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Like community colleges, public high schools provide an insufficient number of librarians. If we want our population to be information literate, we need to hire more librarians across the board. If we truly live in an information age, we need information professionals; we need librarians, and we need lots of them. One librarian is not enough at a community college.

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Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  1. Community Member

    In our area, many of the high schools have gone to library aides running school libraries. Although many of them come with lots of experience, they just don't have the background in theory that MLS librarians bring.

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  2. kellyr

    What Community Member says is happening in Kansas as well. This lack of respect for the role of the library in schools and its impact on academic achievement, which research demonstrates is a core indicator, causes traditional freshman at all levels to be further behind in being information literate and technologically savy. And when 2yr schools do not supply quality library resources and staffing, how can it be expected for students to just KNOW how to research when there isn't resources accessible nor staff to train them.

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