Libraries are ChangingKeeping Up, Being Successful

Woodland Hills School District

2.13.09

Libraries are Changing

1. Significant Library Shifts

2. Maximize Student Learning

Libraries are Changing

• Technology and Change is Constant– The “Pace of Change” is accelerating.

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Libraries are Changing

• Technology and Change is Constant– The “Pace of Change” is accelerating.

Shift Happens – videoYouTube – ShiftHappens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhnWKg9B2-8

http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/

Libraries are Changing

• Gradual Shift in Format From Print to Digital

• Time – The World is 24/7

• Digital Natives - Our Kids are Changing Too

• Achievement and Engagement Matters

Formats Shift: Print to Digital

Audio Cassette to CD/DVD

Online Content

Online = Sharing

Downloadable Content

Card Catalogs

OPAC Online Public Access Catalog

OPAC Online Public Access Catalog

Time Crunch – The World is 24/7

Communicate – Anytime

Time Crunch

Communicate – Anywhere

Time Crunch

Working with Teachers/Students:• Written and phone communication• Replaced by email and voice mail

• Paper based learning records• Being replaced by online systems

Time Crunch

• The world operates 24/7, anytime, anywhere

• Libraries have been slow to adopt

Digital Natives

• A New Generation of Students– Short attention span– Multitasking with limited focusing ability– Require highly visual content

Video - Digital Natives http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

Web As Platform

• Social Networking– Links people to people and people to libraries

• New Online Based Software and Tools– Free, easy to use, always updated software– Word processing, spreadsheets, calendars…

• Shift to Open Courseware– Textbooks linked to online content– Free teacher vetted courses and content

Social Networking

• Social Networking Websites:– Personally authored and interlinked websites

• Myspace, Friendster, LinkdIn, Youtube

• Blogs – personal interactive journals– Teachers, librarians and students

• Wikis – online collaborative websites– Teachers, librarians and students

Achievement + Engagement Matters

• We are a highly competitive culture

• Standardized test scores are here to stay– Test scores create competition between and

act as a scorecard for schools and districts – Know the results of state standardized tests

and the AYP (Adequate Yearly Performance) results

Achievement + Engagement Matters

• For School Libraries:– Positively influencing achievement is critical– Documenting the Library’s impact on the student

achievement is essential – Evidence Based Practice

Achievement + Engagement Matters

• School Libraries Work! – Scientific Research– 16 States – School Libraries Improve Achievement– PA: Lance, Curry research results: A “strong” school

library program improves the PSSA Reading test score by between 10 – 15 points.

Engagement Matters

• For Public Libraries:– Customer satisfaction and customer service levels

are beginning to be measured and compared– Library’s role as “community center” returns– Library supports: family and early literacy, student

learning, adult lifelong learning, ESL and “Boomers”– Getting customers emotionally “engaged” in their

experience with the library is critical

Engagement Matters

• For Public Libraries:– A struggling economy threatens library funding– A struggling economy increases library usage– Community members will be looking for:

new jobs, better jobs, health/medical information,

borrowing books and materials vs. buying/renting,

family friendly entertainment and learning,

Keeping Libraries Relevant

• Full Page Text is Dead• Kids Still Want to Read Books• Achievement and Learning Matter• Collaboration: Support Improved Relationships• New Library “Intelligence” Gathering• Other Ideas

Maximize Learning

• Full page, black/white text is “dead”

Maximize Learning

• Kids still want to read books– 75% of kids age 5-17 agree with the statement, “No matter

what I can do online, I’ll always want to read books printed on paper,”

http://www.scholastic.com/aboutscholastic/news/readingreport.htm

Maximize Learning

• Kids still want to read books– Kids want to read exciting, visually engaging books

Maximize Learning

• Achievement and Learning Matter

• Research and learning projects still require authoritative + compelling “content” = books.– Highlight: terrific visual style, Further Reading,

Websites, Other Sources, etc…– This “extra value” content is their starting point– Integrate the use of the great content materials

into the new learning tools that kids want to use: blogs, wikis, etc…

Maximize Learning

• Achievement and Learning Matter– Know the State Standards: PA Dept of Ed website

or Librarians Toolkit website– Link books and online resources to the curriculum

Maximize Learning

• Achievement and Learning Matter– Digital Native Students Need 21st Century

Information Literacy Skills– Not Information Gathering – Teach Information

Relevance and Critical Thinking Skills – Use Student Learning Tools: blogs, wikis, video…

Maximize Learning

• Achievement and Learning Matter

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

Maximize Learning

• Achievement and Learning Matter– Student Learning Tools: blogs, wikis, video…– Students must have open access to these tools

http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/ http://nightwiesel.blogspot.com/

Maximize Learning

• Achievement and Learning Matter– Student Learning Tools: blogs, wikis, video…

http://education.animoto.com/

Maximize Learning

• Collaboration: Means Improved Relationships– Become embedded in curriculum process

• New curriculum development• One on one with teachers and lesson planning

– Be a part of the Learning Improvement process: new Reading Programs, textbooks, scheduling…

– Entire district Library staff – work together– Integrate library services into “special” areas:

learning support, reading intervention, etc…– Cultivate community learning partnerships

Maximize Learning

• Library “Intelligence” Gathering– Attend conferences, professional development seminars,

local learning situations – Check other school and public library websites – Library and librarian blogs hold key program information

and new ideas. – Participate in online learning programs like:

Maximize Learning

http://freerangelibrarian.com/

Maximize Learning

• Summary

– Students, Information and the World is Changing

– The Learning Process must Adapt to Reflect

Individual Students Learning Needs

– The Library Must Become Embedded Into All

Aspects of the Learning Process

New Paradigm

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Inquiry Based Learning

Video - School 2.0 Creating The Schools We Need

IgnitePhilly -- Five Minutes To Communicate - Practical Theory http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1042-IgnitePhilly-Five-Minutes-To-Communicate.html

Chris Lehmann: Principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA

The Library Challenge

• Group Discussion:

– What is “your” Next Step?