Today, Publishers Weekly posted an article announcing the Institute of Museum & Library Services funding via the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant program of Antioch University Seattle’s project, SLIDE: The School Librarian Initiative–Decline or Evolution? The article is accompanied by photographs of Project Director Debra E. Kachel of Antioch University Seattle and Principal Investigator Keith Curry Lance, Ph.D., of RSL Research Group.

Kachel and Lance and a team of skilled colleagues are pleased to be getting to do this much needed study, and to have the support of national partners, Future Ready Schools/Alliance for Excellent Education and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), an impressive advisory council of library and education leaders, and intermediary organizations in all 50 states and DC.