[CALIBK12] Library cuts and conference

[Headley Vicki]

Want to hear something even worse?  I was talking to a board member (of
another district) and she said the board use to push all the time for
librarians, but the teachers were the biggest complainers about funding
them.  It¹s that parochial thinking that keeps teacher librarians out of the
loop.
Vicki


On 3/4/09 12:31 PM, "kjhein at comcast.net" <kjhein at comcast.net> wrote:

> Sorry, I know it's an "S" word and usually think of "support" instead of
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> Subject: RE: [CALIBK12] Library cuts and conference
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> Subject: [CALIBK12] Library cuts and conference
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> Linda Jewett, CSLA past president
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