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Rhondda Powling

Improbable libraries: unusual places to bury your head in a book… | Books | T... - 0 views

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    "Regardless of the ultimate fate of the printed book, reports of the imminent death of the library as a physical entity seem to have been greatly exaggerated. Bookless digital public libraries are already starting to appear, the first in San Antonio, Texas, where lines of bookshelves have been replaced by e-readers, computer workstations, laptops and tablets. The simple truth is that, like Roald Dahl's character Matilda, people like going to libraries. Indeed, going to the library is like getting a pay rise, according to a survey conducted in 2014 by the UK's Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The survey, which attempted to quantify how happy different activities make us, showed that while dancing and swimming nearly always cheer us up, so does going to the library. "
Camilla Elliott

School Libraries in Canada | Home - 1 views

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    "  Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada, 2014 offers a vision and provides practical approaches for all those engaged in creating successful 21st century school libraries in Canada. Its framework presents five standards supported by a set of themes and growth stages that lead to the transformation from traditional library facility to vibrant library learning commons. The standards represent guideposts along a journey of continuous growth. Because Canadian schools are at different points on this journey, this publication includes a range of markers of progress, sets of implementation strategies, and rich examples of innovation and success. Leading Learning also contains key resources to provide educators, individual schools, and school districts with helpful direction and support."
Rhondda Powling

Redesigning Thinking in Libraries with Hamish Curry (with images, tweets) · c... - 1 views

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    Storify "Redesigning Thinking in Libraries with Hamish Curry At this workshop hosted by School Library Assoc of Victoria, Hamish Curry of NoTosh guided library staff through a design thinking approach to exploring the future possibilities for their individual school libraries."
Rhondda Powling

What Does Learning Commons Mean for Your School? | PFAU LONG ARCHITECTURE - 0 views

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    A reflection about one school library faculty's goal of creating a positive learning environment with space that would help students and teachers develop real-world connections and the approach they took to creating it. The ideas for the space included housing the collection, helping students and teachers collaborate, being a hub for learning with a flexible floor plan and supporting newly developing areas in educational technology. The school decided to create a learning commons to move beyond traditional thinking about libraries and respond to what the kids and teachers really needed. The faculty envisioned their environment to be developmentally appropriate for their young students, as well as to foster a sense of creativity, inspiration, and encourage dialogue and a sense of community. The new learning commons library offered more space for stacks, added conference rooms and a lounge area, but the learning commons concept informed more than the library. These design changes increase opportunities to be inspired by student work and performances and create stronger interpersonal connections among students and faculty.
Rhondda Powling

Library User Survey Templates & How-Tos - Library Research Service - 0 views

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    "Are you interested in learning more about your patrons' usage of and satisfaction with your library, and their demographics? Here are 3 sample survey templates of different lengths to be used "as is" or adapted to your organization's specific research needs. The short survey template focuses on customer satisfaction, the medium and long survey templates add questions about library usage, and the long survey template also includes a demographics section. Before using the templates, it is important to read them carefully to ensure that all of the questions pertain to your library and to your information needs. Each template is formatted as a Microsoft Word document in order that you may delete, add, or modify questions as necessary. Each of these survey templates is intended to be very general to offer the richest opportunity for follow-up. For example, if you learned from the surveys that your patrons were less than satisfied with your library's facilities, you might then create a follow-up survey or plan interviews or focus groups to explore that issue at greater length."
Rhondda Powling

Transforming the Library Profession | American Libraries Magazine - 0 views

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    "Today our experienced professionals and new library workers must find their passion around people to build an educated and involved citizenry and ensure digital and economic opportunity for all. Library professionals are the essential element of strong schools, colleges, universities, and public communities."
Rhondda Powling

Report Checks out Library Trends -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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    "Research and academic libraries are moving quickly in many directions in response to expectations of patrons who are growing accustomed to the consumer technology experience and digitization of content. Among the trends that are redefining institutional libraries: a push for mobile content delivery, more focus on managing research data and rethinking the use of library spaces. These and other trends were highlighted in a new, freely available report published by the NMC, a community of experts in educational technology."
Rhondda Powling

Let's Make | A guide for promoting making in libraries - 0 views

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    "This guide is the result of a collaboration among a group of individuals who were grantees of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Libraries initiative. We came together as a voluntary project group to share our research, insights and experiences from Chile, Poland, Ukraine and other countries about the value of making in public libraries. We have compiled this short guide to share our learnings about: the case to support making in libraries; different services libraries can provide to encourage making; lists of equipment, software and other tools you can use to create physical or digital content; tips and ideas on how to implement maker activities; as well as links to other maker spaces, resources, and much more"
Rhondda Powling

Australian library wins international Public Library of the Year Award 2014 | Architect... - 0 views

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    "Craigieburn Library in Hume City, Victoria has been internationally recognised as the recipient of the 2014 Public Library of the Year Award."
Rhondda Powling

Digital Collections and Services: Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collectio... - 0 views

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    You can explore (US) historical pictures, maps, and more in the digital collections from the Library of Congress. The option to download of images is available. Any citation must be created by the user. "The LOC concentrates on its most rare collections and those unavailable anywhere else. The services are a gateway to a growing treasury of digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and books, as well as "born digital" materials such as Web sites. In addition, the Library maintains and promotes the use of digital library standards and provides online research and reference service"
Rhondda Powling

The Hunt Library Story (updated) - YouTube - 0 views

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    The Hunt Library has many interesting features and it poses much food for thought, not only for the direction of libraries in the future, but on how our current libraries might be re-thought to be more appealing/useful to our users.
Rhondda Powling

Welcome to Open Library (Open Library) - 0 views

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    The Open Library is a part of the Internet Archive. It is a collection of more than one million free e-book titles. The collection is cataloged by a community of volunteer online librarians. The ebooks in the Open Library can be read online, downloaded to a computer, read on a Kindle or other e-readers and embedded into other sites. Some of the ebooks, like Treasure Island, can also be listened to through the Open Library.
Rhondda Powling

Libraries Lend Record Numbers of Ebooks and Audiobooks in 2015 | Digital Book World - 0 views

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    "2015 was a big year for libraries' digital efforts, with a record number of readers borrowing ebooks and digital audiobooks. Overdrive, the leading supplier of digital content to libraries and schools, reported Tuesday that, in 2015, readers borrowed more than 169 million ebooks. This marked a 24-percent increase over 2014. There was also a notable spike in audiobook usage, which saw a faster growth rate than ebook library borrowing"
Rhondda Powling

On Getting Boys to Read - 0 views

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    Many school libraries work hard to try to keep all students but especially boys coming to the Library, reading books and engaging with what they are reading. Many of the strategies work for girls as well as boys and, although an aversion to reading isn't gender specific, every time you investigate some research it always shows that boys read less. This article explains some strategies one library has tried in order to combat boys disengaging from reading. She is not saying these will work for your school, but she has noticed a big uptake in the number of boys in the Library and of course the number of books they are borrowing.
Rhondda Powling

AASL Defines "Effective School Library Program" for ESSA Implementation | Knowledge Quest - 0 views

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    "The national association for the school library profession, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has defined the term "effective school library program" to assist with the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) at the state and district level:"
SLAV Connects

Access-It Library and Resource Manager - 1 views

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    Access-It Library is a single solution to all your library and resource management needs. Incredibly fast, flexible and easy to use. Both web-based and powerful SQL client/server with unicode support. Integrate with Wheelers Books and Overdrive resources plus others.
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    Access-It Library is a single solution to all your library and resource management needs. Incredibly fast, flexible and easy to use. Both web-based and powerful SQL client/server with unicode support. Integrate with Wheelers Books and Overdrive resources plus others.
SLAV Connects

TItlewave | Follett Library Resources - 0 views

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    Titlewave accounts are free.  Use it to find books to purchase and store them in your library system.  Stores in Follett shelf.  Integrates with Destiny library system but can be used with other systems.
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    Titlewave accounts are free.  Use it to find books to purchase and store them in your library system.  Stores in Follett shelf.  Integrates with Destiny library system but can be used with other systems.
Rhondda Powling

YA Books and More: The Importance of Libraries and What We Do - 0 views

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    "The author went to Youtube looking for the top five videos about and for libraries and this is what they found.  The three criteria were: 1. Had to be about school libraries 2. Definitely no cheesiness!  It has to have importance attached to it 3. Well done format. " And there were 4.
Rhondda Powling

Where Reference Fits in the Modern Library - 1 views

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    "The library today is still a trusted institution, but the public is coming to us with different expectations. Clinging to an outdated reference mission has left many libraries struggling to meet these new expectations."
Rhondda Powling

Exploring The World's Greatest Libraries (PHOTOS) | James W. P. Campbell - 0 views

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    Article written by James W. P. Campbell. He has travelled the world together with Will Pryce the architectural photographer, visiting and photographing 85 of the world's greatest libraries in 21 countries. He now has written a book The Library: A World History (Chicago University Press), which he claims is the most complete account of library buildings to date.
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