[aisle] Does anyone have the most current data on the number of school librarians in Illinois?

[Michelle Harris]

Contact Don Hamerly at Dominican.  He's working on a project that might
have current Illinois numbers for you.

Michelle Harris

On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 10:42 AM Donovan, Marie via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Good morning, all—I hope you won’t mind helping me: I’m in the process of
> finalizing a column I write for the Illinois Reading Council journal with a
> librarian friend and colleague on the connections between teachers/reading
> specialists and school librarians. For our upcoming column, we’re focused
> (yet again) on the loss of school librarians and libraries in our state. In
> researching the number of funded librarian/media specialist positions for
> this school year, I’ve hit a wall in finding this out. I realize learning
> this for private schools probably isn’t possible but I thought I could for
> public schools—yet I’m stymied in locating a database or other entity that
> could give me a sense of where we stand.
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> Is this something AISLE would have or somewhere/someone else?
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> Again, I hope you don’t mind my asking. Thank you all in advance for
> whatever guidance or insights you can share.
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> Sincerely, m
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> Marie Ann Donovan, Ed.D.
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*Michelle Harris*
District Librarian
Heyworth CUSD #4
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