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Petition for School Libraries

Please, TTW Readers, follow this link and sign the petition:

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/ensure-every-child-america-has-access-effective-school-library-program/tmlbRqfF?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Every child in America deserves access to an effective school library program. We ask that the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provide dedicated funding to help support effective school library programs. Such action will ensure more students have access to [...]

FREE ebook: School Libraries: What’s Now, What’s Next, What’s Yet to Come

Head on over to

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/96705

A crowdsourced collection of over 100 essays from around the world about trends in school libraries written by librarians, teachers, publishers, and library vendors. Edited by Kristin Fontichiaro and Buffy Hamilton. Foreword by R. David Lankes. Photographs by Diane Cordell. CONTRIBUTORS: Kelly Ahlfeld, Diane Erica Aretz-Kernahan, Emilia Askari, Kathleen Atkin, [...]

Happy Birthday Mr. Schu!

From First Book: http://blog.firstbook.org/2011/08/27/happy-birthday-mr-schu/

This Sunday is a very special day. It is the birthday of a friend of First Book and of mine, an inspired educator, blogger and children’s books advocate: John Schumacher, the man we all know as Mr. Schu.

I knew of Mr. Schu long before we actually met. My already-high opinion of [...]

John Schumacher on Cover of SLJ!

Wow! More about Mr. Schu here.

I am very interested to read the 2011 Technology Survey.

QR Codes Connect Students to Books

I used this as an example yesterday for the Michigan school librarians:

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/newsletters/newsletterbucketextrahelping/886787-443/qr_codes_connect_students_to.html.csp

“I realized how often I see them in public and I wanted to give [students] an awareness of them,” says Brook Forest’s school librarian, John Schumacher, referring to QR codes, two-dimensional barcodes that can be read using a camera on a smartphone. [...]

School Libraries in Australia – Without Librarians – A TTW Guest Post by Vivienne Taylor

Thought you may be interested in this article in The Age newspaper today - Melbourne’s main newspaper.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/library-specialists-being-shelved-20100806-11o9t.html?rand=1281079644026

The Australian government’s response to the Global Financial Crisis included a massive infrastructure rebuilding program for government and non-government schools, with particular emphasis on creating new school halls, community spaces and YES – school libraries! Many of these libraries are about to [...]

Thanks Region 10, Richardson, Texas!

I had a great time at Friday’s workshop with school librarians, technologists and staff from Region 10 in Richardson, TX. I presented a full morning version of “the Hyperlinked School Library.” The slides are here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/239835/HyperlinkedSchoolLibraryTX.pdf

I appreciate all of the discussion and sharing!

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A Great World for Learning

This provides so much food for thought – school librarians please take a look – and really, everyone in LIS – how will can we provide them a world for learning?

The hyperlinked school library: engage, explore, celebrate

Dr Michael Stephens delivered the Dr Laurel Anne Clyde Memorial Keynote Address at the ASLA XXI Biennial Conference, held in Perth, Western Australia, from 29 September to 2 October 2009.

Reprinted with permission from the Australian School Library Association Inc. (ASLA) Access 2010 24(1): 5.

The evolving Web is an open and social place. The [...]

Signs Signs Everywhere!

Don’t miss:

http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2009/11/7/signs-signs-everywhere-theres-signs.html

I walk into too many libraries with signs like this:

What might happen if we replaced our welcome signs with ones like these?

Where would kids learn best?

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