| Dear colleagues all over the country, New York State law requires secondary schools to have either a full- or part-time librarian, depending on the population of the school. Many of us in New York state have jobs because of this law. However, many schools in NYC violate these state regulations, as reported in Monday's Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324769704579006604137520932.html and also picked up by the Atlantic Wire: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/08/new-york-city-has-fewer-school-librarians-ever/68217/ Now the NYC Department of Education wants to seek a waiver from the state so that it does not have to staff its schools with librarians. This was just reported on NY1 news two days ago: http://www.ny1.com/content/education/187074/doe-asking-state-to-waive-regulation-requiring-schools-to-employ-librarians So I am writing because there is a petition that was started by Christian Zabriskie, a NYC librarian, that will be sent to Dr. John B. King, New York State Commissioner of Education, to keep librarians in NYC schools. I would like to make you aware of it in case you would like to sign it: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/librarians-belong-in.fb30?source=c.fb&r_by=8579709 Thank you for your support, Patricia ____________________________________________ Patricia Sarles, MA, MLS Librarian Jerome Parker Campus Library 100 Essex Drive Staten Island, NY 10314 718-370-6900 x1322 psarles@schools.nyc.gov http://www.scoop.it/t/help-with-the-common-core-state-standards/ http://paper.li/psarles/1332609247 http://psarles.wikispaces.com http://library.nycenet.edu/common/welcome.jsp?site=6467 To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction ... The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The Purpose of Education There is no fiction or nonfiction area of the Internet. - Alan November |
Monday, August 19, 2013
Action Requested: support for NYC school librarians
Friday, May 31, 2013
Partnership Opportunity with GLSEN Hudson Valley
Librarians in Westchester & Putnam County are invited to a “Think Tank" meeting
Thursday, June 6th from 4-6 pm
320 Birdsall Drive
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
RSVP by June 5 - Mary Jane Karger (mjkarger@gmail.com) or(914) 962-3768
As a current Board Member of the Westchester/Putnam County Sub-Chapter of GLSEN Hudson Valley, I have been working with Mary Jane Karger, Chairperson to find ways that librarians can partner with the work GLSEN does to make schools safe for ALL students, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender expression.
The project idea we are currently working on is a GLSEN Hudson Valley Book Club, based on a “One Book, One Community” model. We would like to partner with school, public and academic librarians throughout the region and are looking for a group of librarians to take the lead in helping us plan!
I would greatly appreciate if you could forward this to all your library friends in our region so that they too can be a part of this awesome initiative! Thank You!
Judy Ashby
Professional Library &
School Library System Coordinator
Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES
200 BOCES Drive
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Phone - (914) 248-2392
Fax - (914) 248 -2419
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