And the Black Friday Award Goes To . . .
. . . the New York Public Library, with this fantastic full-page ad in the New York Times. Every library in the country should steal this idea.
(via Pamela Paul)
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Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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I wish our library system would use this idea — except not on Black Friday, when we’re closed — and I definitely want it to stay that way!