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Advocacy Initiatives. Initiatives
Links to advocacy resources and documents created or collected by MSLA, with an outline for a workshop designed to enlist parents as advocates.
MSLA members are encouraged to use this as a resource for local advocacy efforts and presentations.
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Documents from MSLAMSLA Advocacy Packet Documents
How Does Massachusetts Compare to the Nation in School Libraries?
Fact Sheet: Massachusetts School Library Media Centers
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Links to Other Advocacy Resources
I Love Libraries.orgAmerican Library Association
American Library Association Issues & Advocacy: School Library Media Specialists
Welcome to the School Library Campaign: @your library
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Links to advocacy resources and documents created or collected by MSLA, with an outline for a workshop designed to enlist parents as advocates.
use it this as a resource for local advocacy efforts and presentations.
Advocacy Tools:
Advocacy Documents and Links
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Documents from MSLA Advocacy Packet
How Does Massachusetts Compare to the Nation in School Libraries?
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Advocacy Documents and Links
Terrific video of student explaining to Governor Deval Patrick why he needs his school library teacher: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jGGkZrDwhi8
Advocacy Resources to use with the following groups:
Administrators and School Committee
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Advocacy Documents and Links
Terrific video of student explaining to Governor Deval Patrick why he needs his school library teacher: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jGGkZrDwhi8
Advocacy Resources to use with the following groups:
Administrators and School Committee
]]> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:10:35 +0000 mod http://mslaplanning.pbwiki.com/Documents+and+Links email.hidden@example.com (Kathy Lowe) Kathy Lowe edited Documents and Links School Libraries Help Students LearnAn advocacy toolkit that accompanies the School Libraries Making a Difference site
Advocacy: The Teacher Librarian as Advocate This online course offered by Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson defines advocacy and provides many links to sites to help you in planning your advocacy program.
School Library Systems Advocacy ToolkitAlthough created for New York, this site has many suggestions that all library media specialists can use.
Advocacy Toolkit for School Library Media Specialists The Colorado Library Consortium has compiled several resources, arranged by category: Learning to be an Advocate, Usable PowerPoint Presentations, Facts and Stats, Brochures, and Quicktime Video
65 Reasons to Love Your Library Planning Toolkit
SchoolLibrariesWork! Scholastic. 2008 edition
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The State of America's Libraries:School Libraries. ALA, April 2008.
The Principal’s Manual for the School Library Media ProgramA two pageguide to evaluating a school library media programproduced by AASL
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Welcome to the School Library Campaign: @your library
School Libraries Help Students LearnAn advocacy toolkit that accompanies the School Libraries Making a Difference site
Advocacy: The Teacher Librarian as Advocate This online course offered by Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson defines advocacy and provides many links to sites to help you in planning your advocacy program.
65 Reasons to Love Your Library Planning Toolkit
SchoolLibrariesWork! Scholastic. 2008 edition
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American Library Association Issues & Advocacy: School Library Media Specialists
Welcome to the School Library Campaign: @your library
65 Reasons to Love Your Library Planning Toolkit
SchoolLibrariesWork! Scholastic. 2008 edition
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American Library Association Issues & Advocacy: School Library Media Specialists
65ReasonstoLoveYourLibraryPlanningToolkit65 Reasons to Love Your Library Planning Toolkit
SchoolLibrariesWork! Scholastic. 2008 edition
Henrico County Public Schools. Today'sLibrary A fun look at the school library and how it has changed over the years
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Links to Other Advocacy Resources
AmericanLibraryAssociationOnlineAdvocacyKitAmerican Library Association Issues & Advocacy: School Library Media Specialists
65ReasonstoLoveYourLibraryPlanningToolkit
SchoolLibrariesWork! Scholastic. 2008 edition
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form a School Library Advisory Council
What Parents Should Know, AASL Advocacy Toolkit.
Stand for Children in Worcester: Info contributed by Pat Fontes
State of Washington Parent Coalition
]]> Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:21:09 +0000 mod http://mslaplanning.pbwiki.com/Parents email.hidden@example.com (Kathy Lowe) Kathy Lowe edited Parents Winchester (MA) parents' presentationin support of professional staffingfor the elementary school libraries
Report from Susan Verdicchio:
our
schools schools next year. Winchester Town Meeting voted a school budget increase of about 6.6%, which the school committee and superintendent
confirmed confirmed would fund two additional full-time library positions in the elementary schools next year.This will bring the total number of elementary LMSs to three. The School Committee and Superintendent have stated the plan for the following year is to again add two more, so there will be a full-time library/media specialist in each of our five elementary schools.
We started lobbying for this at the beginning of the school year, to be sure the library staff positions were in the earliest budget proposal. We made a presentation and slide show to the School Committee, and repeated it to a meeting of all elementary principals (who initiate requests for staff positi]]> Tue, 20 May 2008 07:59:32 +0000 mod http://mslaplanning.pbwiki.com/Parents email.hidden@example.com (Kathy Lowe) Kathy Lowe edited Parents BE SURE TO SIGN UP for OUR E-MAIL LIST: MSLAfriends@yahoogroups.com, forfriends of the Massachusetts School Library Association and supporters of school libraries in Massachusetts.
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Winchester (MA) parents' presentationin support of professional staffingfor the elementary school libraries
Report from Susan Verdicchio:
The Winchester elementary library parent volunteers are happy to report there will be two more library/media specialists hired for our
schools next year. Winchester Town Meeting voted a school budget increase of about 6.6%, which the school committee and superintendent
confirmed would fund two additional full-time library positions in the elementary schools next year.This will bring the total number of elementary LMSs to three. The School Committee and Superintendent have stated the plan for the following year is to again add two more, so there will be a full-time library/media specialist in each o]]> Tue, 20 May 2008 07:56:52 +0000 mod http://mslaplanning.pbwiki.com/Administrators+-+SC email.hidden@example.com (Kathy Lowe) Kathy Lowe edited Administrators - SC 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.
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