[CALIBK12] CSLA toolkit

[Connie Williams]

Hello everyone-
The CSLA  "responding to a March 15th notice" toolkit is up and   
running on the CSLA website:   http://www.csla.net.
This document describes some of the ways you can begin now to get the  
word out to important stakeholders about the importance of strong   
school libraries.  There are links to many useful documents including   
studies, newspaper articles and education codes.
Because we are experiencing a  dynamic, ever changing set of events,   
we've created a wiki for everyone to add their experiences, sample  
letters, pro-active activities and other  useful links so that we may  
all benefit from the wisdom of us all.  Please add to it - the more we  
bring to it, the  more we can all benefit.  One good use of it could  
be to create  paragraphs that we could each use to put together into  
our own letters to  school boards or newspapers.  Check the wiki  
regularly to see how others are coping and creating new documents for  
their own presentations. And check the website frequently, too, as we  
will update news articles and other things as we find them.
Now more than ever, if you are not a member of CSLA,  please consider  
joining as we work together to keep school libraries forefront in the  
minds of decision makers.
As CSLA president, I will be meeting with Jack O'Connell next week,   
and will be presenting to the State School Board  as well as meeting   
with the PTA education director and CLA executive directors.   You  
can  make these same connections in your districts - call the PTA   
president, check in with your superintendent and rally your faculty.   
Remind them that school libraries are excellent budget stretchers -   
we provide for all the students in the school; school libraries are  
an  excellent source of direct instruction and school libraries and  
the folks who staff them are - as  others have so eloquently pointed  
out: the place that many, many  students find to be their one safe  
constant. We can be there for all our students only if we can keep our  
doors open.
Check out the website, add to the wiki,  join CSLA and join us in  
Sacramento on April 15th.
Connie

Connie  Williams
President
California School Library Assn
CSLA 2.0 Team

chwms at mac.com




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