Without state funding this year, Alabama’s school libraries struggle
Birmingham 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...
View ArticleParent wants school libraries unlocked
Canadian Gazette – “With no librarians, books sit behind closed doors.”
View ArticlePresident Obama Proposes Eliminating Federal School Library Funds
SLJ – “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...
View ArticleUniversity of Kentucky Considers Dissolving School Media Program
SLJ – “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...
View ArticleCILIP calls on PM Gordon Brown to make school libraries statutory
A roundup from Richard Hawkins.
View ArticleLibraries fading as school budget crisis deepens
AP – “Students who wished their school librarians a nice summer on the last day of school may be surprised this fall when they’re no longer around to recommend a good book or help with homework. As the...
View ArticleWho is against library volunteers? Teachers unions in Raynham and Bridgewater
Boston Globe – “The teachers’ union in Bridgewater and Raynham has filed a labor grievance that could block volunteers from keeping the school district’s libraries open. And as word of the work action...
View ArticleBaker criticizes teachers’ union for objecting to library volunteers
Boston.com – “Governor’s candidate Charlie Baker has planned a press conference at 10:30 a.m. today at Legion Field in Bridgewater to voice his outrage over the grievance filed by Bridgewater-Raynham...
View ArticleProspect Heights Schools’ Library Opens With No Librarian
NYTimes – “The shelves were stocked with books. The maple benches were grouped like shin-high honeycombs across the beeswax-colored floor. The Book Hive at P.S. 9 and M.S. 571’s joint facility on...
View ArticleLamar High’s library making room for e-books
Houston Chronicle. – “The library shelves at Lamar High School are emptier these days. Principal James McSwain asked his librarian to dump thousands of books to make more room for students to lounge on...
View ArticleBibles From the School Librarian?
News Channel 9 – “Officials in a northern Alabama school system say they are looking into complaints that Bibles were distributed during school hours by an elementary school teacher and the school...
View ArticleFeds to investigate complaint that white school libraries get better support...
Press Register – “The federal government has opened an investigation into allegations that the Mobile County school system spends a disproportionate amount of money on libraries and other facilities in...
View ArticleHigh school libraries enter the 21st century
Ottawa Citizen – “The first thing Janice O’Neill did when she became librarian at St. Mark Catholic High School in Manotick was tear up the No Talking sign. She also ripped up the No Eating sign,...
View ArticleCanadian School Librarians and Libraries under siege
Press Release – “In recent weeks, there has been extensive media coverage, on the declining number of teacher-librarians in Canada, beginning with the announcement of eliminating school library...
View ArticleTornado-damaged Alabama libraries get help
Birmingham News – “Mary Schellhammer, the school librarian at Alberta Elementary in Tuscaloosa, has a new visual aid when she lectures students about returning their library books. It’s a portion of a...
View ArticleSherlock Holmes book removed from school reading list for being anti-Mormon
Washington Post – “Here’s a relatively new one in the annals of book challenges: A Virginia school district has removed from the required sixth grade reading list at one middle school a Sherlock Holmes...
View ArticleRepublic may change book policy, again
News Leader – “Weeks after a series of national groups demanded the Republic school board reverse a decision to remove two books from the high school, the governing body will take up the issue. The...
View ArticleTime to stop cutting at L.A. Unified
LA Times – “Firing library aides and office assistants leaves the school district in free-fall. It’s time to tap emergency funds, cut state redevelopment agencies and discuss raising businesses’...
View ArticleLaid-off Philadelphia teacher sets sights on rebuilding school libraries
Philadelphia Inquirer – “The library at Rowen Elementary School is musty and outdated – a locked room used for storage and occasional meetings, a repository of yellowing, untouched books. But Callie...
View ArticleColorado Elementary School Ditches Dewey for Bookstore Model
SLJ – “Colorado’s Red Hawk Elementary School has gone Dewey-less—and so far the results have been great. The new school, which opened its doors just six weeks ago, is the only building in the St. Vrain...
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