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Library Advocate.: Digital Literacy

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From advocate4libraries.csla.net - July 1, 2012 5:28 PM

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) needs to hear from school teacher librarians. No one else will advocate for a funding mechanism for specifically for teaching students digital literacy. Schools that participate in the federal E-Rate program in order to purchase broadband and related equipment at discounts should be required to designate that the 20%-90% a year savings support school library programs.

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How to Use Pinterest for Your Library | VOYA

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From www.voya.com - May 27, 2012 11:26 PM
Jennifer Rummel June 2012 Have you heard about the newest social media craze Pinterest?

Great idea to have a dedicated Library Pinterest Board as a way to promote and advocate what your library has to offer. So many good ideas suggested here.


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The Candid Librarian: Advocacy

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From candidlibrarian.blogspot.fr - May 12, 2012 2:55 PM
But is that really advocacy? I think it is, because I tend to believe that if you have a program that others in your school see as valuable, than you are advocating for yourself. Your program should speak for itself.

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The need to shift and widen school library advocacy efforts - Gary Hartzell

From www.abc-clio.com - May 21, 2012 8:47 PM

For more than twenty years, school librarians have focused the largest portion of their advocacy efforts on individual principals, superintendents, and board members, struggling to convince them that libraries should be integral and institutionalized elements of K-12 education. It hasn’t worked.


Libraries and librarians remain frighteningly vulnerable to cuts, even elimination, in schools everywhere. These individualized field-based advocacy efforts may have forestalled greater disaster, but they have not and cannot by themselves make libraries and librarians secure in our schools.


To do that librarians need to widen their advocacy efforts and give priority to two new targets: (1) the educational administration (Ed Ad) professors who shape beginning administrators’ perceptions and values and (2) the professional associations that have a powerful influence on how administrators approach their work challenges once they are in the field. In effect, this widening represents a shift from battling for current school leaders’ support to preemptively conditioning the next generation of administrators to support libraries as they take up their new responsibilities.


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