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Helen Muxlow

My Best Friends Are Books | News, reviews and interviews from the world of children's literature. - 4 views

bestfriendsrbooks.com

bookblog teen books reviews primary secondary

shared by Helen Muxlow on 02 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Helen Muxlow on 02 Sep 13
     
    Book blog written by Christchurch public librarian Zac. Great for keeping up to date with upcoming releases and often good competitions to win books. Children and Teen fiction, good for primary and secondary school.
Alison Hewett

Collection Weeding as Dendrochronology: Rethinking Practices and Exposing a Library's Sponsors of Literacy | The Unquiet Librarian - 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.
Miriam Tuohy

graphite | Ingredients for effective teaching - 0 views

www.graphite.org

apps recommendations

shared by Miriam Tuohy on 01 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Miriam Tuohy on 20 Aug 13
     
    Common Sense Media - new site reviewing and rating apps, games, websites etc for educators.
Miriam Tuohy

The cheapest books in New Zealand - Librarist - 5 views

www.librarist.com/nz

books suppliers coll-dev

shared by Miriam Tuohy on 01 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Miriam Tuohy on 30 Aug 13
     
    Search by ISBN for cheapest price, aggregates results for NZ bookstores & online retailers.
Carole Gardiner

Periscopic: Do good with data - 1 views

www.periscopic.com/#/news/2013/07/when-an-infographic-isnt-the-rise-of-digital-posters

data Infographics

shared by Carole Gardiner on 05 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Carole Gardiner on 05 Aug 13
     
    How to make sure that your infographic isn't just a digital poster
Jenny Whiting

Connected Librarians Term 2 2014, registrations open 19/5/2014 - SLANZA - 1 views

www.slanza.org.nz/...014-registrations-open-1952014

connected librarians term RSS Feedly

shared by Jenny Whiting on 17 May 14 - No Cached
  • Jenny Whiting on 17 May 14
     
    Saw this while reading the RSS feeds on Feedly
janetma

The Art Hitler Hated by Michael Kimmelman | The New York Review of Books - 3 views

www.nybooks.com/...art-hitler-hated

art book books Reading

shared by janetma on 03 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • janetma on 03 Jun 14
     
    "The Art Hitler Hated "
Carole Gardiner

This Is One Of The Most Vital Messages Gen-Y Needs To Hear (Video) - 9 views

elitedaily.com/...ages-gen-y-needs-to-hear-video

social media video poetry

shared by Carole Gardiner on 07 May 14 - No Cached
  • Carole Gardiner on 07 May 14
     
    Poem explaining why we need to disconnect sometimes, look up and see the real world.  Very moving and a great message.
  • denyse1952 on 09 Jun 14
     
    This was amazing. He was so right about missing so much because as head is down. It is wonderful to take time to smell the roses, look at the sky at night and see the sunset, or the stars.
Crissi Blair

Bedtime Stories for Young Brains - NYTimes.com - 4 views

mobile.nytimes.com/...dtime-stories-for-young-brains

childlit book preschool development

shared by Crissi Blair on 22 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • all pediatric primary care should include literacy promotion, starting at birth
  • how important it is to read to even very young children
  • “When we show them a video of a story, do we short circuit that process a little?” he asked. “Are we taking that job away from them? They’re not having to imagine the story; it’s just being fed to them.”
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  • it is important that young children hear language, and that they need to hear it from people, not from screens.
  • serious disparities in how much language children hear
  • reading picture books with young children may mean that they hear more words, while at the same time, their brains practice creating the images associated with those words
  • Crissi Blair on 22 Aug 15
     
    Research into the benefits, indeed the necessity, of reading to young children.
Tina Watson

Latest Study: A full-time school librarian makes a critical difference in boosting student achievement | School Library Journal - 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
anonymous

Reading for pleasure builds empathy and improves wellbeing, research from The Reading Agency finds | Reading Agency - 4 views

readingagency.org.uk/...-the-reading-agency-finds.html

literacy Research Reading and empowerment

shared by anonymous on 17 Aug 15 - Cached
  • reading for pleasure can increase empathy, improve relationships with others, reduce the symptoms of depression and the risk of dementia, and improve wellbeing throughout life
  • strong evidence to show that reading for pleasure plays a vital role in improving educational outcomes
  • in the UK, reading levels are low among people of all ages: most children do not read on a daily basis and almost a third of adults don't read for pleasure
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  • reading for pleasure and empowerment
  • better parent-child communication
  • reduction of depression and dementia symptoms among adults.
  • people who choose to read, and enjoy doing so, in their spare time are more likely to reap all of these benefits
  • When I write a story I hope to beguile, to enchant, to bewitch, to perform an act of magic on and with my readers' imaginations.
  • The true aim of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it'."
  • everything changes when we read
  • reading for pleasure has a dramatic impact on life outcomes
  • children who read for pleasure are happier, healthier and do better in life than those who don't
  • Crissi Blair on 17 Aug 15
     
    Research in UK into benefits of reading for pleasure
covertocover

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

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

shared by covertocover on 02 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • 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
Jan Clothier

IDEA WATCH: Dissecting Ebooks and Libraries--An Evolving Market - Internet@Schools Magazine - 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.
Elaine Pearson

So You Think You Want to Be a Librarian? - 9 views

www.publishersweekly.com/...ou-want-to-be-a-librarian.html

librarian librarians

shared by Elaine Pearson on 26 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Elaine Pearson on 26 Mar 14
     
    I love this!
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