President's Welcome Message

September 04, 2017 09:00 | Anonymous member

Greetings,


I hope your school year has gotten off to a great start!  I’m excited to begin another year, not only as a school librarian, but as the president of NHSLMA.  We have a terrific group of dedicated board members are looking forward to continuing to build upon the mission of our organization:


NHSLMA empowers librarians in New Hampshire schools to build
effective school library programs.
  


The board alone can not carry forward this charge; our objective is to create a framework to provide members with opportunities to share and grow professionally.   As your opening days settle into a daily routine, I hope you will consider participating in one or more ways:


  • Sign up to participate in a regional group which will be coordinated this year by board member Karen Landsman.  
  • Be on the lookout for the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference brochure. We are excited to announce Anita Cellucci, 2016 SLJ Librarian of the Year finalist will be our luncheon speaker on Thursday.  
  • Share or ask questions on Twitter with the #nhslma hashtag - include #tlchat to reach a wider audience.  The feed will be curated by a different member each month so make sure you are a follower.  
  • Let me know if you’d like to write a blog post on a topic and be profiled on the NHSLMA website.  We hope to bring you at least two a month.  
  • Update your contact information in the NHSLMA directory and include a picture.
  • Send an email to the listserv with something that worked well or a problem that's got you stumped.
  • Attend a board meeting held the third Thursday of every month 4:30 - 6:30, PSU campus, Concord, NH.
In other news...

Justine Thain and Audra Lewis will be representing NHSLMA at the November AASL conference and bringing back information about the revised standards.

Donna Zecha and I met with our new Commissioner of Education, Frank Edelblut in July.  Our goal was to make sure Commissioner Edelblut knows we have a strong network of librarians throughout the state that are willing to be called upon to participate as needed.  We were pleased to learn he is a strong supporter and understands the value of libraries.  

Commissioner Edelblut, working with the NEA and other organizations, has also agreed to continue to fund educators access to EBSCO’s wealth of research resources to improve professional practice.  Access information will be sent out through the listserv shortly.  

And lastly, a very big thank you to our Library Camp organizers: Karen Abraham, Audra Lewis, Justine Thain and Etienne Vallée for a terrific day.  I don’t think I have ever had more fun at a conference.  If you didn’t make it, or want to refresh your memory, visit the Library Camp Website for resources.  

If you have any questions or comments please don't hesitate to reach out to me at rachel.hopkins@nhsau57.org.   I hope to see you soon at one of our many events.  Best wishes for a terrific year.

Rachel

Rachel Hopkins
NHSLMA President
School Librarian, Salem High School
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