The Declaration for the Right to Libraries provides an exciting way to showcase your library at upcoming school events. ALA President Barbara Stripling is asking all school libraries around the country to participate in declaration signings during the month of October. To view the new declaration signing toolkit to help you organize a signing of your own, or to learn more about the declaration visit www.ala.org/declaration.
AASL would like to track declaration signings from across the country. To submit your signing please fill out this online form: www.ala.org/aasl/declaration. Don’t discount your signing! It would be wonderful for every leader within a community to be part of a declaration signing but having your school leaders, board members, parents and students sign is just as memorable and commendable.
The Declaration for the Right to Libraries is the cornerstone document of ALA President Barbara Stripling’s presidential initiative, Libraries Change Lives, which is designed to build the public will and sustained support for America’s right to libraries of all types – academic, special school and public.
In the next year, libraries of all types will be hold signing ceremonies, during which community members can visibly declare their right to have vibrant libraries in their community. The signing is intended to serve as the launching point for continued engagement both inside and outside of your immediate school library community. This is an opportunity to increase public and media awareness about the critical role a fully staffed and well funded school library program plays both in the academic success of students but also in brining value to the community at large.
AASL encourages you to visit advocacy tools developed to extend the conversation (www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy), specifically the School Library Programs Improve Student Learning advocacy brochure series designed to help school librarians generate and guide discussion with stakeholder groups in the school library community, including administrators, policymakers, parents, and teachers. (Free downloads at www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/tools.)
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