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WOW!!

• Librarians Do That?!!
• Harriet Wallen
• LIS431

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Table of Contents

• Grid3
• Audience4
• Objectives..5
• Did you know that6
• And that7
• So.8
• Mission and Goals,9
• Roles Responsibilities.10
• As a teacher..11
• As Instructional Partner..12
• As Information Specialist13
• As Program Administrator.....14
• 3 Levels of Involvement in the Curriculum.1
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• Curriculum Support..16
• Curriculum Enrichment.17
• Curriculum Implementation..18
• Resources We Offer..19
• Databases...20
• Online Encyclopedias.....21

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Grid
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Audience

• This workshop is designed for teachers new to
  Diamond Middle School. Each year there are
  approximately 5-10 new faculty members

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Objectives

• After learning about the library program,
  teachers will collaborate with the librarian to
  design a lesson which incorporates information
  literacy skills into their curricula
• After learning about the library program,
  teachers will require students to use specific
  library resources in an assignment

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Did you know that

• Recent studies show that teachers have little
  knowledge or misconstrued ideas about information
  literacy and the role of the teacher librarian.
• (Asselin)

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And that

• the fact is that most preservice teachers are
  not introduced to the role of the
  teacher-librarian or the school library program.
• (Asselin)

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So

• today we will spend some time together so that
  you may learn a little bit about the services we
  can provide for you and your students.

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Mission and Goals

• The mission of the library media program is to
  ensure that students and staff are effective
  users of ideas information. This mission is
  accomplished
• by providing intellectual physical access to
  materials in all formats
• by providing instruction to foster competence
  stimulate interest in reading, viewing, and using
  information ideas
• by working with other educators to design
  learning strategies to meet the needs of
  individual students
• (Information Power)

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Roles Responsibilities of the School Library
Media Specialist

• Teacher
• Instructional Partner
• Information Specialist
• Program Administrator

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As a teacher

• the library media specialist collaborates with
  students other members of the learning
  community to analyze learning information
  needs, to locate use resources that will meet
  those needs, to understand communicate the
  information the resources provide. An effective
  instructor of students, the library media
  specialist is knowledgeable about current
  research on teaching learning skilled in
  applying its findings to a variety of
  situations
• (Information Power)

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As Instructional Partner

• the library media specialist joins with teachers
  others to identify links across student
  information needs, curricular content, learning
  outcomes, and a wide variety of print, nonprint,
  electronic information sources.Committed to
  the process of collaboration, the library media
  specialist works closely with individual teachers
  in the critical areas of designing authentic
  learning tasks assessments integrating the
  information communication abilities required to
  meet subject matter standards.
• (Information Power)

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As Information Specialist

• the library media specialist provides leadership
  expertise in acquiring evaluating information
  resources in all formats in bringing awareness
  of information issues into collaborative
  relationships with teachers, administrators,
  students, others in modeling for students
  others strategies for locating, accessing,
  evaluating information within beyond the
  library media center.
• (Information Power)

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As Program Administrator

• the library media specialist works
  collaboratively with members of the learning
  community to define the policies of the library
  media program to guide direct all activities
  related to it. Confident of the importance of the
  effective use of information information
  technology to students personal economic
  successthe library media specialist is an
  advocate for the library media program provides
  the knowledge, vision, leadership to steer it
• (Information Power)

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3 Levels of Involvement in the Curriculum

• Curriculum support
• Curriculum enrichment
• Curriculum implementation

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Curriculum Support

• Includes things like cataloging, circulation,
  etc. In other words, getting materials into your
  hands
• Laminating services
• Equipment such as cameras LCD projectors

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Curriculum Enrichment

• Promoting reading, listening, viewing
• Reference services
• Author visits
• Book Fairs
• Interlibrary Loan

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Curriculum Implementation

• Teachers librarian cooperatively plan, teach,
  evaluate individual lessons units

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Resources We Offer

• 13,000 volume collection
• Databases
• Online and print encyclopedias
• Online catalog
• LCD projectors
• Digital video still cameras
• Mobile computer labs
• Teacher resource room
• Professional Collection

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Databases

• Newsbank
• SIRS Discoverer
• SIRS Researcher
• Noodletools
• InfoTrac

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Online Encyclopedias

• Grolier Online
• World Book Online
• Britannica Online

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Come on Down!!

• Open 730 am to 330 pm
• Sign up your classes
• Sign up book for computer labs
• Just hang out!!

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References

• ALA. (1998). Mission and goals of the school
  library media program. In Information power
  Building     partnerships for learning. Retrieved
  July 22, 2007, from ALA Web sitehttp//www.ala.or
  g/     PrinterTemplate.cfm?Sectioninformationpowe
  rTemplate/Content...
• ALA. (1998). Roles and responsibilities of the
  school library media specialis. In Information
  power     Building partnerships for learning.
  Retrieved July 22, 2007, from ALA Web
  site     http//www.ala.org/PrinterTemplate.cfm?S
  ectioninformationpowerTemplateContent...
  Asselin, M. (2000, July). Poised for change
  Effects of a teacher education project on
  preservice     teachers' knowledge of the school
  library program and the role of the
  teacher-librarian.     School Libraries
  Worldwide, 6(2), 72-87. Retrieved July 22, 2007,
  from Wilson Web database.
• Church, A. (2006, June). Catch them (preservice
  teachers) while you can! Teacher Librarian,
  33(5),     20-23. Retrieved July 21, 2007, from
  Wilson Web database. Getz, I. (1996, January).
  Attitudes of preservice and inservice teachers
  toward working with school     librarians. School
  Libraries Worldwide, 2(1), 59-70. Retrieved July
  22, 2007, from Wilson Web     database.
• Haycock, K. (1995, Summer). Research in
  teacher-librarianship and the institutionalization
  of     change. School Library Media Quarterly,
  23(4). Retrieved July21,2007,fromALAWebsite     h
  ttp//ala.org/PrinterTemplate.cfm?Sectioninfopowe
  rTemplate/ContentManagement
• Heard, J. (2007, February). Technology A tool
  for collaboration. Library Media Connection,
  25(5),     24. Retrieved July 21, 2007, from
  Wilson Web database.
• Montiel-Overall, P. (2006, December). Teacher and
  teacher-librarian collaboration Moving
  toward     integration. Teacher Librarian, 34(2),
  28-33. Retrieved July 21, 2007, from Wilson
  Web     database.