Advocating for School Libraries

The Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) recently released a paper entitled " “School Libraries, Now More Than Ever: The CISSL Position Paper on Library Cuts."  The paper discusses the critical need for school libraries, despite the current trend towards slashing budgets and school library programs, and backs up that discussion with decades of research on how school libraries improve learning and standardized test scores.  This is a great advocacy tool!  For more information on this paper and on CISSL, check out this article from the School Library Journal: CISSL Defends the Need for School Librarians Amid Budget Cuts

From the paper:

"School libraries are powerful agents of learning, central to engaging students in the transformation of information into deep knowledge and understanding, and providing them with life skills to continue living, learning and working in an information- and technology-intense world."