Hit: Reading Quotes & Statistics

[Diane Pozar <dpozar@kiski.net>]

LM_NETTER's sure are fast.  Within a couple of hours of posting my questions
I had many, many responses and many people asked for a Hit.  Here it is:

Quotes:

What a school thinks about it's library is a measure of what it thinks of
education.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting at the end of the day makes
that day happier.  Kathleen Norris  1880-1966

Travel the World, Conquer the Earth . . . Read Books!

Over the land and under the Sea, A Joyful World of Books for you and Me.

Articles

SLJ=May 1993-"Objective:  Achievement; Solution:  School Libraries

"Silent Partners:  School Library Media Specialists"  Multi-media schools,
Sept./Oct. '96, vol. 3, Issue 4, p. 30

both available on EBSCO online

Books

Steve Krashen's book=Power of Reading: Insights from the Research

Offer of a handout re:  Student Achievement and the Library Media Program

contact: Judi Dzikowski at 315-793-8505

Web Sites

http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/daily news/school_libraris000203.html

has summary information on Lance study; article is on the desperate need for
funding for school libraries/

http://www.nypost.com/news/9166.htm

www.ala.org

LM_NET Archives

July 16, 1999-2 separate lists; wonderful, lots of great quotes

http://www.quotelady.com/subjects/libraries.html

http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/subjects/quotes_libraries.htm

http:// www.ifla.org/l/humor/subj.htm


Many thanks to all who contributed.
Diane Pozar
Library Media Specialist
Wallkill Middle School
Wallkill, NY
dpozar@kiski.net

We read to know we are not alone.  C.S. Lewis

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