Chesterton High School Library Media Specialist, Emily Wilt, has been selected to serve as the chair-elect of the Association of Indiana School Library Educators (AISLE)*.
AISLE, a school-library-specific subdivision of the Indiana Library Federation (the state-level organization for all library staff, from public to school to academic to special) has an average membership of over 200 and focuses on school librarian advocacy and support.
This board appointment is a six-year commitment in addition to her duties as the media specialist at Chesterton High School. Wilt will serve two years as chair-elect, learning more about the organization as well as responsibilities and supporting the current chair. In 2023, she will take over as chair, and in 2025 she will transition into a two-year role as past chair before rotating off the AISLE board.
Responsibilities will include membership retention & outreach, local and state advocacy, revising the AISLE evaluation rubric, helping plan annual mini-conferences (AISLEcamp) and the school library strands at the state conference (ILF Annual), helping educate their members on the implementation of their national school library standards (the AASL standards), and more.
“I'm excited to take this new step in my career,” said Wilt. “It definitely helps to have awesome people to work with, both at Duneland and at AISLE.”
*Fun DSC fact: Yost Elementary Library Specialist, Kris Borrelli, helped coin the AISLE acronym years ago when the association was in need of an updated name.