Special Bundled Registration for the 2008 Midwinter and 2008 Annual ALA Conferences

Special Bundled Registration for the 2008 Midwinter Meeting and 2008 Annual ConferenceThis year ALA is offering a special bundled price on the Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conference if you register for BOTH during the month of September. You can save 20% over the advance registration price you would pay if you bought each event separately! This bundled price will be available from September 1 - September 30, 2007 through a link available on the Midwinter Meeting Registration page .

AASL Conference in Reno

AASL is sponsoring four Spectrum scholars at National Conference AASL will sponsor the attendance of up to four Spectrum scholars at its 13th National Conference & Exhibition. AASL will provide each of the four selected Spectrum Scholars with a full National Conference registration and a $750 travel stipend. Spectrum Scholars will be paired with a mentor for the duration of the conference and will receive special recognition at key events.
Read more at
http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2007/september2007/aaslss.htm

Teen Week at Your Library

Laugh Out Loud @your library!!
Teen Read Week is October 14-20, 2007. The Teen Read Week theme "LOL @your library" encourages teens to use the resources at their library to find entertaining or humorous books, magazines, comics and other media. The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) and ALA Graphics have partnered together to bring you official Teen Read Week products designed to help raise awareness of this event. Browse all Teen Read Week products Please submit your order by September 28th to receive your materials in time for Teen Read Week using standard shipping.

SKILLS ACT - We need to support our School Librarians

The SKILLS Act is a very important piece of legislation that is critical to the future of school librarians. Here are the positive outcomes if you ask your legislator to support it:

* Requires school districts, to the extent feasible, to ensure that every school within the district employs at least one highly qualified school library media specialist in each school library;
* Defines highly qualified school library media specialists as those who have a bachelor's degree and have obtained full state certification as a school library media specialist or passed the state teacher licensing examination, with state certification in library media in such state;
* Establishes as a state goal that there be at least one highly qualified school library media specialist in every public school no later than the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year;
* Broadens the focus of training, professional development, and recruitment activities to include school library media specialists;
* Ensures that funds will serve elementary, middle, and high school students;
* Requires books and materials to be appropriate for and engage the interest of students in all grade levels and students with special learning needs, including English language learners.

ALA has made it very easy to contact your Representative and ask them to co-sponsor the SKILLs Act.

Please go to this link. You can put in your zip code and they already have email messages ready to be sent to your legislator. All you have to do is write a few sentences asking your legislator to support this legislation.
http://www.capwiz.com/ala/home/