<div dir="ltr">Hi Lisa,<div>School Librarian Martha Hickson gives some tips and includes her 'book resume' for <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YpDVUiIF3rqrR392A_Cehv0POqhxoxCDj0pNGe2iaWA/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Gender Queer</a> in this OIF Blog post:</div><div><a href="https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/lawn-boy-and-gender-queer-the-trend-toward-book-challenges/" target="_blank">https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/lawn-boy-and-gender-queer-the-trend-toward-book-challenges/</a></div><div>In this OIF Blog post, she discusses her successful defense for Gender Queer and other titles at her school.</div><div><a href="https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/martha-hickson-students-and-school-board-save-5-challenged-titles/">https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/martha-hickson-students-and-school-board-save-5-challenged-titles/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>--Kathy</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Kathy Lester, MLIS, MA<br><span style="font-size:12.8px"><i>Advocacy Co-Chair, Past-President 2014, </i></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Michigan Association for Media in Education (MAME)</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><i>President-Elect, 2021-2022</i></span></div><div>American Association of School Librarians (AASL)</div><div><i>Councilor At Large</i></div><div>American Library Association (ALA)</div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px"><b>School Library Media Specialist / Technology Coach, </b></i></div><div><b>East Middle School, Plymouth-Canton Schools</b></div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px">SL21 Model Library, 2017-2018</i></div><div dir="ltr"><i style="font-size:12.8px">SL21 Exemplary Ranking - Michigan School Libraries for the 21st Century 2019-2022</i><div><i>ISTE Making IT Happen Award Winner</i></div><div><i>2017 MAME Michigan School Library Program of the Year</i></div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px">2012 </i><i style="font-size:12.8px">State Librarian's Excellence Award Winner</i><br></div><div><span> <a href="mailto:kathyL@mimame.org" target="_blank">kathyL@mimame.org</a></span></div><div>twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LibraryL" target="_blank">@LibraryL</a></div><div><span>810.333.5873</span></div><div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><img src="cid:ii_l1kxhge11" alt="image.png" width="468" height="60"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">April is Michigan School Library Month!</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><i>Read Governor Whitmer's <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news/proclamations/2022/04/01/april-2022-school-library-month" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Proclamation</a></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:x-small;color:rgb(32,33,36)">"Every school librarian is a leader; every learner has a school librarian"</span><br></div></div><div><div><font size="1">--<a href="http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/advocacy/tools/docs/AASL_Position_Statement_Effective_SLP_2018.pdf" target="_blank">American Association of School Librarians</a> (AASL)</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 10:13 PM Joan Bessman Taylor via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>ALA Policy help<br></div><div><a href="https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/selectionpolicytoolkit" target="_blank">https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/selectionpolicytoolkit</a></div><div><br></div><div>National Council Against Censorship help<br></div><div><a href="https://ncac.org/news/attack-on-books" target="_blank">https://ncac.org/news/attack-on-books</a></div><div><br></div><div>Support for <i>Gender Queer</i> <br></div><div><a href="https://ncac.org/news/fairfax-virginia-lawn-boy-gender-queer-library" target="_blank">https://ncac.org/news/fairfax-virginia-lawn-boy-gender-queer-library</a></div><div><a href="http://goog_410310324" target="_blank"><br></a></div><div><a href="https://ncac.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Brevard-County-Letter.pdf" target="_blank">https://ncac.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Brevard-County-Letter.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>h<a>ttps://ncac.org/news/orlando-florida-school-district-ignores-procedures-in-removing-gender-queer-from-libraries</a></div><div><br></div><div>Have a sound policy, make sure everyone knows you have one and insist the policy is followed.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div>Joan<br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Joan Bessman Taylor</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4"> </font>(she/he</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">r)</span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ssociate Professor, MEd, ML</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IS, PhD</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.62;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117)">Program</span></span></font></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117)"> Coordinator -</span> </span><span style="color:rgb(241,194,50)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://online.uni.edu/online-programs/graduate-programs/school-library-studies-ma" target="_blank">Sc</a></span></span></font></span></span><span style="color:rgb(241,194,50)"><a href="https://online.uni.edu/online-programs/graduate-programs/school-library-studies-ma" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">hool Library St</span></font></span></a></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(241,194,50)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://online.uni.edu/online-programs/graduate-programs/school-library-studies-ma" target="_blank">udies</a></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.62;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)">School Libraries are:</span><br></span></font></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.62;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><img alt="Rainbow logo which says: diverse, inclusive, accepting, welcoming, safe space for everyone" src="https://science.iupui.edu/psychology/images/wow-safe-space-logo.png" style="max-width: 100%; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; height: auto; display: inline-block; color: rgb(69, 56, 43); font-family: BentonSansRegular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" width="96" height="64"><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,7,120);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;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tyle="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div>We've got some administrators making noise about removing Gender Queer from our shelves.  Anyone have ideas of what we should do? </div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
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<a href="https://www.aisled.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.aisled.org/</a></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks!</div>Nichole Folkman<div>K-12 Librarian/ STEAM Director</div><div>Creator and Director of Stags Read Community Literacy Program</div><div>Stags Read Twitter- @StagsRead</div><div>Creator of Postcard Field Trip Curriculum</div><div><a href="http://www.postcardfieldtrip.weebly.com" target="_blank">www.postcardfieldtrip.weebly.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Chair of the Lincoln Teen Readers' Choice Award</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Scholastic Bowl Coach</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Antler/ Staglite Advisor </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">she/ her/ hers</span></div><div><br></div><div>Check out my projects at</div><div><a href="https://www.donorschoose.org/Mrs.Folkman" style="font-family:rooney-sans,Avenir-Book,Corbel,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,161,212);text-decoration:none;float:left;display:block" target="_blank">https://www.donorschoose.org/Mrs.Folkman</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Add me on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/339006-n" target="_blank">GoodReads</a></div><div><div style="font-size:10px;margin-top:20px;font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif"><div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_destination/339006?utm_medium=reading_link&utm_source=email_signature" style="color:rgb(24,24,24)" target="_blank">Currently Reading</a></div><div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_destination/339006?utm_medium=cover&utm_source=email_signature" target="_blank"><img alt="Book Cover" src="https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_cover/339006" style="margin: 10px 0px 5px;" width="50"></a></div><div style="margin-top:5px"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/?utm_medium=gr_logo&utm_source=email_signature" style="border:0px none" target="_blank"><img alt="Goodreads Logo" src="https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/icons/goodreads_icon_32x32-6c9373254f526f7fdf2980162991a2b3.png" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 2px;" width="16" height="16"> </a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_instructions?utm_medium=gyo_link&utm_source=email_signature" style="color:rgb(170,170,170);vertical-align:middle" target="_blank">Get your own email signature</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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