[CALIBK12] Library cuts and conference

[kjhein at comcast.net]

How do we get teacher librarian positions written into ed code, or wherever it's written in other states, so that the districts can reduce but not eliminate???? Ours is still a support credential, not a teaching credential. who changes that and how???


Kit Hein
College Park High School
Pleasant Hill

----- Original Message -----

From: Linda Jewett 

To: calibk12 at lists.sjsu.edu

Sent: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:43:59 +0000 (UTC)

Subject: [CALIBK12] Library cuts and conference



Dear CALIBers,

I continue to read CALIB postings since moving to Corvallis, Oregon  

last October. Pink slips for teacher librarians in March seem to be  

as predictable as flu season - and about as pleasant. The Toolbox on  

the CSLA website is there for you to use and support from colleagues  

is important for strategies and boosting morale.



May I suggest that there be a concurrent strand at the conference  

about preventive medicine for this pink slip disease? Better yet,  

perhaps an entire day membership meeting devoted to this problem. Are  

the sections having meetings that address this? Perhaps each teacher  

librarian and library tech might bring a board member to a membership  

meeting.  It just seems that this happens year after year after year  

and library people are put in a reactive mode. Advocacy is everyday -  

not just when cuts are being made.



I admire all of you as you push back to keep quality library services  

available for your students.



Best,

Linda Jewett, CSLA past president 



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