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her teaching and in the articles that she published, there is a strong recurring theme, and that is the importance that she places on the role of the school librarian. She believed that school librarians should really understand and execute both the 'theory of the curriculum and also the instructional technology'. Grazier worked as a professor at Wayne State
University until she retired in 1983. After Grazier's death in 1999, her husband created a scholarship in her name, The Margaret Hayes Grazier Endowed Scholarship Fund, at the school in which she spent the largest portion of her career, Wayne State University. The scholarship is presented yearly to students in the Library and Information Science Program who meet academic, character and leadership qualifications, in addition to financial need. They must also be pursuing a career in Grazier's specialty of school library media or youth services.
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was an exceptionally difficult year to hold this position because of the diminishing state funding for education. School library positions were being eliminated and there were severe
University of Michigan budget cuts. The troubling financial times that surrounded her presidency forced her to focus mainly on coming up with funding solutions for jobs and services at the state level that she believed to be a vital part of the learning process. After her term as president, Grazier became the editor of MAME's journal,
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faculty as an associate professor and eventually was promoted to a full time professor in 1972. In this role she was able to apply her knowledge of school libraries, specifically in the area of school librarian leadership in the library curriculum and its vital role in the learning process. In both
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Grazier is known in the library field for her work in expanding the role of school library media specialist. In the 1960s the librarian's traditional role was that of a storyteller and provider of space for students to read recreationally. Her practice and writings led her to branch out to becoming
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Outstanding Meritorious Service Award in 1987. After Grazier's death, another MAME award, for contributions to the profession, was renamed in her honor as "The Margaret Grazier Award for Contributions to the
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directly involved in the instruction, to be embedded in the classroom and to collaborate with schoolteachers in developing their curriculum. So that in the 1970s, the role evolved into that of collaborator and teacher of library skills which included the assessment of research sources.
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University of Denver in 1946. There she worked as an administrator and reference librarian in the Public Services Division at the university until 1948 when she became an assistant professor there.
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to become fully immersed in the entire cycle of the student's learning process, everything from storytelling to planning and evaluating curriculum. She was active in several important library organizations, including the
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