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Welcome to Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. This wiki was created to be a one-stop shop for great ideas and information for all types of librarians. All over the world, librarians are developing successful programs and doing innovative things with technology that no one outside of their library knows about. There are lots of great blogs out there sharing information about the profession, but there is no one place where all of this information is collected and organized. That's what we're trying to do.

The theme for TEDx LibrariansTO is Librarians as Thought Leaders. Come to the event and experience this incredible opportunity to hear Librarians speak to the differences we make in the world and how we have, can and do lead and transform society.

Study: College students rarely use librarians' expertise By Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed Updated 7h 29m ago

The number of U.S. school librarians has greatly diminished despite advocacy efforts on the local and national level. This case study investigated the factors that led governing board members in a mid-size urban high school district to retain certified school librarian positions despite a major economic crisis.

Contains links to presentations and other info on topics of interest to librarians, including reorganizing non-fiction without DDC.

A recent look at how the role of librarians is changing and what needs faculty/students may have of media centers

110,000 books, 500 teachers, 20 schools, 11 libraries, and only 2 librarians... Try as we might, we can't be everywhere. Want to connect more kids with books through technology? Want to incorporate 21st century tools into your lessons? Need to advocate for your library? Follow our blog and we will teach you on the fly...

LibGuide for teacher librarians - everything we need, all in one spot!

Resources to encourage collaboration between teachers and teacher librarians.

Welcome to the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Standards for the 21st-Century Learner Lesson Plan Database, a tool to support school Librarians and other educators in teaching the essential learning skills defined in the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. Users can search the database for lesson plans by learning standards and indicators, content topic, grade-level, resources used, type of lesson or schedule, keyword and much more. In addition, registered users can bookmark lesson plans in a portfolio for future use, rate and comment on lesson plans in the community, print to PDF and socially share lesson plans on the web, and create and publish their own lesson plans in the database. Submissions to the Lesson Plan Database are vetted by AASL reviewers to ensure lesson plans published are of the highest quality. The lesson plan template was developed using the Action Example Template from Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action. All lesson plans published are aligned with AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and are crosswalked with the Common Core Standards.

Tongue-in-cheek librarian skills. Hilarious! Of course I can do all of these things.

"Librarians are uniquely qualified to curate. School Librarians are perhaps most ripe for this function, because they understand the curriculum and the specific needs and interests of their own communities of teachers, administrators, learners, and parents."

It's time for school librarians to speak out about how they help students meet learning standards. This advocacy kit provides templates and talking points for meetings with students, teachers, administrators, school boards and parents.

Last update 11/11/2011 29/4 Add Ebscohost database 08/6 Added Factiva for iPad 06/11 Added Springerlink 11/11 Added Heinonline for iPhone & iPad Got your IPhone recently and want a quick overview of what innovative librarians , library or library vendors have done with IPhone apps?

What's more, we're *drowning* in information. Pre-Internet librarianship was like pre-Internet newspaper publishing: "select, then publish." That is, all the unfiltered items are presented to a gatekeeper, who selects the best of them, and puts them in front of the rest of the world. Now we live in a "publish, then select" world: everyone can reach everything, all the time, and the job of experts is to collect and annotate that material, to help others navigate its worth and truthfulness. That is to say that society has never needed its librarians, and its libraries, more. The major life-skill of the information age is information literacy, and no one's better at that than librarians. It's what they train for. It's what they live for.

©2007 GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido MLS

Valenza's new manifesto - You know you are a 21st century librarian if... This reads like a required punch list for school librarians. Excellent.

"This space is for teacher-librarians to share their lesson plans and otherwise collaborate with each other. This space has been set up to follow the chapter headings from "Information Literacy for Life-Long Learning," the K-12 Library Scope and Sequence developed by the teacher-librarians of the Pittsburgh Public Schools (PA). (Please note that we begin here with Chapter 3, as chapters 1 & 2 do not require lesson plans.)"

Serachable database of each state's requirements for school librarian/teacher librarian/library media specialist (title varies by state).