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February is the month For building connections February is a month for looking at relationships. The California School Library Association does not stand alone as an entity. CSLA forges partner- ships with the California Department of Education (through Barbara Jeffus, CSLA Past-President and CDE Liaison). The CSLA presidents (Connie Williams-President Elect, Martha Rowland-Immediate Past President, and Sandra Yoon-President) along with John McGinnis (VP-Government Relations) will visit CDE once again this year. Barbara sets up meetings with various departments within CDE. This year the agenda includes meetings with the Ed. Tech staff, the Professional Development Division, The Curriculum Frameworks & Instructional Resources Division (Tom Adams and Susan Martimo, CSLA Past-President), and the CTC. CSLA also keeps open the communication lines between other state organizations such as the California Teachers’ Association and the national library organizations: the American Association of School Librarians and the American Library Association. All three of these entities sent their presi- dents to the annual CSLA conference in Ontario. These bonds of partnerships and alliances assist in the ongoing livelihood of the organization. The members of CSLA are also part of the equation for a strong association. Each member contributes their own unique signature to workshops, events, conferences, and the strengths that they bring to CSLA. Section workshops strengthen relation- ships between members and the state organization. Check out the opportunities to increase your knowledge at the various events held by the sections of CSLA. Perhaps it is also the time for you to consider the relationships and/or partnerships that a school library creates with its school site, volunteers, and community resources. Is there just one parent who arrives early to pick up a student and is interested in shelving some books for the school library? Is there just one administrator who really listens to the needs of the school library media center? Is there a local Rotary Club or Kiwanis group that needs to have a literacy focus as part of their mission statement? The relationships that support school libraries also continue at the school site level. February is a great month for highlighting individuals and/or groups that have contributed to the school library. Create a bulletin board thanking these people and clubs for all that they have shared with your school library. The time that it takes to showcase these outstanding people and groups will be repaid back to the library in additional hours and funds to continue to provide the best service to students. Another event in February is February 1 st when the California Young Reader Medal Committee announces the nominees for the new cycle (www.californiayoungreadermedal.org). Here is the per- fect opportunity to finalize the activities and voting procedures for students as they participate in the democratic process of selecting their favorite title in each category from last year’s list. California students vote in the thousands for this state-wide event. Encourage students to read these high- quality books as part of their recreational reading. Use the month of February to enjoy the relationships that support a strong school library and a ver- satile state organization! Sandra Yoon, CSLA President Volume 31 Number 6 February 2008 February is a great month for highlighting individuals and/or groups that have contributed to the school library. Newsletter What’s Inside > President’s Message 1 > CA Dept of Education 3 > Curriculum 3 > Governmental Relations 4 > Educational Technology 4 > Leadership for Diversity 5 > Web Pathways 6 > Northern Notes 7 > Southern Snippets 8 > Calendar 9 > Deadlines and Editors 9
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February is the month For building connectionsFebruary is a month for looking at relationships. The California School Library Association does not stand alone as an entity. CSLA forges partner-ships with the California Department of Education (through Barbara Jeffus, CSLA Past-President and CDE Liaison). The CSLA presidents (Connie Williams-President Elect, Martha Rowland-Immediate Past President, and Sandra Yoon-President) along with John McGinnis (VP-Government Relations) will visit CDE once again this year. Barbara sets up meetings with various departments within CDE. This year the agenda includes meetings
with the Ed. Tech staff, the Professional Development Division, The Curriculum Frameworks & Instructional Resources Division (Tom Adams and Susan Martimo, CSLA Past-President), and the CTC. CSLA also keeps open the communication lines between other state organizations such as the California Teachers’ Association and the national library organizations: the American Association of School Librarians and the American Library Association. All three of these entities sent their presi-dents to the annual CSLA conference in Ontario. These bonds of partnerships and alliances assist in the ongoing livelihood of the organization. The members of CSLA are also part of the equation for a strong association. Each member contributes their own unique signature to workshops, events, conferences, and the strengths that they bring to CSLA. Section workshops strengthen relation-ships between members and the state organization. Check out the opportunities to increase your knowledge at the various events held by the sections of CSLA. Perhaps it is also the time for you to consider the relationships and/or partnerships that a school library creates with its school site, volunteers, and community resources. Is there just one parent who arrives early to pick up a student and is interested in shelving some books for the school library? Is there just one administrator who really listens to the needs of the school library media center? Is there a local Rotary Club or Kiwanis group that needs to have a literacy focus as part of their mission statement?
The relationships that support school libraries also continue at the school site level. February is a great month for highlighting individuals and/or groups that have contributed to the school library. Create a bulletin board thanking these people and clubs for all that they have shared with your school library. The time that it takes to showcase these outstanding people and groups will be repaid back to the library in additional hours and funds to continue to provide the best service to students.
Another event in February is February 1st when the California Young Reader Medal Committee announces the nominees for the new cycle (www.californiayoungreadermedal.org). Here is the per-fect opportunity to finalize the activities and voting procedures for students as they participate in the democratic process of selecting their favorite title in each category from last year’s list. California students vote in the thousands for this state-wide event. Encourage students to read these high-quality books as part of their recreational reading.
Use the month of February to enjoy the relationships that support a strong school library and a ver-satile state organization! Sandra Yoon, CSLA President
Volume 31 Number 6 February 2008
February is a great month for
highlighting individuals and/or groups that have
contributed to the school library.
Newsletter
What’s Inside
> President’s Message 1> CA Dept of Education 3> Curriculum 3> Governmental Relations 4> Educational Technology 4> Leadership for Diversity 5> Web Pathways 6 > Northern Notes 7> Southern Snippets 8> Calendar 9> Deadlines and Editors 9
CSLA Newsletter, February 20082
Linda Jewett, retiring CSLA Executive Director, receives a gift from Sandra Yoon at the CSLA Executive Board meeting on January 19, in honor of Linda’s service to the association.
Doug Macomber, Vice President, Communications, and Judy Johnson, CSLA’s new Office Secretary, share a laugh with Linda about the other gifts she receives.
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CSLA Newsletter, February 20083
ca dePartment oF education
state of education ~By Barbara Jeffus, CDE Liaison
On a cold, wet January morning, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction delivered his annual address on the state of education to an auditorium filled with legislators, educa-
tors, and invited guests. Superintendent O’Connell expressed that for each of us in education, EVERY year is the Year of Education. “Thank you to the people we never read about in all the stories about school takeovers, budget cuts, or test scores. Thank you to the teachers, the para-educators, and the administrators. Thank you to the bus drivers, the school board members, the nurses, the parents, and the students who work hard every day to help improve public education.” And to that, I add a thank you to the teacher librarians and classified library employees who work to improve school library programs for California students. Superintendent O’Connell pointed to successes like the 442,000 more California students who are reading proficiently, just in the past four years. Or the 50-percent increase in low-income students who are taking Advanced Placement exams, over just the past four years. My library ears perked up at the mention of collecting and shar-ing information. O’Connell unveiled the beginning of a bridge across education system called Brokers of Expertise. It will begin with Taking Center Stage II, or TCSII — pronounced “T-C-S-2”, a valuable Web-based tool for middle school educators, bringing research, best prac-tices, and a forum for sharing through a dynamic Web portal available 24/7. TCSII will premier at the California League of Middle Schools annual conference, February 29, 2008. Sign up for the TCSII listserv to stay informed of training events and updates to the Web portal designed specifically for middle level educators at http://pubs.cde.ca.gov/TCSII. And for educators throughout California, O’Connell officially launched Closing the Achievement Gap: Achieving Success for All Studentsa Web site created by the California Department of Education in partnership with WestEd and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The site was created to make sure there is a central hub for the latest research, ideas, and success stories on closing the achieve-ment gap. Don’t these two sites sound like good library home page links? O’Connell concluded, “In a very real and very practical way, edu-cating every student to high standards is about the future success of our Golden State. The goal of closing the achievement gap demands a kind of focused desire. It calls for a willingness to change, to be bold, and to try new ideas.” For a podcast and links, see http://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/se/yr08soe.asp.
curriculum
good ideas! 2008~By Julie Zurek, Curriculum Committee
Applications for Good Ideas! 2008 are due April 18, 2008. Good Ideas! is published each fall by the CSLA Curriculum Commit-tee and contains exemplary projects and ideas for administra-
tors, teachers, the PTA, and school boards. The theme for 2008 will continue to be “World Class Teaching and Standards.” Information and application materials are available at www.CSLA.net. Click Publica-tions in the menu bar, then click the Good Idea! link. Scroll down to Good Ideas! Theme, 2008, and click the 2008_Good_Ideas_Applica-tion.pdf link. The purpose of Good Ideas! is to educate California administrators and other decision-makers about the educational value of strong school library programs. Good Ideas! emphasizes the positive impact of school libraries and the role of credentialed Teacher-Librarians in student learning. Everyone who is a credentialed Teacher-Librarian (former ter-minology was Library Media Teacher) at any grade level and a current member of CSLA is eligible to apply. The Good Ideas! application is so easy to complete! We do not even require that you write in complete sentences; outline format is acceptable. You just need to describe one of your collaboratively planned library media units of instruction or lessons, tell how it suc-cessfully met the information literacy standards in CSLA’s Standards and Guidelines for Strong School Libraries, and list the state content standards met. This year the application will also include a request that you write up your lesson/program in the CSLA Standards in Action format or answer a series of questions which will enable the Curriculum Committee to rewrite your lesson in that format. Then, provide an outline of your lesson plan, give a brief description of your school site, and you are set to go! Almost any collaborative lesson that you do is bound to qualify since what we all do, day in and day out, is try to ensure that students are efficient and effective users of informa-tion. (Standard 1) Just make sure that you add the standards for the content area and align them with the lesson or unit and complete the entire application! The most difficult part of the process is finding pictures to submit if you are selected. Just start taking pictures now. You will be surprised how useful they will prove for others projects, too. They can always be used at Open House! So get out those lesson plans, match them to the standards, take some pictures, and send in your application! If you have any questions, please contact the Good Ideas! 2008 editor, Julie Zurek, at [email protected] or [email protected].
CSLA Newsletter, February 20084
goVernmental relations
day in the district ~By Crystal Miranda, Legislation Committee
Did you have the opportunity to visit with your legislators on one of our Days in the District? If you did, this day provided the opportunity to put a positive, enthusiastic, optimistic
face on school libraries. In spite of the budget woes affecting the state, teacher librarians are still providing students with resources and instruc-tion as well as the answer to the age-old question, “Do you have any other books like……?” It is never a bad time to give good news. The American Association of School Librarians has recently published new “Standards for the 21st-Century Learner” that commence with Common Belief #1 – Reading is a window to the world. Does it get any better than that?!If you haven’t read them yet, the standards are available for download at: http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/learningstandards/standards.cfm Does your library publish a newsletter? Your district library services office? Are there articles about Author Days, Teen Read Week activi-ties, scavenger hunts, contests, book reviews, and bibliographies? These are all good news, all positive, all promoting ways in which school libraries contribute to student learning – share these! Did your local school library association buy the ALA READ poster software like mine did? What legislator wouldn’t love to have a READ poster of himself displayed in either his office or in your library? Are you really brave? Could you invite a legislator to your library? They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Picture this: 6th grade History/Social Science class; Ancient Egypt research project. One group of students is researching on the computers using (hopefully!) an online database. One group is perusing the library’s print resources before deciding on a topic. Yet another group is examining the arti-fact kit on display. Nothing extraordinary – just what happens in the library everyday.
Get out there and share the good news!
educational technology
rss: helping to improve our information efficiency
~By Tom Kaun, Technology Committee
How did we learn anything before there was a World Wide Web? It’s hard to believe that only ten years ago we were just playing around with finding stuff online and trying to make
information available to our students and staff in the most efficient way possible—which really wasn’t very efficient at all given the tsunami-like nature of information on the Internet. Then in 1999 a way of helping to deal with this deluge was devel-oped called RSS. According to the PC Magazine Encyclopedia (www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/), “RSS [Really Simple Syndication] is the acronym used to describe the de facto standard for the syndication of Web content. A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for ‘Rich Site Summary’ and ‘RDF Site Summary.’” “According to FaganFinder.com, “[w]hen a website has an RSS feed, it is said to be ‘syndicated.’ There are various other syndication formats besides RSS (such as Atom), but RSS is by far the most widely used and supported today.” “RSS is Santa Claus content, delivered to you by the postal carrier, via your own personal remote control ordering system.” –Bill Flitter (Pheedo) The reason I use RSS feeds is to keep up (or try to keep up) with blogs and other Web pages as they add or change content. My real breakthrough in using RSS came when I discovered iGoogle, the personalized webpage system provided by Google. I had earlier used Yahoo’s personal page and had also used Bloglines RSS reader when I set up a blog there. The reason I like iGoogle is that I can set up tabs which list my RSS feeds by topic. Most of the ones I pay attention to regularly are related to library, education and technology issues. I have a separate page for news and political blogs and another one for eBooks and related sites. Believe it or not, I’m now following over 60 blogs using my iGoogle page. Not all change every day but when I’m really paying attention I generally look at the page at least a couple times a week and often several times a day since there are a lot to read. Generally, it’s pretty easy to set up feeds. Google has two protocols, one of which puts all the feeds in one list (Google Reader) and other of which gives a separate link for each feed (Google Home Page). I prefer the latter because I can see right away which ones have been updated and I’m not wading through a long list (sort of like email) to find a particular blog. To subscribe to a page find the orange icon which has the three little arcs that looks like a wave being transmitted and, depending on the feed you have made your default, verify that you want to subscribe. Many web browsers, including Firefox and IE, show that little icon when you’re on a page which provides an RSS feed and you can click on that to subscribe easily. If you have any questions about how to go about setting up an RSS feed I’d be glad to help. Just email me at [email protected] or call me at work (415 945-3662). I’ve made a list of some of the blogs and other pages I subscribe to in the webliography for this issue of the CSLA Newsletter.
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CSLA Newsletter, February 20085
leadershiP For diVersity
a brand new World ~By Grace R. Hernández, LFD Committee
The holiday rush is over now. With renewed determination our 2008 resolutions are being put to the test. Will we eat more healthy foods, finally lose weight, or keep the garage clean?
One can only hope! Yes, we have our personal goals in mind, but we may also be thinking of our professional goals. Perhaps, we are reflect-ing on how we can better serve the needs of our students this year in a way that acknowledges their individuality. It may be time to pose some questions. Are we providing our students with library collections that embrace their own unique differences? Are we teaching and challeng-ing them to accept differences in others? As teacher-librarians we are entrusted with this great privilege, one that relies on our expertise in searching out multi-media selections that make our libraries the nexus for common ground. Much has been discussed regarding the need for materials that address diversity regarding culture or ethnicity. We have been respond-ing to this particular need. How does our collection reflect the other diversities like different socio-economic levels, age, gender, spirituality, physical, mental, emotional disabilities, different learning needs, or any other issues? We are not only the keepers of knowledge, but also the trusted adults who can help them understand themselves and others simply by providing and recommending these easily accessible resources. Books, in particular, offer our students non-threatening avenues of awareness that help them know that what is happening to them has happened to others. Libraries offer peace of mind for readers to realize that they are normal and O.K. while sensitizing them to the strife others may face due to their differences. It is our mutual basic human needs that bind us together. Libraries allow space for this growth to be cultivated. In striving to understand needs and differences, perhaps our students may reach adulthood as well-adjusted, caring people willing to listen, respect, and accept those around them. Imagine how our world would be then! We, library media teachers, may help bring about this outcome for our students in the safety of our libraries. In order to make this hap-pen, we must find the courage to take the challenge and lead the way to equity and healthier school communities.
calling all applicants!This is the time to consider applications for CSLA Scholarships or Awards. Please visit the CSLA Web site for details on these exciting opportunities. The deadline for all awards and scholar-ships is April 30! Remember, you can nominate your colleagues, or yourself for any and all of the awards and scholarships.
csla awards Innovation Award:• Provides $1,000 for a school library in California that has an exemplary program which demonstrates the role that the school library plays in fostering learning.Administrative Leadership Award:• Honors administrators with direct responsibility for a school or group of schools, who have made influential, unique, and sustained contributions to effective school library programs. Technology Award:• Recognizes a CSLA member who is cre-dentialed for School Library Media Services, working at the site level, who is making a significant contribution to the use, promotion, and integration of educational technology with the teaching program. The award is a stipend of $1,000. President’s Award:• A $1,000 award presented to an out-standing library media teacher who, through the library pro-gram, directly affects students and teachers. Nominations may be made by library peers, administrators, teachers, or by the nominee. Honorary Membership Award:• Recognizes retired members of CSLA who have made outstanding contributions to school library programs and the Association over a sustained period of time. Individual active members may make nominations.
csla scholarships and grantsAbove and Beyond Scholarship:• A $1,000 scholarship awarded to a library media teacher who is pursuing an advanced degree or National Board Certification. DEMCO/Betty Barkema Grant:• a $5,000 grant for an outstanding library. Can be used for furniture, supplies, and/or promotional materials necessary to create a stimulating learning environment.John Blanchard Memorial Scholarship• : a $1,000 scholar-ship to assist a library paraprofessional in obtaining prepara-tion needed to qualify and serve as a library media teacher.Leadership for Diversity Scholarship:• Recognizing the need for library media teachers who reflect the diversity of California’s multicultural and multilingual population, this $1,500 scholarship is awarded to an individual enrolled in a college or university library media teacher preparation program.
northern sectionJewel Gardiner Memorial Scholarship:• Awarded to an outstanding student in a library media teacher credential program.
southern sectionLibrary Media Teacher Scholarship: • Awarded to an outstanding student in a library media teacher credential program.Paraprofessional Scholarship: • Awarded to a library parapro-fessional working toward a library paraprofessional certificate or a teaching credential, with the ultimate goal of obtaining a teaching credential.
CSLA Newsletter, February 20086
Web PathWays oF the month
some (essential) blogs for your rss Feeder ~By Tom Kaun, Technology Committee
http://why-we-like-the-social-web.blogspot.com/ Why we like Web 2.0 set up by Anne Collier, who runs NetFamilyNews to counter The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture, by Andrew Keen.
http://browsingisntsurfing.blogspot.com/ Our very own Steve Grant’s blog for School Library Learning 2.0
http://ddc.typepad.com/ “Everything you always wanted to know about the Dewey Decimal Classification® system but were afraid to ask ...”
http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/ David Warlick’s blog about information technology. What—you don’t know who David Warlick is? Check it out.
http://blogs.ala.org/aasl.php AASL blog provides a place for members to share news and other info.
http://beyond-school.org/ A rather irreverent blog from a teacher at an international school in Seoul. Author quote: “I hate schooliness. I love learning.”
http://www.doug-johnson.com/dougwri/ Doug Johnson has been the Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato Public Schools since 1991 and this blog is part of his extensive website.
http://freerangelibrarian.com/ K.G. Schneider’s blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else.
http://iasl.wordpress.com/ The blog of the International Association of School Librarianship (whose conference will be held at UC Berkeley this summer).
http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/ “News and resources on Library 2.0 and the information revolution written by Ellyssa Kroski.” Part of the Online Education Database.
http://infodoodads.com/ “infodoodads is a blog that reviews and discusses existing and new tools, services, and technology for finding information on the internet. What kind of information? Any kind. The writers behind infodoodads love to learn and find information, and every day new tools are being created and unveiled that help people find, sort, and interact with information.”
http://mrniceguy.org/ I love this guy. This is a podcast feed. If you’ve never listened to a podcast you could do worse than by listening to this hilarious guy for a start. He’s a librarian but has also worked as a radio show host—and it shows.
http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/ This blog maintainted by Sheila Webber (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK) and Stuart Boon (no info) keep an international eye on the topic.
http://www.librarything.com/thingology/ This is the blog of the LibraryThing website.
http://csriu.wordpress.com/ Nancy Willard is the guru of everything having to do with Internet safety in schools and libraries. She’s affiliated with the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use.
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/ Joyce Valenza’s blog has migrated to the School Library Journal website.
http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com/ The blog of School Library Activities Media Monthly.
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/blog/ One of several search engine blogs, this one is maintained by Greg R. Notess, a writer and speaker who has been researching and covering Internet information resources since 1990.
http://cslaresearchupdate.blogspot.com/ Timely, searchable briefings about research that can impact teacher librarians.
CSLA Newsletter, February 20087
northern notes
thanks, amy....~By Barb Scheifler, Northern Section Editor
Our members are all ever vigilant and that goes, particularly, for Amy Linden, LMT, Nevada Union and Bear River HS, Grass Valley. Her letter appeared
in CTA Educator, November, 2007. Her entire letter is printed below as a model and example of all of us. Thanks, Amy... “As a longtime member of CTA, as well as a credentialed library media teacher, I have often been disappointed by the magazine’s omission of the contributions of credentialed library staff. Your recent article “The Information Age” (Sept. 2007) is one such example. The picture painted by this article is void of those information and technology specialists who often have the most experience with technology on their school campus. In California schools, that have made it a priority to hire cre-dentialed library staff, LMT’s provide students with a vital link to technology through instruction in computer applications, evaluation of Internet sites, best Internet search techniques, and how to use online resources without plagiarizing. Through our library Web pages, many of use host student blogs or wikis that enable students to become part of a network of students who comment and share ideas on popular books, library-spon-sored clubs and activities or great book reviews to advise their fellow students what to read next. Our library media centers are often the only place on campus where students can access computers, printers, scanners, digital cameras and other educa-tional technology resources before, during and after the school day. Of course, cTA members would not be aware of the con-tributions LMT”s make unless they were fortunate enough to teach at on e of the only 25% or so of Calif. schools that have a credentialed LMT on staff. Please represent me, CTA, and spread the good world about the fabulous educational contri-butions made by credentialed library staff in our state!”
Photographers!
Don’t forget to bring a digital camera to CSLA events such as meetings and workshops and send them in to: [email protected] or send in digital pictures from activities in your library. Include a caption explaining to explain the picture. (Please be sure to get permission from people in the photos, especially written permission if students are included!
call For ProPosalscsla conFerence 2008
noVember 20-23, 2008
sacramento conVention center
The 2008 Annual Conference theme this year is “School Libraries Make Connections” and we are looking for professionals, paraprofessionals, exhibitors, and friends of school libraries (mem-bers and non-members) to submit proposals for concurrent sessions. We are interested in ses-sions covering a wide variety of topics, including Web 2.0 tools, book talks, digital photography, audio books, e-books, parent-student book clubs, collaborative projects with classroom teachers across the curriculum at all grade levels, tips and tricks to help new personnel, intellectual free-dom, and other issues that impact school library personnel and patrons.
If you would like to submit a proposal to present a 60-minute concurrent session at this year’s conference, you must complete the online form (http://lime.forest.net/schoollibrary/conf2008_call/FMPro?-db=program07.fp5&-lay=Proposal&-format=new.htm&-view) by March 15, 2008. You will be notified by the end of May whether your proposal has been accepted.
CSLA Newsletter, February 20088
southern sniPPets
annual spring Workshop~By Brandy Major, Southern Section Editor
Please join the Southern Section for our annual Spring Workshop on Saturday, March 1, at Santiago High School in Corona. The theme is “Fill Your Bucket with School Library Ideas.” Check-in and continen-tal breakfast begin at 8:30 a.m., with the opening session at 9:00 a.m. The day will conclude at approximately 2:00 p.m. Lunch is included.
We are delighted to have Barbara Jeffus, School Library Consultant from the California Department of Education, as our special guest speaker. Those of you who have heard Barbara speak know she will have a dynamic message for workshop attendees, and for those of you who have never heard her speak, this is your chance!
Here is a sample of the concurrent sessions planned at the workshop:
• “TeachingLibraryResearch:TheBasicsandBeyond”• “Lights,Camera,Action!VideoconferencingforProfessional Communities of Practice”• “FillYourBucketwithDiversity:WorkingwithStudentsfrom Poverty”• “CaliforniaYoungReaderMedal”• “Web2.0Tools”• “TheLibrarian’sGuidetoManga”• Library2.0• LegislationUpdate• Advocacy• ParaprofessionalRoundtable• ANDMORE!
Registration is now open, both online and by mail, and the deadline is February 20, 2008• CSLAProfessionalMembers:$35.00• CSLAParaprofessionalMembers:$30.00• CSLAAssociate/Student/FriendMembers:$30.00• Non-Members:$60.00
After February 20, registration will be done on-site only at Santiago High School on March 1, for an additional $10.
Complete registration information is available through the CSLA Web Site. We look forward to seeing you at Santiago High School on Saturday, March 1.
Who says boys Won’t read? Prove them Wrong!
Southern Section Region 1 will be hosting “Scary, Gross and Enlightening: Books for Boys” workshop on February 23 in Bakersfield.
Join Deborah Ford, international speaker and award winning media specialist, as we talk about new books that boys will read—books that are funny, action-packed, trivia-filled, and gross. Learn about strate-gies that will get boys reading and writing with enthusiasm as well. Participants will receive a handout of the newest 2007 titles for boys—and other reluctant readers.
This workshop will be held at Golden Valley High School Library, 901 Hosking Ave., Bakersfield CA from 9:00-11:00 am. Refreshments will be provided.
The workshop is FREE to CSLA Members; nonmember workshop fee is $25. The registration deadline is February 17, 2008.
This workshop has limited seating, so be sure to register early.
Email registration:To register, send name, school name, position, daytime and evening phone numbers to Dawn Dobie, Workshop co-chair, at [email protected] Please indicate whether you are a CSLA member or not. Payment by nonmembers can be made at the door the day of the workshop. Only preregistered attendees will be allowed to pay at the door.
Questions? Email Dawn or call her at 661-834-0789 (evening); 661-395-4821 (work).
CSLA Newsletter, February 20089
informationCalifornia School Library Association Newsletter, the official publication of the California School Library Association, is published ten times a year and sent to all members.
membership:Professional ($100), Associate ($45), Paraprofessional ($45), Students ($45), Commercial ($100), Institutional ($125), Sustaining ($500).
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deadlineAll material for the next issue of the CSLA Newsletter should be sent to: Susan Maass ([email protected]) by February15th, 2008.
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Volume 31 Number 6 February 2008
Calendar Click here to visit CSLA’s online calendar page >>>
editorial board
Susan Maass CSLA State Editor [email protected] Barbara Scheifler Northern Section Editor [email protected] Brandy Major Southern Section Editor [email protected]
Column Contributors:
Sarah Bosler Curriculum Committee [email protected]
Jane LoftonCurriculum Committee [email protected]
Grace HernandezLeadership for Diversity Committee [email protected]
Crystal MirandaGovernmental Relations [email protected]
Barbara JeffusCDE Liaison [email protected]
Sandy SchuckettCTA Liaison [email protected]
Richard K. Moore Public Relations [email protected]
Lesley Farmer Technology Committee [email protected]
Office:
CSLA Sacramento Office [email protected]
CSLA’s web site address www.csla.net
February 2, 2008 SS Board Meeting, San Diego
February 9, 2008NS Board Meeting NS Region 1 Workshop:“Books – Pick Them & Promote Them”
February 23. 2008 SS Region 1 Workshop:“Boys and Books”
March TBA, 2008 NS Google Workshop
March 1, 2008 SS Spring Workshop, San Diego:“Fill Your Bucket with School Library Ideas”
March 8, 2008 State Board Meeting, Sacramento
April TBA, 2008 SS Region 2 Workshop:“Technology and Collaborative Research”
April 12, 2008 NS Board Meeting
May 3, 2008State Board Meeting, Sacramento SS Region 5 Workshop, San Diego
May 17, 2008NS Board Meeting SS Board MeetingNS Region 2 Workshop:“Celebrate the Gold”
August 15-16, 2008 State Board Meeting, Sacramento
August TBA, 2008 NS Region 3 Workshop:“Library Summer Camp for Paraprofessionals”
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