Download or read book School Reform and the School Library Media Specialist written by Sandra Hughes-Hassell and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third entry in the Principles and Practice series focuses on the role of the library media specialist as a change agent in the school. The purpose of this book is twofold: to provide insight into the role of the school librarian as change agent and to demonstrate strategies for being an effective change agent using a subset of current reform initiatives. The authors are educators, library media specialists, and researchers who share a common belief in the ability of classroom teachers, administrators, library media specialists, parents, and community members to work together to create schools that make a difference in the lives of students, and help produce citizens who have a capacity to cope with change in the future. Grades K-12.
Download or read book School Reform and the School Library Media Specialist written by Sandra Hughes-Hassell and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third entry in the Principles and Practice series focuses on the role of the library media specialist as a change agent in the school. The purpose of this book is twofold: to provide insight into the role of the school librarian as change agent and to demonstrate strategies for being an effective change agent using a subset of current reform initiatives. The authors are educators, library media specialists, and researchers who share a common belief in the ability of classroom teachers, administrators, library media specialists, parents, and community members to work together to create schools that make a difference in the lives of students, and help produce citizens who have a capacity to cope with change in the future. Grades K-12.
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.
Download or read book Student Success and Library Media Programs written by Lesley S. J. Farmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student success comprises a complex system of expectations and measurements. Designed for school library media specialists, this book focuses on library media programs and examines the factors that influence student achievement. Through a presentation of research trends and actual practice, award-winning author Lesley Farmer demonstrates how media specialists can encourage student achievement by creating an environment conducive to learning. Farmer takes a systems approach, illuminating how each stakeholder in a student's education contributes to and impacts student achievement. Chapters include: What Defines Student Achievement? Research in the School Library World Internal Factors: The School Library Media Program School Factors Towards Student Achievement Student Factors Towards Student Achievement Societal Factors Towards Student Achievement Focus on Reading: Who's a Good Reader? Next Steps In addition to research findings about library programming, Farmer examines collection resources, facilities, staffing, curricula, instruction, reading issues, services, products, and administration. Key research studies are cited throughout the work to optimize referral to relevant information. This is an invaluable guide for school library media specialists, as well as for faculty and students in LIS and education programs.
Download or read book The School Library Media Center written by Emanuel T. Prostano and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1999-02-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on the successful management of the school library media center as a system, the new edition of this authoritative work addresses and integrates the many trends and developments of the past decade. It explores the impact of global forces and the school district on the development and operation of the media center and examines the library's programmatic activities within the context of its goals. The book also addresses the nature, quality, and quantity of resources available to support programmatic endeavors -- personnel, media, technology, facilities, and funds. Management skills are emphasized throughout the text.
Download or read book The Instructional Consultant Role of the School Library Media Specialist written by Betty P. Cleaver and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the changing role of the School Library Media Specialist.
Download or read book Administering the School Library Media Center written by Betty J. Morris and published by Bowker-Greenwood. This book was released on 1992 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design a media center that's just right for your library, determine your needs, and more easily fulfill specific requirements from budgeting to staffing with Administering the School Library Media Center. Reflecting advances in management techniques and equipment, this acclaimed resource helps professionals: master audio, video, and computer technologies find out what's available ... what's easy to set up and operate ... and what's most affordable customize equipment to meet your library's requirements. A separate chapter cover all aspects of AASL's Information Power: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs.
Download or read book Enhancing Teaching and Learning written by Jean Donham and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for effecting change in a library media program by integrating it into the school's instructional program. Donham (library and information science, U. of Iowa) addresses how all the components of the school environment--the principal, the students, the curriculum, the community--can interact with the library media program. He also discusses collaboration between the library media specialist and teachers, collection development and maintenance, instructional assessment, and technology's place as a component of the library media program. Appends a section on suggested further reading. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Policymaking for School Library Media Programs written by Marian E. Karpisek and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Re Designing the High School Library for the Forgotten Half written by Margie J. Klink Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most high school administrators, teachers, and staff concentrate on the student who is in the college preparatory track, while those who may not even finish high school have less attention paid to their curriculum and their educational needs. If the role of the school librarian is to prepare all students for lifelong learning, school librarians must work closely with teachers in charge of courses preparing students to go from school to work. They need to remind other teachers who are in general courses that many of the students in their classrooms who will not go to college, but will take jobs which pay them much more than the college graduate makes in many areas of the work force. This book points out the role of the school librarian in working with aIl the students and maps out the route to take to make this happen.
Download or read book Power Up Your Library written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-09-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the methods of the New York City Library Power Program, this is a practical handbook for revitalizing or rebuilding the school library. Putting the many facets of the media specialist's professional life into the context of a flexibly scheduled, collaboratively planned teaching program, the book offers simple strategies for effecting positive change. It covers such topics as the librarian's role as teacher, programming, assessment, collection development, facilities, technology, the library budget, support staff, and public relations. Written for the school library media specialist who has or plans to have a library that conforms to today's vision of an effective school library media program, this book places the library media center at the heart of the school's educational program and shows how to position the library as the catalyst for school reform.
Download or read book Leadership for Today s School Library written by Patricia Jane Wilson and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2001-05-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents strategies for a student-centered library program, suggesting methods librarians can use to learn to work together with principals and teachers to build a curriculum, incorporate state and national standards, and implement technology.
Download or read book A Discussion Guide for Information Power Guidelines for School Library Media Programs written by M. Ellen Jay and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 1988 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most recent set of national guidelines for the development of school library media programs, which was published in 1988, identifies underlying changes in the roles of the school library media specialist as well as in the program itself. Viewing the library media specialist as an initiator of curricular activities rather than a purveyor of support services, these guidelines emphasize leadership, partnership, planning, curricular needs, collection development, and equity of access to information. This discussion guide has been developed to help educators at all levels to plan meetings and conduct effective discussion sessions with persons who have become familiar with "Information Power" in its entirety, in order to evaluate local school library media programs in light of the recent revisions. The first of three sections identifies the principal concepts presented in "Information Power" and provides an overview of each of its eight chapters. Procedures by which discussion sections may be effectively organized to promote the successful exchange of knowledge and views are recommended in the second section. The final section identifies specific constituencies for discussion groups and suggests discussion questions for each of the groups--i.e., library media specialists, administrators and boards of education, classroom teachers, college and university faculty, state department of education personnel, and members of the community at large--as well as questions for mixed constituency groups and questions basic to all discussion sessions. (GL)
Download or read book Evaluating the School Library Media Center written by Nancy Everhart Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-08-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everhart provides practical guidelines and ready-to-use forms for evaluating a school library media center, as well as important results derived in other studies. She includes qualitative and quantitative techniques for the areas of curriculum, personnel, facilities, collections, usage, and technology. She also gives step-by-step instructions on how to create in-house surveys, conduct interviews, and use observation to gather useful data. Conduct research, collect statistics, and evaluate your program with this useful resource. Everhart provides practical guidelines and ready-to-use forms for evaluating a school library media center, as well as important results derived in other studies. She includes qualitative and quantitative techniques for the areas of curriculum, personnel, facilities, collections, usage, and technology. She also gives step-by-step instructions on how to create in-house surveys, conduct interviews, and use observation to gather useful data. For example, there are directions on how to assess information literacy with rubrics. In addition, each chapter gives detailed references, a list of further readings, applicable Web sites, and dissertations. A quick and easy guide to justifying and supporting your SLMC operations and effectiveness, this book is invaluable to all school library media specialists. It will also be of interest to school library media supervisors and researchers.
Download or read book Power Teaching written by Kay E. Vandergrift and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The School Library Media Specialist as Manager written by Amy G. Job and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of case studies emphasizes practical management techniques designed to be used by library media specialists in elementary, middle and high school settings.
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.
