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Offers practical advice about what student learning in the future might entail and also considers where libraries may go "Librarians also need to make outside curriculum resources available to end users. These include local subscription services, databases, ebooks, and other online tools. Librarians should continually seek out new tools and apps by keeping up with reviews; the American Association of School Librarians provides an ideal starting point with their annual review and ranking of the best websites and apps for teaching and learning."

Like their municipal counterparts, school libraries are seeking their place in an era of overabundance of resources and Cloud-based information networks accessible from any mobile device. Getting together to examine their role in 21st century education, library media specialists from more than 50 school districts from Putnam/Northern Westchester and Southern Westchester BOCES met earlier this month at a conference themed, School Libraries: Innovative and Engaged Learning.