<div dir="ltr">Congratulations! Job well done!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 6:11 AM Lester, Kathy via Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org">michlib-l@mcls.org</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>I am so excited to share the great news that West Maple Elementary in Birmingham Public Schools has been selected as the AASL National School Library of the Year! </div><div><br></div><div>Congratulations to Carrie Betts, School Librarian, at West Maple Elementary School!</div><div>You can find Birmingham Public School's announcement here: <a href="http://bit.ly/3MXj9lb" target="_blank">bit.ly/3MXj9lb</a></div><div>AASL's Press Release is forthcoming.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Disclosure: I did not realize Carrie was applying for this award -- and AASL did not disclose to me that she was a finalist. The AASL National School Library of the Year Committee Chairs - Mary Woodard (Texas) and Phoebe Warmack (Virginia) were able to visit West Maple Elementary and the other finalist library -- New Tazewell Elementary (New Tazewell, TN); </i><i>Blake Hopper,</i><i> -- and lead the NSLY committee in making the decision independent of the AASL Board.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Carrie shared this website giving an overview of West Maple Library:</div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/bps-schools.com/westmaplelibrary/home" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/bps-schools.com/westmaplelibrary/home</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I am so very proud that the NSLY is in Michigan! </div><div>All students in Michigan deserve the equity of access to this type of library.</div><div><br></div><div>Congratulations again to Carrie!</div><div><i><br></i></div><div>All my best,</div><div>--Kathy</div><div><br></div><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"><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 of School Librarians (MASL)</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><i>President, 2022-2023</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><a href="mailto:kathyL@mimasl.org" target="_blank">kathyL@mimasl.org</a></div><div>twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LibraryL" target="_blank">@LibraryL</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-size:x-small">"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></div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b>Stephanie Lawson, MLIS</b><div>(she/her)<br><div>Youth Services Librarian</div><div>White Lake Township Library</div></div></div></div>