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About School Library Month

United States
EVENT NAME:
School Library Month, Ntl.
EVENT CATEGORIES:
Education , Books
Children , Culture & Art
United States
Dates Active:
Begins: Apr 01, 2023
Ends: Apr 30, 2023
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School Library Month (SLM) first ran in 1985.

School librarians are encouraged to create activities to help their school and local community celebrate the essential role that vital school library programs play in a student's educational career.

The following is excerpted and adapted from AASL Celebrates First National School Library Media Month.

Lucille Thomas, chair of the School Library Media Month Committee, spearheaded the AASL efforts for a national School Library Month. President Judy King appointed Thomas in 1983.

Thomas and her committee gathered ideas from previous state and local celebrations for school libraries and compiled a fifty-two-page handbook for the first national observance. In April 1985, members of the committee were Edna Bayliss, Elsie Brainard, Winona Jones, Elizabeth Kenneson, Elinor McCloskey, and Virginia Moore.

The first national observance of School Library Month theme was: Where Learning Never Ends: The School Library Media Center.

AASL officials and local and national dignitaries got the month off to a rousing start on April 1, 1985, with a ceremony on the west steps of the United States Capitol. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) delivered the keynote address. Moynihan told the school librarians in the audience,

In 2010, the name changed to School Library Month after the Board of Directors voted to readopt the professional title school librarian from the former school library media specialist.

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