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Maintaining Access:

Maintaining Access:. How to Adapt to Budget Cuts in School Libraries and Media Centers. Broad Outlook:.

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  1. Maintaining Access: How to Adapt to Budget Cuts in School Libraries and Media Centers

  2. Broad Outlook: “While the current economic climate has resulted in an unexpected reversal of the previous decade’s declining demand for libraries and librarians, the most brutal economic downturn since the great depression is making their survival questionable. Even more ironic is the idea that the conditions that led to the recent recession provide strong justifications for the critical necessity of libraries.” –Michael Germano (2011)

  3. Broad Outlook Cont. • What is cut? • Hours • Part-time staff • Some library buildings • Grants • What increases? • Need for technology (job searchers) • Need for computer skills • Free facility and programming • Library budgets can be broken down into three categories: • Salaries and wages • Collections • Other expenditures (technology, utilities, furniture, consortia fees, etc.) Largest section of budget is salaries and wages. Public libraries: 65.5% of budget Academic libraries: 49.3% (Davis, 2008)

  4. K-12 Schools and Budget Cuts: • What gets cut? • Staff • Hours • Library/Media Centers close • Librarians reassigned to classrooms • Librarians spread across multiple school • Consequences: • Librarians and Media Specialist stretched thin • Students lose access • Loss of contact between students and Media Specialists • Instructional time lost • Relevancy placed in jeopardy • Decrease or loss of collection and professional development

  5. Value to Education: • Why are Media Specialists important to education? • Information overload • Research skills, citations, etc. • Technology skills • Aiding teachers “The teacher-librarian is a learning specialist who ‘speaks the language of curriculum and its various dialects of reading, social studies, science, and whatever curricular program is popular.’ (de Groot 2009)

  6. Value to Education • Susan La Marca (2005) • Attitude, Access, and Ambience • Value of the Media Center: • Access to current, quality, extensive, and high-interest collection • Certified librarian enthusiastic about reading/booktalking • Create opportunity specifically designed to engage reading • Creates school environment where reading is encouraged, valued, & promoted http://www.andertoons.com/cartoon-blog/tag/education

  7. Value to Education Cont. • Keith Curry Lance & colleagues: Colorado Department of Education’s Library Research Service • Conducted studies in Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Alaska • Across the board results • “A strong library media program helps students learn more and score higher on standardized achievement tests than their peers in library impoverished school.” • (Hamilton-Pennell, 2000) • Example: • In Alaska schools with strong libraries 86% scored proficient in reading as opposed to 73% in library impoverished schools

  8. Plan of action Denise B. Geier (2007) Build a constituency to come to your defense Publicity- PTA, school newsletter, local newspaper School-wide programs and incentives Report to administration Make sure teachers see you as resource Make library the hub of school Make connections

  9. Plan of action Kristin Fontichiaro (2008) Don’t play blame game Don’t bad mouth Take lead in restructuring Help teachers transition Grow your program Professional development Take care of yourself! https://corporate.target.com/corporate-responsibility/education/schools

  10. Other Suggestions • Custom screen savers featuring student-recommended books • Have student aides to help prepare for shelving • Parent volunteers • Create electronic bookshelves • Grant writing • Prepare “elevator/grocery line” speech http://www.sps.lane.edu/domain/14

  11. ATTITUDE! ACCESS! AMBIENCE! Remember why you are a school librarian/media specialist: You are “connecting students with books and instilling a love of reading, reaching children to become independent critical thinkers, and creating an active learning lab for all ages.” (Edwards, 2012) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming

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  13. Bibliography De Groot, J., & Branch, J. (2009). Solid Foundations: A Primer on the Crucial, Critical, and Key Roles of School and Public Libraries in Children's Development. Part of a special issue, Important to us all: school libraries and LIS research, 58(1), 51-62. doi: 10.1353/lib.0.0066 Edwards, B. b. n. k. o. u. (2012). CAN-DO. Knowledge Quest, 40(3), 54-57. Fontichiaro, K. (2008). Staffing Has Been Cut...Now What Do You Do? School Library Monthly, 24(8), 28-30. Fontichiaro, Kristin. It’s About you. but it isn’t. or why budgets are like shark tank. January 21, 2010. School Library Monthly blog. (October 10, 2013). Retrieved from http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com/index.php/2010/01/21/its-about-you-but-it-isnt-or- whybudget-cuts-are-like-shark-tank/. Gaiman, Neil. October 14, 2013. Lecture for The Reading Agency. Neil Gaiman: why our future depends on libraries, reading, and daydreaming. The Gaurdian. October 15, 2013. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman- future-libraries-reading-daydreaming.

  14. Bibliography Continued Geier, D. B. (2007). Prevent a Disaster in Your Library: Advertise. Library Media Connection, 25(4), 32-33. Germano, M. (2011). The library value deficit. Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances, 24(2), 100-106. doi: 10.1108/08880451111169124 Goldberg, B. (2005). WHY SCHOOL LIBRARIES WON'T BE LEFT BEHIND. (cover story). American Libraries, 36(8), 38-41. Hamilton-Pennell, C., Lance, K. C., & Rodney, M. J. (2000). Dick and Jane go to the head of the class. studies in Alaska, Pennsylvania and Colorado demonstrate importance of school libraries, 46(4), 44-47. Ishizuka, K. (2003). School Libraries Struggle With Layoffs. School Library Journal, 49(2), 18. La Marca, S. (2005). The Three ‘A’s: Attitude, Access and Ambience. New Review of Children's Literature & Librarianship, 11(1), 87-109. doi: 10.1080/13614540500105628 LaRue, J. (2010). Tough Times and Eight Ways to Deal with Them. American Libraries, 41(1/2), 16-17. Moyer, L. S. (2005). Library funding in a budget-cut world. Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances, 18(3), 112- 115. doi: 10.1108/08880450510613560 Olson, R., & Meyer, R. (1995). Cincinnati school librarians to be reassigned, district announces. School Library Journal, 41(5), 12. School Library Media Specialists In Budget Crunches, Fight for Jobs. (1975). School Library Journal, 22(2), 62.

  15. Bibliography Continued Burnette II, Daarel. December 11, 2010. Star Tribune. (October 10, 2013). Retrieved from http://www.startribune.com/local/east/111702274.html. Images: http://www.sps.lane.edu/domain/14 http://www.andertoons.com/cartoon-blog/tag/education http://www.cleveland.com/sun/all/index.ssf/2013/04/its_national_library_week_edit.html https://corporate.target.com/corporate-responsibility/education/schools

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