[CALIBK12] Closing all high school libraries - SOS

[Becca Todd]

If anything, there is even MORE of a need for a collaborative space where
students from different small learning communities can communicate in an
educational setting. There is even MORE of a need for the resources that
can be provided collectively with funding from each of the SLCs, rather
than duplicating expensive resources many times over or going without
them. When I worked at a high school that moved to become small schools
rather than one big high school, our usage increased. The same is true for
Berkeley High, which has 4 small schools and 2 programs serving the 3400
students. We have 2 teacher librarians and one beautiful library that
serves everyone on that campus. Aren't the SLCs still sharing the
socer/football field? What about the cafeteria, the auditorium? 

Becca Todd, District Library Coordinator
Berkeley Unified School District
1720 Oregon St. Room 9
Berkeley, CA 94703
(ph) 510.644.4895
(f) 510.644.8933
Becca_Todd at berkeley.k12.ca.us 

"Debra Bohnett" <dbohnett at stockton.k12.ca.us> writes:
>Dear all,
>
>This is for the high schools utilizing the small learning community
>model. How have your library services changed utilizing this model? Do
>you see an increased need for school libraries utilizing this model, a
>decrease or the same?  Our district has moved to this model for all four
>of our comprehensive high schools and there is a movement to eliminate
>high school libraries because there is a perceived notion that libraries
>will not be necessary.  I am the teacher librarian at a relatively new
>high school that has been utilizing the SLC model since it opened so I do
>not have a comparison.
>
>
>Please respond ASAP – the district librarian is at a hearing today that
>may determine the fate of high school libraries in our district. . .
>
>
>Thank you,
>
>Debra Bohnett
>Teacher Librarian
>Cesar Chavez High School
>Stockton, CA
>(209)933-7480 ext. 8761
>
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