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The Association has nearly 60 active committees and task forces, including programs for youth, publishing resources and journals, evaluating and awarding media for children. [1] ALSC sets standards for library services to children through regular updates to its "Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries."
Booklets, brochures and DVDs on care-related topics, such as dementia warning signs, brain health and wellness, communication tips, healthy aging, and wandering prevention. The Alzheimer's Foundation of America also published a children's book, Dancing With Granddad: An Alzheimer's Story for Children and Their Families as an educational ...
It is the official journal of the Association of Library Service to Children, and a journal of American Library Association. [ 1 ] The journal was established in 2003 and succeeds the Journal of Youth Services (formerly Top of the News ), which was published until 2002 in collaboration with the Young Adult Library Services Association .
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Friends of African Village Libraries (FAVL) was founded in 2001 by Michael Kevane and Leslie Gray to support building libraries in Western Africa. [52] By 2007, FAVL had helped to build five libraries in Burkina Faso and two in Ghana. [52] By 2014, the number had grown to 14, with libraries also in Tanzania and Uganda. [53]
Childhood dementia is an umbrella group of rare, mostly untreatable neurodegenerative disorders that show symptoms before the age of 18. These conditions cause progressive deterioration of the brain and the loss of previously acquired skills such as talking, walking, and playing.
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) is a division of the American Library Association (ALA) [1] that has more than 7,000 members and serves primary school and secondary school librarians in the U.S., Canada, and even internationally. Prior to being established in 1951, school librarians were served by the School Library Section ...
The Children's Internet Protection Act, passed in the year 2000, stipulates that in order to receive E-rate funding, schools and libraries are required to block or filter internet access to pictures that are: (a) obscene; (b) child pornography; or (c) harmful to minors (for computers that are accessed by minors). [16]