Caldecott Winner 2024

School librarians are collaborators. They make connections between people and resources within and outside the school community. Like a counselor, librarians listen to students and faculty and offer ways to scale, promote, produce, and sometimes even fund, their ideas. They organize events within and outside the library. They see common threads and connect disciplines.

School librarians are curators. They listen to students and purchase books to meet their individual interests. They select and organize material with the specific learning goals of students in mind. They teach others how to be curators too, focusing on how to ethically borrow and collect with the purpose of creating new knowledge.

School librarians love to promote reading and the "new literacies" when given the chance. They can touch upon all the "new literacies", digital, media, information, coding, and teach that reading is fun.