Arlene Laverde

Work Title and Work Place

• School Library- Townsend Harris High School, NYC 

• Adjunct Professor & Graduate Advisory for LMS Program, Queens College GSLIS

Courses Being Taught Presently and/or in the Past

• LBSCI 737 Literature for Children and Adolescents 

• LBSCI 761 Organization and Management: School Library Media Centers 

• LBSCI 765 Resources for the School Curriculum 

• LBSCI 767 Reading Motivation Techniques for Children & Adolescents

Conferences and Presentations

NYCC 

• #Representation Matters in Your School Library - Presentation on building a diverse collection of titles for middle and high school students of graphic novels and comics. New ideas on special programming, curricular connections, and marketing materials.

• Building a Culture of Reading: Comic Graphic Novels, and Manga in Schools - How to successfully develop and promote a reading culture in schools using comics, graphic novels, and manga.

NYC Fall Conference

• Video Tutorials: How to Help When You Aren’t There- How to create short successfully video tutorials to help students, faculty, and staff utilize school resources remotely.