I agree with you! My ALA votes were for school, young adult, and children's
librarians. I also wondered if I should continue my membership in ALA , but
I want to continue supporting YALSA and AASL. I have an idea....Peter
Milbury, would you consider running for president of ALA?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Milbury" <pmilbury@IIS.SYR.EDU>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] GEN: Red-Headed Step-child Redux, ALA Salary survey
> Dear LM_NET Colleagues,
>
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Lisa Von Drasek wrote:
>> As a Teacher/Librarian waging the fight for pay equity I was pleased
>> to see that there was a new salary survey available from ALA. As I
>> began to look at the trial, there was no access to data for School
>> Librarians. Were they not surveyed? Is the information available? Is
>> this an oversight? Again? Sigh. Perhaps there is a assumption that all
>> school librarians are paid on the teachers' scale. ( not always true)
>> That teachers salary information is readily available.
>> http://cs.ala.org/websurvey/salarysurvey/trial/form.cfm
>
> What a disappointment!
>
> So, I thought, well it is voting time at ALA, and maybe we can vote for an
> ALA President who will make a difference for school libraries. I went to
> the online voting place, and dang, both candidates are working in
> positions far removed from school libraries.
>
> Then again, we have had school librarians as ALA President before, and
> nothing at ALA has changed with respect to how they treat school
> libraries. Inert bureaucracy?
>
> Maybe AASL should withdraw from ALA? Go it alone. Partner with another
> association that will fully appreciate the strength of our numbers and
> collective professional expertise. That way we will not be stifled and
> waste so much of our precious time waiting for ALA to treat us as equal
> partners in the Association.
>
> Peter Milbury, pmilbury@iis.syr.edu
> School Librarian/CA TeleMentor, Chico HS, Chico, CA
> ............................................................
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