CHICAGO – Rebecca Caufman, library media specialist at Radford High School in Radford, Virginia, is one of five school librarians from across the country receiving a 2021 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Inspire Special Event Grant. Made possible by the generosity of AASL member Marina “Marney” Welmers, the grant program provides funds for public middle or high school libraries to plan a special event to enhance student learning.
The Radford High School Library serves all of the southwestern Virginia school system’s secondary students. The physical space is shared with the neighboring intermediate school and is staffed by one full-time school librarian, first-year school librarian Caufman. The library’s mission is to encourage lifelong learning through literacy while helping to ensure that students become effective and ethical users of ideas and…
