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**Pictures from the workshop on Flickr:** @http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarajohns/sets/72157626241402548/
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Join the grassroots Act4SL (Act 4 School Libraries/Act 4 Student Learning) initiative! Make a difference with school library legislation by using your voice! We're on Facebook, too.
http://act4sl.wikispaces.com/

= NEW and outstanding in 2010! = =L4L Building Level Toolkit: Implementing AASL’s Learning Standards and Program Guidelines in Your School Library= @http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslissues/toolkits/bldnglvl/building.cfm

= Frontline Advocacy for School Libraries Toolkit =

**Based on:**
**Where School Is Cool! Frontline Advocacy for School Libraries Toolkit** includes definitions, strategies, worksheets and checklists, and recommendations for specific activities.


 * Consider joining** the Teacher Librarian Virtual Cafe wiki for

transformative conversations about teacher-librarians, educational technology, and collaborative connections to facilitate meaningful and lifelong learning skills.
American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Advocacy Toolkit @ your library® School Library Campaign [|Toolkit for School Library Media Programs] (available from the ALA store for $5) or can be [|downloaded] for free as a PDF or in Word
 * MORE RESOURCES:**==

Library Advocate’s Handbook (PDF)

The YA Advocacy Action Plan Workbook (PDF)

School Library Systems Advocacy Toolkit

National Council for the Social Studies Toolkit

AASL School Library Program Health and Wellness Toolkit

AASL Crisis Toolkit

[|New York State School Library Media Program Rubric (SLMPE)]

[|Knight Commission Report] (Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age)

School Libraries Count survey and previous years' reports

AASL Parent Outreach Toolkit

It cites five decades of research proving that school libraries help boost student achievement: //School Libraries, Now More than Ever//. Download it from: @http://cissl.scils.rutgers.edu/index.html
 * Position paper from Ross Todd and Carol Gordon from CISSL: **

Instructional Classification Toolkitto support the classification of SLMSs as educators. Minitex: Information and Resource Sharing Program of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the University of Minnesota Libraries. Role of Libraries Pre-K & Beyond: Lifelong Learning

[|RoleLibraries.pdf] **Horizon Report on K-12 Education** [|2010-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf]

//**From ALA and NYLA:**//

 * **LEGISLATIVE ACTION CENTER- direct link to contact your Senator: []**


 * **Add It Up** Research and statistics to help advocates make the case for libraries at every stage of youth development and education.


 * **Advocating in a Tough Economy Toolkit** includes talking points, outreach activities, checklists, and resources.


 * **School Library Funding Press Kit** includes links to Google Map of library cuts, current news/articles, tweets, etc., plus talking points to use.


 * **State of America's Libraries Report 2010:** School Libraries.


 * **Value of Libraries. Includes links to articles, resources, and calculation tables. **


 * [|NYLA's Capwiz] for advocacy action!


 * New York Libraries are Essential! Add YOUR Library Snap Shot Day, tell why your library is essential, download marketing materials.


 * SLMS/NYLA Advocacy and Crisis Kit

VIDEOS:
Social Media Revolution video from YouTube Based on the book //Socialnomics// by Erik Qualman.

The Missing Librarians

Laurie Halse Anderson's Knickerbocker Award acceptance speech snippet

Did You Know 4.0

Sidwell Friends School Library web page. Check out the video! It meets the needs of the library's stakeholders, the students. help on how to format text