Re: [LM_NET] Skills Act

[Ann Ewbank <Ann.Ewbank@ASU.EDU>]

Dear Colleagues,

If every librarian on this list got one non-librarian to advocate for the SKILLS 
Act by writing their representatives and senators, the message would be ten times 
as powerful. 

Successful advocacy means that people stand up with you and for you. Please 
encourage the following people to write their representatives and senators asking 
them to co-sponsor and/or support the SKILLS Act:

1) Parents. This legislation is about student learning.
2) Teachers. See above.
3) Administrators. See above.
4) Librarians in public and higher education. Student learning impacts how students 
utilize these libraries as well.

A toolkit will be forthcoming from the AASL Taskforce on NCLB within two weeks with 
sample letters written from the point of view of each of these constituencies. In 
the meantime, please distribute the SKILLS Act information to wherever you think is 
necessary. Student learning is germane to quite a few of our colleagues!

Thanks,

Ann Ewbank
Member, AASL Task Force on NCLB
ALA Councilor-at-Large

Ann Dutton Ewbank, Ph.D.
President, Arizona Library Association 
Education Liaison Librarian 
Fletcher Library 
Arizona State University at the West campus 
P.O. Box 37100 
Phoenix, Arizona 85069-7100 
602.543.8527 
Fax 602.543.6500 



Date:    Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:00:11 -0500
From:    Paula Laurita <plaurita@ATHENSLIMESTONE.LIB.AL.US>
Subject: Re: Skills Act

I don't know if it's appropriate to the makeup of those lists, but perhaps
the members of the YALSA and Childlit listservs would be interested?

I sent my representatives emails, but also had my family members from
California, Florida, and New York do the same.  They don't understand all
the ramifications, but they do want to support the librarian in the family.


Paula S.W. Laurita
Coordinator of Public Services
Athens-Limestone Public Library
405 East South Street
Athens, AL 35611
(256)232-1233 Ext. 204 

We have found that a library is not an end in itself, but a means to many
ends.
Charles E. Rush, 1939

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