School Libraries In A Time Of Change

Author : Kathleen W. Craver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Libraries in a Time of Change written by Kathleen W. Craver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By becoming practical futurists, school librarians can help their libraries not only to survive sweeping changes in education but to thrive. This book shows how to spot technological trends and use them to your library's advantage. During this time of rapid modernization of technology and educational reform, this book is a must-read for school librarians tasked with ensuring their libraries meet evolving standards. This title provides the research and organizational techniques and skills they need to gain seats at the table of the three power committees: technology, curricula, and strategic planning. School librarians need to collect and publicize national and local school-based evidence that shows the positive correlations between school librarians and student achievement. Craver notes correlative sources and provides ideas to employ them to ensure that school librarians remain indispensable. In addition, acquiring technological skills and becoming expert at their application are paramount for librarians. Even more important is the need for librarians to assume sole responsibility for designing and integrating information literacy and critical thinking skills throughout the curriculum. Craver analyzes studies that show students' inability to discern fact from fiction, ads from news, and information bias in electronic information sources and recommends six actions that school librarians take to ensure that they become active participants in their future rather than its victims.

Author : Kathleen W. Craver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440873097
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Libraries in a Time of Change written by Kathleen W. Craver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By becoming practical futurists, school librarians can help their libraries not only to survive sweeping changes in education but to thrive. This book shows how to spot technological trends and use them to your library's advantage. During this time of rapid modernization of technology and educational reform, this book is a must-read for school librarians tasked with ensuring their libraries meet evolving standards. This title provides the research and organizational techniques and skills they need to gain seats at the table of the three power committees: technology, curricula, and strategic planning. School librarians need to collect and publicize national and local school-based evidence that shows the positive correlations between school librarians and student achievement. Craver notes correlative sources and provides ideas to employ them to ensure that school librarians remain indispensable. In addition, acquiring technological skills and becoming expert at their application are paramount for librarians. Even more important is the need for librarians to assume sole responsibility for designing and integrating information literacy and critical thinking skills throughout the curriculum. Craver analyzes studies that show students' inability to discern fact from fiction, ads from news, and information bias in electronic information sources and recommends six actions that school librarians take to ensure that they become active participants in their future rather than its victims.

Author : Angie Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351400045
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's a Matter of Fact written by Angie Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new book from Routledge and MiddleWeb, author Angie Miller shows how you can turn your students into informed citizens by teaching them how to research effectively. In today’s information-saturated world research skills have moved beyond fact-finding, into fact-sifting, fact-sorting, and fact-assessing. Miller shows you how to help students check sources, take good notes, make use of information, and synthesize and present information across the subject areas. She also shows how to make research a daily practice, not a one-time essay or project. With examples and online handouts you can use immediately, this practical book is a valuable resource for educators seeking to engage students in their work and encourage them toward higher level thinking.

Author : American Association of School Librarians
Publisher : American Association of School Librarians
ISBN 13 : 9780838985199
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empowering Learners written by American Association of School Librarians and published by American Association of School Librarians. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowering Learners advances school library programs to meet the needs of the changing school library environment and is guided by the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action.

Author : Kathleen W. Craver
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 : 0313291004
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Library Media Centers in the 21st Century written by Kathleen W. Craver and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1994-07-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School library media centers are at a critical juncture. Over the next decade, schools will undergo fundamental technological, economic, societal, instructional, and administrative changes. Craver discusses the major forces for change confronting school libraries, analyzes their implications as a guide for future decision making, and recommends that school library media specialists assume a leadership role in meeting these challenges. The work provides current data and statistics on future trends in technology, employment, education, society, instruction, and school administration that can help the school library media specialist to formulate forceful arguments for the acquisition of new technologies, instructional reform, and full implementation of resource-based learning. School library media specialists who need to plan and make decisions about the future of their school libraries will find this book an invaluable resource. To visualize the future, Craver creates contrasting scenarios of utopian and dystopian school library media centers in the 21st century. Chapter 1, Technological Trends, discusses the digitalization of all media and the implications of the technological revolution on the school library media center. Chapter 2, Economic Trends, considers the impact of demographic changes and declining budgets and how to deal with them. Chapter 3, Employment Trends, outlines future trends in the workforce and suggests ways in which the school library can respond. Chapter 4, Educational Trends, charts the decline in literacy and the growing school reform movement. Chapter 5, Social and Behavioral Trends, discusses the change from a nation with minorities to a nation of minorities and the transformation of the American family. Chapter 6, Instructional Trends, shows how the instructional role of the school library media specialist will change with the presence of advanced technologies. Chapter 7, Organizational and Managerial Trends, describes the role the school library media specialist will have to assume as the technological, economic, educational, and cultural changes affect the daily business of the media center. Chapter 8, Challenges, focuses on a series of challenges in technology, performance-based programs, collection development, instruction, and organization and manayement of the library media center.

Author : Kieth C. Wright
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810836976
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forecasting the Future written by Kieth C. Wright and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the unique role of the library media specialist in a time of rapid change. The authors draw on the day-to-day experiences of media specialists and supervisors to highlight the best practices in library media services and show how these practices will fit into the context of the future of education.

Author : Martin Rossoff
Publisher : Littleton, Colo : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The School Library and Educational Change written by Martin Rossoff and published by Littleton, Colo : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1971 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mirah J. Dow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Libraries Matter written by Mirah J. Dow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As school districts across the United States increasingly question the need for trained librarians, this collection of research-based evidence helps make the case for a state-licensed librarian in every school. While serving on the AASL legislation committee, Mirah Dow recognized the urgent need to utilize research-based evidence to prove school librarians are much more than an educational luxury. This collection is the result. It brings together school library research studies and findings from the past decade and draws connections to how they can be applied to situations and questions that occur in practice. Taken as a whole, the research underscores that state-licensed, school librarians are a necessity for 21st-century students. Chapters center on important research studies from the past decade that examine data and locate school libraries within operational contexts. Methodologies are explained and findings summarized, while notes clarify practical applications for school librarians. Because each chapter includes a connection to broad realms of theoretical influence in the social sciences, the work will also be relevant to educators and public policymakers, arming them to better communicate research-based links between investments in school libraries and student learning outcomes.

Author : Margaret L. Sullivan
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 : 1610698150
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Impact School Library Spaces written by Margaret L. Sullivan and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about exploring alternative ways to think about school library space planning. We have entered a period of change fueled by technology and new pedagogy. Change is both exciting and confusing, so finding a way to work through the confusion was my goal while leaving you with the excitement of ushering in a new era of school library programs. Designing new school libraries requires some risks on your part because whenever the old version is not working it takes a brave person to be the first to step up and say, "Let's try something different". - From introduction

Author : Barbara A. Schultz-Jones
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110395851
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Action on School Library Guidelines written by Barbara A. Schultz-Jones and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the new IFLA School Library Guidelines and shows how the Guidelines can be used in improving school library services. Each chapter describes innovative initiatives for developing, implementing and promoting school library guidelines. The book provides inspiration and guidance for the creation of national school library standards and for the development and use of standards and guidelines to change school library practice, to define the teaching role of school librarians, to guide the initial preparation of school librarians, and to advocate for school library services. Contributors to the book come from around the world: Australia, Canada, Ethiopia, France, Malaysia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United States. Their work illustrates the shared commitment of school librarians around the world to "teaching and learning for all", as envisioned in the IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto.