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

[Barbara Ungar]

To answer the question about were their other universities that had a library certification program:
Up until 1980, Northeastern IL University offered a masters in Instructional Media which was a state certified library program. National Lewis also had a similar program during the 1970s. Since then I don’t believe any other universities in Illinois offer a certification program besides the two mentioned. 

Barbara Ungar
Instructional Strategy & Design Consultant
barbara.m.ungar at gmail.com
847.910.6974

> On Sep 11, 2022, at 12:33 PM, Kathryn Green via AISLE <aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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> Oregon School District 220 has only one certified librarian. I do have a Masters in Elementary Education and 38 graduate hours for the Librarian certification. I am certified in library for pre-kindergarten through grade 12. 
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> I am the district Librarian and take care of all the buildings. However, I am also assigned 48 classes per week, each lasting 27 minutes. 
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> OCUSD220 did cut a full time library assistant in our Pre-K through grade 6. Our middle and high school were merged into one building with “some book shelves” to prevent students from entering the other side. Neither para has any library experience, nor do they like to read or even care to read. 
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> Two people, myself and my assistant, run back and forth all day. Students cannot come when we are not in the room. 
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> Thank you for reminding me to update L2. 
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> 
> 
> Kathryn Green
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>>> On Sep 11, 2022, at 12:14 AM, Deb Kaczar via AISLE <aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> Just an FYI, CUSD 300, eliminated 9 elementary school media positions at the end of the ‘21-‘22 school year. Each teacher was at two schools. So, eighteen less libraries have media teachers.
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>> Deb Kaczar
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>>>> On Sep 8, 2022, at 1:38 PM, Michelle Harris via AISLE <aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>>> Contact Don Hamerly at Dominican.  He's working on a project that might have current Illinois numbers for you.
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>>> Michelle Harris
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>>>> 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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>>>> She/her/hers
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>>>> Associate Professor of Education
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>>>> Representative, IL Board of Higher Education Faculty Advisory Council
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>>>> Member at large, Faculty Council, College of Education
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