Allison Library

We've got amazing news to share! In an unexpected turn of events at tonight's board meeting, the board voted to restore a full time librarian at EVERY campus in Austin ISD. They then voted to pass the budget with that position included!

We are so appreciative of the board members who thoughtfully discussed this decision and weighed the merits! Thanks to all of you who made calls and wrote letters advocating for the difference librarians make to an entire campus. We are humbly grateful. It has been a very challenging few months for the AISD community and for the board, and we are not unaware of the many difficulties the budget situation has encountered. So we are doubly grateful for the vision that AISD has to support students with the literacy resources that elementary librarians provide and the ways librarians support every staff member on a campus.

Thank you Austin Public Library's Literature Live! Our K-2nd grade students loved the puppet show. Austin ISD School Libraries

Thank you so much for the free books Book Drive for Kids! We had so much fun choosing books at the Teacher Book Fair today.

In honor of National School Library Month, please consider following Friends of AISD Library or joining their list at bit.ly/austinisdFOLinterest

"I don't even like this. I'm just finishing it." — Tristan G.

CEDAR HOLLOW JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT — Eighth-grader Tristan entered the Creekview Middle School media center at approximately 10:15 a.m. Wednesday with both hands in his hoodie pockets and informed Mrs. Delacroix, the school librarian, that he "doesn't really read" and was "just here because Mr. Bauer said I had to pick something." Mrs. Delacroix, a 19-year media specialist who sources say has not failed to match a reluctant reader since 2011, asked Tristan exactly two questions — "Do you play video games?" and "Do you like it when things go wrong?" — before disappearing into the graphic novel section for approximately nine seconds and returning with a single book.

Tristan reportedly looked at the cover, said "I guess," and sat down at the nearest table to flip through the first few pages. He did not stand up for 45 minutes. His English teacher, Mr. Bauer, told sources that Tristan returned to fourth period "visibly agitated" that the class bell had rung and asked — for the first time in the academic year — if there was a way to get extra library time. "He told me the book was 'fine' and that he 'didn't care about it,' and then asked me three times if there was a sequel," Mr. Bauer confirmed.

Mrs. Delacroix, who has declined to explain her methodology, was seen placing two additional titles on hold under Tristan's name before he had left the building.

❤️ Love Your Libraries: April is School Librarian Appreciation Month! 📚
School librarians inspire curiosity, connect students with great books, and create opportunities for discovery every day.
The Austin ISD Library Fund supports ALL AISD school libraries through annual mini-grants that help fund:
📚 New books and collection development
👩‍🏫 Author visits
🤖 Technology and STEM learning
✨ Show your appreciation this month by supporting our school libraries. When you donate, you can choose to support all AISD libraries or designate a specific school library.
Give today:

Support Austin ISD's Libraries Help support Austin ISD’s Libraries! Our libraries are the hearts of our schools and with increasingly thin budgets, librarians are working hard to keep them beating. Library budgets vary widely across the district: some schools are well-funded, while others receive $0. Help us enable all Austin I...

Thank you so much Book Drive for Kids for visiting our school. Our students and teachers love their new books!

I am late in posting this, but we had a great time hosting Don Tate (author-illustrator) in January. Austin ISD School Libraries

We had a fun day learning about animal adaptations with Ms. Smyth from Wildlife Association.