School Library Journal

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School Library Journal
School Library Journal logo
description Specialized journal for children and youth librarians
publishing company Media Source, New York
First edition 1954
Frequency of publication per month
Widespread edition 33,000 copies
(Subscriptions 2010)
Range 0.065 million readers
(Publisher's information)
Editor-in-chief Brian Kenney
editor Ian Singer
Web link schoollibraryjournal.com
Article archive from 1996
ISSN 0362-8930
ZDB 954264-4

The School Library Journal (abbreviated: SLJ ) is an American trade journal for children and youth librarians as well as for school librarians . The monthly magazine was founded in 1954 and is best known for its reviews of new publications in English-language children's and youth literature .

history

The journal was founded in 1954 under the title Junior Libraries , and was a spin-off from the Library Journal , a journal originally published by Frederick Leypoldt . Like these, Junior Libraries belonged to the RR Bowker publishing house from the time it was founded . In 1961 it was renamed School Library Journal . In 1985 the British media group Reed International took over the publishing house RR Bowker and with it the School Library Journal .

In 2010 Media Source acquired the title along with the Library Journal from Reed Business Information . In 2009 the company had already bought Horn Book Magazine , also a magazine for children's and youth literature.

Reviews and annual leaderboard

Reviews of children's and youth literature appear in many publications and media in the United States. The children's and youth pages of Publishers Weekly and New York Times Book Review as well as five major journals: School Library Journal , Booklist (an ALA publication), are important for the supraregional perception and purchase decisions of children's, youth and school libraries. Kirkus Review , the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, and the Horn Book Magazine . Of the five special titles, SLJ has the highest circulation and is accordingly important for children's book publishers.

Every year, SLJ receives several thousand new publications from publishers who are hoping for a review. In 2009 there were 13,000 titles, 5,700 of which were discussed in SLJ. From these thousands of titles, the SLJ editorial team selects a list of the best of around fifty to sixty titles once a year, which they publish as “SLJ's Best Books”. Attention is paid to a certain balance between books for different age groups - from babies to teenagers - and different areas - picture books, fiction and non-fiction. But there are no fixed categories, just as the list is not ranked .

  • In 2004 the editors selected 58 books for the annual best list.
  • In 2005, more than 4,700 reviews appeared in SLJ, of which 62 were selected for the annual best list. Including Stephenie Meyer with Twilight , the first book in her vampire bestseller series.
  • In 2006, 68 books were added to the list, including the poem The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson , re-illustrated by Tracey Campbell Pearson .
  • In 2007, 63 books were selected, including a version of the Al Gore book An Inconvenient Truth for school children.
  • 2008 were discussed more than 5,000 books in SLJ, from the editors chose 67 titles for the year's best list, including the Roman nation by Terry Pratchett .
  • In 2009, SLJ received more than 5,700 reviews, of which 54 books were voted for the annual top list, including Pigs Make Me Sneeze! by Mo Willems .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b School Library Journal (Ed.): 2010 Media Kit ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / msi.dynamicdatainc.com archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.3 MB) . (Retrieved November 9, 2010.)
  2. ^ Junior Libraries . Bowker, New York 1954-1961, ZDB ID 757294-3 .
  3. ^ William Gordon Graham, Richard Abel: The book in the United States today . Transaction Publishers, 1997, ISBN 1560009721 , p. 231.
  4. ^ Motoko Rich: Media Source Buys Library Journal and School Library Journal . In: Media Decoder, a March 1, 2010 blog for the New York Times .
  5. ^ Anita Silvey: The essential guide to children's books and their creators . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston 2002, ISBN 0618190821 , pp. 380-382.
  6. ^ A b Brian Kenney: On Our Best Behavior: How do you whittle 13,000 books down to 54 titles? ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.libraryjournal.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: School Library Journal, December 1, 2009.
  7. ↑ Trevelyn Jones, Luann Toth, Marlene Charnizon, Daryl Grabarek, Joy Fleishhacker: Best Books 2004 . In: School Library Journal, December 1, 2004.
  8. ↑ Trevelyn Jones, Luann Toth, Marlene Charnizon, Daryl Grabarek, Joy Fleishhacker: Best Books 2005 . In: School Library Journal, December 1, 2005.
  9. ↑ Trevelyn Jones, Luann Toth, Marlene Charnizon, Daryl Grabarek, Joy Fleishhacker: Best Books 2006 . In: School Library Journal, December 1, 2006.
  10. ↑ Trevelyn Jones, Luann Toth, Daryl Grabarek, Marlene Charnizon, Joy Fleishhacker: SLJ's Best Books of 2007 . In: School Library Journal, December 1, 2007.
  11. ↑ Trevelyn Jones, Luann Toth, Marlene Charnizon, Daryl Grabarek, Joy Fleishhacker: Best Books 2008 . In: School Library Journal, December 1, 2008.
  12. ↑ Trevelyn Jones, Luann Toth, Marlene Charnizon, Daryl Grabarek, Joy Fleishhacker: Best Books 2009 . In: School Library Journal, December 1, 2009.