LISNews: Librarian News

Arab News has This Story that says One of the most neglected facilities in Saudi Schools is the school library. Good libraries play a pivotal role in education and should consequently be considered indispensable in every school.

To encourage students to use the library at some schools, at the end of the school year is a gift given to the student who borrowed the most books and there is an intellectual competition.

Ender pointed the way to South by Southwest: Mexican Americans and Segregated Schooling, 1900-195o, by Vicki L. Ruiz. The narrative that follows briefly delineates the institutional nature of segregation "for the cause of Americanization" as well as two significant legal challenges by Latino parents on behalf of their children.

"To this day I just love
going into libraries...there are two places that I can go in and get a
real warm, happy feeling; that is, the library and Bullock's in the
perfume and make-up department."

Ender, Duke_of_URL writes: \"On Sept 27 2002, the Department of Education announced 94 grants (doc) to
improve literacy through school libraries. The LSL program is
designed to promote local strategies to improve student achievement by
improving library services and resources, including advanced school
library media centers and professionally certified school library
media specialists\"

Elementary schools in Springfield, Illinois, USA -- the state capital where Abe Lincoln rests -- eliminated all librarian and assistant positions as part of big-time budget cuts. The State Journal-Register, in a hefty article, reports on the way each school is dealing with the situation. Or not.

Oh, the one person who knew how to operate the library automation system was riffed, too.