Introduction to School Libraries and Learning

Day One 2009

The Role of the School Library in the 21st century

Service Principle E resources – Show and Tell IntroductionReading Aloud Library Orientation

Introductions and Housekeeping

• Your library advisers

• Fire alarm

• Badges

• Toilets

• Lunch

• Folders

• Self assessment form

Waimauku School – old library

Outline of the 4 daysDay One

• The Role of the School Library in the 21st century

• Research, Service, Workroom organisation, Procedures Manual, Reading aloud, Display

• Library Orientation, E-resources

Day Two

• The resource cycle : Access / Information Resources, Place, Use and promotion

• School Library 2.0, E-resources

Day Three

• The resource cycle – budgeting and annual reports, Netsafe, E-resources

• Supporting Learning- Reading and Information Literacy

Day Four

• Place, E-resources, Speaker

• Evidence based practice

• Trouble shooting / Planning 2010

Today’s Programme

9:15 Introduction

The role of the school library in the 21st century

10:45 Morning Tea

11:00 Research, Service, Workroom, e-Resources

12:15- 1:15 Lunch

1:15 Library Orientation, Reading aloud, displays, tasks for

Day 2

3:15 Finish of Day 1

Introductions

• Role in your school

• Little bit about your school

• What you are here for

• Guess your character - Harry Potter etc

• Books with characters on display . Take it home and read

• If they don’t know character take home and read

Professional Learning Circles BLOG

• 21st century learners are Bloggers

• To use a ICT tool to support your learning and teaching

• Create opportunities for:

– collaboration,

– sharing of ideas and expertise

– support

Problems with blogging ring Pauline McCowan or Lisa Allcott – see front of folder for details.

The School Library and Learning in the Information Landscape :

Guidelines for New Zealand Schools

INFORMATION RESOURCES

ACCESS

INFORMATION LITERACY and

READING

PLACE

SERVICE

Digital natives vs digital immigrants

Group Brainstorm

• What was the school library like when you went to school?

• How has the school library changed since then?

One person in each group to share two points from the

discussion

Christ’s College Christchurch

Information Literacy in the Information Landscape

A key element in developing students’ capability and

confidence to function effectively in the information

landscape.

Point View School, Auckland

Reading in the Information Landscape

Papatoetoe High School , Auckland

A key element in developing students’ capability

and confidence to function effectively in the information

landscape.

Service in the Information Landscape

Te Kura o Matakana

A key element in developing students’

capability and confidence to function

effectively in the information landscape.

Puhinui

Access and the Information Landscape

A key element in connecting students to the

information landscape.

Onepoto School, Auckland

Information Resources in the Information Landscape

Glamorgan School, Auckland

A key element in providing content to students in the

information landscape so that they are supported in their

learning in skill development , in their cultural needs and

reading interests.

Place in the Information Landscape

A key element in providing content and developing

students’ capability and confidence to function

effectively in the information landscape.

Glen Innes School, Auckland

Diocesan Senior School,Auckland

New Lynn Primary

Marist College

Opaheke Primary

School library facilitating the Information Landscape in the 21st

Century

Classroom Programmes

Effective Student Learning

PLACE SERVICE ACCESS

INFORMATION RESOURCES

Morning Tea

What makes an effective library? Research tells us:

• http://www2.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/s/slw3_2008.pdf

• Activity Read pages 4-8

• Record relevant ideas for your school library for discussion

The Library Team

Service Principle

The school library is a managed centre of professional expertise

and support for the school community.

The School Library Team

• Library staff

• Library Committee

• Senior management

• Teachers

• Volunteers

• Student Librarianshttp://www.natlib.govt.nz/catalogues/library-documents/information-guide-student-librarians

School library staff need...

• job descriptions / role definition

http://www.natlib.govt.nz/services/get-advice/school-libraries/information-guides-templates-

and-checklists • SLANZA (School Library Association New Zealand Aotearoa)

www.slanza.org.nz/

• adequate release time / hours of work

• training

• support

Where can I go to get help?

• NZEI (New Zealand Educational Institute) www.nzei.org.nz

• NZEI Auckland (09) 849 5955, 4 Western Springs Road, Morningside.

• PPTA AucklandP O Box 52 006Ph:  09 815 8610Fax: 09 815 8612Email: auckland@ppta.org.nz

• SLANZA (School Library Association New Zealand Aotearoa) www.slanza.org.nz/

• Department of Labour Infoline 0800 800 863

www.ers.dol.govt.nz/

• Department of Labour have a free mediation service and can provide information on contract details.

National Library Advisers can help you BUT not to act for you or on your behalf.

Pay Rates

Support Staff in Schools Collective Agreement

http://www.nzei.org.nz/site/nzeite/files/collective

%20agreements/support%20staff/CA_2009_Support

%20Staff%20in%20Schools.pdf

Professional Development Opportunities

National Library of New Zealand

• www.natlib.govt.nz/schools/

School of Education, University of Auckland

• http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz

The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand

• http://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz/

Victoria University of Wellington

• http://www.victoria.ac.nz/home/ /

“School librarians will not be heard until their day-to-day practice is directed towards demonstrating the real, tangible power of their contribution to the school’s learning goals.”

Ross Todd 2002. School Library Journal

Activity

• Mix and match jobs with person

Workplace Organisation

PLACEWorkplace Organisation:

Overview

• List tasks

• Decide what you need for each

• Arrange logically and conveniently

• Label everything

• Get rid of everything else!

Listing Tasks:Processes

• ordering library resources

• cataloguing

• processing library resources

• issuing, shelving

• mending

• withdrawing

• displaying

New books to check,stamp, barcode

SCIS

Processing

Spine labelled

Mobile forstationery

Books to be covered

Display or shelve

Work room examples

Pakuranga College Whangarei Girls’ High

Work room examples

Botany Downs Secondary CollegeTe Awamutu College

Work room example

Waimauku

Teacher work area

Waimauku

E Resources Show and Tell

• National Library home page

http://intranet.natlib.govt.nz

• Use Quick links bar on right

• Create Readers Blog

http://createreaders.natlib.govt.nz/

Lunch

Orientation Exercise

Discussion in Groups

• What was difficult for you?

• Any areas you think you need upskilling on ?

• What are the implications for your students in

your own library?

• What would be different in your own library?

Reading and Reading Aloud

A Commission on Reading, created by two major educational institutions in the US in 1983, spent 2 years going through the thousands of reading-related research projects published in the preceding 20 years. Its report, entitled Becoming a nation of readers included the following declaration:

“The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.”

And most importantly, in finding evidence to support reading aloud in the classroom, they added: “It is a practice that should continue throughout the grades.”

Student / class / school challengesHow many minutes can you read ?

If every child read, or was read to, for 15 minutes each dayx 7 days = 105 minutes a week, x 7 weeks holiday = 735 minutes per child,x 20 children in a class = 14,700 minutes or 245 hours,x 10 classes in a school =147,000 minutes or 2,450 hours of reading

Mem Fox – 15 minutes is 1% of the day… (“and if you’re not prepared to

spend 1% of your time reading to your child you shouldn’t be having children – get a goldfish”)

How many books can you read ? How many words ?

Article What reading does for the mind : 5th graders reading for 14.2 minutes per day = 1,146,000 words read per year

• If a 5th grader reads for 14.2 minutes per day and reads 1,146,000 words per year, then that is 3,148 words per day (rate for younger children ? half ?)

• 7 weeks x 7 days per week = 49 days x 3,148 words = 154,252 words read during the school holidays, x 20 children in the class is over 3 million words !

PLACE

• http://schoollibrarydisplays.blogspot.com

Just to make you think

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=NZ&hl=en-

GB&v=s1YoCx384GQ Engage me

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=NZ&hl=en-

GB&v=HUxp3E3YUdQ Library Zombies

Preparation for the next session

• Read aloud

• Job description refer to on NL webiste

• CIS request on line?

• Photographs of workroom organisation- put on blog or bring to Day 2

• Create your own library orientation task for students/teachers – bring to Day 2

• Article in The Education Gazette on excellent libraries - link on blog - make comment online

• Bring a book to the next session that you have weeded or that you are not sure should be weeded.

Professional Learning Circle

Pigeon Mountain School

Blog Revisited

To finish off…

• Other National Library courses – see website

• Self Assessment Forms

• Evaluation Forms