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Jan 3 — Spring Invoices Available
Jan 6 — Spring Tuition Payments Due
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Jan 16 — New student orientation begins
Jan 23 — Spring 2012 semester begins
Jan 28 — Last day to drop Spring class for full refund
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Mar 30 — Last day to withdraw (Spring)
April 9 — Fall Registration begins (tentative)
May 11 — Spring semester ends
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May 21 — Summer semester begins (ONLY LSC 5522 offered)
Aug 10 — Summer semester ends (tentative)
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Aug 27 — Fall 2012 semester begins
Sara Kelly Johns Honored
Congratulations to LSC 5501 instructor, Sara Kelly Johns! Sara recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Library Association at their annual conference (Nov. 13, 2011). In honoring Sara, NYLA President, Marcia Eggleston, declared:
Sara Kelly Johns has been an effective, enthusiastic, experienced and energetic leader within the library profession for over 30 years at the local, state and national level. Sara unhesitatingly gives of herself, bringing her energy and experience to work for libraries and librarians as a teacher, school librarian, trustee and library school faculty member as well as within library professional organizations locally and within NYLA.
Among Sara's many accomplishments she has served as:
President of the American Associate of School Librarians
President of NYLA's School Library Media Section
Associate editor of AASL's journal, Knowledge Quest
AASL Regional Director
AASL Learning for Life state coordinator
Source:
Moran, Margaret. "School Librarian Awarded Lifetime Achievement Honors." Adirondack Daily Enterprise 1 Dec. 2011. Web. 7 Jan. 2012.
Leadership Video
In support of our Fulfilling the Promise scholarship program, we have posted an 11-minute video on school library leadership on YouTube. Entitled, School Library Leadership: Leading Libraries into the Future, the video was created by Cindy Keller, in collaboration with professional videographers, Linda and Nathan Miller. Scenes feature former students, faculty, and school librarians in New York and Pennsylvania. Check it out.
Instructors of Note
The June and July 2011 issues of the AASL Hot Links newsletter gave a shout out to two of our SL&IT instructors for their recent advocacy on behalf of library users. Helen Adams (LSC 5545) was recently elected to the Board of Trustees for the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF), and Deb Kachel (LSC 5530) was highlighted for her advocacy and op-eds in response to recent budget cuts. Not to be left out from national honors (and responsibility), Sara Kelly Johns (LSC 5501) was elected as an AASL Councilor. As part of her office she'll serve on the AASL Board and Executive Committee (both Sara and Helen Adams are former Presidents of the AASL).
As yet another shout out to Helen Adams, AASL recently featured her in their video podcast series, 30 Second Thought Leadership: Insights from Leaders in the School Library Community.
School Library Impact Studies Project
For a class project, students of Deb Kachel's Spring 2011 School Library Advocacy class (LSC 5530) prepared a Summary of findings from the major statewide studies correlating student achievement and high-quality school libraries and librarians. Check it out.
Update: our research report is beginning to create a good amount of buzz worldwide. See press coverage in Britain's online daily, The Express, as well as the e! Science newsletter.
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