We have a stand-alone Creative Nonfiction collection of hundreds of titles in our H.S. library. It is heavily used by the English department for both Academic and College streams. Any TLs/teachers have experiences with incorporating CNF into curricul
Read more…My administration (School Board office) has ordered and delivered 8 Paperwhite Kindles to me for the library. I am an elementary librarian with scheduled 50-55 minute classes. I am required to teach lessons reinforcing English and Math during that pe
Read more…Earth Science Week is in October. I am developing an earth science bibliography to help one of our teachers who is the new president of National Earth Science Teachers Association. Anyone have a good earth science book to suggest, any grade level? Th
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I am a new K-8 building librarian and would love some advice on what to order in terms of basic book protection/processing supplies. We have a DEMCO account but am open to using other vendors as well. The previous librarian ordered all
Read more…We have given every student a Chromebook laptop and the admin wants to remove all standing CPUs and computer desks from the library. I don't think this is a good idea until we have had the opportunity to do some due diligence, look for best practices
Read more…I have been told I'm moving from a 4-6 grade building next year to the middle school level that has been without a librarian for 3 years. What suggestions might you have for making a transition and pulling teachers back in. I will have a flexible sch
Read more…Has anyone used the whiteboard paint to cover their library tables? I really want to try it but there is a concern that children will then want to write on all the school furniture. Also, I know that the prices can vary from $20-$200. I was thinking
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Does anyone have a survey that they have used at their school to evaluate/offer suggestions about the library services?
Thanks!
Debby
Read more…I am a newly hired librarian for next school year and currently in my final class to receive my Library Endorsement. As part of my library practicum class I am conducting an Action Research Survey about the effectiveness of Reading Incentive Program
Read more…Please read the articles below and share how you are (or planning to) innovating your library
Read more…My high school library, which I inherited this past August, has very little experience with e-books. As I weeded cassette and VHS tapes from the collection, I began considering what format to invest in for the future. E-books seem like a logical ch
Read more…I am beginning the process of having an library design company begin to plan a new layout of my library. I will have to present the rationale for these big changes to stakeholders such as the PTO, Ed foundation, Board of Ed. Has anyone ever had to do
Read more…I've been pondering on this for a little while. I used to run a very busy high school library where the students came in to study and do homework. As such I had a strict whisper only policy. If students wanted to talk/chat and not study, they were di
Read more…Many of our librarians have been discussing maker spaces--specifically, what are they, how do initiate them, how do we initiate them with little or no money.
Anyone out there with ideas or comments please reply!
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I'm a brand new media specialist serving grades 6-11 in a relatively new charter school. My background is youth services in a public library. This is the first year the school has a library for older grades, and I've been tasked with g
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Frank W. Baker,
Media LIteracy Clearinghouse
Has anyone ever let students borrow books to keep over summer vacation? Would you implement this type of policy? Please share your thoughts.
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I would like to invite to participate in a School library symposium that will take place in October 7, 8, and 9 here in Bogota. The topics are:
Does anyone out there have a music collection in your library students/staff can check out? My school's director has tasked our band directors and myself with deciding how to proceed with developing a musical collection for the media center. He's r
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