| Executive Board Summary - May 2007 |
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*Summary of the 5/16/07 MSLA Executive Board Meeting * Seventeen board members navigated through torrential rains and flooded roads to attend the meeting at MSLA headquarters in Lunenburg. This was Kathy Lowe's last meeting as president. Kathy reported on a meeting she and Sandy Kelly had with MassCUE President Walter McKenzie and Conference Coordinator Regan Tiliakos. The emphasis was on the relationship between the two associations as colleagues, not competitors. It was a positive meeting, generating several ideas about collaborative projects to work on together. * * Bob Roth reported on National Library Legislative Day, held earlier this month in Washington, D.C. Three school library issues are: a)the under-funding of the Improving Literacy through School Libraries grant; b) the revision of No Child Left Behind to include library teachers as highly qualified staff; and c) the need for districts to be aware of opportunities to provide school libraries with federal funds. Bob also explained that Senate Resolution 134 requests the adoption of School Library Month every September. Bob will write about actions our members can take for our webpage and listserv, and we will write a letter as an organization to support the revision of NCLB. Sandy Kelly and Valerie Diggs met with Cheryl Liebling and Susan Wheltle from the DOE earlier this month to seek endorsement of MSLA's new Information Fluency Standards. Although they did not agree to endorse separate Information Fluency standards, the DOE staffers suggested that our standards could be incorporated into the next revision of the ELA Frameworks. They welcome MSLA members' participation in the revision of the ELA Frameworks and are particularly interested in having our members develop bibliographies to supplement Frameworks for the content areas. They also welcome input and additions about school libraries to the new K-12 Massachusetts Literacy Plan, which will is posted on the DOE website. The board expressed sympathy at the passing of two member librarians, Ruth Peck from Springfield and Mary Ann Walker from Brockton and will make a memorial donation of $35 to each of their school libraries. Jeannette Sisco volunteered to represent MSLA on the MLA Conference Committee to help plan a track for school librarians for MLA's 2008 conference. Susanna Paterson announced that Amy Sprung and Elizabeth Zimmer were elected as Student SIG co-directors for 2007-08. -- Kathy Lowe, Executive Director Massachusetts School Library Association PO Box 658 Lunenburg, MA 01462 This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it 978-582-6967 |
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