<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">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. <div><br></div><div>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. <br><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div> </div><div>Two people, myself and my assistant, run back and forth all day. Students cannot come when we are not in the room. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for reminding me to update L2. </div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Kathryn Green</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 11, 2022, at 12:14 AM, Deb Kaczar via AISLE <aisle@list.railslibraries.info> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">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.<br><br><div dir="ltr">Deb Kaczar</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 8, 2022, at 1:38 PM, Michelle Harris via AISLE <aisle@list.railslibraries.info> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Contact Don Hamerly at Dominican. He's working on a project that might have current Illinois numbers for you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Michelle Harris</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 10:42 AM Donovan, Marie via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">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 class="msg2361060674951436609">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Is this something AISLE would have or somewhere/someone else? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Marie Ann Donovan, Ed.D.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Associate Professor of Education<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Director, Program in Early Childhood Education<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Representative, IL Board of Higher Education Faculty Advisory Council<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Member at large, Faculty Council, College of Education<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I’m reading: Patrick Radden Keefe—<i>Say Nothing</i>. <i> </i><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I’m listening to: Nahko and the Medicine People.
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