Hi

Once again, it's time to renew our memberships in AERA and to sign up for our SIGs.  And that means it's time for me to ask you to make one of those SIGs the Research, Education, and Information in School Libraries (REISL) SIG.  We've increased our membership this year, and we sponsored a successful session in Denver last spring, so we're still going strong.  We're still very small, though, and it's important that we continue to grow.  You can help!

Having an official presence at AERA gives us a chance to move School Library Media research into the mainstream of educational research.  We'd like to do more of that!  But presentations slots are determined by the size of a SIG, so we have to keep growing.  AERA's big membership drive is going on now, so now's the time for you to step up.

AERA is the premier educational research association in the United States and beyond.  If you're an educator of School Library Media Specialists or a graduate student focusing on that field, please consider joining (or re-joining) AERA and REISL to advance your own interests and the profession's.  Dues are $150 a year for regular members and $40 a year for students.  There's a $7 charge to join one or any number of SIGs once you're a member--clearly, a bargain!  And there's a $5 charge for REISL dues--another bargain.

REISL offers an opportunity for you and for the field.  Please go to www.aera.net to become a member.  I hope to see you on our membership list sometime soon.

Best wishes,
Delia Neuman
Chair, REISL




Delia Neuman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director of the School Library Media Program
College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875
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phone:  215-895-0474
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