Readers are Leaders Amazing Summer Race to Read© Literacy Log©

Readers are Leaders Amazing Summer Race to Read©

Every 10 books win a reading prize!

Three ways to enter:

1) Complete the Literacy Log©

2) Complete a book report form at workshop

3) Complete book report in artbook with name of book, author, copyright, and a picture of the favorite part of the book.

Parents must also be reading a book and enter it into the Literacy Log©!

My philosophy in librarianship has been molded by my years as an educator and performing artist. I believe public libraries are the staple of a community as a means of socialization and engagement. 

An open, inclusive, and collaborative environment, Ethics, professionalism and integrity, Excellence and innovation, Social responsibility and the public good, Advocacy for Libraries and the Profession, Diversity, Equitable Access to Information and Library Services, Literacy, Organizational Excellence, Transforming Libraries, Extending and expanding library services in America and around the world

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According to ALA (2018), librarianship is based on the foundation of modern librarianship, which rests on an essential set of core values that define, inform, and guide our professional practice. These values reflect the history and ongoing development of the profession and have been advanced, expanded, and refined by numerous policy statements of the American Library Association. 

Among these are: access, confidentiality/privacy, democracy, diversity, education and lifelong learning, intellectual freedom, preservation, the public good, professionalism, service, and social responsibility. It is of vital importance that there be professional education available to meet the social needs and goals of library services. 

I believe in the First Amendment right of all persons to free expression, and the corollary right to receive the constitutionally protected expression of others. 

The publicly supported library provides free and equal access to information for all people of the community the library serves. 

I believe that I am an advocate for providing and the preservation of Information Policy, Professional & Leadership Development, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Access. Providing library patrons with information resources, which I will provided directly or indirectly, regardless of technology, format, or methods of delivery, should be readily, equally, and equitably accessible to all library users.  

"Intellectual freedom can exist only where two essential conditions are met: first, that all individuals have the right to hold any belief on any subject and to convey their ideas in any form they deem appropriate, and second, that society makes an equal commitment to the right of unrestricted access to information and ideas regardless of the communication medium used, the content of work, and the viewpoints of both the author and the receiver of information." - Intellectual Freedom Manual, 7th edition

I strongly believe in Education and Lifelong Learning through the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of a learning society, encouraging its members to work with educators, government officials, and organizations in coalitions to initiate and support comprehensive efforts to ensure that school, public, academic, and special libraries in every community cooperate to provide lifelong learning services to all. 

I believe in Confidentiality/Privacy by protecting user privacy and confidentiality is necessary for intellectual freedom and fundamental to the ethics and practice of librarianship. In a library (physical or virtual), the right to privacy is the right to open inquiry without having the subject of one’s interest examined or scrutinized by others. 

I believe that I must strive for excellence in the profession by maintaining and enhancing my own knowledge and skills, by encouraging the professional development of co-workers, and by fostering the aspirations of potential members of the profession that librarianship can make in ameliorating or solving the critical problems of society; support for efforts to help inform and educate the people of the United States on these problems and to encourage them to examine the many views on and the facts regarding each problem; 

It is in the public interest for publishers and librarians to make available the widest diversity of views and expressions, including those that are unorthodox, unpopular, or considered dangerous by the majority. The power of a democratic system to adapt to change is vastly strengthened by the freedom of its citizens to choose widely from among conflicting opinions offered freely to them. Publishers, librarians, and booksellers do not need to endorse every idea or presentation they make available. 

Publishers and librarians serve the educational process by helping to make available knowledge and ideas required for the growth of the mind and the increase of learning. The people should have the freedom to read and consider a broader range of ideas than those that may be held by any single librarian or publisher or government or church. It is my responsibility to be a guardian of the people's freedom to read, to contest encroachments upon that freedom by individuals or groups seeking to impose their own standards or tastes upon the community at large; and by the government whenever it seeks to reduce or deny public access to public information. 

I believe in a democratic society, which is more safe, free, and creative when the free flow of public information is not restricted by governmental prerogative or self-censorship. It is my responsibility to give full meaning to the freedom to read by providing books that enrich the quality and diversity of thought and expression. 

The freedom to read is of little consequence when the reader cannot obtain matter fit for that reader's purpose. What is needed is not only the absence of restraint, but the positive provision of opportunity for the people to read the best that has been thought and said. Books are the major channel by which intellectual inheritance is handed down, and the principal means of its testing and growth. 

The defense of the freedom to read requires of all publishers and librarians the utmost of their faculties, and deserves of all Americans the fullest of their support.

I value our nation's diversity and strive to reflect that diversity by providing a full spectrum of resources and services to the communities we serve. I believe I must defend the constitutional rights of all individuals, including children and teenagers, to use the library’s resources and services; I value our nation’s diversity and strive to reflect that diversity by providing a full spectrum of resources and services to the communities we serve; I affirm the responsibility and the right of all parents and guardians to guide their own children’s use of the library and its resources and services; 

I connect people and ideas by helping each person select from and effectively use the library’s resources; I protect each individual’s privacy and confidentiality in the use of library resources and services; I protect the rights of individuals to express their opinions about library resources and services; I celebrate and preserve our democratic society by making available the widest possible range of viewpoints, opinions and ideas, so that all individuals have the opportunity to become lifelong learners - informed, literate, educated, and culturally enriched.