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Anne-Marie Povall

Free Technology for Teachers: Inspire Students to Read and Travel With The Global Bookshelf - 1 views

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shared by Anne-Marie Povall on 06 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Inspire Students to Read and Travel With The Global Bookshelf The Global Bookshelf is a book search and recommendation engine that was started by my friend Gillian Duffy. The purpose of The Global Bookshelf is to help people find travel stories. The books you'll find aren't travel guides, they're travel stories that could inspire you to visit a new place and experience a new culture. You can browse The Global Bookshelf by region, genre, and book format (Kindle, PDF, physical book). Applications for Education Gillian is very keen to have others add their book reviews to The Global Bookshelf. If you have high school students who have read some travel narratives, consider having them write a review to share on The Global Bookshelf. This is a great way to provide an authentic audience for your students' work.
  • Anne-Marie Povall on 06 Sep 13
     
    I hope this will go to the correct discussion :)
jenny carroll

Jane Austen-Inspired Recommendations: INFOGRAPHIC | GalleyCat - 0 views

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Jane Austen;

shared by jenny carroll on 18 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • jenny carroll on 18 Aug 15
     
    books inspired by Jane Austen - infographic
anonymous

Creative Library Displays - 0 views

www.creativelibrarydisplays.com

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.
Steph Ellis

50 thought-provoking quotes about libraries and librarians - 16 views

ebookfriendly.com/tes-about-libraries-librarians

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shared by Steph Ellis on 09 Sep 15 - No Cached
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  • Steph Ellis on 09 Sep 15
     
    Some inspiring quotes to add to those dry documents you hand in to the BOT :)
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.
Felice Tombs

"Il Bibliomotocarro" brings books and joy to Italian villagers » MobyLives - 2 views

www.mhpbooks.com/s-and-joy-to-italian-villagers

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shared by Felice Tombs on 06 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Felice Tombs on 06 Jun 14
     
    This is a lovely inspirational story.
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