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Resources for Your PLN    •    Professional Reading Resources    •    Intellectual Freedom     •    Michigan Authors and Illustrators    •    Grants and Funding Sources   •   SL 21 Evaluation Tool    •    School Library Certification Information    •    School Librarians eBook    •    Contact Information  

Resources for Your Professional Learning Network

Subscribe to the RSS feeds of these blogs and others to keep up-to-date:
  • Bib 2.0: Technology and the Indispensable Library  blog by Michelle Luhtala
  • Bibliotech.me  blog by Michelle Luhtala
  • The Blue Skung Blog and Doug-Johnson.com
  • The Daring Librarian   blog by Gwyneth Anne Bronwynne Jones
  • Dawgeared.com  focuses on educational web sites
  • EdWeb's Using Emerging Technology to Advance Your School Library Program   webinars and discussion
  • The Future of Education  interview series with education experts worldwide such as Richard DuFour, Howard Garner, Sir Ken Robinson; check out the Past interviews link to watch previous ones  
  • Infomancy  blog by Christopher Harris 
  • ISTE SIGMS: Media Specialist Special Interest Group
  • LM_Net Wiki  the companion wiki to the LM_Net listserv
  • MAME's Facebook page 
  • NeverEndingSearch  blog by Joyce Valenza
  • School Libraries  blog by David Loertscher 
  • School Library Monthly Blog   written by Kristin Fontichiaro 
  • TL Virtual Cafe  check out the TL Virtual Cafe and join in on the live webinars
  • The Unquiet Librarian  blog by Buffy Hamilton
  • YALSA Blog   (Young Adult Library Services Assn.)

Professional Reading Resources

  • Activate: The Journal of Technology-Rich Learning
  • Booklist Online
  • eSchool News
  • Knowledge Quest  published by AASL; select articles available online
  • Internet@Schools
  • LMC: Library Media Connection
  • The Scanner  ISTE's Media Specialist Special Interest Group newsletter
  • School Library Journal
  • School Library Monthly
  • Teacher Librarian
  • Tech & Learning
  • THE Journal: Technological Horizons in Education

Intellectual Freedom

MAME has published Intellectual Freedom Manual for School Library Media Centers: What To Do Before the Censor Comes. This is a comprehensive manual on intellectual freedom available for $10. To purchase, contact:  
   MAME
   Intellectual Freedom Manual for 
   School Library Media Centers
   1407 Rensen Street
   Lansing, MI 48910 

Part of MAME's mission is to support intellectual freedom and access to information. 
If you have questions, need information, or are faced with a challenge, please contact MAME's Intellectual Freedom Chair:
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​Martha Spears
Berkley Public Schools 
Library Media Specialist
Ph: 248-837-8112

Michigan Authors and Illustrators

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Michigan Authors and Illustrators (MIAI) is a database of information on authors and illustrators born in Michigan, who live in Michigan, or who have written books about or set in Michigan. 
Each entry includes biographical information, lists of works by the person and lists of works about the person.

The database is a collaboration of the Michigan Association of Media in Education (MAME), the Library of Michigan (LM), and the Michigan Center for the Book (MCFB).  


Grants and Funding Sources 

  • AASL Awards and Grants page
  • Follett Library Resources Grants and Funding page
  • Grant Wrangler: Library Grants
  • Improving Literacy Through School Libraries
  • The Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries
  • Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
  • LibraryWorks Grants and Funding page

SL 21 Evaluation Tool 

SL 21, School Libraries in the 21st Century, is a tool to help measure the quality of school library programs within Michigan schools and consists of criteria to evaluate a school library program.  School libraries can earn the status of Qualified or Exemplary, which is valid for three years.
  • View a list of the Michigan school libraries who've now achieved SL 21 status at www.michigan.gov/sl21. Also at this site is additional information and the downloadable documents.
  • SL 21 is a companion to the Guidelines for Michigan Library Media Programs.

School Library Certification Information

Library Media Placements Update

MAME worked with the Michigan Department of Education, Office of Professional Preparation Services, (OPPS)  to create a help sheet or "quick sheet" to assist Superintendents and other school administrators in understanding proper placement of ND certified personnel (School Librarians/Media Specialists).

The Library Media Placements document can be found here.



The following information is in regards to having a certified school librarian employed in a school library within a Michigan public school and is provided by:
    Krista D. Ried, Supervisor of Client Services
    Office of Professional Preparation Services, Michigan Department of Education
    608 W. Allegan St., P.O. Box 30008, Lansing, MI 48909
     riedk@mi.gov   517-373-6791       fax: 517-373-0542  

For questions, please call the Office of Professional Preparation Services: 517-373-3310
or visit the following web sites:
  • Certification information: www.michigan.gov/teachercert
  • Highly qualified information: www.michigan.gov/mde-hq

As stated in Administrative Rule R390.1105, if the position as a school librarian requires instructional responsibilities, then the librarian is required to have a valid Michigan teaching certificate with a Library Media (ND) endorsement. The State Board of Education has approved standards for the preparation of school librarians to ensure that school children have the opportunity to interact with qualified librarians.

For certification purposes, it depends on the local decision of instructional or non-instructional. If the person is performing "Instruction" that is being counted (Pupil-accounting) during the day, a student must be under the supervision of a properly certified teacher.

Here are some concepts that a district might follow:
If the time that a student spends in the library/media center with library/media center personnel is non-instructional, (i.e., is not counted toward “instructional time” as defined by pupil accounting rules). Examples:
  • A classroom teacher takes his/her class to the library to work on research for a writing assignment, and the library/media center personnel provides support to the students in locating resources.
  • A social studies teacher sends students to the library to do independent research during the social studies class period.
If a student is receiving instruction from library/media center personnel, and that time is counted as instructional time for pupil accounting purposes, then the library/media center personnel must be certified. Examples:
  • An elementary school provides time in the library/media center as a “specials” class, during which the classroom teacher is on his/her prep period and the library/media center personnel provides instruction in library/media center content.
  • A high school offers a credit-bearing course in library/media sciences, and the course is taught by library/media center personnel.

School Library Media Certification By State

Posted by School Library Monthly, access this web site, http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/cert/index.html, to check for certification standards by state.

Contact Information

For additions, corrections, or changes to any of the MAME Resources pages, please email Carma Roesch, MAME Online Communications Co-Chairs.

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