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This guide's content designed and prepared by former Pratt SI student and library graduate assistant, Manuela Aronofsky.
Children's Librarianship
- AASL Standards Framework for Learners
The AASL Standards framework reflects a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning by demonstrating the connection between learner, librarian, and library standards. - ALSC Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries
ALSC recommends the following Competencies to all children’s librarians and other library staff whose primary duties include delivering public library service to and advocating library service for children ages 0 to 14. - YALSA Teen Services Competencies for Library Staff
The latest resource developed to help graduate schools, library administrators, and library staff guarantee that all teens receive high quality service from their public and school libraries, regardless of whether the library has the capacity to dedicate a full-time position to serving teens. - ALA Access to Resources and Services in the School Library
Under these principles, all students have equitable access to library facilities, resources, and instructional programs.
Librarianship
- ALA’S Core Competencies of Librarianship
This document defines the basic knowledge to be possessed by all persons graduating from an ALA-accredited master’s program in library and information studies. - ALA’S Core Values of Librarianship
These values reflect the history and ongoing development of the [library] profession and have been advanced, expanded, and refined by numerous policy statements of the American Library Association. Among these are: access, confidentiality/privacy, democracy, diversity, education and lifelong learning, intellectual freedom, preservation, the public good, professionalism, service, social responsibility, and sustainability. - ALA Library Bill of Rights
The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the listed basic policies should guide their services. - ALA Freedom to Read Statement
The freedom to read is guaranteed by the Constitution. Those with faith in free people will stand firm on these constitutional guarantees of essential rights and will exercise the responsibilities that accompany these rights. ALA defines several propositions pertaining to intellectual freedom. - IFLA Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom
IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) supports, defends and promotes intellectual freedom as defined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. IFLA declares that human beings have a fundamental right to access to expressions of knowledge, creative thought and intellectual activity, and to express their views publicly.