Libraries are Changing Keeping Up, Being Successful

Libraries are Changing 1. Brief Overview of Some Changes 2. Maximize Student Learning

Libraries are Changing Technology and Change is Constant –The “Pace of Change” is accelerating. Book Helpdesk video Pay Attention video

Libraries are Changing Gradual Shift in Format From Print to Digital Time Crunch – The World is 24/7 Digital Natives - Our Kids are Changing Too Achievement and Engagement Matters

Formats Shift: Print to Digital

Audio Cassette to CD/DVD

Downloadable Content

Online Content

Card Catalogs

OPAC Online Public Access Catalog

Time Crunch – The World is 24/7

Time Crunch

The world operates 24/7, anytime, anywhere Libraries have been slow to adopt

Time Crunch Working with Teachers/Students: Written and phone communication Replaced by and voice mail Paper based learning records Being replaced by web systems

Digital Natives A New Generation of Students –Short attention span –Multitasking with limited focusing ability –Require highly visual content Digital Natives video A Vision of K-12 Students Today

Web As Platform Social Networking –Links people to people and people to libraries New Online Based Software and Tools –Free, easy to use, always updated software Open Courseware –Textbooks linked to online content –Free teacher vetted courses and content

Social Networking Social Networking Websites: –Personally authored and interlinked websites Myspace, Friendster, LinkdIn, Youtube Blogs – personal interactive journals –Teachers, librarians and students Wikis – online collaborative websites –Teachers, librarians and students

Achievement + Engagement Matters We are a highly competitive culture We love to “keep score” Standardized test scores are here to stay –Test scores create competition between and act as a scorecard for schools and districts –Know the results of state standardized tests and the AYP (Adequate Yearly Performance) results

Achievement + Engagement Matters For School Libraries: –Positively influencing achievement is critical –Documenting the Library’s impact on the student achievement is essential

Achievement + Engagement Matters For Public Libraries: –Customer satisfaction and customer service levels are beginning to be measured and compared –Library’s role as “community center” returns –Library supports: family and early literacy, student learning, adult lifelong learning, ESL and “Boomers” –Getting customers emotionally “engaged” to their experience with the library is critical

Keeping Libraries Relevant Full Page Text is Dead Kids Still Want to Read Books Achievement and Learning Matter Collaboration: Support Improved Relationships New Library “Intelligence” Gathering Other Ideas

Maximize Learning Full Page Text is Dead

Maximize Learning Kids still want to read books –Exciting, visual books are what kids want to read

Maximize Learning Achievement and Learning Matter All research and learning projects still require authoritative and compelling “content” –Highlight: terrific visual style, Further Reading, Websites, Other Sources, etc… –This “extra value” content is their starting point –Integrate the use of the great content materials into the new learning tools that kids want to use: blogs, wikis, etc…

Maximize Learning Achievement and Learning Matter –Link books and online resources to the curriculum –Use the state standards correlations that are integrated into the Librarians Toolkit website

Maximize Learning Achievement and Learning Matter –Digital Native Students Need 21 st Century Information Literacy Skills –Not Information Gathering – Teach Information Relevance and Critical Thinking Skills –Use Student Learning Tools: blogs, wikis, video…

Maximize Learning Collaboration: Means Improved Relationships –Become embedded in curriculum process New curriculum development One on one with teachers and lesson planning –Be a part of the Learning Improvement process: new Reading Programs, textbooks, scheduling… –Entire district Library staff – work together –Integrate library services into “special” areas: learning support, reading intervention, etc… –Cultivate community learning partnerships

Maximize Learning New Library “Intelligence” Gathering –Attend conferences, professional development seminars, local learning situations –Check other school and public library websites –Library and librarian blogs hold key program information and new ideas. –Participate in online learning programs

Maximize Learning Achievement and Learning Matter Group Discussion: –Briefly describe any “achievement” related success stories from this past year

Maximize Learning Final Thoughts –Students, Information and the World is Changing –The Learning Process must Adapt to Reflect Students Learning Needs –The Library Must Become Embedded Into All Aspects of the Learning Process