[Tasl] AASL Preconference

[Becky Jackman]

Here is some information about one of the preconferences that will be
offered at Charlotte in November.

--Becky Jackman
School Librarian
Northeast High School

AASL's 2009 National Conference, "Rev Up Learning @ your library," will be
held in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 5-8. If you are planning to
attend the conference, consider signing up for the preconference described
below. It will help you protect your students¹ legal rights as they use the
school library media center. If you have already registered for the
conference, this preconference can easily be added to your registration.
Information on the conference is located at
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/conferencesandevents/national/charlot
te2009.cfm/.

 

³Law for School Librarians: Knowing Minors¹ Rights² (Preconference)
Thursday, November 5, 8:00 a.m.­12:00 p.m., Charlotte, North Carolina
Fee: $109 (AASL member) / $214 (Non-member)

 

Preconference Summery: Learn how the First Amendment, state and federal
laws, and judicial decisions affect the intellectual freedom of students
using school library media centers. Topics to be covered include minors¹
rights in school libraries, challenges, labeling of resources, filtering Web
resources, and privacy. Presenters will differentiate between public and
private school libraries in terms of how laws apply, and will discuss the
rights of younger versus older minors. Experienced library media specialists
will facilitate group discussions and role playing related to challenges and
students' privacy, and will provide strategies for teaching students about
their rights and responsibilities.

 

Presenters: Deborah Caldwell-Stone is deputy director of the American
Library Association¹s Office for Intellectual Freedom, where she works on
projects dealing with censorship and privacy in libraries. An attorney by
training, she practiced appellate law before the state and federal courts in
Chicago before joining ALA in 2000. Theresa Chmara is a partner in the
Washington, DC office of Jenner & Block. She has served as counsel to the
Freedom to Read Foundation for over fifteen years. She is on the steering
committee of the Lawyers for Libraries program and has instructed at each of
the twelve Lawyers for Libraries institutes. Pat Scales, a retired school
librarian, is on the ALA faculty for Lawyers for Libraries, and is the
author of Teaching Banned Books: 12 Guides for Young Readers (ALA 2001) and
Intellectual Freedom in School Libraries (ALA 2001). Barbara Stripling is
director of library services for the Department of Education in New York
City. She has had a thirty-year career in education as a classroom teacher,
K­12 library media specialist, Library Power director, and school district
director of instructional services, Dorcas Hand has been an independent
school librarian in Houston, TX since 1978, working at a variety of schools
at all levels K­12 and surviving more than one challenge in those thirty
years. Helen Adams is a former school library media specialist and
technology coordinator in Wisconsin and is currently an online instructor
for Mansfield University, teaching a course focusing on legal and access
issues in school library media programs. She authored Ensuring Intellectual
Freedom and Access to Information in the School Library Media Program
(Libraries Unlimited 2008) and is co-author of Privacy in the 21st Century:
Issues for Public, School, and Academic Libraries (Libraries Unlimited
2005).