Re: [LM_NET] USE the Standards for 21st Century Learners

[Sara Kelly Johns <sarakellyjohns@YAHOO.COM>]

Hi All,

The AASL Standards are visionary and will move our profession forward and are meant 
to be used, Almost all of our use is pure Fair Use as Meg is describing and as 
Chris Harris' librarians wanted to do. The permission statement on the AASL 
standards page is for uses beyond Fair Use. 

I typed up the Standards into Word to post for my Mansfield SL&IT grad students for 
their work and felt that needed further permission so sent it to Allison Cline 
<acline@ala.org> for permission and got a permission statement to add to the 
document. At no cost, of course.

AASL is reading LM_NET and the AASL Forum and the blogs and is going to deal with 
this, I have no doubt. The timing of the issue being raised during the ALA 
conference when the staff and leadership were involved in at least a hundred hours 
of meetings slows everything down. 

But, not using the standards will slow us down and weaken school library programs. 
If your work goes beyond Fair Use, just e-mail Allison for a permission statement. 
90% of what will be done with them will be for educational reasons, in lesson plans 
and as an advocacy tool with administrators and teachers for what a 21st Century 
library program needs to be.

I cannot speak for AASL any longer but I am a well-informed AASL member who wants 
the best for school libraries. I had my last meeting as AASL Past President last 
Tuesday morning so was there for most of those hours and hours of meetings that are 
on your behalf. 

Hope this helps, Sara

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Sara Kelly Johns

Associate Editor for AASL Community, Knowledge Quest

Lake Placid Middle/High School LMC

34 School Street

Lake Placid, NY 12946

518-523-2474, ext. 4132

FAX: 518-523-4861

johns@northnet.org

SaraKJohns@aol.com

 



"Information is the currency of democracy." -- Thomas Jefferson

--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Carol Simpson <csimpson@CAROLSIMPSON.COM> wrote:

From: Carol Simpson <csimpson@CAROLSIMPSON.COM>
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] Free the Standards for 21st Century Learners
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 5:05 PM

Meg wrote:  I am about to have to write curriculum for my district;  I have been 
studying the AASL standards but now I believe I won't waste further time on that.

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I hope AASL is reading this list.  What Meg says is exactly what will happen to the 
standards.  They will be discarded by the very people they are designed to assist, 
and some other organization (can you say ISTE?) will come along and replace them.  
Guess who will implement those standards?  Tech folks. Not that librarians aren't 
tech-folks too, but implementation of information literacy skills will go to the 
computer teachers, not the librarians.  

Folks this is serious business.  You need to talk to other librarians who are 
currently on hiatus on this list and make a groundswell of opposition. Every single 
AASL member needs to take a few minutes to let their elected representatives know 
EXACTLY what this position is going to cause. Your state organizations, if they are 
affiliated with ALA, should also pressure the national organization. Don't let this 
slide. You have more time this summer -- DO IT!

Carol Simpson, Ed.D. J.D.
LMS retired
csimpson at carolsimpson dot com

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