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 As my contribution to the blog, I am adding the link to Destiny's online training options. Destiny is the online library management system many public school libraries use. It is a good resource to have on hand if you are new to working in a school library, especially if you need to teach your staff how to use Destiny. Destiny Library Manager Training | Opportunities for Library Professionals (follettlearning.com)
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 Hello, my name is Michelle and though this is my first blog that I've worked on, I consider myself tech savvy and hope to share some tech knowledge here.  My first contribution to this blog is the addition of a favicon to distinguish ours from other Blogger blogs. A favicon is also known as a tab icon, URL icon, bookmark icon, etc, and is visible on the browser tab for the webpage.  In making this change, I also learned a valuable tip. At first when I was attempting to change the icon, the change was not visible. I learned that to force refresh a website and show changes that were made, I had to press Ctrl + F5. 
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Demise of School Libraries

Book Bans and Censorship by Michelle Amundson School libraries are facing several different difficulties these days ranging from budget cuts, transition to online sources and eBooks, to increasing controversy over books in collections. There has been a spike in books being challenged in both public and school libraries, ALA says an increase of 65% for individual titles, and a whopping 93% increase in public libraries alone (NPR). This is an incredible increase that challenges not only the books but the staff who curate the collections that these libraries hold. Mark Liberman states that “librarians have faced verbal abuse, online harassment, calls for criminal charges, and death threats” based on inclusive and diverse choices for their library collections. This is something that no library staff should have to face because of a disagreement in policy regarding provided library resources. Despite this increase in opposition regarding specific resources provided, there is still a fight f...
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