<div dir="ltr">Big news in the school library world today! I just wanted to share with our public library partners so that we can get the word out.<div><br></div><div>Best-</div><div>Klaudia</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'Bradley Hand ITC'"><font color="#000000" size="4">Klaudia Janek, MLIS</font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="2"><i>School Librarian</i></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="2"><i>IB Extended Essay Coordinator</i></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="2"><i>Michigan Association for Media in Education - 2018 President</i></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font color="#000000" size="2"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i>AASL Region #3 MI Delegate </i></font></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font color="#000000" size="2"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><i><br></i></font></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="2">248 341 5925</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="2"><a href="http://iamediacenter.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://iamediacenter.blogspot.com</a></font><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">International Academy</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1020 East Square Lake Road</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslissues/slm/AASL_SLM2018_banner-1920px.png" width="420" height="52"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Lester, Kathy via Mamelist</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mamelist@mcls.org">mamelist@mcls.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:56 PM<br>Subject: [Mamelist] FW: Bills Require Library in Every Michigan Public School<br>To: mamelist <<a href="mailto:mamelist@mcls.org">mamelist@mcls.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">Please see the forwarded message.<div>Michigan House Reps Darrin Camilleri, Adam Zemke, and Christine Greig introduced bills <i>today</i> to require libraries and school librarians!</div><div><br></div><div>MAME President, Klaudia Janek, asked me to pass this on to everyone.</div><div><br></div><div>The MAME Advocacy Committee will be sending out a call to action soon. We will need everyone's help to support this!</div><div><br></div><div>Feeling excited and blessed...</div><div><br></div><div>All my best to everyone!</div><div>--Kathy</div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="m_-7322103574138432815gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><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 Chair, Past-President 2014</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Michigan Association for Media in Education (MAME)</span></div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px">SIGLIB Steering Committee</i><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr">Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL)</div><div dir="ltr"><i style="font-size:12.8px">School Library Media Specialist / Technology Coach</i></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 2016-2019</i><i><br></i><div>East Middle School, Plymouth-Canton Schools</div><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><span>810.333.5873</span></div><div><span><img src="http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslissues/slm/AASL_SLM2018_468x60.png"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><br>Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 3:15 PM<br>Subject: FW: Bills Require Library in Every Michigan Public School<br>To: "Lester, Kathy" <<a href="mailto:kathyl@mimame.org" target="_blank">kathyl@mimame.org</a>><br><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-7322103574138432815m_2215500087779574091WordSection1">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Legislation comes in response to literacy crisis facing Michigan schools<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">LANSING — State Reps.
<b>Darrin Camilleri </b>(D-Brownstown Township) and <b>Adam Zemke </b>(D-Ann Arbor) and House Democratic Floor Leader
<b>Christine Greig </b>(D-Farmington Hills) introduced a package of bills to require staffed libraries in every public school in Michigan in response to the state’s staggering illiteracy rates and in honor of April as School Library Month.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Every student has a right to read, yet not every public school is required to offer students a library to help
them grow and develop,” said Rep. Camilleri, a former high school social studies teacher. “Even our state’s prisons are required to have a library with a certified librarian.<a href="#m_-7322103574138432815_m_2215500087779574091__ftn1" name="m_-7322103574138432815_m_2215500087779574091__ftnref1" title=""><span class="m_-7322103574138432815m_2215500087779574091MsoFootnoteReference">[1]</span></a>
If we can ensure our state’s prisoners have a library available, surely we can work to provide our state’s young minds with access to this vital resource.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Over the past decade, support for school libraries has fallen throughout the state, with many public schools opting
to use library space for other purposes. Michigan is ranked </span><a href="https://mea.org/loss-of-librarians-hurts-literacy-efforts/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">47th in the nation</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
for its ratio of students to certified librarians or media specialists. As of 2012, only 8 percent of public schools in the state have at least one full-time certified media specialist. At the same time, however, the need for services provided by school libraries
with certified media specialists is growing. In 2017, </span><a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/03/06/michigan-third-grade-reading-decline/111128344/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">56
percent</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> of third-graders failed the reading test included on the state’s assessment.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Michigan is no doubt experiencing a literacy crisis, and it is clear we need to be more creative in our efforts
to reverse this trajectory before it is too late,” said Rep. Zemke, Democratic vice chair of the House Education Reform Committee. “We are at a critical moment in our state when we must choose whether to take significant steps to improve our schools, or face
the consequences of continued educational decline. It is crucial we do all we can to help put our state’s students on a path to success.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Specifically, the three-bill package would do the following:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">House Bill 5909: Require every public school in Michigan to offer a library beginning in the 2018-19 school year that meets certain criteria.
(Rep. Zemke)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">HB 5910: Require a school district board to employ at least one certified media specialist for each school library operated by that district beginning
in the 2018-19 school year. (Rep. Camilleri)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">HB 5911: Require a principle or other appropriate administrator to designate an individual to supervise students in a school library when a certified
media specialist is not present. (Rep. Greig)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“In honor of Reading Month, my colleagues and I spent all of March traveling throughout our districts sharing
our love of reading with students,” Rep. Greig said. “Rather than focusing on reading one month of the year, we must recommit ourselves to providing Michigan’s students with the best literacy resources and instruction possible all year long. We hope our colleagues
will understand the necessity of this legislation and the crisis Michigan’s students are facing, and support this important set of bills.”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Certified school library media specialists provide vital services to their students and school communities. They
are integral to reading, technology integration, and information literacy and have a high impact on student achievement,” said Kathy Lester with the Michigan Association for Media in Education. “I commend Representatives Camilleri, Greig and Zemke for recognizing
that our students deserve equitable access to this essential resource.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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