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Limitless Libraries is a cooperative program of Nashville Public Library and Metro Nashville Public Schools with the goal of improving school libraries, fostering resource sharing between the two institutions, and improving student access to learning materials.

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from Carolyn Starkey

Carolyn Jo Starkey

Jennifer LaGarde (Library Girl) on how and why to use QR codes in the library....EXCELLENT

This report provides a self-assessment tool and an assessment of museums and libraries against a continuum of 21st century skills.

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"This 275-page free downloadable resource contains dozens of lesson plans that implement AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in the context of the curriculum. Contributing authors include more than 30 teacher-librarians. "

Schools libraries are too often a "wasted resource" which should be brought into the mainstream of teaching, says a report. (BBC News)

Full BBC article at http://twe.tc/oL

"...while school libraries have a unique role in raising pupils' literacy levels, promoting reading for pleasure and improving their access to knowledge, in many schools the library is a wasted resource because it is poorly embedded in the infrastructure of the school and absent from school development plans. "

SLJ - 9/2010

By Chris Harris

The potential for augmented reality in iibraries and media centers - with some ideas and sites to explore the technology

Reaction to Chris Harris' SLJ article http://twe.tc/nY

New Canaan High School - This is a first intorduction to our new library catalog which includes a plethora of social features. We created this tutorial for English students selecting independent reading books. We were pretty psyched to find that independent reading selection classes were schduled with librarians on the very first full day of school this year!

Focussing on the digital revolution and ignoring the pivotal role that a good school library can play is to achieve only a percentage of what is possible - regardless of how good it seems , it's just not good enough!

image and duties of school library media specialist - excellent!

In fact, the whole wiki is a great example with great resoruces!

The second of Dr Joyce Valenza's sessions at the School Library Association of Victoria Make, Share, Do conference held on Friday 30th July focused on the use of social media to promote reading.

Includes slideshare

"We have created an audio magazine in which we tell the stories of the importance of school libraries and teacher librarians via interviews with teacher librarians, library staff, teachers, community members, parents, administrators, and most importantly, students. The format is along the lines of a 'This American Life' type of audio journal with a narrator, who sets the tone, describes the dilemma, and sets the stage for each interview. Each is short but dramatic and powerful. The intent is to distribute the audio journal widely on radio and across the Internet -- go 'viral' as create CDs to hand to legislators and decision-making administrators. Teacher librarians and others are able to download the journal and burn CDs to distribute to their local administrators and parents.

stories from: Dr. Doug Achterman, Glen Warren, David Burt, Winny Duffy, Heather Keaton, APRIL Wayland, Manuel PEREZ, Dr. Leslie Farmer, Donald Gill, Jeanne NELSON, Anne Birchfield, Hannah Jackson, Kathy Green, and Sophie.

For the Google generation, closing school libraries could be disastrous. Not teaching kids how to sift through sources is like sending them into the world without knowing how to read.

LA Times