Sentences with phrase «school library services»

This absence gives little guidance for districts wanting to evaluate school library services and their impact on student achievement.

Having an area wide school library service would actually be a tremendous benefit.

Many schools, facing this severe lack of funding, are reducing or eliminating school library services.

This absence gives little guidance for districts wanting to evaluate school library services and their impact on student achievement.

School library services in a multicultural society.

«In recent months two major school library services closed in Dorset and Berkshire, and year after year the School Library Association loses members as school library provision shrinks through lack of funding.»

The book provides inspiration and guidance for the creation of national school library standards and for the development and use of standards and guidelines to change school library practice, to define the teaching role of school librarians, to guide the initial preparation of school librarians, and to advocate for school library services.

The North Yorkshire school library service aims «to open up a whole new world of opportunities for children to become independent learners with a lifelong appreciation of books and to instil a genuine love of learning».

an audit of a sample of school districts and county offices of education to determine if they are meeting their statutory responsibilities to provide school library services to K - 12 students.

Providing equitable and adequate school library services and instruction has become an issue of social justice, especially when we see that schools in the poorest and most racially diverse communities have the least access to library services (Pribesh, Gavigan, & Dickinson, 2011).

This issue, guest - edited by Lucy Santos Green and Susan Grigsby, offers varied perspectives and conversations on the issues that will impact school library services and the school librarian role in the future.

The standards, which set rules and regulations governing K - 12 school library services, were largely developed by an advisory group made up of school library experts and the California Department of Education that began work more than a year ago.

An article today for The Bookseller highlighted one school library system in the UK, North Yorkshire County, that will be closing its school library service effective March of 2015.

With the acceptance of digital content services like OverDrive, hopefully schools will abandon the notion that they do not share resources, even within their geographic locations, and school library services will continue to grow.

To honor those administrators outside the library profession who, through individual leadership and sustained effort, have made worthy contributions to the operations of effective school library services and to advancing the role of the school library services in the educational program.

In order to change library services, districts must ask permission from the Oklahoma State School Board to deregulate their school library services.

Gibbons also said the loss of the school library service in North Yorkshire was another blow to reading for pleasure.

School library services have closed across the country in recent years, including in Hertfordshire, Kent, Cambridgeshire and Southwark.

A spokesman for the council said: «North Yorkshire County Council's school library service has been a fully traded service for a number of years - ie it relies on schools buying into the service.

North Yorkshire County Council is to close its school library service because not enough schools have subscribed.

The local authority has kept the school library service operational in this way for longer than in other authorities.

Hertfordshire county council has voted through the closure of its school library service.

«Public libraries are closing and professional staff being lost, school library services are closing.

We have a rare and important chance to help students in Washington state get the school library services they need, and for taxpayers to hold the legislature and Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction accountable on delivering their promises.

Click here to share on Facebook and Twitter We have a rare and important chance to help students in Washington state get the school library services they need, and for taxpayers to hold the legislature and Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction accountable on delivering their promises through supporting HB 2695 and SB 6460

This award has been implemented to recognize those administrators, outside the library profession who, through individual leadership and sustained effort, have made worthy contributions to the operations of effective school library services and to advancing the role of the school library in the educational program.