Brief Description: School Library Development Project File including grant applications, correspondence, addresses, inventories, newsletters, programs, reports, public relations brochures, photographs and newspaper clippings related to the School Library Development Project funded by a $100,000 grant of the council on Library Resources. The project promoted understanding and implementation of the 1960 national Standards for School Library Programs. The Standards, published in monograph form by the ALA, described school library resources and services needed for quality education for children and young people and resources and presented guidelines for developing school library programs. Funds were allocated to help selected states meet the costs of obtaining special consultants, holding planning meetings, providing programs at conferences and obtaining materials for distribution. The file includes a narrative script, tape recording, and 60 35mm color slides for We Serve Our Schools (1961), produced by the School Library Development Project.

Record Series Number: 20/5/8

Created by: American Association of School Librarians (AASL) (1915-)

Volume: 2.3 Cubic Feet

Acquired: 11/3/75; 4/23/90

Arrangement: Alphabetical and alphabetical thereunder

Biographical Note for American Association of School Librarians (AASL) (1915-) :

The first annual meeting of the School Libraries Section was held in East Hall, University of California, at 9:30 Saturday morning, June 5, 1915, with an attendance of 250. In the opening meeting, the purpose of the section was outlined. "The school library being one of the great problems of library endeavor, it is fitting that there should be a section in the American Library Association devoted to the discussion of work with all classes of schools" (1).

The American Association of School Librarians (ASSL) is interested in "the general improvement and extension of library services for children and young people."

The American Association of School Libraries became a division of ALA on January 1, 1951. Formerly it was a section of the Division of Libraries for Children and Young People; and before 1941 it was the School Libraries Section of ALA organized in 1915 (2).

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