This session (details below) looks great. If the time is too late for you, all recordings of U of Iowa SLIS Professional Development series can be found a few days after the session here: 

slis.uiowa.edu/slis-alumni/...

Valerie DiLorenzo

CASL President

Connecticut Association of School Librarians' Organization Address:

4 Wotton Lane

Burlington, CT 06013

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From: Lucy Green via ALA Connect <Mail@connectedcommunity.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Subject: AASL Member Forum: Tomorrow Night: 25-26 UIowa SLIS Professional Development Series
To: <president@ctcasl.org>

Hi Everyone, See you tomorrow night, Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 7 pm CT/ 8 pm ET, for the fourth 2025-2026 UIOWA SLIS Professional... -posted to the "AASL Member Forum" community

AASL Member Forum Post New Message Tomorrow Night: 25-26 UIowa SLIS Professional Development Series Email a reply to the discussion Send a private message via email Dec 8, 2025 2:48 PM Lucy Green Hi Everyone, See you tomorrow night, Tuesday, December 9, 2025  at 7 pm CT/ 8 pm ET, for the fourth 2025-2026 UIOWA SLIS Professional Development Series "Professional Growth Through Personal Engagement" session featuring Dr. Jenna Spiering on "Advocacy Through Research on School Libraries." This will be our last session for the Fall semester.   Dr. Jenna Spiering is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the school library concentration at the University of South Carolina's School of Information, where she teaches within the school librarian preparation program and engages in research related to youth materials and issues of censorship and selection. In this talk, she will discuss her recent work on several projects related to challenges to LGBTQIA+ titles as well as the impact of state regulations on the role of school librarians in collection development. Each project has been developed to gain a better understanding of the shifting landscape of school librarianship among the unprecedented wave of book challenges, district, state, federal mandates and legislation, and heightened scrutiny. With this increased scrutiny it's more important than ever for school librarians to be equipped with research that explores the complex layers of the effort to ban and censor materials in K-12 schools, illuminating the threats and highlighting the opportunities for resistance and advocacy within the profession. Upcoming events in the 2025-2026 Season:   January 13, 2026 @ 7 pm CT/ 8 pm ET Tyler Hahn, Director, Cherokee Public Library, 2024 Library Journal Mover & Shaker   February 10, 2026 @ 7 pm CT/ 8 pm ET Mikki Smith, Medical Librarian and Supervisor, Guthrie Libraries   March 10, 2026 @ 7 pm CT/ 8 pm ET Natalie Milbrodt, Inaugural University Archivist, The City University of New York   April 7, 2026 @ 7 pm CT/ 8 pm ET Kellee Warren, Associate Professor and Special Collections Librarian, University of Illinois Chicago Follow UIOWA SLIS Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn for further details about this event and more! ------------------------------ Lucy Green Professor and Director University of Iowa ------------------------------   Forward   You are subscribed to "AASL Member Forum" as president@ctcasl.org. To change your subscriptions, go to My Subscriptions. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to Unsubscribe.

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