Voices of Decision Makers: How District & School Leaders Decide About School Librarian Employment
Keith Curry Lance, Debra E. Kachel & Caitlin Gerrity, International Association of School Librarians Conference, October 26, 2024.
PowerPoint slides for IASL presentation
Voices of Decision Makers About School Librarian Employment
Debra E. Kachel & Christie Kaaland, American Association of School Librarians National Conference, October 21, 2023.
PowerPoint slides for AASL presentation
Inequities in Access to School Librarians
Caitlin Gerrity, American Association of School Librarians National Conference, October 21, 2023.
PowerPoint slides for AASL presentation
Access to School Librarians: It’s an Equity Issue for Students
Mary K. Biagini & Debra E. Kachel, Educators of School Librarians Section, American Library Association Annual Conference, June 24, 2023
PowerPoint file for ESLS presentation
School librarian FTEs by state, 2021-22
School Libraries Link Students to Literacies: What We Know Now
Mary K. Biagini, Indiana Libraries & Literacies Symposium, May 9, 2023
PowerPoint file for ILLS presentation
School Librarians: Status as of 2021-22
Keith Curry Lance, ALA Connect Live, Our Brave Communities: Embracing School Librarians, April 25, 2023
PowerPoint file for ALA Connect presentation
Findings of the SLIDE Project
Keith Curry Lance, California County Office of Education/District Librarians, November 15, 2022, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT
Keith Curry Lance, School Library Summit Keynote, San Jose State University, September 20, 2022, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm PDT
PowerPoint file for School Library Summit (SJSU) keynote
School Librarianship: Evolving or Declining? Findings from an IMLS Grant Project
Debra E. Kachel & Keith Curry Lance, International Association of School Librarians, July 14, 2022, 8:00-8:50 am EDT
Debra E. Kachel & Keith Curry Lance, Texas Association of School Library Administrators, June 9, 10:30-11.30 am CDT
PowerPoint file for TASLA presentation
Keith Curry Lance, Libraries Today National Leadership Forum (Genesee Valley BOCES School Library System), May 18
PDF file of Libraries Today presentation (see pages 35-38)
Note, at the bottom of page 35, that the first two bullets report figures that are corrected in the PowerPoint file below.
PowerPoint File for Libraries Today presentation (with corrections noted below)
Note that slide 2 corrects two figures from those reported in the video: from 2016-17 to 2018-19, there was a net loss of 1,025.43 full-time equivalents of school librarians, while from 2018-19 to 2020-21, the net loss was 1,837.89 FTEs.
To view the archived video of this forum, go to https://vimeo.com/showcase/9494881.
Debra E. Kachel & Keith Curry Lance, Alaska Library Association Virtual Conference, February 26, 2022
Debra E. Kachel & Keith Curry Lance, California Association of School Librarians Virtual Conference, February 19, 2022
Keith Curry Lance, Council of State School Library Consultants Meeting, January 18, 2022
Thanks to COSSLC for permission to share this video of our presentation during their first 2022 meeting.
Debra E. Kachel & Keith Curry Lance, American Association of School Librarians National Conference, October 21-24, 2021
Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Conference, April 16, 2021
Debra E. Kachel & Keith Curry Lance, The Status of PA School Librarians: IMLS Grant Findings
ALA Midwinter Conference, January 22-26, 2021
The following was prerecorded for the virtual ALA Midwinter Conference as a News You Can Use session sponsored by the Educators of School Librarians Section of AASL (American Assn. of School Librarians). The session is hosted by Daniella Smith, University of Texas, and Joyce Valenza, Rutgers University, also a member of the SLIDE Advisory Council. In this recording, Keith Curry Lance and Deb Kachel present the background of the SLIDE project, its methodology, and some preliminary findings.