By Thursday Review staff
April is School Library Month, and according to the website for the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), the month-long celebration is meant—among other things—to raise awareness of the importance of libraries and librarians in the education of children. The AASL recruited former NBA star and author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as this year’s celebrity spokesman. “America’s school libraries,” Abdul-Jabbar said, “are an inexhaustible fountain of knowledge. They provide today’s students with the skills they need to achieve great things in their lives.”
For more information please visit the American Library Association’s website: http://www.ala.org/aasl/slm
