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Bilmes received his Masters of Library Science degree 22 years ago. There are a lot of things he studied during his MLS program that he had forgotten. For example, he doesn't remember how the Library of Congress cataloging system works. That's probably because the only time in his life he actually had to know that was when he was taking his cataloging course. But there was one piece of advice he received from an instructor in his school library program that was as useful as anything else he learned. The instructor, a longtime teacher librarian, told us, \"The most important people in the school building are the secretaries and the custodians.\" At the time, he thought that was a strange piece of advice. After all, aren't the administrators the most important people? As time passed though, and he embarked on his teaching career, he realized just how useful that advice had been. There were countless times when he needed furniture moved--or removed--or assistance in getting chairs and a podium set up for a program he was running. Or a lightbulb replaced, or someone to check into why the air conditioning wasn't working in the library.

No school librarian is successful in a vacuum. They can't just sit in their offices (if they have one!) and keep to themselves. They need to find ways to make connections. They need to create communities of learners, linking up with a wide variety of people. For most, they are the only school librarian in their building. In his twenty-year career, he was always a solo school librarian. In his last position, which lasted six years, he didn't even have the luxury of a library aide. To make connections and create community connections, he often had to think outside of the box. When he took over a high school position where there was virtually no culture of classroom teachers collaborating with the school librarian, he was desperate for a way to get students and staff into the beautiful space of the library media center. Inspired by a Listening Lunch program he had read about that took place at a Massachusetts high school, he came up with a similar idea: Live at the LMC!

The \"Yale 4\" had another day in court Monday, when they asked an appeals court in New York City to overturn on religious grounds the school's policy that requires students at Yale University to live in co-ed dormitories. \"We were very pleased that so many people turned out,\" said Dov Greer, [Batsheva Greer]'s brother. \"We're proud that much of the Jewish population of Connecticut supports us.\" \"They love Yale, and they love going there,\" Dov Greer said. \"All they're asking for is that Yale respect their Orthodox Judaism.\"