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The WLA School Library Division provides networking opportunities and professional support for teacher-librarians and library paraprofessionals, administrators, teachers and parents. Together we work to ensure that Washington's students are effective users and producers of ideas and information by providing:

support for information and technology literacy instruction
reading advocacy for lifelong learning and enrichment
equitable access to information resources and services

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WA School Intellectual Freedom/Materials Policy Examples

Washington teacher-librarians and library professionals have shared their Collection Development and Request for Reconsideration policies with WLA for the benefit of our membership. Are you looking for example models to help begin or further development your school library's policies? Please take a look at the examples shared.

Would you like to add your school library's policies? Please email them to the WLA Office at [email protected].

Washington School Library Advocacy Toolkit

These documents and ideas are intended to help Washington school libraries advocate for their positions and collections when those are threatened. Although leaders from WLA, WLA School Library Division, ALA and AASL will work with local librarians to respond to job cuts and loss of funding, we believe the greatest impact comes from local librarians, parents, students, another community members leading the effort.

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