Things That Keep Us Up at Night - 10/1/2009 - School Library Journal - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 Dec 09
  

  briars

  library2.0 Library libraries education

• 07 Dec 09
  

  K. Koskela

  Joyce Valenza and Dough Johnson in School Library Journal

  Joyce**Valenza Doug**Johnson SLMS

• 04 Dec 09
  

  Don Benn
  • But for the first time in history we are moving from a time of information scarcity to one of information abundance.
  • We need production space. We need to serve up our creations in presentation or story space. We need to inspire masterpieces of all sorts.
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  • • We can no longer afford to be seen as old fuddy-duddy bad guys in today’s thrilling “remix” culture.
    • Repeat after us: We don’t need to ask permission to use copyrighted material when we repurpose or add value to copyrighted work
    • Librarians need to help students assign rights to their own creative works. They share information about a new world of sharing while respecting intellectual property.
    • If we are truly information professionals, we need not only to keep up, but also be on the cutting edge of changes in the search and information landscapes.
    • It’s about teaching how to search and evaluate information coming from wikis, blogs, Twitter, and whatever comes next. It’s about understanding and using tags, about sharing and harnessing the power of a wide variety of information feeds. It’s about teaching how to aggregate RSS feeds, to gather useful widgets, and to create personal information portals. Librarians must be able to retool and stay ahead of teachers and students.
    • Librarians who don’t have PLNs, don’t attend conferences, don’t read cutting-edge professional literature—from both the library and the education worlds—are dragging our profession down. And good people are going with them.
    • In other words, how do we move from test-driven, low-level, skills-based curricula that do not really require learners to effectively and creatively find, evaluate, analyze, use, and communicate information? Until what librarians teach is viewed as sufficiently important to assess, librarians will not be viewed as sufficiently important enough to keep.
    • Learners must be able to construct and deconstruct messages in a multitude of media. They need to read, interpret, and create all types of writing and scripting: YouTube video, Tweets, blog posts, digital stories.
    • If a parent or an administrator tells us to remove a book from our collections, we fight. But many of the new communication tools (see American Association of School Librarians’ “Best Web Sites for Teaching and Learning”), which are used effectively in some schools and libraries, are blocked in too many others. Are we willing to take the fight for open access to information and tools to the same level that we’ve fought for in the past (see the American Library Association’s “Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights”) for access to materials in written form?
    • We need to stop fighting against Wikipedia and Twitter. It’s not only about databases.
    • Can we help learners manage the information flow, pushing relevant information to them through personal information portals using aggregating tools like iGoogle, PageFlakes, and Netvibes, as well as RSS feeds?
    • The definition of “authoritative” seems to be undergoing a societal change.
    • When a principal interviews a school librarian candidate, he or she should be clear about what type of professional is required.
    • Often it makes sense for students to carry their laptops to the library for more project-friendly space and additional equipment and resources.
    • Ubiquitous information access also means rethinking what our physical library spaces look like and feel like, and how they function.
    • We must be available as a 24/7 learning experience, a hybrid of virtual practice that supports our face-to-face instruction and services. How are we helping the student who is working on research at all hours at home?
    • Do our virtual libraries, pathfinders, online presentations, screencast lessons, and customized search tools represent school libraries as dynamic and powerful and media-rich online spaces?
    • Finally, perhaps our biggest nightmare is the lack of urgency in our profession. Educational change, technological change, and funding reductions are pressing in on all sides. Our best librarians will evolve, adapt, and thrive in effective schools.
• 22 Nov 09
  

  AnnMarie Furbur

  Library libraries valenza library2.0 21st_century_Library

• 19 Nov 09
  

  kathleen johnson
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  Mike Cullum

  library2.0 valenza

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  Rhondda Powling

  Library library2.0 libraries school teaching change valenza education reading 21stcenturyskills articles advocacy

• 15 Nov 09
  

  Laurie Hnatiuk

  valenza libraries socialnetworking

  • future of the school library as a relevant and viable institution is largely
    dependent on us and how quickly we respond to change.
  • formats, technologies, learning needs, and our schools are evolving
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  • • for the first time in history we are moving from a time of information scarcity
      to one of information abundance
    • becoming an expert in the new rules
    • It’s about teaching how to search and evaluate information coming from wikis,
      blogs, Twitter, and whatever comes next. It’s about understanding and using
      tags, about sharing and harnessing the power of a wide variety of information
      feeds. It’s about teaching how to aggregate RSS feeds, to gather useful widgets,
      and to create personal information portals.
• 11 Nov 09
  

  Joquetta Johnson

  library2.0

• 09 Nov 09
  

  Vinnie Vrotny

  Library library2.0 libraries school valenza keep

• 07 Nov 09
  

  Alexander Phoenix
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  mary ann samuelson

  teaching thinking skills

  • Our national expectations that ignore critical learning skills. Our national educational expectations do not include holding schools accountable for teaching 21st-century skills. When will our national standards recognize the importance of information problem-based learning? When will we begin to move toward more authentic assessment? In other words, how do we move from test-driven, low-level, skills-based curricula that do not really require learners to effectively and creatively find, evaluate, analyze, use, and communicate information? Until what librarians teach is viewed as sufficiently important to assess, librarians will not be viewed as sufficiently important enough to keep.
• 03 Nov 09
  

  Christina Bentheim

  library valenza

• 02 Nov 09
  

  Matthew Maas

  library2.0 Library libraries school tech teaching trends change changes

• 29 Oct 09
  

  LeAnn Miller

  advocacy shift

• 28 Oct 09
  

  Kathryn Frech

  library library2.0 librarians

• 25 Oct 09
  

  l widn

  Library_future library2.0

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  Lise Bofinger
  • visit

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      Lise Bofinger on 2009-10-25

      the whole idea of visit ...will change...if students enter and navigate the web through a building portal with media specialist assistance from their home ...is that a visit?
• 24 Oct 09
  

  Leanne Rainbow

  library copyright

• 23 Oct 09
  

  Laura Winter

  media valenza

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  Mike Nall

  new

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  michael chalk

  interesting article on libraries in schools.. in the face of changing cultural expectations (ie da internet).. thought-provoking.

  library library2.0 article web2 school education

• 22 Oct 09
  

  Vicki Davis

  Must read article that is tearing through the blogs of librarians and media specialists like wildfire this October. If you work with libaries and media centers this is a must read and must pass along if only to spark conversation (and oh, it has.)

  education mediacenter librarian administrator edu_news

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  Lisa Spiro

  future_library_services

• 13 Oct 09
  

  Phil Taylor

  libraries library2.0 Library plan

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  Lori Abrahams

  libraries library2.0 Library 10_1_2009

• 12 Oct 09
  

  John Evans

  libraries library2.0 Library

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  Dave Truss

  The library, as we once knew it, may no longer be relevant. School librarians, as we once knew them, may no longer be relevant. And, yet, this is undoubtedly the most exciting time in history to be a librarian.

  Library schools2.0

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  casey mayfield

  Library

• 11 Oct 09
  

  Cyndi Danner-Kuhn

  "The library, as we once knew it, may no longer be relevant. School librarians, as we once knew them, may no longer be relevant. And, yet, this is undoubtedly the most exciting time in history to be a librarian.
  
  The future of the school library as a relevant and viable institution is largely dependent on us and how quickly we respond to change."

  resources libraries

• 09 Oct 09
  

  Robin Cicchetti

  Visionary article on the future of school libraries.

  library2.0 flip school_libraries

• 08 Oct 09
  

  Mary Ann Harlan

  libraries library2.0 social media

  • Libraries need to change from places just to get stuff to places to make stuff, do stuff, and share stuff.

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      Mary Ann Harlan on 2009-10-08

      Libraries should be knowledge building centers
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      Lise Bofinger on 2009-10-25

      Agreed..though not a libraian...I can not imagine a more exiciting time to be in the middle of this whirlwind!
  • That doesn’t mean abandoning the need to teach ethics relating to intellectual property, especially attr

    • 

      Mary Ann Harlan on 2009-10-08

      And we should model attribution
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  • • Are we helping our students understand the issue of intellectual property from the point of view of the creator, not just the consumer?

      • 

        Mary Ann Harlan on 2009-10-08

        !!!!!!
    • Librarians must be able to retool and stay ahead of teachers and students. We believe that librarians cannot adequately retool if they do not develop PLNs (personal or professional learning networks).

      • 

        Mary Ann Harlan on 2009-10-08

        And to add more to this we need to be transparent in our learning, so that we model life long learning, not just teaching.
    • are dragging our profession down. And good people are going with them. Professionals who lack an understanding of the power of professional networking disturb our slumbers.

      • 

        Mary Ann Harlan on 2009-10-08

        Doug Johnson posted an email that is an interesting response here http://bit.ly/189jBM
    • re dragging our profession down. And good people are going with them. Professionals who lack an
    • Are we preparing our libraries to serve a post-literate society (See Doug Johnson’s “Libraries for a Post-Literate Society” in Multimedia & Internet @ Schools, July/August 2009), one in which people can read but prefer to meet their information, communication, and recreational needs in formats other than print?
    • Realizing that Internet access is an intellectual freedom issue
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  Monica Williams-Mitchell
  • And the professionals running both are called school librarians. We’re tired of hearing school administrators tell us, “But my librarian doesn’t do that.”

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      Monica Williams-Mitchell on 2009-10-08

      How can this be? The same is often said about classroom teachers -- as though there is no way to insist that professionals meet professional expectations!
  • Ubiquity changes everything.

    • 

      Monica Williams-Mitchell on 2009-10-08

      whether we want it to or not. Fundamentally. Absolutely.
• 06 Oct 09
  

  Floyd Pentlin
  • Librarians who don’t have PLNs, don’t attend conferences, don’t read cutting-edge professional literature—from both the library and the education worlds—are dragging our profession down
  • We’re tired of hearing school administrators tell us, “But my librarian doesn’t do that.”
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  • • We have no textbook for what 21st-century school library practice looks like. So how do we scale these examples so that all learners have access to new tools and resources?
    • uneven professional preparation.
    • We are bigger than databases. We need to stop fighting against Wikipedia and Twitter. It’s not only about databases. Demonizing any particular information source that the world values makes us look clueless. Each may have a place in the current, big, fuzzy, glorious information puzzle. Each one presents a different information lens. Instead, let’s prepare learners to triangulate and evaluate.
    • biquity also means that we have no choice about an online presence. It is both essential and urgen
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  Kelly Dumont

  library2.0 library_media

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  Tania Sheko

  things that keep us up at night - how libraries are changing

  libraries change future school

• 05 Oct 09
  

  Ann Johnston

  By Joyce Kasman Valenza and Doug Johnson: 10/1/2009 - School Library Journal

  library

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  Gretchen Hazlin

  valenza librarianship 21stcenturylibrarian articles

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  Craig Nansen

  "The library, as we once knew it, may no longer be relevant. School librarians, as we once knew them, may no longer be relevant. And, yet, this is undoubtedly the most exciting time in history to be a librarian. "

  Library

• 04 Oct 09
  

  Fran Bullington

  library2.0 librarymediaspecialist

• 03 Oct 09
  

  Marie Coleman

  libraries

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  Diane Quirk

  libraries

Public Stiky Notes

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  Lise Bofinger on 2009-10-25
  Agreed..though not a libraian...I can not imagine a more exiciting time to be in the middle of this whirlwind!
• 
  Mary Ann Harlan on 2009-10-08
  Libraries should be knowledge building centers
• 
  Mary Ann Harlan on 2009-10-08
  And we should model attribution
• 
  Mary Ann Harlan on 2009-10-08
  !!!!!!
• 
  Mary Ann Harlan on 2009-10-08
  And to add more to this we need to be transparent in our learning, so that we model life long learning, not just teaching.
• 
  Mary Ann Harlan on 2009-10-08
  Doug Johnson posted an email that is an interesting response here http://bit.ly/189jBM
• 
  Monica Williams-Mitchell on 2009-10-08
  How can this be? The same is often said about classroom teachers -- as though there is no way to insist that professionals meet professional expectations!
• 
  Monica Williams-Mitchell on 2009-10-08
  whether we want it to or not. Fundamentally. Absolutely.
• 
  Lise Bofinger on 2009-10-25
  the whole idea of visit ...will change...if students enter and navigate the web through a building portal with media specialist assistance from their home ...is that a visit?

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