building the virtual school library

BUILDING THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL LIBRARY

Kris KenneyOnline Services Coordinator

Schaumburg Township District Librarykkenney@stdl.org

ELECTRONIC vs. PRINT

Buy materials online when possible, you need to be where your

customers are.

78% of middle and high school students use the Internet but the most Internet-savvy among them complain that their teachers don’t use the Internet in class or create assignments that exploit great Web material. “Online teens say their schools don’t use the Internet well” Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2002

TYPES OF E-RESOURCESappropriate for schools

Encyclopedias

Magazines

Literature Criticism

Hot Topics

Reference Books

Test Preparation

Language Learning

BENEFITSof electronic resources

Save on shelf space

Updated more often than books

Ability to email/save, no photocopying

More reliable than a web search

Enhanced features: audio, video, images, citation creators, rss feeds, folders

REMOTE ACCESS

Access from home, from phone, from work, from grandma’s house, from computer lab, from where ever there is a computer with Internet access.

BUILD PARTNERSHIPSwith your local public library

Check out their subscriptions – don’t duplicate

Find out if a discount is applicable because the library has a subscription already

Add a link to the library resources from your school library site for the convenience of the students.

Invite the local library to specific school activities

Work with the teachers to provide curriculum to the local library

WORK WITH YOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY

Work with a contact at the local public library who is interested in working with the schools

Ask the public library to offer a scavenger hunt to help students learn to use the library.

Ask the public library to offer curriculum specific classes in the evenings when students can attend

Help promote public library classes being offered to students

Work with teachers to provide extra credit for work done in the public library

LIBRARY SYSTEMS

Check with your local library system for discounts

Look into Library Partnership Trust Check with other states who may offer

discounts

WHAT WEB 2.0 CAN DO

Free

Builds a discussion

Builds creativity

No experience needed

WEB 2.0 IDEAS

Build a blog for book reviews, assignment alerts, promote new resources, ‘help’ topics, video tutorials

Go where your students are: MySpace, FaceBook, Flickr, YouTube

Use Glogster, Flickr, Animoto or other creative sites to hold contests.

For more ideas try GO2WEB20

PUT YOUR LIBRARY ON FBand add your own content

ARE YOU ACCESSIBLE?

E-mail IM/Chat Texting

ELECTRONIC RESOURCESmake them inviting and accessible (24/7)

SCHOOL WEBSITEmake sure the library has a presence

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