This article gives an in-depth description of Small Demons, "a web-based literary database that visually indexes, annotates, and connects the people, places, and things in books we read and love to the world beyond their pages."
Beyond that are many great ideas for how schools and libraries can use this site with the world of young adult literature.
Like academic libraries, school libraries rely primarily on their parent institution for financial support. The latest nation-wide expenditures figures for school library media centers in public schools comes from Characteristics of Public Elementary and Secondary School Library Media Centers in the United States: Results From the 2011-12 Schools and Staffing Survey published in August 2013. The "Selected Findings" summary in the beginning of the Adobe Reader PDF version notes --
-- During the 2010-11 school year, public school library media centers spent an average of $9,340 for all information resources [Information resources include such items as books, periodicals, audio/visual materials, database licensing, and software. They do not include salaries, computer hardware, or audio/visual equipment.] (table 4). This includes an average of $6,010 for the purchase of books and $490 for the purchase of audio/video materials [Includes all copies of any tape, CD, DVD, or Blu-ray].
-- The number of holdings in public library media centers per 100 students was 2,188 for book titles and 81 for audio/video materials at the end of the 2010-11 school year (table 5).
The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
Learning to know Learning to do Learning to live together Learning to be
Anderson and Krathwohl's taxonomy – Remembering
1. Remembering: Retrieving, recalling or recognising knowledge from memory. Remembering is when memory is used to produce definitions, facts or lists, or recite or retrieve material.
Advanced and Boolean Searching
Bullet pointing
Highlightin
Bookmarking or favouriting
Social networkin
Social bookmarking
“... team players. Virtually every project at Google is run by a small team. People need to work well together and perform up to the team's expectations. ”
Understanding: Constructing meaning from different types of function be they written or graphic.
The digital additions and their justifications are as follows
Searching or “googling
Blog Journallin
Categorising & Taggin
ommenting and annotating
Subscribin
Linking
Running and operating
Playin
Uploading and Sharin
Hacking
Editing
Analysing: Breaking material or concepts into parts, determining how the parts relate or interrelate to one another or to an overall structure or purpose. Mental actions include differentiating, organizing and attributing as well as being able to distinguish between components.
The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
Mashing
Applying: Carrying out or using a procedure through executing or implementing. Applying related and refers to situations where learned material is used through products like models, presentation, interviews and simulations.
The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
Reverse-engineering
Cracking
.Evaluating: Making judgements based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing..
The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
Blog/vlog commenting and reflecting
Posting
Moderating
Collaborating and networking
Testing (Alpha and Beta)
Validating
Creating: Putting the elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganising elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning or producing.
The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
Programming
Filming, animating, videocasting, podcasting, mixing and remixing