[CALIBK12] Standards Should Be Free

[Jill Detweiler]

Yes! 
Thank you.
How can we make this happen?
Jill

-- 
Jill Detweiler Clemens
Windrush Library
1800 Elm Street 
El Cerrito, CA 94530

510-970-7580 ext. 208

jdetweiler at windrush.org




On 9/24/07 1:41 PM, "Carlton Martz" <cmartz at eee.org> wrote:

> I was involved in writing our CSLA standards as the task force editor.
> It really never occurred to me as I labored for two years on this project
> that the only way our standards would be distributed required paying for
> them.  One of the reasons for writing our own standards was to promote
> school libraries among teachers, principals, superintendents, school
> board members,
> parents, legislators, the general public, and school library people throughout
> the nation.  The easiest way to do this is to advertise them and make them
> freely available on our Web site.  I read lots of school library standards
> from
> other states and never encountered any "pay per view" requirement.  The
> printed version of our standards is an excellent publication, which
> should still
> be available to purchase.  Every California LMT, principal, and superintendent
> should have one.  However, in my view, it is long past due for us to
> distribute
> our standards more broadly as part of our mission to promote strong school
> libraries.  I think our CSLA Web site home page should have a link to the
> text of the standards, and they should be free for viewing and downloading.
> 
> Carl Martz
> LMT, ret.
> cmartz at eee.org 
> 
> 
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