From
the Editor ... Susan K. S. Grigsby
Welcome to our first (working, functional) online issue of the GLMA NewsLeader!
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President's
Message by Kathi Vanderbilt
Welcome back to school for the 2003-2004 school year. On behalf of the GLMA Board of Directors I hope you had a restful and refreshing summer.
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Under the Gold Dome
by Pat Pickard
The 2003 Georgia General Assembly session was the longest (40 session days plus 35 days of working recess) since 1889 and perhaps the most contentious session on record with the changes in leadership and party control.
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Empowerment through Membership by Millicent Norman
As most of us are starting up another year in our schools’ media centers, many of us are continuing to share our expertise and experience through our membership in the state’s largest professional organization for school library media professionals…
Intellectual Freedom Award
Social Issues Resources Series (SIRS) - Mandarin and the Georgia Library Media Association, Inc. (GLMA) jointly sponsor the Intellectual Freedom of Information Award. that recognizes the contributions of a school library media specialist who has affirmed in an active way the rights of students to information and ideas furthering the cause of intellectual and academic freedom.
The 2003 application deadline is September 27, 2003. Read
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AASL Toolkit
AASL and the ALA Public Information Office are developing an @ your library® Toolkit to help school library media specialists better market their school library media programs.
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PROMOTE Georgia by Monica Radcliffe
The PROMOTE Georgia Project is a Phase III initiative that provides students in grades 2-5, 6-8, and 9-12 the opportunity to work in teams to perform research and develop educational Web sites that teach others about a selected topic.
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District News
a) District 3 News
Find out what’s happening in Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clay, Coweta, Crisp, Dooly, Fayette, Harris, Heard, Henry, Lamar, Macon, Marion, Meriwether, Muscogee, Newton, Pike, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Spalding, Stewart, Sumpter, Talbot, Taylor, Troup, Upson, Webster Counties!
b) District 6 News
Find out what’s going on in Burke, Columbia, Emanuel, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Screven, Taliaferro, Warren, Washington, and Wilkes Counties!
c) Media Specialist of the Year
Who’s been recognized this year? Find out!
Member Articles
a) Adventures in Imagination by Amy Pridgen
Have you ever considered how a person’s imagination develops? Why can some students “picture” what is going on in a story without looking at a picture, while others cannot?
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b) Leap Pad by Pam Nutt
Moore Elementary School in Griffin, GA. has been awarded an Ecolab Grant for 2600 dollars to purchase LeapPad machines to be used in Kindergarten.
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c) My First AASL Grant By
Betsy Razza
Congratulations go to two media specialists that will be attending AASL in Kansas City this coming October.
Find out who!
d) GLMA Grants
Did you know there is $300 to $500 available to help you with your LMC program?
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