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

Another way to go

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.

Sample Wikispaces site to examine

This work on this website is ongoing (by their new librarian, who is the former Archivist at BMS)

Rewordify.com is free, online reading comprehension software. It helps people understand difficult English faster, and helps them learn words in new ways. This might be a good tool for students who encounter roadblocks with difficult texts.

While this article focuses on citation analysis and its impact in higher education, it discusses specific databases and the problem of keeping up with the boom in online information sources. It also provides a glimpse of the cutting edge of research about research.

This contains a long list of websites in addition to Creative Commons

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.