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School Library Ideas

The AASL Blog has a cool list of ideas to try that were generated at ALA. They include:
Elephant on a trampoline
Try a Wiki for library instruction
Explore the Technorati web site and learn
Learn more about tag clouds.
Improve “School Library” on Wikipedia
Read “The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life”: by Richard Florida
Try using BuzzTracker.org to learn more about mashups and their usefulness.
“Stop thinking about library as place and start thinking about places where library should be.”
See Parents as our allies
Consider setting up the library on Facebook and MySpace
Email is out; IM is in
Pat attention to WIRED magazine and EDUCAUSE. Pay attention to these resources as good ways to learn about the newest technologies and their applications
IPods for Development
Podcasts
Focus Groups for exiting seniors
Put Collection policies and donation policy online
Develop a Library orientation video
Read Joyce Valenza’s blog & Wiki
Sign up for the Google Librarian’s Newsletter
ICT test: Contact ETS
Assessment ideas
Do a Library blog
Have a Gaming night
Study Millennials and their brains
Check out Second Life
See the whole annoated post here. (These are great notes and show the power of conference blogging for those who can’t attend.)
Stephen

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Posted on: July 4, 2006, 12:07 am Category: Uncategorized

By: stephen

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  1. John Klima said
    on July 4, 2006 9:53 am

    Here are two ideas I’ve had (as a Dec 2005 graduate from Rutgers) about improving library school.
    1. Have the collection development class do a semester-long project where you DO collection development and have to deal with budgets, patron requests (good and bad, i.e., wanting to add a book to the collection and wanting to remove a book from the collection), backorders, etc. and give students a chance to learn/figure out how they want to track collection development.
    2. It’s likely that whichever school from which you are earning your MLIS/MLS has its own library. So, require all students to take a class I’ll call ‘internship’ wherein they work in each department for a couple weeks: circulation, reference, technical services, systems adiministration, web services, periodicals, etc.
    But maybe these are just ideas that come out of what I need now that I am working full-time at a library as a Teen Librarian/Systems Administrator.
    John Klima