Advocacy Resources to Use with Local Administrators and School Committee

 

 

From Massachuetts Power: A Parents Guide to School Libraries:

• The Library and the Curriculum describes role of library in teaching skills promoted by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• Information Literacy - Streamline information on these pages
  • Information Literacy: A Life Skill
  • Cut and Clip (Plagiarism): A Major Problem
  • Judging an Internet Site: A Critical Skill
  • A Critical Thinker and A Critical Thinker continued

 

School Libraries Work! Scholastic, 2008 edition

 

Ask adminstrators and school committees to support MSLA in requesting BOE:

• appoint a person to oversee school library programs
• ensure this person is a school librarian
• put together a long-term plan for school library programs in Massachusetts
• enforce Chapter 15
• form a School Library Advisory Council

 

Topics & Trends: School Libraries and Student Achievement. Phi Delta Kappa. Volume 7, issue 4, November 2007.

 

Weil, Eric. Meet Your New School Library Media Speciliast. Scholastic Administr@tor, Febraruary 2008.

 

Bertland, Linda. Resources for School Librarians: School Library Leadership.

Sites that are useful when it becomes necessary to have a chat with your administrator about the role of the library.

 

Joyce Valenza's Advocacy Video, March 2008. 

 

Christopher Harris. An Administrator's Guide to School Libraries, 2007.

 

The State of America's Libraries: School Libraries. ALA, April 2008.

 

The Principal’s Manual for the School Library Media Program A two page guide to evaluating a school library media program produced by AASL

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