Yeah, I was! I work as a special ed assistant in kindergarten (and let's not forget the recess supervisor...seriously the best job in the world). Anyway, the word on the street was that they were getting rid of the librarians in Provo and our librarian is the best librarian in the world, so I had to fight it!
I wrote an impassioned letter (that's what the herald called it--I hate being emotional, but I suppose that's what I am) and they did a story on it. And I had to do some scary things like go on the radio. Good news though. Our librarian at least gets to work until she's retired. The PTA is fighting to keep them longer. I'm hoping they win. I told them I'd help them with petitions or anything like that.
It just would be sad to get rid of the librarians because they seriously do more than we think they do (i.e: babysit and alphabetize books). I sit in on those classes (since I basically am like a student, think Billy Madison female version), and even in kindergarten (and first grade, which I've done for awhile), the librarian is teaching them some good research skills.
And since I really like these kids that I work with, I just want them to have the same learning opportunities that I had (well, I'd like for them to have better even, but I'm from Washington so...). Our librarian reads every book that comes through and she knows each kid and she kinda matches them up with books. It's really cool to see. She doesn't do that thing where she forbids the kids to check out certain books because they're 'supposedly' too high for that kid's level. No, she knows exactly what they're passionate about and suggests those kinds of books.
Woa, sorry...I only meant to write a little bit about this, but it seems to me that since the schools are stressing literacy so much at this time that they wouldn't take away this link between kids and books. I'd really hate to see this happen.