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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A request from the American Library Association.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Pamela J. Hickson-Stevenson, Ohio Chapter Councilor to ALA and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Deputy Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Akron-Summit County Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">60 S. High Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Akron, OH 44326<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">(v) 330-643-9102<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">(f ) 330-643-9160<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Visit us on the Web at</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#1E1EE0">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#E36C0A"><a href="http://www.akronlibrary.org/"><span style="color:#E36C0A">http://www.akronlibrary.org</span></a>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#1E1EE0"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">or on our Mobile Site at</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#1E1EE0">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#E36C0A"><a href="http://m.akronlibrary.org/"><span style="color:#E36C0A">http://m.akronlibrary.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#E36C0A">The Akron-Summit County Public Library provides resources for learning and leisure, information services, meeting spaces, and programs for all ages that support,
improve, and enrich individual, family, and community life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Don Wood [mailto:dwood@ala.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 09, 2015 10:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> alacro-l@lists.ala.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [alacro-l] Call for School Libraries Today<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Please send to any of your lists<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">URGENT: If you support school libraries, NOW is the time (not later, not tomorrow, but RIGHT NOW) to contact your Senator to help save them. We won’t have a better chance
than this for years. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Senate HELP Committee will begin voting on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) on Tuesday, April 14 at 10 am. School libraries are NOT already included in
that bill, so we need to pass an amendment to fix that. Even our paltry Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) funding has been cut. Senator Whitehouse (D-RI) has agreed to offer an amendment calling for an effective school library program to be part of
the bill…..but he needs at least 13 votes to prevail in the Committee. Your Senator is on that Committee and we badly need them to be one of those 13. Unless you ask Your Senator for their vote, we won’t get it and NOW is the time….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Call your Senator right now. Ask whoever answers for the “education staffer.” Tell them, or their voice mail if necessary, how important school librarians are to students’
education and that the Senator needs to tell Senator Whitehouse NOW that they will support his “school library amendment” to ESEA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">PLEASE CALL NOW and get anybody else who cares about school libraries or education in your state to call as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you are from the following states, you need to call this Senator NOW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tennessee call Senator Alexander at 202-224-4944<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wyoming call Senator Enzi at 202-224-3432<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">North Carolina call Senator Burr at 202-224-3154<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Georgia call Senator Isakson at 202-224-3643<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kentucky call Senator Paul at 202-224-4343<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Maine call Senator Collins at 202-224-2523<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Alaska call Senator Murkowski at 202-244-6665<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Illinois call Senator Kirk at 202-224-2854<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">South Carolina call Senator Scott at 202-224-6121<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Utah call Senator Hatch at 202-224-5251<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kansas call Senator Roberts at 202-224-4774<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Louisiana call Senator Cassidy at 202-224-5824<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Washington call Senator Murray at 202-224-2621<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Maryland call Senator Mikulski at 202-224-4654<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Vermont call Senator Sanders at 202-224-5141<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Pennsylvania call Senator Casey at 202-224-6324<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Minnesota call Senator Franken at 202-224-5641<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Colorado call Senator Bennet at 202-224-5852<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Rhode Island call Senator Whitehouse at 202-224-2921<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wisconsin call Senator Baldwin at 202-224-5653<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connecticut call Senator Murphy at 202-244-4041<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Massachusetts call Senator Warren at 202-224-4543<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Talking Points:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Point 1: While reading and books are mainstays of the school library program, today’s effective school library
programs are also sophisticated learning environments that provide the education and necessary skills to succeed in college and the workplace.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Point 2: Across the United States, studies have demonstrated that students in schools with effective school library
programs learn more, get better grades, and score higher on standardized tests than their peers in schools without such resources.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Point 3: NCES data reveals that approximately 8,830 public schools across the nation do not have a school library
and for those schools that do have a library, nearly 17,000 schools do not have a full or part-time state-certified school librarian on staff.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Point 4: Effective school libraries:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">1. Are staffed by a state-certified school librarian;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2. Have up-to-date books, materials, equipment and technology;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">3. Include regular collaboration between classroom teachers and school librarians to assist with development and implementation of the curriculum; and<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">4. Support the development of digital literacy skills.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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