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EDUCATION: K-12: READING :
LIBRARIES: LIBRARIANS :
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UNITED STATES: CITIES: PHILADELPHIA:
Philadelphia's Librarian Dilemma
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Philadelphia's Librarian Dilemma
The City of Brotherly Love is losing librarians, despite scores of studies
proving their value. What gives?
J. WESLEY JUDD
February 6, 2015
Pacific Standard
http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/where-have-all-the-librarians-gone
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Philadelphiaa city whose school system ranks among the nation's worsthas a
major reading problem on its hands. On Sunday, Philadelphia Inquirer's
Kristen Graham reported that the citys school librarian population has
dropped by an astonishing 94 percent since 1991. Twenty-four years ago,
there were 176 certified librarians throughout the citys 218 schoolsthere
are now 11. This comes on the heels of the city's 2013 closure of its top
schools librariesvictims to an unmerciful budget crisis.
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With the ubiquity of the Internet, it may seem like librariansand perhaps
libraries in generalare quickly becoming non-essential. While the facts
dont liea 94 percent regional drop off rate is practically a death
sentence to any professionthe Pew Research Center recently compiled some
data on libraries in the 21st century that might surprise you.
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People under 65 years old are actually more likely to have visited a
library in the past year than their older counterparts. In fact, those
between 16 and 29 are just as likely to use a library as those older than
29.
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And those younger visitors also feel the library in an integral part of
their neighborhood.
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A 2007 joint study by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association and
the Education Law Center found that students with access to a full-time
librarian are more likely to score Advanced and less likely to score Below
Basic on reading and writing tests across all grades, but especially for
elementary and middle school students.
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This is all to say the libraries are still importantto communities, to
readers, and to millennials. But despite how Americans feel, it seems as
if librarians have never been more undervalued, and the problem,
unsurprisingly, is budgetary. Schools in Philadelphia and around the
country simply dont have enough money.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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School cuts have decimated librarians
By Kristen A. Graham
Philadelphia Inquirer
POSTED: February 02, 2015
http://articles.philly.com/2015-02-02/news/
58679838_1_school-library-librarian-philadelphia-school-district
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/nko8nkw
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The children who attend Spring Garden Elementary often come home to no
books, let alone e-readers or Internet access. Some live in a nearby
homeless shelter.
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So when Laureal Robinson became Spring Garden's principal five years ago,
she had a goal in mind: to reopen the school library with a certified
librarian.
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"We had to adopt a back-to-basics approach," Robinson said. "We had to
make it as easy as possible for children to get books in their hands."
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Spring Garden's budget is just as tight as every other school's in the
Philadelphia School District - it has no full-time counselor or nurse -
but Robinson made reopening a library a priority. For five years she
planned, using community partnerships to bring in books. In September, she
hired a three-day-a-week librarian.
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"Having a librarian," the principal said, "just helps to support what's
going on in the classroom, with teachers. I just felt like it was a
necessity. It would be remiss not to have a library."
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Robinson is bucking a trend. In 1991, there were 176 certified librarians
in city schools. Now there are 11 - for 218 schools.
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Closing school libraries? This means war
Philadelphia's school budget woes have shuttered the district's
much-lauded libraries. It's a failure of basic civilization that cannot be
allowed to stand.
By Stephen Segal
Philadelphia Weekly (PW)
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/editors-note/
Closing-school-libraries-This-means-war-223651501.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/q6e5bdd
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And so finally it's come to this: The Philadelphia School District has
closed its top schools' libraries due to the budget crisis. Only 15
librarians remain in the entire district, where enrollment has already
climbed past last year's 150,000 students. As the Inquirer reported today,
principals at Central High and Masterman are scrambling to figure out how
exactly they're supposed to give students an education without being able
to give them books to read.
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Let me spell this out in no uncertain terms: The library is the single
most important operation in any school.
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It's more important than each and every classroom.
The library is where students engage their own minds.
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The library is the place that embodies the concept of intellectual
activity being something for a person to choose.
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Whether you are a social progressive who believes public education should
be the nation's top funding priority, a fiscal conservative who believes a
free market of school-choice options is the only way to keep educators
accountable for their job performance, or a moderate who just hopes kids
will emerge into adult society as vaguely functional human beings, there
is nothing to debate here. Libraries are civilization.
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Whether you believe public-school teachers are tragically underpaid and
under-appreciated martyrs to humanity's future or lazy union employees who
enjoy coasting on tenure and seniority through a lifetime of ten-month
work years, there is nothing to debate here. Libraries are education.
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Whether you point a finger of blame for our sorry school system at
negligent parents, corrupt politicians, inner-city violence or an uncaring
corporate nation that prefers to raise mindless consumers rather than
engaged citizens, there is nothing to debate here. Libraries are
sanctuary.
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A school where students are not free to use a library is not a school.
It's a multiple-choice indoctrination camp.
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JUNE 30, 2014
7 surprises about libraries in our surveys
Fact Tank
Pew Research Center
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/06/30/
7-surprises-about-libraries-in-our-surveys/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/n976ocy
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E-book reading is rising but just 4% of Americans are e-book only readers.
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Those who read both e-books and printed books prefer reading in the
different formats under different circumstances.
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