Legislation Committee
PSLA Legislation Committee
Current PSLA Alerts
- January 28, 2010-Alert! Loss of POWER!
Contact your state legislators about the loss of POWER Library databases
Your state legislators need to hear your personal stories of how the loss of POWER Library databases impacts your school and the learning of your students. However, if time is too much of an issue, use the following link to email your state legislators via the Pennsylvania Library Association's gateway to the Legislative Action Center. You can edit the message to personalize it. Please widely share this email with parents, teachers, administrators, and students or anyone who cares about quality education for ALL PA students.
http://palibraries.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=284 and click on TAKE ACTION!
Purpose
To ensure that all Pennsylvania's K-12 students have access to a quality school library staffed by certified library media specialists with a collection of print and electronic resources and technology that meets state school library guidelines.
Committee Work
The Legislation Committee strives to position Pennsylvania's school libraries as an essential and integral component of a quality education program for all K-12 students in the following ways:
- follow, support, and notify the PSLA leadership and members about federal and state legislation relating to school libraries,
- initiate legislative actions and recommend language in regulations and school code about school libraries by working with legislators and their aides,
- build relationships with other state education and child advocate organizations, and
- write articles and offer conference workshops to educate members and other educational stakeholders in advocacy efforts and strategies.
Any PSLA member who wishes to assist in these advocacy efforts is encouraged to join this active committee by contacting Deb Kachel, PSLA Legislation Chairperson at
kachel@bellatlantic.net.
For the latest info and work by this committee, go to the
PSLA ning, or visit the following Legislation Committee pages:
