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[Dan VanGesen <DanV@SNOWFLAKE.K12.AZ.US>]

Regarding the proposed layoffs in Rome (NY) City School District, I have
been following the conversation in relationship to the topic of the
importance of  school library media specialists to the educational
process, the need for the development of an active PR program, etc.

As a former Roman (Rome Free Academy 1968), and one who still has family
and relatives living in Rome, NY, I am wondering what alliances the
school library media specialists have made with other groups in Rome?
(i.e. Jervis Public Library Board, Mid-York Library System, Oneida BOCES
etc.) as well as identifying the powers-that-be who are active in the
community? (i.e. local attorneys  - two of them are my cousins -, Rome
Arts Council,  RFA Alumni Association, etc.) Additionally, is there data
available, locally as well as in the state/national arena, that has been
accessed and shown to the governing board? (i.e Colorado study, ALA's
Information Power updates, etc.) Is strategic planning happening?

Rome City Schools provided me an excellent education, as it did to my
sisters, my brother, my parents, my grandparents,  my
great-grandparents, etc. The libraries, both school and public, made
this possible.

Do not let the Governing Board commit this error.

Dan Van Gesen
District Library Coordinator/Snowflake High School Librarian
Box 1100
Snowflake, AZ  85937
520-536-4154x218
danv@snowflake.k12.az.us

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