Download TL Whole Enchilada - Management

Library Information
& Technology
Programs in a Time of
Uncertainty
Adapt, Change, or Perish
Mike Eisenberg
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Special thanks to
Sarah Applegate
Lisa Layera
Susan McBurney
for content, graphics, and
inspiration.
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Are you relevant?
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if the library program were
eliminated
what would happen?
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in terms of
• performance on state tests
• measureable student learning
• classroom teaching?
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Perceptions - still?
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change
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re-think
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sacred cows
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Some Sacred Cows
• Collaboration
• Flexible scheduling
• The physical library
• Collection development
• Wikipedia –
• It’s all about reading
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LIT Programs
Comprehensive & Accountable
 Defined
 Predictable
 Measured
 Reported
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What it takes…
 Vision
 Strategy
 Marketing
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vision
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Your mission:
To ensure that students are effective
users and producers of ideas and
information.
LIT framework
To ensure that students are
effective users and producers of
ideas and information.
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To ensure that students
are effective users and
producers of ideas and
information.
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To ensure that students are effective users and
producers of ideas and information.
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LIT: 3 Functions
Information
Management &
Services
.
Reading
Advocacy
Information &
Technology Skill
Instruction
INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY
SKILLS INSTRUCTION
• Leads information literacy instruction including
evaluation and analysis of the credibility, relevance
and currency of information.
• Coaches instructional staff in support of curriculum,
information technology and information management.
• Teaches students to be critical consumers and
producers of information.
• Teaches students and staff to use emerging learning
technologies for school and lifelong learning.
• Teaches students to be safe, ethical and responsible
digital citizens.
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READING ADVOCACY
• Establishes and models a powerful and ubiquitous
culture of reading in the school community.
• Motivates and guides students to read for enjoyment
and understanding.
• Develops a relevant collection of fiction and non-fiction
in a variety of formats, ensuring quality reading choices
for all students.
• Manages resources in support of established
curriculum and student passions.
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INFO MANAGEMENT & SERVICES
• Provides open and equitable access to resources,
technology and information services for the entire
school community.
• Develops and administers inviting and effective physical
and digital library environments.
• Manages resources to support teaching and learning.
• Administers information management systems to
support student learning and school and district
programs.
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super-strategic
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Being Super Strategic
• Whose library information &
technology program is it?
• Whose library is it?
• Whose website or virtual library
is it?
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Be
Strategic
• It’s not my library or library information and
technology program.
• It’s the total school community’s library
information and technology program.
• Form your Advisory Team – asap – and use
it!
• Engage students, faculty, administrators in
pie-chart planning.
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Pie-Chart Planning
Info & Tech
Skills Instruction
Info Management
& Services
Reading
Advocacy
Emphasis
% Time and Effort
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TL Roles in Functions
Teach
Plan, Manage,
Coach
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Alternative TL Roles/Approaches
Function
Delivery-Centered
Info & Tech
Skills
Instruction
Teach integrated
lessons/mini-lessons to
students..
Plan, manage, and coach the
information & technology skills
instructional program.
Reading
Advocacy
Provide direct reading
guidance and promotion
activities.
Plan, manage, and coach the
reading guidance and
promotion program.
Deliver information &
Information
technology services,
Management systems, resources—virtual
and physical, 24/7.
Management-Centered
Plan & manage information &
technology services, systems,
resources—virtual and
physical, 24/7.
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Super Strategic
• Target directly to school-wide goals and teacher/classroomcentered curriculum and assessments.
• Deliver defined, predictable, measured, and reported
instruction and services.
• Embrace and champion the virtual, the online, the digital –
first!
• Rethink the sacred cows
• Document the targeted instruction and services as well as the
resulting student achievement.
• Be positive, upbeat—recognized as a problem-solver and
essential player.
Being Super Strategic
Be positive, upbeat—recognized
as a problem-solver and essential
player.
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Attitude is everything!
or
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marketing
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Marketing
 Brand
 Mission
 Functions
 Technology
 21st Century Skills
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Brand
 Teacher-Librarian
 Library Information and
Technology Program – LIT
 To ensure that students are
effective users and producers
of ideas and information.
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Functions
 Essential 21st C Information &
Technology Skills
 Reading Advocacy
 Chief Information Officer (CIO)
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Each Function
 Defined
 Predictable
Info & Tech
Skills Instruction
Info Management
& Services
Reading
 Measured
Advocacy
 Reported
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Reporting
Audience

Students

Other Teachers

Administrators

Parents

Public
Options
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Grades on assignments
Monthly/quarterly reports
about student performance
Monthly/quarterly reports
on the program
Report card grades
Displays of student work
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in closing…
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Moving from saving your library …
… to
transforming your library.
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A LIT program
can put the world
in students’ hands.
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