From: Kathy Johnson <kmquimby>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:21:01 -0500

The one bright spot in all the Chesterfield debacle: the students started the petition! Hurrah for the students of Chesterfield, who know what matters.

Otherwise, I'm sitting here completely gobsmacked.

Kathy Q.


At 05:04 PM 12/1/2008, Ruth I. Gordon wrote:

>Not only in 'murika--Big G
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: UK Authors fight to preserve school
> > library
> >
> > The campaign to save the library at Meadows Community School was
> > started by
> > its pupils, who began a petition when they heard that their
> > librarian, Clare
> > Broadbelt, had been told that her post was no longer required
> > because of 'a
> > move towards the relocation and redistribution of non-fiction and
> > fiction
> > resources in the light of the new developments in a virtual-learning
> > environment and interactive learning'.
> >
> > A string of famous authors have joined the battle since then.
> > Broadbelt was
> > told that the library was not being removed, but would be operated
> > in a
> > different way, with curriculum leaders managing the resources from the
> > internet. Fiction material would be maintained in a new reading
> > centre for
> > use in break times and at after-school clubs, but it would not need a
> > librarian.
> >
> >

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