Catch the 8-minute audio clip (first on Part II of the program) on the closure of libraries in the LA Unifed School District and in the UK from last night's As It Happens (CBC Radio). UK author and playwright Alan Bennett calls such closures "child abuse."
VESTA's Nan, thanks for bringing this clip to my attention and sharing. How do you like my blog? Catch up on more library news here!
"Libraries Face Growing Demand for e-Books"
Janet Steffenhagen's Report Card blog, May 24, examines the struggles and complications that delivering e-books provides for both libraries and publishing companies. Interesting dimension of this consideration: "The most popular titles feature romance and passion, including Harlequin Romance."
Read more: Click here.
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
LAUSD Doubts that Seasoned Teacher-Librarians Can Teach
By Beverly Goldberg, "US & World News," American Libraries Magazine, May 18, 2011
“There’s no better use of limited funds than paying attorneys to harass educators who’ve devoted their lives to helping our children,” Bennett Tramer of Santa Monica, California, said in a letter published May 17 in the Los Angeles Times. A tongue-in-cheek response to the May 13 Hector Tobar column, “The Disgraceful Interrogation of L.A. School Librarians,” the letter concluded: “I also applaud the valuable presence of armed police officers at the hearings; you never know when a librarian will pull out a book and start reading." Read more ...
“There’s no better use of limited funds than paying attorneys to harass educators who’ve devoted their lives to helping our children,” Bennett Tramer of Santa Monica, California, said in a letter published May 17 in the Los Angeles Times. A tongue-in-cheek response to the May 13 Hector Tobar column, “The Disgraceful Interrogation of L.A. School Librarians,” the letter concluded: “I also applaud the valuable presence of armed police officers at the hearings; you never know when a librarian will pull out a book and start reading." Read more ...
Read also LA Times Letters to the Editor for letters in support of the teacher-librarians who find themselves inexplicably accused of the crime of not being real teachers!
For your critical consideration: If TLs (mostly women) are viewed as non-essential in education because they are being replaced by Google and Wikipedia, their jobs have been lost to young men and to the valuing of technology skills over teaching and learning, reading and the requisite skills for thinking critically about information, and over caring about kids. Could it be that gender is the real issue here? ME
Behind student success, an LAUSD librarian
Rosemarie Bernier, an LAUSD teacher-librarian facing layoff, teaches students to go beyond textbooks and "learn to stand on the shoulders of the great scientists, philosophers and mathematicians." Read more ...
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