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Schools only had collections that they made into small classroom libraries.
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Her name was Mary Kingsbury. She was appointed to Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn.
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Her name was Mary E. Hall. She was appinted to the Girls' High School in Brooklyn.
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There were 10,000 public high schools. No more than 250 of them had collections of 3,000 volumes or more. However, the libraries that did exist were operatin very well. New facilities were built as they overflowed the single eading room, but the process was slow.
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In the mid 1920's, secondary school libraries were explanding due to the fact that in order for schools to recieve accredidation by their associations, they had to have a high school library with a trained librarian.
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The elementary school library standards were published. However, there were not many schools that had libraries or librarians. Money that was allocated for library books went to teachers for their classroom collections.
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With the Soviet Union's launching of the Sputnik satalitte, the U.S. Congress decided to provide funds for education workshops, programs, and institutes. Money also was given for materials, like textbooks.
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In the early 1960's there were several events that propelled the expansion of libraries and the concept of elemetary libraries. The first, in 1960, was the completion of the Standards for School Library Programs, which replaced the 1945 School Libraries for Today and Tomorrow.
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The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) recieved a grant from the Knapp Foundation. This $1.13 million grant was for the devlopment of school libraries, and more specificall for a 5 year demonstration program.
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A report developed by Mary Helen Mahar and Doris C. Holladay for the U. S. Office of Education was realeased that showed that less than 50 percent of U. S. Elementary schools had libraries. This raised attention and materials were prepared to help fix this.
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All the events bringing attention to school libraries in the early 1960's caught the attention of Congress when people started lobbying for school libraries. The efforts of Cora Paul Bomar, the head supervisor in the Library & Instructional Materials Section of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and the efforts of the American Library Association's Washington office, as well as key librarians all over, led to the passage of this act, which provided funding for school libraries.
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After the libraries were created and operating, trouble hit in the early 1980"s when federal, as well as state and local funding declined. There wasn't money for the libraries to keep operating the way they had been.
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In the late 1980's and early 1990's schools that needed to cut and determine which programs were essential didn't deem the library media specialist one of them. Eventually teacher certifications requirements were changed & bew librarians didn't have to have a teacher certification.
