LISMA, Long Island School Media Association


	.	Winter 2009

President's Message

Happiness is a Student Body Who Loves to
Read

LISMA General Membership meeting, 10/22/08

Support our Corporate Members

President's Message PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SUPPORT by Rita Kaikow, President As President of the Long Island School Media Association, let me take this opportunity to thank-you for joining and/or renewing your membership in LISMA or encourage you to do so without delay. This is a significant step on your part. Your membership and participation in conferences, meetings, workshops and other events lends evidence to the important role that you play and your sincere intentions for professional growth. All of these provide opportunities for the exchange of ideas and information....more.

HAPPINESS IS A STUDENT BODY WHO LOVES TO READ BY MARILYN ABRAMOWITZ I am thrilled to report that Reading for Pleasure is alive and well at my high school. Due to the almost daily requests for certain authors, titles, genres and subjects, our Library Media Center’s fiction collection is growing in leaps and bounds ...more.

LIBRARY LITE BY MARILYN ABRAMOWITZ *Can you catch a case of happy?* It will be a rousing “YES!!!” if speaking with a member of the research team, headed by Dr. Nicholas Christakis, social scientist from the Harvard Medical School and Dr. James Fowler, political scientist from the University of California, San Diego... more

LISMA’S General Membership Meeting on Oct. 22, 2008, was attended by a small, but enthusiastic group of School Media Specialists from elementary, middle and high school libraries. Our featured speaker, Craig Sciglimpaglia, gave a most informative presentation on the use of Gale/Cengage products which included the NOVEL products, databases and Virtual Reference books that are free to all libraries through New York State.....more

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