Archive for the 'School Libraries' Category
CILIP calls on PM Gordon Brown to make school libraries statutory
February 15th, 2010A roundup from Richard Hawkins.
University of Kentucky Considers Dissolving School Media Program
February 11th, 2010SLJ – “It looks as if there could be another casualty in these tough economic times. The University of Kentucky’s School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) is thinking about dissolving its school media program in order to meet proposed budget cuts. While Dan O’Hair, dean of the university’s college of communications and information studies, [...]
President Obama Proposes Eliminating Federal School Library Funds
February 1st, 2010SLJ – “President Obama has delivered a slap in the face to school librarians. In his FY2011 budget proposal to Congress on Monday, he completely eliminated the Improving Literacy for School Libraries grant program, designed to boost academic achievement by providing students with access to up-to-date school library materials.”
Parent wants school libraries unlocked
December 9th, 2009Canadian Gazette – “With no librarians, books sit behind closed doors.”
Without state funding this year, Alabama’s school libraries struggle
November 16th, 2009Birmingham News – “Like Dennis, school librarians across the state are seeking out new funding sources for books and other needs, or they’re struggling to make do with what they have, after the state eliminated funding for school librar ies this year. State funding, doled out to schools at $175 per teacher unit, totaled $8.5 [...]
Do schools need libraries and librarians
November 2nd, 2009School Gate – “A teaching assistant and award-winning librarian explains why they do”
School chooses Kindle; are libraries for the history ‘books’?
October 27th, 2009USA Today – “[T]he venerable boarding school west of Boston — the first in the USA to admit both boys and girls — last summer undertook another first: It began getting rid of most of the library’s books. In their place: a fully digital collection.”
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Carnegie’s Legacy Threatened, Along with Children’s Library Services
October 15th, 2009SLJ – “A piece of Andrew Carnegie’s legacy could fall into jeopardy if the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh follows through with closing four branches, and potentially curtailing children and teen services for local communities as well. Pittsburgh’s public library system must close four of its 19 branches, merge two, and relocate another to balance its [...]
School libraries feel pinch of cuts
October 15th, 2009Pittsburgh Post Gazette – “Reductions in state budget may jeopardize online databases, statewide catalog of resources.”
Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy’s Life
October 2nd, 2009NPR – “Olly Neal grew up in Arkansas during the 1950s. He didn’t care much for high school. One day during his senior year, he cut class — and wandered into the school library.”
Target Helps Ailing School Libraries Across the Country with Extreme Makeovers
September 8th, 2009Press Release – “Target and The Heart of America Foundation will officially kick-off the Target Volunteers School Library Makeover program with the unveiling of one of sixteen extreme school library transformations in New York City on September 10, in support of the United We Serve nationwide service initiative. The additional unveilings, along with even [...]
West Bend City Council Fails to Reinstate Library Board Members
May 21st, 2009School Library Journal – “The four board members of Wisconsin’s West Bend Community Memorial Public Library who were likely to vote against moving sexually explicit YA books to the adult section won’t be reinstated—a move that the library's director finds disturbing. In a vote of 5-2 (and one abstention), the city council this week decided not [...]
New ‘Learning Commons’ defies commonplace
December 8th, 2008The Boston Globe – “In the place formerly known as the library, students perch on long-legged chairs and huddle in purple and black booths. Once a week, they drink coffee and discuss books in the Java Room. They watch a history lesson, school news, and CNN on a 58-inch flat-panel “digital kiosk.” (via)
School librarian marks bills to catch cash box thief
November 26th, 2008NWFDailynews.com – “The Choctawhatchee High School librarian, concerned that someone had been removing money from the “school store” cash box, marked two $1 bills to try and catch the culprit, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office offense report. She had a suspect in mind and photocopied the bills before placing them in there.”
Philip Pullman Condemns School Library Closure
November 25th, 2008School Library Journal – “Philip Pullman, the best-selling author of the “His Dark Materials” trilogy (Knopf), has slammed the headmistress of a school in Chesterfield, England, for her decision to close the library and get rid of its librarian.”
Flip This Library
November 3rd, 2008School Library Journal – “School libraries are like Microsoft (without the revenue, of course). We’ve created and invested in library media centers—and, in recent years, their Web sites—with the expectation that our students will come to these places.”
School libraries try to do more with less:
September 16th, 2008eSchool News – “This fall, school libraries across the country will be working to implement new standards for learning in the 21st century–but many will be doing so with fewer resources at their disposal.”
More on School Libraries
December 24th, 2007Stuart Glascock – “Despite the budget pressures, some schools have maintained and expanded their libraries.”
