DesignShare: Imagining the Future of the School Library - 0 views
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edefine their “value-added” qualities.
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growing body of research that demonstrates the positive effect of school libraries and school librarians on student reading abilities and academic achievement
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school officials will strive for a philosophical, functional, and physical merger of the school library with the IT program, with a faculty center and spaces for staff development, as well as spaces where teachers can work with (and learn from) students, school librarians, and IT staff; and
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the 21st century school library must look beyond tradition to the future, to what is needed to help fulfill the educational mission, goals, and objectives of the school.
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he library will be a sacred space dedicated to honoring those who use the library to meet whatever informational, educational, socialization and personal needs they might have.
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And I always say, design for the technologies that are available NOW, not those just over the horizon. The horizon might be further away than you anticipate.
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As much as possible we should be designing flexible spaces so that space required today for book storage can easily be converted for other purposes in the future.
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The glut of information that keeps expanding overwhelms most people, and libraries and librarians are needed to help guide and teach students and teachers to cope.