A newsletter for school teacher librarians

New Books in the Professional Library

May 2009 • Volume 13 • Issue 4

by Melva Starr, GWAEA Media Specialist

The Learning Exchange for our Area 10 teacher librarians was held at the Kirkwood Center for Continuing Education on March 10, 2009. The theme was Communication and Leadership. Several of our GWAEA teacher librarians presented what they do to communicate with staff, administration, the school board, and parents. Some also shared the Web sites they have created for their media centers.

The afternoon was spent discussing communication through evaluation, looking at the Library Program Audit form, preparing for a site visit, and discussing the role of the teacher librarian and the Iowa Core Curriculum. Mary Jo Langhorne, Adjunct Instructor, University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science, was the overall facilitator for the day.

CollaborationThe Collaboration handbook.Toni Buzzeo. Linworth, 2008. R 027.809 BUZ (181712)

Collection Development/ManagementFundamentals of collection development and management.Peggy Johnson. American Library Association, 2009. R 025.21 JOH (181798)

GeneralConnecting boys with books 2: closing the reading gap.Michael Sullivan. American Library Association, 2009. R 028.5 SUL (181799)

Enhancing teaching and learning: a leadership guide for school library media specialists.Jean Donham. Neal-Schuman, 2008. R 027.8 DON (181628)

Finding funding: grantwriting from start to finish, including project management and Internet use.Ernest W. Brewer and Charles M. Archilles. Corwin Press, 2008. R 379.1 BRE (181826)

Leadership for excellence: insights of National School Library Media Program of the Year Award winners.Jo Ann Carr and American Association of School Librarians. American Library Association, 2008. R 027.8 LEA (181419)

Libraries designed for kids.Nolan Lushington. Neal-Schuman, 2008. R 025.1976 LUS (181422)

The Real story: a guide to nonfiction reading interests.Sarah Statz Cords and Robert Burgin. Libraries Unlimited, 2006. R 025.5 COR (181707)

Communication and Leadership was the focus of the Learning Exchange, held on March 10 at the Kirkwood Center for Continuing Education.

Learning Exchange focuses on Communication and Leadership

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The Grant Wood AEA Media Center will be open once again for the 2009-2010 school year as far as welcoming people to browse our Profes-sional collections. Student books and professional journals will also be back in circulation. By the time you receive this issue of info@gwaea, we will be moved back to the Media Center.

Upcoming EventsMay 11-17, 2009 .............Children’s Book WeekJuly 9-15, 2009 ...............ALA Annual Conference in ChicagoJuly 26-27, 2009 .............Big6 Summer Academy 2009 in Rochester, NYOctober 1, 2009 .............Learning ExchangeOctober 11-13, 2009 ......ITEC Conference in Coralville, IAOctober 18–24, 2009 .....Teen Read WeekOctober 21-23, 2009 ......ILA (Iowa Library Association) Annual Conference Polk County Convention Complex in Des Moines

Grant Wood AEA Media Center to reopen Fall 2009

New IEC Student and Teacher Software Store!

Students and staff now have access to software discounts of up to 85% with the NEW! IEC Software Store powered by Journey Education. Partnerships with Microsoft, Adobe, NUANCE and Inspiration have been made that allow us to extend fantastic discounts to Iowa K-12 students, teachers and school staff. In addition, thousands of other software programs as well as computer hardware, books, bags and more are available at discounted prices.

Products can be ordered online at www.JourneyEd.com/Select or by calling 800.874.9001. Any product ordered will be shipped directly to the customer’s home.

Please help us promote this service to your staff and students. The IEC can provide market-ing materials, newsletter articles, letters to staff and students and more to help you spread the word on these great offers and savings. Contact Joni Puffett at (319) 273-8279 or jpuffett@iecia.org for more information.

Pricing examples:

• Microsoft Office Standard 2007 – Retail $399, IEC Price $59.98

• Microsoft Office Professional 2007 – Retail $499, IEC Price $89.98\

• Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Standard K-12 – Retail $1,399, IEC Price $219.98

• Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium – Retail $1,699, IEC Price $319.98

• Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred 10.0 Student/Teacher Edition – Retail $99, IEC Price $49.98

• Inspiration Kidspiration 3 Student Single – IEC Price $29.98

Write grants, get money.Cynthia Anderson and Kathi Knop. Linworth, 2008. R 025.11 AND (181708)

Information LiteracyAchieving educational standards using the Big6.Janet R. Murray. Linworth, 2008. R 379.1 MUR (181698)

The Handy 5: planning and assessing integrated information skills and instruction.Scarecrow Press, 2007. R 025.524 HAN (181421)

Teaching elementary information literacy skills with the Big6?.Joyce Needham. Linworth, 2009. R 028.7 NEE (181697)

LiteracyBuilding literacy connections with graphic novels: page by page, panel by panel.James Bucky Carter. NCTE, 2007. R 428.4 BUI (181706)

Literature StudiesBlack history in the pages of children’s literature.Rose Casement. Scarecrow Press, 2008. R 016.813 CAS (181429)

Multicultural and ethnic children’s literature in the United States.Donna L. Gilton. Scarecrow Press, 2007. R 810.9 GIL (181808)

The Newbery and Caldecott awards: a guide to the medal and honor books.American Library Association, 2008. R 011.62 NEW (181427)

Media LiteracyTeaching media literacy: a how-to-do-it manual and CD-ROM.Belinha S. De Abreu. Neal-Schuman, 2007. R 302.23 DEA (181822)

Program ManagementTraining library staff and volunteers to provide extraordinary customer service.Julie Beth Todaro and Mark Smith. Neal-Schuman, 2006. R 025.52 TOD (181807)

Technologies and related issuesThe Extreme searcher’s Internet handbook: a guide for the serious searcher.Randolph Hock. CyberAge Books, 2007. R 025.524 (181809)

Web literacy for educators.Alan C. November. Corwin Press, 2008. R 371.33 NOV (181704)

What every librarian should know about electronic privacy.Jeannette A. Woodward. Libraries Unlimited, 2007. R 025.5028 WOO (181424)

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Grant Wood AEA Media Center is pleased to announce the recent purchase of new online resources for use by students and educators in the Grant Wood AEA service area. The new resource links will be located on the Online Re-sources page at http://www.aea10.k12.ia.us/media/electronic.html

H.W. Wilson Resources• Children’s Core Collection • Middle and Junior High Core Collection • Senior High Core Collection

The above three core collections provide selective lists of books for different grade lev-els. Libraries are provided help with collection development and maintenance, curriculum sup-port, readers’ advisory, and general reference.• Nonbook Materials Core Collection

Coverage includes electronic resources, au-diobooks, video recordings, sound recordings, games, simulations, and more. Search by docu-ment type, author, title, subject, genre, and grade level. Annotations include review excerpts and awards.• Art Museum Image Gallery (A SLJ 10 Best Digital Resource)

The Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related mul-

timedia gathered from the collections of distin-guished museums around the world.

Rosen Publishing Online• Teen Health and Wellness

An award-winning database which provides middle and high school students with curricular support and self-help on topics such as dis-eases & conditions (including a new section on obesity,) drugs & alcohol, fitness & nutrition, green/environmentally-friendly living, mental & emotional health, internet safety, bullying and school violence, and more.

AIM Education• Learn360

Learn360 is a new video streaming service. It delivers educational videos, thousands of video clips, sound files and still images via the Internet. Along with the media resources, Learn360 provides software features that allow educators to upload and share their own materi-als.

If you have questions regarding the Grant Wood AEA Media Center’s new online resourc-es, please contact Debbie Crane at (319) 399-6455 or 1-800-332-8488, Ext. 6455 or e-mail: dcrane@gwaea.org

Coming Soon! New Online Resources!

Integrate Podcasting into the CurriculumK–12 and special education schools in the United States are eligible to apply for the Tool Factory Podcasting Grant. To apply, teachers must develop a lesson plan that demonstrates how they would use podcasting in their curriculum. Grant submis-sions will be judged by their effective integration of podcasting into the curriculum, effective use of all resources provided by the grant and the high degree of student involvement, creativity and fun. Awardees will receive a school site license of Tool Factory Podcasting to install on every computer in their school, two Olympus digital voice recorders, two microphones with noise cancellation, Clip Art Station, Worksheet Station, Web Page Station and Tool Factory’s Simple Guide to Podcasting. Deadline: May 15, 2009. Visit them at http://www.toolfactory.com/olympus_contest/olymus_podcasting.htm.

2009 Annual Educational Technology Conference planned Oct. 11-13Iowa Technology Education Connection (ITEC) will host the 2009 Annual Educational Technol-ogy Conference at the Coralville Marriott in Coralville, Oct. 11-13, 2009. The keynote speaker for the 2009 conference will be Daniel Pink. ITEC promotes the use of technology in education and conducts an annual educational technology conference each October.

Website TIPHere is a site you might want to visit for free

resources. Dennis O’Connor was a recent presenter via polycom at AEA 9’s Academy session for their teacher librarians. His site, which is titled, “21st Century Information Fluency,” was originally started with a grant and when funding ran out in 2007 he began offering classes to support the site. It is full of resources and games for teaching proper Internet searching, for lesson plans, and for proper online citation information to mention just a few of the items you will find there. The URL is http://www.21cif.imsa.edu/tools/cite/

by Sarah Beckman, Cataloger

The purpose of this article is to provide an in-troduction to cataloging alternatives being used and developed in the library field. The most popular scheme is Dublin Core. It is used for digital collections. Where USMARC encodes information into numerical fields in an ordered fashion (example: 245 field for title and 300 field for physical description-i.e. page numbers), Dublin Care uses name elements that are all optional, repeatable and may be deployed in any order (example: title for the 245 field and extent for the 300 field). These name elements are inputted using XML to create records. MODS and METS are richer XML schemes than Dublin Core. They also use language tags inputted with XML. MODS was developed to satisfy a need for an abbreviated XML version of USMARC. It makes use of nested, hierarchi-cal elements to bundle together related informa-tion. METS XML Scheme grew out of a need to package descriptive, administrative, and struc-tural elements together. The descriptive sections contain cataloging data, specifically Dublin Core or MODS. Administrative data consists of the resource creation date and copyright/license information. Structural data identifies the hier-archical structure of the document as well as all the files the object clusters such as thumbnails, master archival, and text-encoded versions. Resource Descripton and Access aka RDA is be-ing developed by the Joint Steering Committee to supersede AACR2 as a response to the chal-lenges and opportunities of the digital world. RDA will provide guidelines and instructions on recording data. ISBD order of areas, data

elements and punctuation will not be required and the concept of main entry will not be used in RDA. Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Re-cords aka FRBR is a model for how the library catalog might be structured and considers what functions records would fulfill. The FRBR model attributes of a record are grouped into four levels-work, expression, manifestation, and item. Current databases do not group related materials together. Print, sound recordings, and videos are all listed at random. FRBR allows for the collocation of items that are bibliographi-cally related to each other and allows users to quickly find what they are looking for. For example, if you are looking for Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” in an FRBR catalog, all the versions of Lewis Carroll’s work are grouped together under 1 work heading. Works are only cataloged once for all the expressions under them and expressions are only cataloged once for all the manifestations under them. To learn more information, each scheme has their own Web site. In addition, GWAEA has the following items available for check out: “Metadata Fundamentals For All Librarians” #170011; “Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources : A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librar-ians” #177113; “Understanding FRBR : What It Is and How It Will Affect Our Retrieval Tools” #179655.

RSS FeedsHere are some reminders regarding RSS feeds. You and your staff can now sign up for RSS feeds from our Grant Wood AEA Online Catalog. The links are under Resource Areas, which is found under the “Information” column at http://medten.aea10.k12.ia.us/Media. EBSCO offers RSS feeds for their journals. If you want to learn more about RSS feeds read the fol-lowing article in Library Journal: Title: Web feeds delivered to your digital door-step. By: Lamb, Annette, Johnson, Larry, Teacher Librarian, 14811782, Feb2009, Vol. 36, Issue 3Database: Professional Development Collection

AACR2 and USMARC-What’s the Alternative

E-mail Updates – New Online Catalog Feature

Subscribe and receive new material updates monthly from the Grant Wood AEA Media Center

The Grant Wood AEA Media Center has added E-mail Up-dates (in addition to the current RSS Feeds) as an efficient way to receive a list of new ti-tles added to the Media Center’s collections.

E-mail UpdatesE-mail updates are sent out on a monthly

basis and contain a title listing of the new DVD, student books, classroom materi-als and professional materials that have been added to the Grant Wood AEA Media Center’s collections in the past month. The e-mail updates are based on interest area/s that you select, which correlate to Resource Areas linked to the titles.

The subscription link is on the Grant Wood AEA Online Catalog homepage under the “Our Collection” column: http://medten.aea10.k12.ia.us/Media/

Check out the interest areas of “School Library/Instructional Media Center” and “Technology Literacy”.

We hope you will take a look and encour-age the teachers in your building to do the same. Clients will need their client number and password for the GWAEA Online Cata-log to subscribe to the e-mail updates.

If you have questions regarding the Grant Wood AEA Media Center’s new email fea-ture, please contact Debbie Crane at (319) 399-6455 or 1-800-332-8488, Ext. 6455 or e-mail: dcrane@gwaea.org

Congratulations!!!Congratulations to Dolores Madden,

teacher librarian at Hoover Elementary in Iowa City for recent honors. She received an Excellence in Education Award from the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce and Edu-cator of the Year Award from the Iowa City Education Association. info @ gwaEa is published quarterly by the Media & Technology Center of Grant Wood Area Education Agency, 4401 Sixth Street S.W.,

Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52404. For more information contact Char Haddy at (319) 399-6750 or 1 (800) 798-9771, ext. 6750.

Grant Wood Area Education Agency extends equal opportunities in its employment practices, educational programs and services, and does not discriminate on the basis of color, gender, race, national origin, religion, creed, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or as otherwise prohibited by law. If you believe you or your child has been discriminated against or treated unjustly, please contact the Agency’s Equity Coordinator, Maria Cashman, at 319-399-6847 or 1-800-332-8488 or TDD 319-399-6766, Grant Wood AEA, 4401 Sixth St SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404.

Information on the Survey of School Library Programs in Iowa 2008-09 is now available on-line. The survey has been revised to align with the Iowa School Library Guidelines. To access the survey go to: http://www.iowa.gov/edu-cate/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=959:schoollibrary&catid=838:school-based-programs-a-services&Itemid=2524. There are several things about this year’s sur-vey that are different from those in the past. The survey has been revised to align with the Iowa School Library Guidelines and it is tied to the school improvement process. Here is some information that should help in-terpret the new survey.• If you serve two buildings, you will receive 2 surveys.• Part D – Budget is different from last year. o Under Expenditures – do not include what is provided by the AEA.• Part E – School Library Staffing – In Column A they are asking for the number of people, not the FTE. o If you have a technology person who works closely with the library, you will list this person in the category of “All other paid staff”. o If you have a teacher serving as a Teacher Librarian, they would be listed as “All other paid staff”. Only certified teacher librarians should complete line 1.

• Part G – Library Hours- this has been expanded to include a question about whether the library is open before and/or after school because many Teacher Librarians provide service to students and teachers during these hours. o If in Line 2, for number of hours closed (within the school day) - if the library is not staffed then it is not considered open.• Part I – School Library Usage per Typical Week – question 10 is related to usage of AEA materials. This is where the information provided in the e-mail sent on April 20th will be inserted.If you do not have your password, first check with your administrator. They also received the information. You may also contact Char-lotte Haddy or Melva Starr in the Grant Wood AEA Media Center – chaddy@gwaea.org or mstarr@gwaea.org. Deadline for completion is June 30, 2009. We hope you will take the time to fill out the sur-vey.

Survey of School Library Programs in Iowa

Introducing the World Digital Library - www.wdl.orgThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Orga-

nization (UNESCO) and 32 partner institutions launched the World Digital Library, a website that provides free, unrestricted public access to unique cultural materials from libraries and archives from around the world. The site includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs. The World Digital Library functions in seven languages―Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish―and includes content in more than 40 languages.