Brief Description: Leaflets, pamphlets, bibliographies, and reprints (1923-94) distributed by AASL and relating to membership in AASL, the establishment and operation of elementary and high school libraries, standards for school library programs, selection of books, reading campaigns, duties of school librarians, planning library facilities, service to partially-blind children, bibliographies, and federal programs that affect school libraries. The series also includes Microcomputer in the Media Center Award Best Ideas (1985-1986) and the AASL National Conference and Exhibition Program Books.

Record Series Number: 20/3/3

Created by: American Association of School Librarians (AASL) (1915-)

Volume: 1.0 Cubic Feet

Acquired: 4/26/74, 7/31/01, 9/11/2002; 2015; 12/15/2020; 5/25/2021

Arrangement: By type and alphabetical thereunder

Biographical Note for American Association of School Librarians (AASL) (1915-) :

The first annual meeting of the School Libraries Section was held in East Hall, University of California, at 9:30 Saturday morning, June 5, 1915, with an attendance of 250. In the opening meeting, the purpose of the section was outlined. "The school library being one of the great problems of library endeavor, it is fitting that there should be a section in the American Library Association devoted to the discussion of work with all classes of schools" (1).

The American Association of School Librarians (ASSL) is interested in "the general improvement and extension of library services for children and young people."

The American Association of School Libraries became a division of ALA on January 1, 1951. Formerly it was a section of the Division of Libraries for Children and Young People; and before 1941 it was the School Libraries Section of ALA organized in 1915 (2).

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