1. Library Information & Technology Programs in a Time of Uncertainty
Adapt, Change, or Perish
Brands matter
Mike Eisenberg

2. Sarah Applegate Lisa Layera Susan McBurney
Special thanks to
Sarah Applegate Lisa Layera Susan McBurney
for content, graphics, and inspiration.

3. Are you relevant?

4. if the library program were eliminated
really
what would happen? ^

5. in terms of performance on state tests measureable student learning
classroom teaching?

6. Perceptions - still?
If this is still the perception

7. If this is still the perception

9. change

10. re-think

11. sacred cows Rethink every aspect Who is the competition? Key services?
Allocation of staff time and effort
Key resources –

12. Some Sacred Cows Collaboration Flexible scheduling
The physical library
Collection development
Wikipedia –
It’s all about reading
Rethink every aspect
Who is the competition?
Key services?
Allocation of staff time and effort
Key resources –
Physical library – impt but so much more

13. instead

14. LIT Programs Comprehensive & Accountable
Defined
Predictable
Measured
Reported
DeePer MoRe
DPMR

15. What it takes…
Vision
Strategy
Marketing

16. vision

17. Your mission:
To ensure that students are effective users and producers of ideas and information.
LIT framework

18. To ensure that students are effective users and producers of ideas and information.

19. To ensure that students are effective users and producers of ideas and information.

20. To ensure that students are effective users and producers of ideas and information.

21. LIT: 3 Functions Library Information and Technology Agenda .
Information & Technology Skill Instruction
Reading Advocacy
Information Management & Services .
Love this image
gears push each of other.
Nothing works in isolation in the library. When one moves, so do the others.
Also- you can think about the size showing the relationship between the different roles.
Gears- LIT always have the agenda behind my work.
My story: instruction and instructional coaching. Needed at my school. Meeting with principal.
literally how I conceptualize my work. and it is important to keep the LIT agenda, as I like to refer to it, at the forefront of your mind.
k12 training years ago, I began using these as my job foci and daily activity filter-
does what I am doing fulfill one of these essential roles in my school?
Mike suggests looking at it through percentages- how much of your day is spent doing each of these roles.
Every once in awhile, I sit and think through this. I think about what students, teachers and administrators need from me, compare that to what I have been doing, and then work on making what I do match what they need.
What I have learned, especially over the past couple of years of working part time, and losing assistant time, is that I can’t do it all. Something has to give. And I go back to the roles, reflect on my strengths, meet with my administrator, attend program leader and department meetings, and connect with my colleagues for ideas, inspiration and support.
I have decided that my school needs me to work as much as possible on instruction in a variety of ways- teaching skills, co creating and delivering lessons, doing “instructional coaching lite”, coordinating instruction between departments, presenting to and training staff to use tools that will improve and enhance their instruction and helping to design instructional and cultural foci in the school.
This is my focus, and it has been derived from talking to and working with school leaders, observing student and teacher behavior and looking at my own strengths.
And while I do reading advocacy and information management, these are probably the weaker pieces for me. Honestly, I have had to just accept that my book displays are mediocre at best, and terrible at worst. The shelves aren’t always tidy, the chairs aren’t always pushed in. I am not always able to get everyone up to speed on the best shortcuts in word or the latest free technology web tool (though after Richard Byrne’s preconference session yesterday, I might actually be able to make a dent in it!) but I know that I am working on helping students develop a continuum of skills that will help them make sense of information.
Really sticking to these core concepts helps me stay focussed on my mission as a TL. I am a teacher first, librarian second, and putting the 2 together makes me powerful. I focus on the teaching of students and staff, and then do what I can with the other pieces of the job. That works well at my school, though I am working toward understanding of the systems necessary to strengthen the support systems for the teaching.
Library Information and Technology Agenda

22. INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY SKILLS INSTRUCTION
Leads information literacy instruction including evaluation and analysis of the credibility, relevance and currency of information.
Coaches instructional staff in support of curriculum, information technology and information management.
Teaches students to be critical consumers and producers of information.
Teaches students and staff to use emerging learning technologies for school and lifelong learning.
Teaches students to be safe, ethical and responsible digital citizens.
BIG6 x MONTH

23. ONLINE – ONLINE - ONLINE
READING ADVOCACY
Establishes and models a powerful and ubiquitous culture of reading in the school community.
Motivates and guides students to read for enjoyment and understanding.
Develops a relevant collection of fiction and non-fiction in a variety of formats, ensuring quality reading choices for all students.
Manages resources in support of established curriculum and student passions.
ONLINE – ONLINE - ONLINE

24. INFO MANAGEMENT & SERVICES
Provides open and equitable access to resources, technology and information services for the entire school community.
Develops and administers inviting and effective physical and digital library environments.
Manages resources to support teaching and learning.
Administers information management systems to support student learning and school and district programs.
BYOD – DEVICES – 24/7 ACCESS – ONLINE CONTENT

25. super-strategic

26. Being Super Strategic
Whose library information & technology program is it?
Whose library is it?
Whose website or virtual library is it?
Tomorrow – LIT Advisory Committee.

27. Tomorrow – LIT Advisory Committee.

28. Be Strategic
It’s not my library or library information and technology program.
It’s the total school community’s library information and technology program.
Form your Advisory Team – asap – and use it!
Engage students, faculty, administrators in pie-chart planning.
Tomorrow – LIT Advisory Committee.
Let them feel ownership!
Advisory Committee? Steering Committee? Strategy Committee?

29. Info Management & Services
Pie-Chart Planning
Info & Tech
Skills Instruction
Reading
Advocacy
Info Management & Services
Emphasis
% Time and Effort

30. TL Roles in Functions
Teach
Plan, Manage, Coach 30

31. Alternative TL Roles/Approaches
Function
Delivery-Centered
Management-Centered
Info & Tech Skills Instruction
Teach integrated lessons/mini-lessons to students..
Plan, manage, and coach the information & technology skills instructional program.
Reading Advocacy
Provide direct reading guidance and promotion activities.
Plan, manage, and coach the reading guidance and promotion program.
Information Management
Deliver information & technology services, systems, resources—virtual and physical, 24/7.
Plan & manage information & technology services, systems, resources—virtual and physical, 24/7. 31

32. Super Strategic
Target directly to school-wide goals and teacher/classroom-centered curriculum and assessments.
Deliver defined, predictable, measured, and reported instruction and services.
Embrace and champion the virtual, the online, the digital – first!
Rethink the sacred cows
Document the targeted instruction and services as well as the resulting student achievement.
Be positive, upbeat—recognized as a problem-solver and essential player.

33. Being Super Strategic
Be positive, upbeat—recognized as a problem-solver and essential player.

34. Attitude is everything!or

35. marketing

36. Marketing
Brand
Mission
Functions
Technology
21st Century Skills

37. Brand Teacher-Librarian
Library Information and Technology Program – LIT
To ensure that students are effective users and producers of ideas and information.

38. Functions Essential 21st C Information & Technology Skills
Reading Advocacy
Chief Information Officer (CIO)

39. Info Management & Services
Each Function
Defined
Predictable
Measured
Reported
Info & Tech
Skills Instruction
Reading
Advocacy
Info Management & Services

40. Reporting Audience Options Grades on assignments Students
Monthly/quarterly reports about student performance
Monthly/quarterly reports on the program
Report card grades
Displays of student work
_________________
Students
Other Teachers
Administrators
Parents
Public

41. in closing…

42. Moving from
saving your library …

43. transforming your library.
… to
transforming your library.

44. LIT Program Checklist embrace the brand own LIT mission & functions
decide teach vs. manage?
do pie-chart planning
leverage technology & space
be accountable
make it fun!
Eisenberg 2011

45. A LIT program can put the world in students’ hands.
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