Changing Times, Changing Libraries [DVD]

Changing Times, Changing Libraries [DVD]. Library Video Network, 2012. 75 minutes. 

ISBN: 1-566-41-124-6

Description:

Changing Times, Changing Libraries features the Sacramento Public Library’s move to a “one desk” system, the Houston Public Library’s “Express Library” model, and the Rangeview (CO) Library District’s “Anythink” model. The Sacramento Public Library has had a great deal of success and monetary savings by combining its service and information desks into a “one stop shopping model” and this program shows how they did it. The program also gives a look at the Houston Express Library model that relies heavily on technology resources and is to be placed in existing buildings, reaching new customers. In Colorado, the Anythink system has turned the traditional library model upside down, replacing Dewey and changing job titles and responsibilities for starters. All of these systems have achieved success in their communities by adapting to the changing needs of their communities with these new models and Changing Times, Changing Libraries show viewers how they succeeded.

The Indispensable Librarian, 2nd Edition

 

Johnson, Doug. The Indispensable Librarian: Surviving and Thriving in School Libraries in the Information Age. Second Edition. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-61069-239-7

Publisher's Description

This readable and practical book examines the changes in school libraries brought by the digital revolution—and describes how new and experienced librarians can take advantage of them.

How should technology be utilized in today's school library? How should librarians fulfill their secondary roles as staff developers? What strategies can be employed to survive and thrive under budgetary constraints without compromising library values? These are but a few of the questions and tough challenges facing librarians in the information age.

Both a book of practical solutions to today's budgetary and staffing problems in school libraries as well as an advocacy book, The Indispensable Librarian: Surviving and Thriving in School Libraries in the Information Age, Second Edition provides a practice-based overview of all management topics that also supplies real-world scenarios, step-by-step instructions, and pragmatic solutions to specific problems.

In this follow-up to his original book, Doug Johnson offers more practical methods and sage advice for leveraging technology's popularity and effectiveness to build stronger programs and cultivate beneficial professional connections and friendships. He defines and clarifies the role of the school library media specialist in a technologically enhanced school, providing relevant examples and useful advice on a variety of topics; and underscores the importance of strong management skills, especially regarding collaborative planning and communications. The book is written especially for K–12 school librarians, both new and experienced, and is also suitable for pre-service librarians as a textbook.

Features
• Provides both practical and visionary insights from an experienced, currently practicing librarian/library supervisor
• Supplies accessible and often humorous coverage of the subject without being simplistic
• Includes provocative ideas to stimulate thought and discussion
• Highlights the impact of technology on the library program and serves as a straightforward guide to changes needed in the field
• Offers an essential foundation of all aspects of managing a school library program

Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Elementary School Libraries

Moreillon, Judi. Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Elementary School Libraries: Maximizing Your Impact. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1180-8

From the Publisher

Time-strapped educators wonder whether partnering with school librarians can realistically improve students’ scores, but studies show that collaboration improves overall effectiveness in increasing students’ reading comprehension. Moreillon, a veteran teacher-librarian, updates Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension to draw on cutting-edge research in instructional strategies, offering a clear, rigorous roadmap to teaching reading comprehension in a proven collaborative process. Incorporating the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Standards for the 21st-Century Learner, Moreillon presents

• Strategies for improving reading comprehension, complete with updated graphic organizers, sample lesson plans, and technology-centered examples
• Practical steps for streamlining the coteaching lesson-planning process, boiling it down to three levels of literacy development
• Techniques for strengthening collaborative partnerships through flexible design and delivery 
• Guidance for incorporating library programs into research-driven teaching practices

As part of the U.S.-wide drive to improve test scores and build a nation of readers, Moreillon’s book offers proven teamwork tools to accomplish both goals.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 : Collaborative Teaching in the Age of Accountability

2 : Maximizing Your Impact

3 : Reading Comprehension Strategy One: Activating or Building Background Knowledge

4 : Reading Comprehension Strategy Two: Using Sensory Images

5 : Reading Comprehension Strategy Three: Questioning

6 : Reading Comprehension Strategy Four: Making Predictions and Inferences

7 : Reading Comprehension Strategy Five: Determining Main Ideas

8 : Reading Comprehension Strategy Six: Using Fix-up Options

9 : Reading Comprehension Strategy Seven: Synthesizing

References

Index

Companion Book
Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Secondary School Libraries: Maximizing Your Impact

Library Spaces for 21st-Century Learners

 

Sullivan, Margaret. Library Spaces for 21st-Century Learners: A Planning Guide for Creating New Library Concepts. Chicago: American Association of School Librarians, 2013.
ISBN: 978-0-8389-8630-1

From the Publisher
Library Spaces for 21st-Century Learners: A Planning Guide for Creating New School Library Concepts focuses on planning contemporary school library spaces with user-based design strategies. The book walks school librarians and administrators through the process of gathering information from students and other stakeholders involved in planning a resource rich learning space. Information includes how to create needs assessment documents that compliment AASL’s Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Programs. Suggestions for adding meaningful aesthetic components and colorful renderings of sample environments are also provided.

Building the Gigabit City (eBook)

Settles, C. (2013). Building the Gigabit City: A Planning Guide. Smashwords, Inc.

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Superfast broadband significantly boosts local economies, transforms education, improves healthcare delivery and increases local government efficiency. Building the Gigabit City helps you ask the right questions so you can do the same for your constituents.

Pulling valuable lessons from many of the 340 communities with successful broadband networks, this multimedia guide overflows with practical advice. Building the Gigabit City, produced in partnership with Gigabit Squared, helps rural and urban communities:

1) ignore the hype surrounding gigabit networks;
2) understand what super-fast access can and cannot do for your community;
3) conduct effective needs assessment; and
4) plan effective broadband strategy.

Success breeds success. Community leaders and project teams running successful broadband projects inform and motivate readers with insights on planning, funding, building, operating and marketing highspeed Internet access and services. U.S. communities from coast to coast are interviewed.

From a multimedia array of interviews, panel discussions, keynote presentations and first-hand experience, readers pick up valuable insights on:

* nine possible community broadband business models;
* six options for funding community broadband;
* building consensus among stakeholders;
* cultivating effective partnerships;
* overcoming or proactively addressing political adversity; and
* creating winning broadband strategies.

Building the Gigabit City is broadband industry analyst Craig Settles’ first e-book. For over 25 years his workshops and consulting services have helped organizations worldwide use technology to cut costs, improve operations and increase revenue. Numerous books, blog and in-depth analysis reports have established Mr. Settles as a prominent thought leader on executing broadband strategies. He currently hosts Gigabit Nation, a weekly Internet radio talk show. (book description)