Presentations
Recent Presentations

Spotlight on New Books
November 17, 2025

Manga from the Mouths of Teens
October 17, 2025
Archive of Presentations, Panels, and Events
- Past Collaborative Presentations
- Alicia Abdul & Stacey Rattner’s Spotlight on New Books
- August 25-26, 2025
- Alicia Abdul & Stacey Rattner’s Spotlight on New Books
- March 27-28, 2025
- Alicia Abdul & Stacey Rattner’s Spotlight on New Books
- December 3, 2024
- Alicia Abdul & Stacey Rattner’s Spotlight on New Books & Inclusivity
- November 7, 2024
- Alicia Abdul & Stacey Rattner’s Spotlight on New Books
- August 27, 2024
- Spring Into Books with Stacey Rattner
- April 26, 2024
- Strategic Reading, Recommending, and Ordering with Alicia & Stacey
- April 3, 2024
- Spring into Books with Stacey Rattner
- March 21, 2024
- Forecasting the YMAs with Stacey Rattner
- November 15, 2023 & January 24, 2024
- Why Graphic Novels? Five Practices to Transform Your Library with Jack Phoenix
- July 28, 2022
- Let Them Be Readers: The Importance of Graphic Novel Inclusion with Amanda Melilli and Kate Covintree
- March 1, 2022
- When We’re All In, Kids Are In with Stacey Rattner
- November 5, 2021
- Info2Go!: Graphic Novels in Every Classroom with Amanda Melilli and Kate Convintree
- September 21, 2020
- “That’s Not Real Reading”: Making the Case for Graphic Novel Inclusion in Every Classroom with Amanda Melilli and Kate Covintree
- November 14, 2019
- Reimagining the Library with ELLs in Mind with Kristen Majkut
- December 4, 2017
- Programming Ideas & Best Practices with Kristen Majkut
- April 12, 2017
- Using Graphic Novels with ENL Students with Kristen Majkut
- May 6, 2016
- Free Comic Book Day: A School Library Program with Kristen Majkut
- November 3, 2016
- Alicia Abdul & Stacey Rattner’s Spotlight on New Books
- Past Individual Presentations
- Challenge Accepted
- May 22, 2025
- You, Me, & Biographies
- May 14, 2024
- Sneaking It In
- April 19, 2024
- Wrapped Up In Books
- December 4, 2023
- New Year, New Books, New Adventures
- August 23, 2023
- Wrapped Up In Books
- December 8, 2022
- Wrapped Up In Books featured presenter at Leatherstocking Conference
- October 20, 2022
- Lit Up
- August 9, 2022
- Shouting From the Rooftops
- August 20, 2020
- Google Drawings Technology Showcase
- August 20, 2019
- Leap Into Readers Advisory (Secondary)
- August 13, 2019 and August 22, 2019
- From Print Books to Web Resources for Research
- April 17, 2019
- #GetBooked
- July 13, 2018
- Books and a Love of Reading: The Gifts We Give Our Students (High School Edition)
- May 17, 2018
- From SciFi to Realistic: Books that Kickstart Activism
- October 27, 2017
- Miss, This Ain’t English Class: How We’re Reading in Forensics
- October 26, 2017
- Fall Into Books
- October 25, 2017
- Trust Me: Media Literacy for Research
- October 7, 2017
- Spring Forward
- April 12, 2017
- Trust Me: Media Literacy for Research
- March 23, 2017
- Pages of the Ages: New Books Touching on Timely Topics
- March 23, 2017
- fREADom
- October 14, 2016
- Bookish
- August 18, 2016
- Readers Be Advised
- June 8, 2015
- Challenge Accepted
- Past Panel Moderation & Events
- School Library Journal‘s Day of Dialog “A Potpourri of New YA Fiction”
- May 22, 2025
- SLJ Webcasts: YALSA Nonfiction Award Finalists in Conversation with SLJ
- January 16, 2025
- School Library Journal‘s Day of Dialog “Opening Keynote with Rex Ogle”
- October 10, 2024
- School Library Journal‘s Day of Dialog “They’re Complicated”
- May 23, 2024
- SLJ Webcasts: YALSA Nonfiction Award Finalists in Conversation with SLJ
- January 18, 2024
- School Library Journal‘s Day of Dialog “Good Trouble:
- October 12, 2023
- New York State Writers Institute Introduction for Christopher Paolini
- November 8, 2023
- For the Love Of Graphic Novels: A Roundtable of Inclusive Stories
- July 28, 2022
- New York State Writers Institute Albany Book Festival “In Conversation with Ed Lin and Bethany Morrow”
- September 25, 2021
- Guest Speaker on YA Literature
- March 22, 2020
- School Library Journal‘s Day of Dialog “A Potpourri of New YA Fiction”
