[ISLMA-Share] Help save our library!

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Thank you!

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Here’s a great posting from “Let the Librarians Lead” blog (
> http://www.letthelibrarianslead.com/ ):  “Don’t Cut your Librarian: An
> Open Letter to Administrators During Contract Season. http://goo.gl/xlCw4u
> Perhaps something from this can help as you talk more with your
> administrators. Good luck!
>
> Patti Fleser
> Library Media Specialist
> Deer Path Middle School
> Lake Forest, IL
> 847-604-7433
> @DPM_Library
>
> President-Elect, Illinois School Library Media Association
>
> "...a library is more than a collection of dusty old books. It is a place
> to learn, explore, and grow!” *Escape from Mr. Lemoncello**’s Library*
>
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> Date: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 4:51 PM
> To: "islma at list.railslibraries.info" <islma at list.railslibraries.info>
> Subject: [ISLMA-Share] Help save our library!
>
> I am a fourth grade teacher and also have been the district librarian for
> about six years. Our district has three separate buildings each with a
> library and an aide in each to run it. I am in the classroom and do not
> work in any of the libraries. The aide at the high school is retiring at
> the end of this year. The principal at that building  has decided to not
> replace her and is instead teaching the English teachers and the aides
> still at the building to check out the books. There is no plan that I know
> of to take care of inter-library loan, reshelving books, ordering, etc. He
> changes his mind week to week about what to do.  I am told that the
> students get everything they need through Pearson (We are one to one). The
> superintendent does not feel he can justify having an aide in the high
> school library because of the low circulation numbers. However, there is
> a career class taught in the library which the library aide helps with and
> whose salary is 5/7 paid for through Career Links. The principal wants to
> move the career class out of the library for reasons which I am not sure of.
>
> I give a report to the board once a quarter and have spoken to them a
> couple of times just to let them know we, the library, are still alive.  I
> need help with keeping someone in our high school library and to change the
> attitudes of our superintendent and high school principal. I feel the
> principals at the junior high and elementary are more supportive. I feel
> overwhelmed. I have my hands full just with my classroom. Can you help? Let
> me know if you have any suggestions on how to proceed to save our high
> school library. Thank you!
>
> --
> *Vicki Bonnett*
> *4th Grade Teacher/District Librarian*
> *Havana CUSD 126*
>
>
> *New Central School 215 N. Pearl Havana, IL 62644*
>
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> *School (309)-543-2241 <%28309%29-543-2241> Cell (309)-338-3443
> <%28309%29-338-3443>*
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-- 
*Vicki Bonnett*
*4th Grade Teacher/District Librarian*
*Havana CUSD 126*


*New Central School215 N. Pearl Havana, IL 62644*


*School (309)-543-2241Cell (309)-338-3443*
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