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Law passed to allow school districts to use allotted tax monies to establish and maintain school libraries.
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ALA was created by librarians, led by Melvil Dewey.
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Melvil Dewey and Andrew Draper drafted this law that pioneered an effort to grow school libraries. A school district could receive no more that $500 per year for the purchase of library books.
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The National Education Association created its Library Section
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New York's board of education adopted regulations that made salaries of qualified school librarians comparable to others.
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This report shed light on the inadequate conditions of school libraries.
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ALA finally publishes the National Council of Teachers of English report on the inadequate conditions of the school library system.
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A set of standards that began concentrating on the programs or qualitative standards rather than on quantities of materials in school libraries.
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Became the standard textbook on administering school library services.
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Widely used numerical scoring for secondary schools including their libraries.
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Second set of school library standards is created.
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Increased state standards for certification were adopted that could only be met by attending a library school with complete library science program.
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A new set of national standards developed by the American Association of School Librarians paved the way tremendous growth in school libraries.
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Made for millions of dollars to be spent developing school libraries.
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Principles of learning that led educators to pursue new teaching strategies including widespread adoption of school library media centers.
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Documents that reaffirmed unified approaches to centralizing media services in schools.
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Report of the study of the position of the library media center within the framework of a national cooperative network established an overriding rational for media programs.
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Focused attention on the future of all the nation's libraries including those in schools. Established a national library act.
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A case that gave library media specialists a little recourse to deal with censorship.
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Document written as guideline to foster quality school media programs.
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Schools receiving this grant agreed to employ full-time media specialists and to provide matching funds for collection development.
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The standards for the role of the school library media specialist expanded to include instructional partners with flexible scheduling for collaboration between teachers and media specialists. This partnership was to create lifelong learners.
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Internet access in the 90's increased along with the media centers number of computers.
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AASL Task Force set out to fill the positions of open media specialist positions within schools. This was viewed as a great need and positively increased the way people viewed media specialists and media centers.
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Another White House conference that emphasized school libraries that strongly supported the idea that school media centers were the cornerstones of children's learning.
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With the acknowledgement of increased student achievement tied to highly qualified media specialists in media centers books were written to support the new standards.