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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.
  • 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.
Jenny Whiting

Resources | Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand - 1 views

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creative commons new zealand resources digital citizenship

shared by Jenny Whiting on 15 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Jenny Whiting on 15 Apr 14
     
    Fantastic resource for schools
Crissi Blair

Maker Books | Craft Book - Maker Shed - 9 views

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makerspaces maker DIY books craft

shared by Crissi Blair on 25 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Crissi Blair on 25 Aug 15
     
    Maker Shed has all sorts of resources, this link to the books section. Lots of 3D, Arduino, robot etc resources.
Jenny Whiting

ANZAC Day Crowd Sourced doc1 - Google Slides - 4 views

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ANZAC resources ANZAC Day ANZAC librarians information literacy

shared by Jenny Whiting on 14 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Jenny Whiting on 14 Apr 15
     
    If you have any resources on ANZAC or ANZAC Day, you might like to place these here. 
denyse1952

I Can Teach My Child! - Activities and resources for parents of young children - 3 views

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children crafts toddler learn

shared by denyse1952 on 05 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • denyse1952 on 05 Jun 14
     
    This website is great if your school starts at Year 1. She has some great free resources when you subscribe to her emails. I have printed off science experiments, and also some Bible memory cards. Not suitable for upper primary.
Carole Gardiner

Book Drum - 3 views

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literature reading books English

shared by Carole Gardiner on 02 Jul 13 - Cached
  • Carole Gardiner on 02 Jul 13
     
    Extra resources for a large range of texts at all levels of schooling.  Includes setting, historical context, author biographies, video and photos, maps, glossary,etc
  • Lisa Salter on 06 Jul 13
     
    I really like this one too!
Ann Murphy

#LibChatNZ - Makerspaces (with images, tweets) · MSimmsNZ2 · Storify - 10 views

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makerspace

shared by Ann Murphy on 28 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Ann Murphy on 28 Aug 15
     
    I know you will probably have this already, but it really is my most valuable resource I have used in the last two weeks. Thank you Michelle.
Jenny Whiting

Global Education Leadership Resource - 4 views

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leadership education

shared by Jenny Whiting on 03 May 16 - No Cached
  • Jenny Whiting on 03 May 16
     
    A compilation of presentations and links related to global education leadership. Feel free to edit this list and add your resources generated during Global Leadership Week. .
Bridget Schaumann

Many Reasons you need your librarian - 8 views

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advocacy Piktochart

shared by Bridget Schaumann on 22 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Bridget Schaumann on 22 Sep 13
     
    Advocacy. This is a wonderful resource. Will be printing and using and maybe making one up similar.
denyse1952

First World War | Research guides | Our services for researchers | National Library of ... - 3 views

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war new zealand national

shared by denyse1952 on 10 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • denyse1952 on 10 Jun 14
     
    Great resources from National Library. Even gives some questions to help work out what you want.
anonymous

School Library Monthly - Curation - 8 views

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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
sharon-jackson

Teen Services Underground | Consider Code! - 9 views

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code STEM makerspaces

shared by sharon-jackson on 26 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • sharon-jackson on 26 Aug 15
     
    Coding resources
Jenny Whiting

Digital Literacy and Citizenship Classroom Curriculum | Common Sense Media - 3 views

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digitalliteracy internet_safety curriculum citizenship digital citizenship

shared by Jenny Whiting on 24 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Jenny Whiting on 24 Apr 14
     
    Fantastic resource on Digital Citizenship.  Has flyers for parents. Teacher lessons Professional Development
denyse1952

Home of all your favourite things | The WHOot - 3 views

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things

shared by denyse1952 on 05 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • denyse1952 on 05 Jun 14
     
    Yummy recipes, great craft ideas, also links to another website which provides some free resources for kids.
Maree Silver-Hessey

dafont.com - 2 views

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fonts design resources graphics download displays

shared by Maree Silver-Hessey on 07 Oct 13 - Cached
  • Maree Silver-Hessey on 07 Oct 13
     
    recommended by Kylie Young-Big Ideas, Small Spaces workshop at SLANZA conference 2013.
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