Carl Harvey, 2011-2012 American Association of School Libraries
president, has initiated a White House petition on school libraries,
which specifically petitions the Obama administration to “ensure that
every child in America has access to an effective school library
program.” 25,000 signatures are required in order for this petition to
be viewed by White House staff, no later than February 4, 2012.
Please
take a few seconds to sign this petition, spread the word to your
member groups, ask your colleagues and library supporters in your
circles to sign on, and spread the word via Facebook, Twitter and other
channels!
*
We’ve heard that the petition software is temperamental. If you cannot
sign in on your first attempt, please log out and log back in. Or, try a
different web browser, or as a last resort, try a different computer.
*
White House petitions must be authored by individuals, not any
association. Therefore, Carl has introduced this petition as an
individual, not as a representative of AASL or ALA.
Thank you,
Marci Merola
Director
Office for Library Advocacy
American Library Association
800.545.2433, x2431
mmerola@ala.org
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Monday, April 11, 2011
National Library Week 2011
It was my pleasure to be a part of two videos for National Library Week 2011.
Quotes about libraries.
What isn't great about libraries?
How are you celebrating?
Quotes about libraries.
What isn't great about libraries?
How are you celebrating?
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Cue the Mötley Crüe
The past month we've had problems with someone smoking in our library building. This is a new experience for me. In all my years of working in libraries (and this goes back to my first job as a shelver at a branch of the St. Louis Public Library), I've never encountered a patron smoking in the library.
This is another example of why you never say never, especially in libraries.
Anyway, my staff have been alerting me to the smell of smoke in our stairwell and in the ladies room. I consulted with Police Services and suggested installing smoke detectors in the bathrooms and the hallway. The smoke detectors were installed sometime this week. This morning our reference librarian, Rachel, asked me if I'd seen the sign in the ladies room. After she told me about the sign, I did what any reasonable person would. I grabbed my camera and went to take a picture of "the sign". Despite my urge to change "Whoever" to "Whomever", I am glad to see the community announcing their displeasure with our female smoker. I'm also happy students are taking ownership of their library. It will allow me to be more effective in my role as the head librarian.
I couldn't have said it any better.
This is another example of why you never say never, especially in libraries.
Anyway, my staff have been alerting me to the smell of smoke in our stairwell and in the ladies room. I consulted with Police Services and suggested installing smoke detectors in the bathrooms and the hallway. The smoke detectors were installed sometime this week. This morning our reference librarian, Rachel, asked me if I'd seen the sign in the ladies room. After she told me about the sign, I did what any reasonable person would. I grabbed my camera and went to take a picture of "the sign". Despite my urge to change "Whoever" to "Whomever", I am glad to see the community announcing their displeasure with our female smoker. I'm also happy students are taking ownership of their library. It will allow me to be more effective in my role as the head librarian.
I couldn't have said it any better.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
ALA HQ: NMRT and Executive Board Observer
The great thing about being onsite in Chicago is the opportunity for face time with the people I know and work with at ALA. I used my post orientation time to meet with staff in HRDR on New Members Round Table (NMRT) work. This included selecting and placing orders for NMRT ribbons to be available at Annual, get an update on our fund raising efforts for the 2009 Awards Reception, and preparing for my work as President for 2009-2010. Much to my surprise I spent a lot of time working!
When I was not in an ALA staff member’s office generating a to do list to execute when I returned to Pittsburgh, I was observing the Executive Board 2009 Spring Meeting. The current Board met on Friday morning to hear a presentation by Jenny Levine on ALA Connect. The presentation got me excited about using Connect more to do just that, connect with members in the association. It has a great deal of upside particularly for committee work. I hope NMRT will use it, especially those committees currently working with googlegroups and yahoogroups. I also learned about new developments with the at your library Web site.
Saturday's agenda very full. This included a membership update, development office report, research survey results, several reports related to finances, and closed executive session (I could not observe). There's a lot going on at ALA. The meeting agenda and documents are available from the Executive Board page.
When I was not in an ALA staff member’s office generating a to do list to execute when I returned to Pittsburgh, I was observing the Executive Board 2009 Spring Meeting. The current Board met on Friday morning to hear a presentation by Jenny Levine on ALA Connect. The presentation got me excited about using Connect more to do just that, connect with members in the association. It has a great deal of upside particularly for committee work. I hope NMRT will use it, especially those committees currently working with googlegroups and yahoogroups. I also learned about new developments with the at your library Web site.
Saturday's agenda very full. This included a membership update, development office report, research survey results, several reports related to finances, and closed executive session (I could not observe). There's a lot going on at ALA. The meeting agenda and documents are available from the Executive Board page.
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