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Judy O'Connell

Ebooks & Digital Content | Transforming Libraries - 6 views

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    "New digital forms of information offer rich and extraordinary opportunities for libraries to expand community access to information and to revolutionize in positive ways the relationship between libraries and users. At the same time, these new forms of digital content pose new challenges. As libraries struggle to meet the challenges of providing digital content in an environment characterized by significant uncertainty and changing on a daily basis, there is a need for an Association-wide group of experts, broadly representative of the many constituencies within the library community, that can proactively address these digital content opportunities and issues at the highest level and from both a policy and practical perspective."
Jennie Bales

School library designing - For school library teams and school communities - 0 views

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    "The School Library Designing site site invites you to explore how you can participate in school library designing - and why purposeful school library design is important. "
Judy O'Connell

Maker Librarian | Making the Future, One Library at a Time - 4 views

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    The goal of Maker Librarian is to serve as the primary resource for librarians who want to learn about makers, hackerspaces, the participatory library and everything in between. Over the coming weeks and months you'll find; Daily updates on the latest technologies, maker news and what librarians and libraries are up to Interviews with the movers and shakers in the maker and hacker movement Discussion of the difficult ethical and legal issues that libraries will have to face as technologies, like 3D printers, become readily available A wiki for librarians to gather the best of training materials and classes for their programs
Vivian Harris

School Libraries: Excellence in Practice Amesbury School - YouTube - 4 views

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    Carolyn Knight, Teacher in the Library and colleagues at Amesbury School, a new Year 1-6 school in Churton Park, Wellington talk about how their school library supports literacy and student inquiry.
Jennie Bales

Video: Three Spheres of Library Skills - Part 1 - 1 views

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    "In this video, Jorm introduces a targeted program that is embedded at the school, The Three Spheres of Library Skills. The program scaffolds students to achieve success in the three core areas of library skills: Readers, Researchers, and Thinkers. This first video in a three-part series takes an in-depth look at the first skill - Readers. 'While all the spheres are interconnected, the Readers sphere is most important, as the skills and attitudes in this sphere underpin all of the others,' Jorm shares in the video. "
Judy O'Connell

App Store - YALSA's Teen Book Finder - 0 views

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    "Find the best books and media for teens, as selected by library staff and educators across the United States! The Teen Book Finder, generously funded by a grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, offers easy access to the titles honored each year by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library "
Judy O'Connell

School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come - A book by Kristin Fonti... - 3 views

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    "A crowdsourced collection of over 100 essays from around the world about trends in school libraries written by librarians, teachers, publishers, and library vendors."
Jennie Bales

School-Libraries-The-Heart-of-21st-Century-Learning.pdf - 1 views

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    Provides principals and school communities with a best practice guide for their school library.
Jennie Bales

How to Design Learning Spaces in Libraries @coolcatteacher - 1 views

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    "Many schools are reimagining the learning spaces that some call libraries or media centers. Carolyn Foote takes us to the center of this trend to take us inside how she redesigned her learning space and the thought process behind it. As you plan your school's strategy, you'll want to have conversations about this show."
Cathy Oxley

Digital library builds teens' media literacy - USATODAY.com - 1 views

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    Is this what libraries will look like in ten years' time?
Judy O'Connell

Professional standards: the evidence - 2 views

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    "This presentation for school library professionals provides an update on what Australian school library professional associations are doing in preparing for the introduction of national professional teaching standards and identifying ways in which teacher librarians need to think differently, act differently and learn differently."
Vivian Harris

Library Program evaluation tool - 10 views

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    This rubric aligns Charlotte Danielson's Enhancing Professional Practice Library Program Evaluation Rubric Tool, the goals of the Common Core Standards and NYS Teaching Standards
Judy O'Connell

Library of Congress digs in to full archive of 170 billion tweets | Internet & Media - ... - 0 views

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    "It took four years to hit 21 billion tweets. Now Twitter users generate nearly half a billion a day, and the Library of Congress will be archiving and indexing all of them."
Judy O'Connell

Learning Facilitation | School Libraries and best practices - 5 views

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    "School librarians bring pedagogical order and harmony to a multi-media clutter of information by crafting challenging learning opportunities, in collaboration with classroom teachers and other learning specialists, to help learners use the virtual world, as well as the traditional information sources, to prepare for living, working and life-long learning in the 21st Century"
Judy O'Connell

SCIS | Building a vibrant future for school library conversations - 3 views

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    "The School of Information Studies (www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/) at Charles Sturt University (CSU) is a national and international provider in the design and delivery of a comprehensive suite of courses in library and information studies. We face many challenges, and among these the latest one has been to respond to new media environments by expanding the scope of our services to the vitally important information professionals we know as teacher librarians."
Judy O'Connell

Class Badges | South Salem Library - 2 views

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    "In order to make this program grow, students will have to take a role in terms of creating and managing their badges. Of course, we will be there to guide the students, but it will require students to be a little more creative with their time in the library. We feel this will be a positive program to help student learn time management skills, as well as increase their reading throughout the school year."
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