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Lisa Salter

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

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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.
Carole Gardiner

Summer Reading and the Rich/Poor Achievement Gap | An Educator Responds to Questions | ... - 1 views

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summer reading poor achievement gap

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  • Carole Gardiner on 13 Jun 13
     
    Study in US has foudn that low income students reading levels decline at a greater rate because they don't have access to books, especially over summer holiday.  Librarians need to get books into kids hands, not worry about books not being returned.
Miriam Tuohy

Younger Americans' Library Habits and Expectations | Pew Internet Libraries - 1 views

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library YA kids

shared by Miriam Tuohy on 25 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Miriam Tuohy on 25 Jun 13
     
    Nice to see the report notes the importance of librarians!
Miriam Tuohy

YALSA's Competencies for Librarians Serving Youth: Young Adults Deserve the Best - 4 views

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librarians leadership YA

shared by Miriam Tuohy on 04 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Miriam Tuohy on 04 Sep 13
     
    "Individuals who demonstrate the knowledge and skills laid out in this document will be able to provide quality library service for and with teenagers."
Alison Hewett

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

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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.
  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
Lynette Oliver

TLT: Teen Librarian's Toolbox: Things I Never Learned In Library School: Changing Your ... - 8 views

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school librarian time money librarians advocacy

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  • Lynette Oliver on 09 Sep 13
     
    So many of us are guilty of some of these things, though I hope none of us are spending our own money. 
anonymous

Creative Library Displays - 0 views

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Library displays Display tools Display ideas

shared by anonymous on 30 Aug 15 - Cached
  • anonymous on 30 Aug 15
     
    Inspirational site by a fellow school librarian. She shares simple as well as more complex ideas on how to produce a display that will fulfil its purpose - to engage and inspire students to pick up a book that might not have looked at before.
denyse1952

Search results for "Mortal instruments" (showing 1-20 of 88 books) - 1 views

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books

shared by denyse1952 on 05 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • denyse1952 on 05 Jun 14
     
    Do any Primary School Librarians on this course have any of these Mortal Instruments books please? I had a boy tell me last week at school that they had watched a DVD of one of these. Are they suitable for Primary Schools?
Mary Wallis

http://www.ala.org/yaforum/sites/ala.org.yaforum/files/content/YALSA_nationalforum_fina... - 2 views

www.ala.org/...YALSA_nationalforum_final.pdf

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  • Mary Wallis on 06 Apr 14
     
    I thought this to be an interesting site - it's amazing how much New Zealand Librarians can relate to this. I'd be interested to hear what others think.
harrisonba26

Against YA: Adults should be embarrassed to read children's books. - 4 views

www.slate.com/..._to_read_children_s_books.html

teen reviews books readers advisory advocacy librarians

shared by harrisonba26 on 24 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • harrisonba26 on 24 Jun 14
     
    This is a very interesting article that appeared last week and has created a lot of comment online. There is quite a backlash against it including an article in the current Listener saying that there is no 'should' in reading for pleasure. I am firmly of the opinion that any reading is GOOD reading and won't apologise for what I read!
  • harrisonba26 on 24 Jun 14
     
    SLANZA Connected Librarians T2 2014
Jenny Whiting

Nethui Meetup: Generation Open | Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand - 1 views

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meetup creative commons new zealand

shared by Jenny Whiting on 26 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Jenny Whiting on 26 Jun 14
     
    via: email -- Hi all, This might be of interest to the Auckland librarians. Creative Commons is hosting a free public event on the future of the commons in Auckland on 9 July. We'll be talking about free and open textbooks, research, heritage and culture, with a range of special guests.  The event will be held at Sky City after the Nethui conference. Please feel free to spread the word to anyone who might be interested. You don't need to attend the Nethui conference (though you should feel free to do that, too!) More information and RSVP here: http://creativecommons.org.nz/2014/06/nethui-meetup-generation-open/ Cheers, Matt Matt McGregor Public Lead  Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand 027 227 8668 | 64 4 4705 779 creativecommons.org.nz groups.creativecommons.org.nz
Crissi Blair

MakerSpaces and the Participatory Library - 10 views

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participatory facebook library makerspaces tools

shared by Crissi Blair on 21 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Crissi Blair on 21 Aug 15
     
    Librarians into makerspaces. Excellent facebook page.
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
Miriam Tuohy

Best Websites for Teaching & Learning 2013 | American Association of School Librarians ... - 5 views

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teaching tools internet socialmedia digital storytelling

shared by Miriam Tuohy on 01 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Carole Gardiner on 09 Jul 13
     
    There is an awful lot of really excellent stuff here! Thanks for sharing. This would be an excellent list to explore for some self-driven PD.
  • Kay Greed on 26 Jul 13
     
    Spent some time in the holidays looking at this,it was really useful.
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