School Library Month - Advocacy Committee Challenge #2 

#VAASL SmallSteps25 

Concurrent Session Proposals NOW OPEN!

The Concurrent Session Proposal Form for the 2025 Fall Conference is now open! We’d love for you to share your knowledge with us. Please consider applying to present a session this year in Williamsburg. The most requested topics from the wish list form are as follows:

- BOOKS (new, award winners, diverse, what you use for lessons, etc)
- Lessons (all levels)
- Collaboration ideas
- Grants
- Reading Promotion
- Makerspace ideas
- Technology / Apps
- AI
- Student volunteers
- Book clubs

April is School Library month and Governor Youngkin has signed an official certificate of recognition for Virginia. 

Click here to view and download

Dear VAASL members and supporters,

 On March 14, an Executive Order from the White House called for reductions to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), among other cultural institutions.

Also, our voting has wrapped up for the next round of VAASL Book Clubs and the results are below!  Thank you all to who voted and helped with these decisions.

VAASL Book Club April 1st

Thank you all so much for joining us last week in Williamsburg for VAASL 2024. It was so exciting to have over 700+ school librarians in one space learning, sharing, and growing as professionals. We hope you had a wonderful time.

As we begin to think about the 2025 conference, we would love your feedback. Please fill out this short 10 question survey about the conference.  The information will be useful to our Conference Planning Committee as they begin to work on our 50^th Anniversary Conference – Nov. 5^th-7^th, 2025 in Williamsburg, VA.

NEW! VAASL One Pagers

Over the summer, the VAASL Board worked on various important librarian topics to start creating helpful one pagers for our membership to use. Check out the first ones here. They can be navigated to selecting "Resources" and then "One Pagers." Note: You must be logged in to view this content. 

Stay tuned for more to be added!

You can now purchase books online before the conference and simply pick them up at our booth (402) during VAASL. No need to worry about books selling out—secure your copies in advance!