School Library Month is AASL's annual recognition of school librarians and school library programs. It honors the essential role that strong school library programs play in a student's educational career.
Complimentary Webinar Series
As part of the celebration, AASL presents a four-week webinar series. Webinars are prerecorded and available on-demand on AASL's professional development repository, eCOLLAB. We'll announce each new webinar in our weekly School Library Month e-mails.
 In Lives Change Though Collaboration (and so Does Professional Practice), Susan Ballard provides a review and conversation about the need for collaboration, most specifically instructional collaboration, in our learning communities. Challenges and barriers related to collaboration and strategies to address them will be considered. Susan shares practical tools that can be utilized to improve the planning process and increase the level of collaboration.
Student Video Contest
 Videos are due April 15, 2014! Enter today!
How does your school library change lives? Students are encouraged to submit videos for the School Library Month video contest showcasing how their school library connects to this year’s School Library Month theme, “Lives Change @ your library.” Contestants are urged to unleash their creativity and have fun! Use humor, drama, music and/or special effects to showcase your amazing school library. Prizes include a boxed set of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" books provided by Abrams and a one-year subscription to CultureGrams, an online database from ProQuest.
School Libraries Change Authors' Lives
The School Library Month Committee reached out to authors and asked them to share their stories of how school libraries changed their lives. Watch AASL's Twitter and Facebook accounts for their quotes and be sure to share and retweet to spread the word!
Can't wait to see who will appear? Click the image above!
Hold a Declaration Signing during April
School Library Month is a great opportunity to increase public and media awareness about the value of a fully staffed and well funded school library program to the community at large. School librarians across the country are encouraged to hold and participate in signing events using The Declaration for the Right to School Libraries.
Downloadable copies of the Declaration can be found on the SLM website. A signing toolkit is available to help you organize an event. AASL would like to track declaration signings from across the country. To submit your signing please fill out this online form.
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