Findings of the SLIDE Project
California County Office of Education/District Librarians, November 15, 2022, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT
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
International Association of School Librarians, July 14, 2022, 8:00-8:50 am EDT
Texas Association of School Library Administrators, June 9, 10:30-11.30 am CDT
PowerPoint file for TASLA presentation
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.
Alaska Library Association Virtual Conference, February 26, 2022
California Association of School Librarians Virtual Conference, February 19, 2022
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.
American Association of School Librarians National Conference, October 21-24, 2021
Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Conference, April 16, 2021
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.