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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  

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Professional Reading Resources

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:
   Susan Gilmore
   sgilmore@airport.k12.mi.us
   phone:  (734) 654-6208  x196
   fax:  (734) 654-8370

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 

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.

School Library Certification Information

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:

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.

For your professional reading...
School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come

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Kristin Fontichiaro and Buffy Hamilton have edited an eBook on school libraries written by school librarians! 

From Kristin and Buffy:
On behalf of the over 50 authors who contributed to School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come, we are delighted to announce that our crowdsourced eBook is available for free download. And, better yet, this eBook features the voices of many Michigan librarians and educators. Thanks for doing us proud, authors!

We hope you will enjoy reading these diverse perspectives on where school libraries are and what school librarians are doing to redefine, stretch, and expand traditional services. Feel free to share it with your colleagues, administrators, professional and union organizations, Board of Education members, and more. Help us spread the word and build the conversation about the possibilities of school libraries!

Find the eBook on Smashwords and on the major eBookstores (including Apple's iBookstore, Barnes and Noble, Sony Bookstore, and others) for free distribution in three formats: 
  1. .pdf for reading on a computer.
  2. .mobi for reading on Kindles.
  3. .epub for reading on Adobe Digital Editions software, iBooks, Sony Reader, Bluefire Reader app, Nook, and most other eReaders.

Contact Information

For additions, corrections, or changes to any of the MAME Resources pages, please email Julie Harris, MAME Online Communications Chair