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covertocover

Modern Library Learning Environments - space and service | Services to Schools - 2 views

schools.natlib.govt.nz/...environments-space-and-service

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  • A MLLE is not just about space, it gives equal consideration to space and service. Confusion can happen when radical service redesign and delivery intersect with what we’ve known and how we've always operated. The MLLE movement has given traditional libraries a formidable challenge.
  • School libraries and librarians are part of this new education eco-system, preparing students for a vastly unpredictable and constantly changing world. MLLEs are where print and digital resources meet, as part of a smorgasbord of offerings curated to support, encourage, engage and make our students curious about their learning, and  foster and develop a childhood love of reading.
  • A MLLE is not just about space, it gives equal consideration to space and service. Confusion can happen when radical service redesign and delivery intersect with what we’ve known and how we've always operated. The MLLE movement has given traditional libraries a formidable challenge.
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  • The myth that all students are carrying a library in their pocket and “we don’t need a library”, as BYOD becomes increasingly the norm,
  • The myth that all students are carrying a library in their pocket and “we don’t need a library”, as BYOD becomes increasingly the norm, does nothing to support, prepare or scaffold students into a world that will expect them to know how to wisely navigate and contribute in a world digital-by-default.
    • covertocover
      covertocover on 02 Jun 14
       
      Survey students as to availability/ownership of BYODs
Carole Gardiner

Library Research Service| School Libraries | School Library Impact Studies - 1 views

www.lrs.org/...impact-studies

school libraries student achievement research

shared by Carole Gardiner on 07 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Carole Gardiner on 07 Mar 13
     
    US research linking school libraries and librarians to student achievement. Includes infographic poster that can be printed.
  • Carole Gardiner on 07 Mar 13
     
    Link from Joyce Valenza, shared to list serv by Jane Ryan. This is a great infographic poster.
annecloud

Bring back shushing librarians - Salon.com - 1 views

www.salon.com/...bring_back_shushing_librarians

quiet libraries

shared by annecloud on 31 May 13 - No Cached
  • annecloud on 31 May 13
     
    This article discusses the importance to customers of a quiet atmosphere in the library which correlates with a library survey we did last year of our students. We were surprised to learn that many of the students thought the library was too noisy. What are other schools policies re noise in the library
Lisa Salter

School Libraries On the Chopping Block: Essential or Expendable? - 0 views

learni.st/...-block-essential-or-expendable

school librarians librarian school libraries

shared by Lisa Salter on 25 May 13 - No Cached
  • Lisa Salter on 25 May 13
     
    Category: Society | 1510 views | Created: 04/08/13 This board explores the diverse voices in the school library debate. As budgets get cut, libraries often disappear. Since April is School Library Month, consider these perspectives & decide whether you consider them essential or expendable. Welcome to your new Learn Board This is a Learn board.
Julie Mahar

The Adventures of Library Girl: School Library Marketing 101: It's About Students Not S... - 2 views

www.librarygirl.net/...y-marketing-101-its-about.html

School Library

shared by Julie Mahar on 08 May 13 - No Cached
  • Carole Gardiner on 08 May 13
     
    steps for marketing a school library
Jan Clothier

IDEA WATCH: Dissecting Ebooks and Libraries--An Evolving Market - Internet@Schools Maga... - 7 views

www.internetatschools.com/...-An-Evolving-Market-95546.aspx

ebooks; collection development

shared by Jan Clothier on 29 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Jan Clothier on 29 Apr 14
     
    Interesting look at ebooks in school libraries
  • Jan Clothier on 29 Apr 14
     
    An interesting and recent article about ebooks in school libraries, with a New Zealand focus.
Miriam Tuohy

Leading Learning - 3 views

clatoolbox.ca/...llsop.html

school library

shared by Miriam Tuohy on 06 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Miriam Tuohy on 06 Jun 14
     
    Canadian Library Association standards for school libraries
claref

Te Totara Primary School - 1 views

www.tetotara.school.nz/...38-latest-news

school library iPad apps

shared by claref on 30 May 13 - No Cached
  • claref on 30 May 13
     
    Great example of use of iLapse app on iPad to record activity in the Te Totara Primary School library one lunchtime.
Carole Gardiner

Professional Librarians: Leaflet | CILIP - 7 views

www.cilip.org.uk/...rofessional-librarians-leaflet

librarians leaflet

shared by Carole Gardiner on 24 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Carole Gardiner on 24 Oct 13
     
    Leaflet produced by CILIP in the UK that briefly/clearly states waht a School Library and School Librarian should ideally provide and why it is important.  Aimed at parents, board members and librarians.
Alison Hewett

Collection Weeding as Dendrochronology: Rethinking Practices and Exposing a Library's S... - 2 views

theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/...-librarys-sponsors-of-literacy

ebooks Weeding library collection development fiction

shared by Alison Hewett on 18 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • aggressive weeding project for our entire collection.   This initiative was driven by two factors:
  • having a vibrant collection with titles of interest to teens is even more important.
  • I think there are just as many instances where weeding can reveal some of the larger and powerful influences that might hinder a librarian’s effort to continually craft a relevant and meaningful collection
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  • We printed sections of the bigger report we generated with the weeding metrics we incorporated and had our student aids highlight all books that had not circulated in three years in that section and then pull the titles out to the edge of the shelf so we could more quickly identify candidates for weeding.
  • As we Tweeted some of our weeding insights (we noticed that our teens did not seem to read many of the Printz winners), we involved thinking from our peers outside of our building and engaged in some truly thoughtful conversations and debates with other school and young adult librarians about the purposes and values of award winners and how to contextualize the purpose of those awards in purchasing decisions.
  •   We knew that every book had a “story” in how it came to be in the fiction collection, and it was important for us to weigh each book’s merits together—at times, we felt very uncomfortable about this as we questioned what “power” we might be wielding and if there were more democratic or more participatory ways to do so
  • doing a wholesale weeding where you feel there is administrative level support to be aggressive with the weeding is a very different experience from weeding sections for the purpose of maintenance and updating.
  • Our intent was not to devalue the importance of a print collection, but instead, we wanted to rethink how we approach collection development to better meet the needs of our students and faculty and to better support the library as a learning studio.  We also felt that getting “knee deep” into the collection would allow us to see patterns of usage that sometimes aren’t readily visible with traditional reports
  • I thought I knew how to weed. I was wrong. I’ve weeded this very collection several times, but this time was different. I guess I just never realized how powerful this process can be and how beneficial it is to intimately know your collection.
  • Carving out time to do this sort of work ultimately helps us contextualize the work of our other roles in our schools and the ways a library might function as a hub of learning.
  •  The rise and availability of digital content on a particular topic through web resources, databases, and eBook acquisition also are factors in the use (or lack thereof) of nonfiction print materials.  
  • We also were able to identify pockets of this part of the collection that needed updating and began a new book order to address these needs; in some instances, we decided to weed the print copy of the book and replace it with the eBook format in our Gale Virtual Reference Library.
  • Alison Hewett on 18 Mar 14
     
    A lengthy article and at first glance it seems heavy, but it has inspired me to relook at how I will approach weeding in the future as part of a shift to an emphasis on digital resources and bundled resources.
Tina Watson

Latest Study: A full-time school librarian makes a critical difference in boosting stud... - 20 views

www.slj.com/...n-boosting-student-achievement

advocacy school libraries study

shared by Tina Watson on 09 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Tina Watson on 16 Aug 15
     
    Latest Study: A full-time school librarian makes a critical differen
Carole Gardiner

Twenty Rules for Better Book Displays | NoveList | EBSCOhost - 2 views

www.ebscohost.com/...rules-for-better-book-displays

Book displays

shared by Carole Gardiner on 18 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Carole Gardiner on 18 Mar 13
     
    Guidelines for displays in public libraries, but work well for school libraries too.
Miriam Tuohy

Volume 46 NO. 1 2013 | Scandinavian Library Quarterly - 1 views

slq.nu

library school library

shared by Miriam Tuohy on 28 May 13 - No Cached
  • Miriam Tuohy on 28 May 13
     
    Some great articles here. And interesting to read about school libraries on the far side of the world.
vmchalick

Poem in Your Pocket Day- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - 2 views

www.poets.org/406

poetry ideas

shared by vmchalick on 19 Mar 14 - Cached
  • vmchalick on 19 Mar 14
     
    Liked this as an idea for a library based school poetry day - Poem in Your Pocket Day to share with others throughout the day after researching a poem in the library. A previous site referred to a new book 'Firefly July and Other Very Short Poems' by Paul B Janeczko (Candlewick) coming out soon.
anonymous

School Library Monthly - Curation - 8 views

www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/...Valenza2012-v29n1p20.html

content curation joyce valenza professional reading

shared by anonymous on 30 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Librarians are uniquely qualified to curate. School librarians are perhaps most ripe for this function, because they understand the curriculum and the specific needs and interests of their own communities of teachers, administrators, learners, and parents.
  • We school librarians are used to critically evaluating, selecting, and sharing content and tools for learning. We are used to taming information flow to facilitate discovery and knowledge building.
  • Educators will also value help in gathering the tools they need for daily classroom activities. School librarians can gather lesson and rubric portals, nonfiction and documentary films, booktrailers, tools for regular classroom routines—online stop watches, classroom clipart, poster tools, game and quiz generators, etc.
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  • Unlike other Web curators, librarians are not simple one-interest enthusiasts.
  • As school librarians we can think of digital collection curation as the selection and assembly of a focused group of resources into a Web-based presentation that meets an identified purpose or need and has meaning and context for a targeted audience.
  • School librarians might also curate for parents by gathering resources to support learning at home, explanations of new technologies, and instruction in transliteracy.
  • These learning artifacts can function as lasting tools for instruction as well as models for future learners.
  • Curation tools present an exciting new genre of search tool. Searchers can now exploit the curated efforts or the bibliographies of experts and others who take the lead in a particular subject area—those who volunteer to scan the real-time environment as scouts. They also present the opportunity to guide learners in new evaluation strategies. Who is the curator? Which curators can you trust? Is a curator attached to a team, publication, institution, organization? How can the quality of their insights, selections, sources, and feeds be judged? Do their efforts have many followers? Is their curation active and current?
  • anonymous on 23 Aug 15
     
    Content curation, subject based, collaboration, research tool,
  • anonymous on 24 Aug 15
     
    Trying to figure out why the shared date is wrong
Jenny Whiting

School Journal / Instructional Series / Teacher needs / Literacy Online / English - ESO... - 6 views

literacyonline.tki.org.nz/...School-Journal

School journals School Journal Library

shared by Jenny Whiting on 06 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Jenny Whiting on 06 Jul 14
     
    Just to let you know you now can get the school journals online via TKI. Literacy online.  Brilliant!
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