ADVOCACY

Information to help you market and advocate for your program and for your students

Survey Take a survey to share information about your library with WLMA and the Washington Coalition for School Libraries and Information Technology,a group of concerned citizens, educators, businesses, and community groups working to ensure that school libraries receive adequate and sustained funding for full-time certified teacher-librarians, materials, technologies and facilities. Take the Survey

Sarah Applegate (sapplegate@nthurston.k12.wa.us) and Christie Kaaland (ckaaland@yahoo.com) are co-chairs of the newly named Advocacy Committee (includes the former Public Relations and Legislative Advocacy positions).

Legislative information can be found at http://www.wlma.org/legislative.

The Washington Coalition for School Libraries and Information Technology is a group of concerned citizens, educators, businesses, and community groups working to ensure that school libraries receive adequate and sustained funding for full-time certified teacher-librarians, materials, technologies and facilities.

There is more information on their website:

http://fundourfuturewashington.org/

Publications for Advocacy

School Libraries Work! - Updated 2008 versionpublished by Scholastic is available in single or multiple copies. Call 800-621-1115 or visit the Scholastic website for a free PDF download.

Your School Library Media Program and NCLB - download from AASL to educate your administration and school boards about your program.

Spring 2006 Brochure made in MSPublisher2002 p.1 and p 2

NEW WLMA LOGOS FOR DOWNLOAD: RGB.jpg version--- bw .pdf version ---2-color .pdf version