AASL Fall Forum this Friday and Saturday!

http://www.ala.org/aasl/conferencesandevents/fallforum/fallforum

Happening this weekend in Greenville, SC.

Check out the NING or follow on Twitter #AASL12

Snapshot Day Countdown . . . and now…for reason #7

            Participating in Snapshot Day provides data to the SCASL Advocacy Committee to use in creating advocacy tools. The committee used data from Snapshot Day Spring 2011 in the creation of an advocacy brochure that was mailed out to state and national legislators, school board chairmen, superintendents, and principals this year. 

~ Comment from Snapshot Day in April 2012, Susan Prettyman, Kershaw County :

          “I enjoyed participating in Snapshot Day. It helped me focus on promoting our wonderful library with teachers and administrators. I look forward to seeing the summary of the month of snapshots across the state.”

It’s time for Regional News!! Deadline October 15

The back to school issue of our SCASL sponsored professional publication Media Center Messenger is still very fresh on my mind.  It was a spectacular issue, though I am still hearing from South Carolina librarians who had news go unreported in the Regional News section.  Our August back to school issue had such a early deadline that some of the coordinators and contacts struggled to get folks to respond to the requests for news.  I understand it is SUCH a busy time.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/regionalnews

SCASL’s Angels! Let’s Rock the T&L Virtual Cafe House!

Let’s all give a shout out to The Librarians In the Middle! Monique German, Tamara Cox, Kristen Hearne!   When they are not being featured in Ed Week online they are giving presentations at conferences, blogging, and running top notch library programs right here in South Carolina! This triple threat will be laying down the Common Core, librarian style, for you LIVE MONDAY OCTOBER 1st at 8pm (Yes, that is tomorrow!)  See you there! Let’s represent! Put SCASL in font of your name when joining the webinar.

http://tlvirtualcafe.wikispaces.com/Common_Core

Media Center Messenger Makes it Way to your Mailboxes

Use your copy of the Fall 2012 Media Center Messenger to:

• advocate for your library program
• learn how librarians ARE a common core secret weapon 
• get excited about our conference
• read about critical thinking skills
• find out about the SC State Department of Education’s Common Core Workshop
• check out the numbers for snapshot day and get ready to participate
• look at the great pictures from the 2012 Read In
• read news from SCLA, RCPL,  USC-SLIS and the State Library
• get updated on DISCUS and MORE!

An electronic version is available here.