No Professional Staffing in Harrisburg Public School Libraries: Hey, guys, everyone's doin' it!

The path to success in school comes through the library door: As I See It. (Harrisburg Patriot-News, 8/23/2013)

All the more reason to do it.

Yup, let's be myopic and reap those short-term gains, and to hell with student learning and achievement.

Excerpt:    Without a librarian to manage things, Pennsylvania's POWER Library databases and e-books, to which every school has access via licenses to digital resources provided by the state, will go unused. 

Without a librarian to manage things, and keep the technology and collection up to date, books start disappearing. Classroom teachers stop using the library. After a while, the library door is permanently locked. Renovating and reopening a closed school library actually can be more expensive than the money saved through initial cuts.

Not to mention the research.

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