By Dorcas Hand
www.ilovelibraries.org
is an initiative of the American Library Association with the vision to keep America informed about
what’s happening in today’s libraries. The home page offers links to
current articles of interest for various kinds of libraries, but schools are
the top of the page. ALA is determined to lead readers deeper into the site for
information, videos and links to more.
Currently, a
piece about a Pittsburgh (PA) area school district that has cut back on library
staff leads the website sits beside a link to School Libraries Make the
Difference, which offers pages about Student
Achievement, College
and Career Readiness, Lifelong
Learners and Student
Success Endangered as well as How Can I
Get Involved and some FAQs.
The FAQs are really great – things like “Why do we still need libraries when we
have the internet?” and “Why do we need a school librarian?”
You might even
want to join AASL to have direct
access to even more resources, beyond the ones open to the public.
So we’ll keep
today’s post very short – spread the word to all the advocates on your campus
about www.ilovelibraries.org,
and use the ideas with the folks who are not yet on your list of supporters. You already read this Texas blog – take
the hint to look farther afield, and take full advantage of this free
support tool. There are
resources beyond Texas that can help us.
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