Daniel Callison's work as editor of SLMR honored during Annual Conference  At AASL’s Board of Directors meeting during the ALA 2008 Annual Conference, Daniel Callison was honored for his work as School Library Media Research’s (SLMR) editor from 1997 to 2007. Read the press release.

Use of social networking tools in schools explored in AASL’s second longitudinal survey  Selected questions from AASL’s second longitudinal survey focused on the use of social networking tools by school library media specialists and their teacher collaborators in elementary and secondary schools. Questions focused on which social networking tools schools utilized in preparing their students for learning in the 21st century. Final results of the 2008 survey will be released in August 2008. Read the press release on the results from the social networking questions.

AASL recieves $520,000 for Beyond Words grant program  An additional $520,000 is available for Beyond Words: The Dollar General School Library Relief Program. The project provides relief to schools affected by disasters to rebuild and expand public school library media programs. To date, 85 grants worth $757,745 have been distributed to school library media centers affected by disasters. Funds will be available until May 2010. Read the press release.