this is for anyone who thinks…. reading literature and information literacy is important

This is For

Anyone who thinks…

Reading

Literature

And

Information Literacy

Is important

This is for you

Who needs a…

School Library Media Specialist?

Scenarios

Looked for information….

But never found

Frustration

Wasted time and effort

I finally found it!!

….apply scanning tunneling microscopy to laterally nanostructured materials obtained by using SPM-based nanofabrication based on strong mechanical electronical interaction between probe tip and..

So what?

I don’t understand it

!!*&^%$ computer

Presentation

Isn’t there anyone

who can

help me?

Hey mom….hey dad…

“I need a book on purple dinosaurs..”

Why didn’t you get a book

at school?

Public libraries

Closed – due to budget cuts

Collections– General Public –– broad

– School – tailored to specific curriculum needs of students

Ever lose a position due to budget cuts?

Where does the ‘extra’ work go?

Full plate….

teachers have the time and energy

ensure collections

contain ….

latest and

best resources?

Teahers will remove outdated material from the library

Surf Internet

0 or 10,000 search results

Teachers & Parents

180 hours

University of Hawaii

to effectively teach

basic database searching

Cost $600/person

Take turns..

• Man the library• 7:15 – 8:00 a.m.

Recess Lunch

After school

• Temporary

The other option…

Library closed

Who will select what your child reads?

volunteer…..

different agenda

Volunteer….

beliefs….

religion….

lifestyle

Intellectual freedomAmerican Library Association

seek and receive information from all points of view

all expressions of ideas

Would you shop at a store…

• That has no sales clerks?

• Business

• no people

• Hospital

• No doctors

• Library

• no librarians

a classroom…

that has

no teacher

A library is …

A classroom

A librarian is a teacher

So why send you child

To an empty library?

Back to our single question.

Should we have a

Librarian Media Specialist?

Beyond Technology Questioning, Research and the Information

Literate School

By Jamie McKenzie, Ed.D.

Copyright:2000

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Essential ?

How do we cope …with a shrinking budget?

What does it mean to be ….a school with no librarian?

What kind of people …. shall our children be?

Subsidiary ?

Take essential questions

break down into small questions

provide insight

2

- Essential question –

Do we have a school where our children have no access to a school librarian media specialist?

-Subsidiary ?.-Potential benefits

-Obstacles to overcome

-Available resources?

-Who is involved?

Potential Benefits

Savings pennies

But at the cost of losing ….

Our children’s literacy?

Subsidiary ?

• Neil K. Duke

Mean of 3.6 minutes per day spent reading in 1st grade class room

– Reading Research Quarterly 35 (2000)

Anne McGill-Franzon

“Simply providing teachers with a generous supply of children’s books had little effect on the educational outcomes of students”

“Putting Books in the Classroom Seems Necessary But not Sufficient.” The Journal of Educaiton Research 1993 (2) 67-74

Stephen Krashen (5):

Literacy is a problem to throw money at

…pour money into library books

…Make sure they get read

Potential Benefits

100 years of research

Free voluntary reading - lots of it

Best predictor of 7 essential achievement basics:• Comprehension, spelling, grammar, vocabulary

• Writing style, verbal fluency, general knowledge

Subsidiary ?

National Assessment of Educational Progress 2000US Federal Government

Hypothetical ?

Suppose….What if…

What’s the worst / best that might happen?

3

Worst that could happen..

Children go to the library less

read less

Children’s books = 50% more rare words than adult prime-time TVLoertscher, David. Reinventing Your School’s Library in the Age of Technology 2002

Best that could happenKeeping a Librarian Media Specialist:

– Avid readers

– Strong research skills

– Positive impact on raising students’ achievements

– Teachers have a collaboration partner

Ontario School Library Association 2002

Hypothetical

Best that could happen

Children – can read

Students - Information literate

Employees - Problem-solve and propose solutions

Hypothetical

Telling ?

Precise, quantifiable

Percentages %

Statistics

Improve student achievement

Achieve standardized test scores

15% – 20% higher than schools

without a library media specialist(1)

• Ontario School Library Association

National Education Association

Task force on Reading

2000

14 states can’t be wrong

Scholastic Research & Results. School Libraries WorkAccessed

Consistant results (6)

• Full time certified Library Media specialist• High Reading Test scores

– Iowa (2002) Missouri (2003)– Colorado (2000) New Mexico (2002)– Massachusetts (2002) North Carolina (2003)– Michigan (2003) Oregon (2001)– Florida (2002) Pennsylvania (2000)– Texas (2001) Alaska (1999)– Minnesota (2003)

Scholastic Research & Results. School Libraries WorkAccessed

Also discovered…

large collection of reading material in the school library ….

is NOT enough to generate high academic achievement by students

increase reading scores…Staffed with qualified school librarians

Scholastic Research & Results. School Libraries WorkAccessed

Planning ?

Which medium will provide:

• the most reliable and relevant information

• A speedy discovery process

• with optimal efficiency?

5

Internet

Clarification ?

Mountain of information

block

rather than promote understanding

Internet Quality Control

cesspool of waste

Strategic ?

American Library Association

Info-glut and data smog

Pertinent and useful

Opinions vs facts

Reliable from the unreliable

Beyond Technology – Jamie McKenzie

Internet Quality Control

Doesn’t Exist

Race relations from Klan sites

Strategic ?

American Library Association

Who’s going to help your child

Recognize

propaganda,

bias

distortion

Beyond Technology – Jamie McKenzie

Why the Internet is no substitute for a librarian

1) Not Everything Is on the Internet

over one billion Web pages

only about 8% of all journals are on the Web, and an even smaller fraction of books are there

very few substantive materials on the Internet are free..

Strategic ?

American Library Association

Internet vs Librarian

• Internet searches limited

– Here are 10 articles on Native Americans. We have 40 others but we’re not going to let you see them

– Need to go through several search engines

Strategic ?

American Library Association

States Can Now Buy One Book and Distribute to Every Library on the

WebVendors delivering e-books allow only one

digitized copy per library.

If you check out an e-book over the Web, I can’t have it until you return it.

if you’re late getting the book back, it’s charged to your credit card automatically

Strategic ?

American Library Association

Virtual electronic library

• California Polytechnic State University

• World’s highest concentration of engineers and computer geeks,

• explored the possibility for two years.

• Their solution?

• traditional library with a strong digital Media Librarian

Strategic ?

American Library Association

Only need what’s written in the past 15 years?

Vendors offering magazine access routinely add a new year while dropping an earlier one.

Internet

It is not a librarian teacher

tool

Clarification ?

• What does ‘temporary’ mean?

• How was the case developed for eliminating a position?

• Who made this suggestion?

• Based on what data?

• What have other’s tried before?

• What worked and didn’t work?

Strategic Questions

Why are charter Schools Lagging?

• ... "Almost no charter school employs librarians or media specialists,“

Howard Nelson, senior associate director of the American Federation of Teachers

10/1/2004 -- School Library Journal

Is this good enough?

Probing ?

never satisfied - enough to get by

never stop investigating

Desmond Morris

Deep thinkers

Translate

infer

apply what is learned

Student

Questions& wonders

Consumes& absorbs

Think& create

Summarize& conclude

communicate

Reflect Find &sort

Reinventing Your School’s Library (3)

Sorting and sifting ?

What’s worth keeping?

Strategic Questions

What do you do next?

Perfect opportunity

Fight to keep librarian media specialist for your children in our schools

Work together to help raise funds

Unanswerable

How would life be different if…

How will you be remembered?

Whatever the cost of our libraries,

the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation."

-- Walter Cronkite, broadcaster

Bibliography

1) Ontario School Library Association, www.accessola.com/osla/osla_home.htm 2002

2) McKenzie, Jamie, Ed.D. Beyond Technology: questioning, Research and the Information Literate School FNO Press, Bellingham, WA, 2002

3) Loertscher, David. Reinventing Your School’s Library in the Age of Technology Hi Willo Research and Publishing c 2002

4) U.S. Federal Government, National Assessment of Educational Progress, c 2000 Accessed on the Internet at: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ on Nov. 19, 2004

5) Krashen, Stephen. The Power of Reading Libraries Unlimited, 19936) Scholastic Research & Results. School Libraries WorkAccessed on the

Internet at: http://www.scholastic.com/librarians/printables/slp_rfp_804.pdf on 19 Nov. 2004

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