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Parkdale High School 's library is an integral component to student achievement. By providing literature and technology resources together, the library will continue to offer students and staff members the best opportunity to access information,construct knowledge and develop critical thinking skills. We encourage students to appreciate literature and to become responsible digital citizens.

We need to add "data" to the list. Students should have practice finding and interpreting data.

I had an interesting conversation with a faculty member last week that went something like this: "Brian, I want you to know that it's getting harder for me to get students to use the library- especially the databases- anything beyond three clicks is just too many." A very interesting post discussing the practical facets of student searching. This made me *think* a lot.

I was struck by the empahsis on planning for presentation space as part of the design for a library. The format of the final product or outcome of a research project in years to come will involve sharing in ways we have probably not yet considered, much less designed in our school spaces.

An interesting presentation by Grimm & Parker Architects highlighting a survey of Librarians and Media Center Specialists regarding the  physical form and cultural role of the library as it is influenced by  changing information storage and retrieval technologies.

Many professors and students gravitate to Google as a gateway to research. Libraries want to offer them a comparably simple and broad experience for searching academic content. Instead of bewildering users with a bevy of specialized databases-books here, articles there-many libraries now offer one-stop search boxes that comb entire collections, Google style. The reality of the roll-out is that it is messy.

As we think about rebranding....Thinking about this type of sign in our own space...what would it say?

"This Tweet shifted my world: If you can Google it, it isn't a good assignment." http://t.co/Rq0A8CytBR by @crossons

Read the short blog post, follow some of the links, and most importantly, try to find 50 minutes to watch the Will Richardson video - from his ISTE presentation. All of this reinforces my belief (our belief) that the library should be at the CENTER of a school's academic purpose. Teachers should be sending students to this place of inquiry, research, collaboration, and creative problem-solving. This belief should drive our library re-design and it's program.

Great, new report from YALSA on serving teens in the Library. This could be used as a guide from anything missing in our survey with students.

Summary of remarks by five speakers, including Joyce Valenza, at 2012 annual conference

"Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies  to find, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information, an  ability that requires both cognitive and technical skills.

Great, student-friendly plagiarism info guide. Must steal this.

The Checkpoint in each section gives the reader an opportunity to check their understanding of the concepts covered. Students can turn in the results of these quizzes to their professor to show what they have learned about plagiarism.

Wondering about the pro's and con's of Citelighter compared to NoodleBib.  This article compares several citation generators. The Citelighter rep spoke about a major update due out in about 5 weeks that will also provide templates (among other things) to support a variety of student writing.  

From 2011 and still relevant. Some basic skills to model in the classroom.

This was another exteremely thought provking article that I think can be utilized in PD with faculty.