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Lacey Rotier, MLIS
Presentation
MN School Library Data Collection: A collaborative effort to find and reach school library staff
Minnesota Library Association (2023)
  • Lacey Rotier, St. Catherine University
  • Verena Getahun
  • Ashley Dress
  • Laura Gingras
  • Belle Nelson, Minnesota State University, Mankato
  • Ann Kaste
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Abstract
Finding accurate information about the staffing of school library media centers and the roles of licensed school media specialists in Minnesota is a well known challenge. For those who would like to share resources with and advocate for the importance of media centers and media specialists, accurate and current data would be invaluable. In this presentation, our team representing ITEM, MDE, the Multitypes, Minitex, and SLMS licensure programs will share the state of our efforts to find staffing data, make a plan for how to keep the data current, and share a survey with attendees to be distributed to all media contacts in MN to find information about the state of media centers in Minnesota schools and the job duties of those who staff them.
Keywords
  • school library media specialist,
  • library media specialist,
  • Minnesota,
  • school library data
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Publication Date
October 4, 2023
Location
St. Paul, MN
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In this presentation, we
  • Summarize the work of the School Library Data Team
  • Provide an overview the legislative progress for school libraries from Spring 2023
  • Summarize what we know about the current status of school libraries
  • Describe the future work for data collection on school libraries
Citation Information
Lacey Rotier, Verena Getahun, Ashley Dress, Laura Gingras, et al.. "MN School Library Data Collection: A collaborative effort to find and reach school library staff" Minnesota Library Association (2023)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lacey-rotier/4/