Quick and Powerful Quotes for School Library Advocacy
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   "Information availability will undoubtedly continue to mushroom, which will make a strong school library media program even more essential to help students acquire the skills they will need to harness and use information for a productive and fulfilling life." ...American Library Association, Information Power  
     
   "To build excellent libraries, we must purchase at least two books per pupil per year." ...Middle Grades Reading Network, Libraries & Reading  
     
  Good readers practice READING everyday! The challenge is to be able to purchase books that kids WANT TO READ!...Della Curtis, Coordinator, Library Information Services  
     
   "Current, interesting, and attractive library book collections are essential for healthy reading programs."...Middle Grades Reading Network, Libraries & Reading  
     
 

 "Research shows that students who do a lot of reading "on their own" become better readers because independent reading:

  • Enhances their reading comprehension;
  • Provides them with a wide range of background knowledge;
  • Accounts for one-third or more of their vocabulary growth; and
  • Promotes reading as a lifelong activity.

    The Center for the Study of Reading at the University of Illinois
 
     
   "Libraries are part of the American dream. They help people of
all ages and backgrounds get the information they need to lead better lives."
American Library Association		  
     
   "As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia. And even today, as I travel around the world, I often visit places I used to dream about because of the books I'd read. The library made a difference in my life."...Ed Bradley, news correspondent for "60 Minutes"  
     
  "One of my greatest sources of pleasure is reading. I knew at a very young age that reading for me was the ultimate source of freedom. With knowledge, you have the potential to reach great heights in every phase of life-from childhood through adulthood."...Oprah Winfrey, talk show host   
     
  "Simply providing interesting books for children is the most powerful incentive for reading. This conclusion is consistent with research showing that extrinsic incentives for reading have not been effective (McQuillan 1997) Improving access to books and giving children a quiet, comfortable place to read does successfully encourage reading. We must build critically needed reading environments for all our learners ­ book by book....Krashen, Stephen. "Bridging Inequity with Books," Educational Leadership, 12/1997-l/1998  
     
  "Information is exploding but library budgets aren't."
American Library Association		  
     
   "In our information-rich society secondary school graduates are expected to be able to apply sophisticated learning strategies. They are expected to be able to access and organize data, evaluate what they encounter, and make decisions. These expectations place renewed emphases on secondary school reading instruction because print is a major source of information and ideas. ...
Moore, David. NASSP Bulletin, Oct 1998		  
     
   "The time was when a library was very much like a museum, and a librarian was a mouser in musty books...The time is when a library is a school, and the librarian is the highest sense a teacher."...Melvil Dewey, American Library Journal, September 1876  
     
   "When the lights go out in our libraries, the Dark Ages are coming again."...Mitch Hager, 1985