9:00am-3:30pm—ALS member li-brary staff who work with Horizon are invited. From 9-noon, learn about adding items, basic editing of items, and the OCLC process. From 1:30-3:30pm, there will be time for individual questions—feel free to bring 3-5 items for practice. Please note there is a registration cap.

Advanced Cataloging/Workday for all Horizon Libraries—Arrowhead Library System head-quarters November 29, 1:30pm-4:00pm—ALS member library staff who work with Horizon are invited. Attendees will receive a brief over-view about original cataloging in Horizon and the cataloging work forms available for use. ALS staff will be available to answer individ-ual cataloging questions. Please bring 3-5 items to work on during the open lab time. There is a regis-tration cap on this session. Please register by November 27.

Taking Advantage of Emerging Tech in 2017—ALA December 14, 2:30pm Eastern Fee $60.00—Technology is evolving—business models are changing rapidly; mobile first is becoming mobile only; and social media is a maturing medium. With so much information coming at

us so fast, keeping up with tech-nology can be difficult. In this new workshop, library tech ex-pert Laura Solomon will keep you up to date. She’ll guide you through new and emerging technologies and provide insight

on how they may impact libraries. You’ll walk away from this workshop with practical tips to make informed technology decisions for yourself and your library. Register

Virtual Reference: An Introduc-tion—ALA January 9, continuing for 4 weeks Fee $175.00—Reference services do not just occur face-to-face anymore-they occur over email, Twitter and Facebook—the ways are endless. Reference 2.0 (virtual refer-

ence) is unavoidable in the current digital landscape and is increasingly being offered by public and academic libraries throughout the U.S. It is also the least intuitive of the various forms of reference delivery for those who are not as comfortable with or proficient in the use of these tools. Register

Genealogy Research Workshop—ALS Headquarters November 29, 10:00am-12:30pm—Christopher Wel-

ter and Sue Godfrey from the Iron Range Research Center in Chisholm will be shar-ing research tips and tricks and highlighting resources from the Iron Range Research Center

at the Minnesota Discovery Center and other statewide and free re-sources available for you and your patrons. This workshop is open to all public, school, academic, and special library staff. Register

LLAMA seeks webinar propos-als—ALA by Fred Reuland (Released 11/1/2016) - The Library Leadership and Management Association is now accepting proposals for its highly re-garded webinar series. All interested presenters or program organizers are encouraged to submit proposals. You do not need to be member to submit a proposal. Article

Millennials Schlemennials: What’s REALLY Changing To-day’s Workplace Dynamics? - Training Industry November 10, 1:00pm Eastern—Among the hot top-ics in the talent management and training industries today is the issue of millennials: How do we adjust our approaches to meet their needs? But how much of this topic really has anything to do with millennials/ The truth is, traditional approaches were ineffective before the bulk of millen-nials arrived on the scene. We just weren’t paying attention. Join Matt Donovan, vice president of global learning solutions for GP Strategies, as he hosts and takes a deep look at the opportunities millennials bring to the table for all generations. Register

All food donations will be given to the Cook Food Shelf.

Library’s Children Room To Get Upgrades—Hibbing Daily Tribune by Kelly Grinsteinner (Released 10/29/2016) - The Hibbing Public Library has earmarked $11,000 in this year’s budget for upgrades to the children’s room, and got the nod to go forward with the redesign by the city council last week. Article

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and more. Article

2017 Teen Tech WeekTM Site Now Live—ALA By Anna Lam (11/2/2016) - YALSA 2017 Teen Tech Week website is now live. The celebration will take place March 5-11, 2017 with the theme “Be the Source of Change.”

“For years, libraries have been the place to learn about making, STEM, and coding, and this year’s Teen Tech Week initiative encour-ages teens to consider how they can improve their community,” said YALSA President Hill. Article

bed. Boys, of every age, no matter the nature of the literature before them, typically read less thoroughly than girls. Article

AASL Recommended App: STEM: Map of Life—CMLE by Angie (Released 10/28/2016) - In June 2016, the AASL announced their 25 Best Apps for Teaching and Learning. The app Map of Life allows users to dis-cover, identify, and record biodiver-sity from all over the world. Students are able to contribute to the map by recording sightings. The app features many different categories of species, including trees, mammals, birds, fish,

Library Journal 2016 Star Li-braries—(Released 11/1/2016) - Congratulations to Grand Marais Public Library for another success-ful year of being 1 of Minnesota’s Star Libraries. They receive 5 out of 5 stars. The report is based on Circ, eCirc, Visits, Program Attendance, and Public Internet Computer Use (per Capita). Grand Marais was one out of 3 libraries in Minne-sota to receive this achievement. Article

U. of Minnesota’s Open Textbook network Reports Student Savings of $1.5 Million from Open Text-books—InfoDocket by Gary Price (Filed 10/30/2016) - Faculty from nine colleges and university across the United States have saved their stu-dents an estimated $1.5 million in textbook costs to date by adopting open textbooks, the University of Minnesota’s Open Textbook Network (OTN) reported this week. The OTN, created and run by leaders at the U of M’s College of Education and Human Development, is an alliance of schools committed to improving access, af-fordability and academic success through use of the open textbooks. Article

New 24-Hour Study, Collabora-

Cook Public Library—Food for Fines will be in Effect for the month of November. When you bring in a non-perishable food item we will waive a fine from the Cook Pub-lic Library. We cannot waive fines from other libraries or on lost items.

tion Space Inside UC Berkeley’s Moffit Library is “Vision for the Future” - InfoDocket by Gary Price (Filed 10/31/2016) - Unlike tradi-tional libraries, Moffitt no longer has shelves of books, which now are housed at the Main (Gardner) Stacks, a multilevel space with some 2.3 mil-lion volumes and an underground entrance accessible from both Moffitt and Doe libraries. Article

Stamp Collector’s Dream: New American Philatelic research Li-brary Marks Grand Opening—Centre County Gazette by Mark Brackenbury (Released 10/28/2016) - It’s a celebration, Ken Martin says, more than a decade in the making. Hundreds of stamp enthu-siasts from around the country and beyond will be in Bellefonte this week-end for the grand opening ceremonies of the Ameri-can Philatelic Research

The Truth About Boys and Books: They Read Less—and Skip Pages—The Guardian by Daniel Bof-fey (released 10/22/2016) - Boys might claim it’s a simple matter of prefer-ring to read magazines or the latest musings of their friends on social me-dia rather than the classics. But two of the largest studies ever conducted into the reading habits of children in the UK have put those excuses to

Library, the world’s largest library devoted to the hobby of stamp col-lecting. Article

Gaming’s rarest systems, carts, and collectibles can be found at this huge museum—Ars Technica by Sam Machkovech (Released 10/30/2016) - The National Video-game Museum has been open since April of this year in the Dallas-area suburb of Frisco, and it houses an incredible collection of gaming memora-bilia. The rarest cartridges, systems, and prototypes are all here, protected as if they were the Mona Lisa. Come here to marvel at one-of-a-kind finds like a Nintendo World Champion-ship cartridge, a mint-condition Ul-tra Hand toy, or the only known white-molded Atari 2600 in the world. Article

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Thinking Outside Arrowhead Articles submitted by MaryLei Barclay

What’s Happenin’ Arrowhead Articles Submitted by MaryLei Barclay

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