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=** Library Information and Technology Programs for 21st Century Learning **=


 * October 19, 2010:** Welcome ProjectLIT evangelists! Thanks for attending the workshops and presentations at WLMA. If you are looking for the handouts and planning documents by Colet Bartow and Mike Eisenberg, check here.

Welcome. Like many great ideas, projectLIT emerged from a simple question: "what do school libraries do?" When asked to provide the Washington State Legislature a clear and articulate definition of program and purpose, we couldn't. And so Steve Coker did what he does best--he pulled out his address book and collected alpha librarians from around the region and asked Mike Eisenberg to host at University of Washington. In three hours, a room full of very strong personalities agreed on a very simple, very elegant and very succinct framework that defined what a school library program should look like as we begin the second decade of the 21st Century. Also like many great ideas, that set off a chain reaction of thinking, talking, collaboration and planning that is still very much in its infancy.


 * LIT stands for **library****information** and **technology**. LIT defines both program and place. You may call it a library, but it has to be about much more than that.
 * And despite the retro stylings of the AASL, we are **teacher librarians**. //Doceo ergo sum//. We teach. Therefore we are.
 * Our job is to ensure that students are effective users and producers of information and ideas.
 * Like projectLIT, this space is just starting to hum. Keep checking back as this revolution continues.