  Blue Ribbon Program Award
Honors and recognizes exemplary school library media programs in the state of Indiana. Any school accredited by the Indiana Department of Education may attain this award in a three-year cycle. Individual buildings will qualify for this award. It is not a district award. Minimum Criteria: -- All media specialists applying for this award must be Association for Indiana Media Educators (AIME) members. -- The application must be submitted by a Library Media Specialist employed full-time in the school which is applying for the award. -- The school must spend a minimum of $12 per student in general fund money on books and periodicals from the previous one-year funding cycle. Miscellaneous -- Documentation must be included to show that the media program meets a majority of the exemplary criteria in each category of the American Association of School Librarians rubric which is found in A Planning Guide for Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning (1999). *5 out of 8 must be exemplary for
Section A: Teaching and Learning -- Any school accredited by the Indiana Department of Education may attain this award in a three-year cycle. Additional Supporting Documentation (Optional) -- No more than three (3) other
forms of miscellaneous publications -- For complete details to apply
for this award, visit: http://www.ilfonline.org/AIME/BlueRibbon.htm
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