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U.S. National Center for Education Statistics

• “School Library Media Centers: Selected Results from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002)”

• Sample of 15,525 10th graders in 752 schools• “Found a significant correlation between

student test scores and their use of the school library—students with higher test scores reported higher use of library resources for assignments, in-school projects and research papers, than those students whose composite test scores were in the lower range”

Welcome to uComics Web Site featuring Baldo!Retrieved February 25, 2005, from http://www.ucomics.com/baldo/2005/02/24/

Linking Libraries

and Academic

Achievement:MAXImize

Your ResourcesIt’s Virtually

Possible!

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“Looking Ahead”

• Moore’s Law: Technology will double in speed and drop in price by half every twelve months.

• Law of the Photon: Computer speed doubles every six months.

• Internet Revolution: …in the last ten years~• Fifty percent of what we learned two years

ago is inaccurate today…(ten months for doctors).

Dawn Vaughn, President’s Column, November/December 2004 Knowledge Quest

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Search Engine Users

• 84% of Internet users have used search engines.

• 68% of users say that search engines are a fair and unbiased source of information.

• 38% of searchers are aware of a distinction between paid and unpaid results; 62% are not.

• 92% of those who use search engines say they are confident about their searching abilities.

Pew Internet & American Life Project, January 2005

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• Born to be Wired: The Role of New Media for a Digital Generation, Yahoo study, June 2003

• Key Finding: The Internet has become THE youth medium of choice…time spent with the Internet now exceeds the time spent with the television for the “Millennial” generation, youths aged 13 to 24”

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• The Digital Disconnect: The Widening Gap Between Internet Savvy Students and Their Schools, Pew Internet & American Life Project, August 2002– Virtually all middle and high school students use

the Internet heavily to do research to help them write papers or complete class work or homework assignments…as virtual textbook and reference library…For the most part, students’ educational use of the Internet occurs outside of the school day, outside of the school building, outside the direction of their teachers…

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• Fitzgerald and Galloway study, 2001, online behavior of high school senior and undergraduate college students– Students in both groups

• Had few resource-based inquiry projects in past• Had difficulty distinguishing Internet resources from

subscription databases• Had difficulty selecting the “best” database for the

project• Had difficulty searching (did not use Boolean logic

or Advanced Search; did not use Help screens available)

• Had difficulty evaluating information found

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• Williams, Grimble, and Irwin study, 2004, teacher’s link to electronic resources in library– Teachers encourage students to use the

Internet in the school library media center, but most do not direct students to use databases.

– Teachers consider information from electronic databases to be more reliable and focused, but they say the Internet is faster, easier to use, and has a greater scope of information.

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• The Digital Disconnect: The Widening Gap Between Internet Savvy Students and Their Schools, Pew Internet & American Life Project, August 2002

• What did the students say?– “Schools should place priority on developing

programs to teach keyboarding, computer, and Internet literacy skills.”

– “There should be continued effort to ensure that high-quality online information to complete school assignments be freely available, easily accessible, and age-appropriate.”

Linking Libraries

and Academic

Achievement:MAXImize

Your ResourcesIt’s Virtually

Possible!

What?Why?

Where?

How?When?

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WHAT?

•A virtual presence•A school library media center Web page

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WHAT to include?

• Links to FindItVa• Links to databases• Curriculum pathfinders• Link to online catalog• Links to professional resources• Basic information literacy instruction

(search tips, citation information, etc.)• Accelerated Reader title list• Information about the library and library

events

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What NOT to include!

• Login and password information for databases

• Outdated or soon-to-be outdated information

• Pictures that are extremely slow to load

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WHY?• Search Engine Users

– 68% say search engines “fair and unbiased source”!

• Born To Be Wired– Youth spend a lot of time on the Internet!

• The Digital Disconnect– They are researching outside of school!

• NCES--ELS: 2002– Significant correlation between test scores and

library use!

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WHERE?• Linked from the school’s home page!• For example,

– Gloucester High School– Agnor Hurt Elementary School– Springfield Township High School

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HOW?• Write in html? Use FrontPage,

Dreamweaver, Netscape Composer, Microsoft Publisher?

• Load it (have it loaded) to the school/division server

• Follow division policies and procedures– Page content– Page layout

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WHEN?

• As soon as possible

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WHY?• Library Web page is library’s presence

outside of school…• Page provides opportunity for teachers and

parents to see you as information specialist• Page is public relations/advocacy tool with

administrators, teachers, students, and parents

• Page connects you to curriculum and instruction of school, at point of need!

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Exemplars…• Gloucester High School Library• Glade Spring Middle School Library• Agnor Hurt Library• Murray High School• Walter Reed Middle School Library• Springfield Township High School

Library

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Components:• Research Tools—Agnor Hurt Elementary• How to Search Effectively—Murray High• Curricular Links—Walter Reed Middle• Research Process—Walter Reed Middle• Curricular Pathfinders—Springfield

Township • Research Guide—Springfield Township

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School Library Web Page Links

•Virginia Department of Education Library Media section

•School Libraries on the Web: A Directory

•School-Libraries.Net

IBM Commercial…

“We’re virtual…there’s always

room…”

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Resources• Born to be wired: The role of new media

for a digital generation. (2003). Retrieved February 17, 2005, from http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/promo/btbw_2003/btbw_execsum.pdf

• Blowers, H., & Bryan, R. (2004). Weaving a library web: A guide to developing children’s websites. Chicago: ALA.

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• Davidsen, S., & Yankee, E. (2004). Web site design with the patron in mind: A step-by-step guide for libraries. Chicago: ALA.

• The digital disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools. (2002). Retrieved February 25, 2005, from http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/67/report_display.asp

• Fitzgerald, M.A., & Galloway, C. (2001). Helping students use virtual libraries effectively, Teacher Librarian, 29(1), 8-14.

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• School library media centers: Selected results from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002. (2002). Retrieved March 3, 2005, from http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005302

• Search engine users: Internet searchers are confident, satisfied and trusting—but they are also unaware and naïve. (2005). Retrieved March 1, 2005, from http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/146/report_display.asp

• Tapscott, D. (1998). Growing up digital: The rise of the net generation. New York: McGraw-Hill.

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• Vaughn, D. P. (2004). President’s column: Looking ahead. Knowledge Quest 33(2), 4-5.

• Williams, T.D., Grimble, B.J., & Irwin, M. Teachers’ link to electronic resources in the library media center: A local study of awareness, knowledge, and influence. School Library Media Research Online, 7 (2004). Retrieved January 6, 2005, from http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/volume72004/williams.htm

• Wilson, A. P. (2004). Library web sites: Creating online collections and services. Chicago: ALA.

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Contact Information:

• Audrey Church• Coordinator, School Library Media

Program, Longwood University, Farmville, VA

• Email: churchap@longwood.edu• Phone: 434-395-2682• Web page:

http://www.longwood.edu/staff/churchap