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School libraries are an indispensible function in education. Adopt the school library function in your school and improve the learning results.
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Providing our children with the best educational resources and empowering all our children to access, evaluate, and use information for academic and personal learning - this is the critical mission of school libraries and librarians. Via Karen Bonanno
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Maureen Sullivan, president of the American Library Association, provides overview of the situation of school libraries in the USA. 
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April 15, 4:50 PM
Maureen Sullivan, president of the American Library Association, gives an overview of the state of play for school libraries in the USA. Constant cut budgetary cutbacks will have a long term effect on the education of our young people.
"School librarians make a significant difference in student achievement and their work is a critical component of the success of all of our children." 
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April 29, 11:26 AM
Maureen Sullivan é a presidente da Associação Americana de Bibliotecas (ALA). "The ALA is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with 58,000 members. Its mission is to promote the highest quality library and information services and public access to information." Providing our children with the best educational resources and empowering all our children to access, evaluate, and use information for academic and personal learning - this is the critical mission of school libraries and librarians. Proporcionar aos nossos alunos os melhores recursos educacionais e capacitá-los para aceder, avaliar e usar a informação em contexto académico ou pessoal- é a missão fundamental das bibliotecas escolares e bibliotecários. Delete the scoop?
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According to trend data collected by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), library staffing , expenditures and physical usage remains consistent with 2011 results. The data also indicates connectivity to the school library continues to rise through increased networked computers in the school as well as remote access to school library databases. Data was collected as part of AASL’s national longitudinal survey, School Libraries Count! (SLC), conducted yearly since 2007. Via Karen Bonanno Delete the scoop?
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There are five kinds of literacy — who knew? Three years in the planning, the Pennsylvania Library Association has launched an initiative called “PA Forward Pennsylvania Libraries” designed to make public, academic and school libraries across Pennsylvania a community center of information, technology, and learning, ideally leading to a better quality of life for its users. Delete the scoop?
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ALA has developed the following resources to help school librarians convene forums and moderate discussions on privacy (with students, with faculty) in conjunction with Choose Privacy Week, May 1-7, 2012
Guide for Moderators <http://www.privacyrevolution.org/images/uploads/ModeratorGuide.pdf>; convene a discussion on privacy in your school. This PDF contains the information necessary for moderators of a forum on privacy. http://www.privacyrevolution.org/images/uploads/ModeratorGuide.pdf
Guide for Participants <http://www.privacyrevolution.org/images/uploads/ParticipantGuide.pdf>; for a discussion on privacy. It provides an overview of the deliberative process and outlines the privacy issues to be considered. http://www.privacyrevolution.org/images/uploads/ParticipantGuide.pdf
In addition, school librarians attending the ALA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA can learn how to convene forums and moderate community discussions about privacy at the preconference sponsored by the ALA Center for Civic Life and the Intellectual Freedom Roundtable. "Who Do I Trust to Protect My Privacy? A Privacy Conversation Deliberative Forum and Moderator Training" will Convention Center Room 303C. To register, sign in to the ALA Conference Registratio http://alaannual.org/content/register-now-0 ; click on Preconferences and Events, and scroll down to IFRT.
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“These school libraries should be proud of this achievement,” said Eugene Hainer, assistant commissioner and state librarian at CDE. “Libraries remain one of the critical links to 21st century skills and literacy acquisition, and the students will benefit immeasurably from the district’s support of these highly effective programs.” Delete the scoop?
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School Library Month (SLM) is the American Association of School Librarians' (AASL) celebration of school librarians and their programs. Every April school librarians are encouraged to create activities to help their school and local community celebrate the essential role that strong school library programs play in a student's educational career.
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We believe that School Librarians are uniquely qualified to teach to and assist in the implementation of the new standards; they are 21st Century skills experts. Via Karen Bonanno Delete the scoop?
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The New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL) released findings on Wednesday of a three-year study conducted by the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) at Rutgers University, which explored the values of quality school libraries to education in New Jersey. Via Karen Bonanno Delete the scoop?
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Last week, Keith sent the following letter to the superintendent and board of Jefferson County Public Schools here in Colorado. Keith has stated, "Feel free to adapt this language for your own letter, or be in touch if you’d like a version of it over my signature." Via Karen Bonanno Delete the scoop?
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School librarians trying to survive budget cutsSignOnSanDiego.comCarr stood before school board trustees last month, pleading to keep his post as the district librarian – a role he had just moved into after 10 years of working as a teacher and a... Delete the scoop?
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The Sandy Hook School library has begun a program to lend out electronic readers to students, the first of its kind in the district.... Delete the scoop?
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"Excuse me? I am not important? Library resources are not important for educating our students? I beg to differ. I offer so much to the faculty and students at my school. I opened the library in 2006 with 1800 books on the shelves....." Delete the scoop?
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Today’s post is from Anne-Lise Prigent, the editor in charge of education publications at OECD Publishing “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education” said Mark Twain. Well, wa... Delete the scoop?
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Fran Bullington - As an educator, I realize the importance of information and digital literacy. As a school librarian, I have been trained to teach information literacy skills. I collaborate with classroom teachers to teach lessons in which I incorporate these skills.However, the recession has had an enormous impact on school libraries. Many programs have been completely cut; others are being run by volunteers rather than a certified school librarian; and other programs have lost their assistants, whose job of handling routine procedures freed the school librarian to plan with teachers.
I noticed that the FCC is considering “a proposal to spend $200 million to create a digital literacy corps. This group of hundreds, even thousands, of trainers would fan out to schools and libraries to teach productive uses of computers for parents, students and job seekers.”
Although I applaud the intent of teaching digital literacy skills to our students, I question the expenditure of these funds. Why not instead funnel these funds into school library programs to allow trained, certified professionals to teach the skills? I look forward to hearing from you on this vital issue. Via Karen Bonanno Delete the scoop?
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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.
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“School libraries do much more than house books and store data: a school library can broaden the horizon of learning for students and link them with communities and experiences far beyond their own classroom and community." Via Karen Bonanno Delete the scoop?
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ALA Press Release on new publication. Delete the scoop?
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This video features three leaders in the school library field who speak to the importance of certified school librarians in New York schools. Via Karen Bonanno Delete the scoop?
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$53 million investment for joint use library of Tidewater community college and public library in Virginia Beach Delete the scoop?
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As technology spawns a profusion of student options for researching and completing school projects, Palo Alto's two high school libraries have remade themselves into gathering spots not just for reading and researching but for watching, playing and... Delete the scoop?
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The American Library Association commends the First Family for its service to a school library on Martin Luther King Day. Delete the scoop?
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American Libraries Magazine, the magazine of the American Library Association, delivers news and information about the library community.... Delete the scoop?
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Superstar teacher librarian Joyce Valenza is this year's winner of the Edublog Lifetime Achievement Award for her tremendous contribution to the world of ed tech.
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