MassCUE 2026 Call For Proposals Is Open! Come Share Your Expertise In The Future Ready Librarian Court!

 

The MassCUE Fall Conference, New England's premier education technology event, is looking for school librarians to present at this year's conference, Forward and Beyond.

Taking place October 14–15, 2026 at Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA, MassCUE brings together thousands of educators from across the region to learn, connect, and be inspired.

We will have a special area just for librarians called The Future Ready Librarian Court!

We are especially seeking sessions on:

Media literacy and critical evaluation of digital information
Research skills in the age of AI-generated content
Library-classroom collaboration models
Digital tools that support student inquiry and literacy

Presenting is a powerful way to share your practice with educators who are ready to listen and to position your library program as a model for the region.

Proposal Deadline: May 22, 2026

Submit your sessions here. I hope to see you there, friends.

5 Ideas for Creating and Using Collections by Destiny for Summer Reading... A New Blog Post From Follett Software

 

Summer is the perfect time to turn your catalog into ready-to-use reading experiences.
In this blog post that I wrote for Follett Software, you’ll find 5 ways to use Collections by Destiny for summer reading—from grab-and-go grade-level lists and student/staff picks to multimedia “learning journeys” that mix print, eBooks, audio, and vetted web resources, all inside Destiny Library Manager.

I just love using Collections by Destiny for summer reading and so many other things throughout the year.

In my upcoming Follett Software webinar on May 7, 2026 at 2:00pm CST, Co-Planning for Impact: How Library-Curriculum Partnerships Move The Achievement Needle, I will be sharing more about Collections and how I create and use them within our school community, classrooms, library, and for summer reading too. 

You can register for our webinar here. Hope to see you there, friends.

A Fun Way To Show How Many Books Are Still Checked Out! You Will Find The Template To Copy and Use Here, Friends.

                

It's almost the end of the school year and time to get our books back to the library.  

To make it fun for our readers, I put a little twist on the book counter we use throughout the year. You can read all about our digital book counter here.

For this one, I created a place to show how many books we still have checked out.  

You can find the one with three columns here to make a copy. 

You can find the one with four columns here to make a copy. 

And to make this super easy and quick to do every day, we can go to the Destiny Library Dashboard to find the data we need.  

In the image above, you will see the number of books still out under Checkouts.  I love how easy this is to find this data every day. 

You can read about the Destiny Library Dashboard, and a few of my favorite Destiny features, here in this post from my blog. 

Once you have the data and you are ready to share, just go to File, Share and Publish to the Web. 

We will share this with our teachers and students everyday, and we can even make little posters by printing the image too.