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YALSA Podcast - Diversity in the Library |
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In this podcast, MSLA member Alma Ramos McDermott interviews Helen Snowden, Gloucester Township Library (Blackwood, NJ) and Angie Miraflor, San Jose Public Library (CA), YALSA’s 2008 diversity stipend winners. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 20 September 2008 )
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Salem Student is School Library Advocate |
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Watch a YouTube video of student Salem from the Salem, MA public schools telling Governor Deval Patrick how he raised money to save his school librarian from budget cuts. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 20 September 2008 )
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YALSA Podcast - Teens & School Libraries |
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In this YALSA podcast , Maureen Ambrosino of the Central MA Regional Library System talks with Kathy Lowe, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts School Library Association and Lynn Rutan, middle school librarian in Michigan on the current state of school libraries. The podcast covers: - The state of school libraries across the country and the crisis level of school libraries in Michigan.
- The importance of administration seeing school libraries as a value to the school community.
- The role of a school librarian as an advocate for school libraries
- Best practices in being a school library advocate
- Impact of school library services on students and in particular on teens
- Impact of school librarians on academic achievement
- How public librarians can support school librarians
- AASL School Library Campaign
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 July 2008 )
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MSLA Executive Board members attend the Annual Conferences and Midwinter Meetings of the American Library Association (ALA) each year, and the bi-annual conference of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL). They have blogged their last few conference experiences while at the conferences. If you'd like to learn first-hand what a national is like, check out these blogs: |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 November 2008 )
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NEW ENGLAND EDUCATIONAL MEDIA ASSOCIATION
HALL OF FAME AWARD, 2008
On May 1918 at Simmons College, the first formal meeting of the New
England School Library Association was held. To celebrate NEEMA's 90
years of service to the library profession, a special award has been
established.
The NEEMA Hall of Fame Award has been established to recognize the
many members of NEEMA – librarians, library media specialists,
teacher-librarians, supervisors, officers, committee chairs of AASL,
ALA and NEEMA, vendors and administrators – who have through their
hard work and dedication given so much of their time and heart to the
library media profession as an active member of NEEMA. This award will
recognize those living and deceased who have made a significant
contribution to the library media profession over the last 90 years as
a member of NEEMA.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 February 2008 )
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AASL Standards for the 21st Century Released |
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You don't have to have attended the AASL National Conference in Reno to receive a
copy of the new national standards for school library media programs! The standards are available on the AASL web site. This will be followed next year by a new mission statement and guidelines for library media programs.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 05 February 2008 )
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 If you weren't able to attend the AASL National Conference in Reno this year you can follow some of the MSLA Executive Board members there via MSLA's Reno Roundup blog. Look for photos and posts about the sessions, speakers, and social events.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 05 February 2008 )
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Ann Perham Wins Post in ALA Election |
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Congratulations to Ann Perham, MSLA Web Master and Past President, who was elected Director-Elect for Region I of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Affiliate Assembly in the recent ALA Election. Region 1 includes all of New England. There are 7 regions across the United States.
As an affiliate of AASL, MSLA sends two representatives to the Affiliate Assembly twice yearly, at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in January and at the ALA Annual Conference in June. Ann has represented MSLA at the Affiliate Assembly several times over the last three years. The Regional Director facilitates communication amongst the region affiliates throughout the year and works with the Directors of the other regions and with the leadership of the Affiliate Assembly. Ann will take on her new position at the upcoming ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. on June 22. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 05 February 2008 )
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