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Re-posted from alacro-l (on 09/09/09)

For immediate release
August 13, 2009
Contact: Mary Frances Wilkens, General Manager, Booklist Publications
312-280-5715
mwilkens@ala.org

Booklist Revamps Quick Tips E-Newsletter

CHICAGO-- Quick Tips, the popular free monthly e-newsletter for youth
librarians and teachers, is growing, relaunching in September 2009 with
additional features and enhanced content. Renamed Booklist’s Quick Tips for
Schools and Libraries, the newsletter will take greater advantage of
Booklist Online’s extensive youth content, drawing from thousands of
feature articles and more than 125,000 reviews from both Booklist and Book
Links magazines.

“I’m so pleased that we’ll be able to offer Quick Tips readers more
Booklist Online content in future issues, as well as continuing to offer
original online content,” said Laura Tillotson, Booklist Books for Youth
Editorial Director and Quick Tips Editor. “The September issue will have
online exclusive articles on topics as varied as audio formats for
special-needs students, mystery read-alouds, and children’s books about
unemployment and job loss. We look forward to putting even more timely
resources in front of our readers.”

Quick Tips is unique among e-newsletters in the field since it regularly
features original content. The articles, tied to curricular themes, are
written by highly respected practitioners in the field and reflect Booklist
Publications’ commitment to promoting literature and literacy. With timely
features, interviews, and tips designed to enrich library programs and the
K–12 classroom curriculum, each monthly issue speeds professional planning
and puts a new spin on how to introduce books that will capture and hold
children’s interest.

In addition, Quick Tips’ partnership with TeachingBooks.net gives readers
instant and free access to online author interviews, discussion guides,
book readings, and Web sites that support the titles and authors included
in each article.

Sign up here for Booklist’s Quick Tips for School and Libraries and other
Booklist Publications electronic newsletters.

Booklist is the book review magazine of the American Library Association,
considered an essential collection development and readers advisory tool by
thousands of librarians for more than 100 years. Booklist Online includes
more than 125,000 reviews as well as a free Web site and blogs offering the
latest news and views on books and media.

Book Links (a quarterly Booklist supplement) offers literature-based
resources for the curriculum and has helped librarians, teachers, and
parents connect children with high-quality books for nearly 20 years. This
practical, easy-to-use publication with thematic bibliographies, author
features, and articles that tie books to national education standards is a
one-stop resource for librarians and teachers who want all the teaching
sources on a subject at their fingertips.