Buffy Hamilton and Kristin Fontichiaro have lead the creation of a crowdsourced FREE e-book on the future of school librarianship. It includes a great pile articles from ‘names’ in school librarianship as authors. Read more here and download it now from Smashwords.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/96705
School Libraries: What’s Now, What’s Next, What’s Yet to Come
Ebook By Kristin Fontichiaro and Buffy Hamilton
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Published: Oct. 15, 2011
Category: Non-Fiction » Education and Study Guides » Teaching
Category: Essay » Technology
Words: 45706 (approximate)
Language: English
Ebook Short Description
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.
Extended Description
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, Robert Baigent, Susan D. Ballard, Angela Washington-Blair, Dan Bowen, Holli Buchter, Jennifer Branch, Len Bryan, Jennifer Colby, Diane Cordell, William Cross, Meg Donhauser, Joanne de Groot, Stacy Dillon, Andrea Dolloff, Laura Fleming, Lorna Flynn, Elizabeth Friese, Rachel Goldberg, Beth Gourley, Dorcas Hand, Alida Hanson, Violet H. Harada, Heather Hersey, Valerie Hill, Kimberly Hirsh, Shannon Hyman, Pamela Jackson, Melissa P. Johnston, Jesse Karp, Sara Kelley-Mudie, Tricia Kuon, Neil Krasnoff, Jennifer LaGarde, Teri S. Lesesne, Margaret Lincoln, Kate MacMillan, Adrienne Matteson, Kathleen McBroom, Walter McKenzie, David Meyer, Ben Mondloch, Leslie L. Morgan, Cathy Jo Nelson, Beverley Rannow, Howard Rheingold, Nikki D. Robertson, Daniella Smith, Evan St. Lifer, Jennifer Stanbro, Caitlin Stansell, Jeff Stanzler, Carolyn Jo Starkey, Wendy Steadman Stephens, Michael Stephens, Linda Straube, Cathy Stutzman, Mega Subramaniam, Margaret Sullivan, Joyce Kasman Valenza, Karen Villegas, Jeanna Walker, Donna Watt, Holly Weimar, Senga White, Erin Drankwalter Wyatt, Amanda Yaklin, Alice Yucht, Marci Zane
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Table of Contents:
OVERTURES
FOREWORD: R. David Lankes: Hanging in the Balance
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: Kristin Fontichiaro and Buffy Hamilton: The Future of School Librarians: Fight, Flight, or Flourish
CHAPTER 1: LEARNERS
Jennifer Stanbro: Learning That Lasts
Tricia Kuon: The Jetsons Have Arrived: 21st-Century Learners Are Connected
Kathleen McBroom: Common Core Standards for 21st-Century Learners: All of ‘Em
Shannon Hyman: You Had Me At “Hello”
Walter McKenzie: The 21st-Century Schoolhouse
Sara Kelley-Mudie: We Are All 21st-Century Learners
Mega Subramaniam: The 21st-Century Learning Lab in the K-12 School: The School Library
Robert Baigent: The Fearless Librarian
CHAPTER 2: WHO AND WHEN WE TEACH
Donna Watt: Beginning With One Special Teacher
Jennifer LaGarde: The Future of Libraries is Now!
Stacy Dillon: What Faberge Organics Taught Me About Librarianship
Beth Gourley: The Only Boundaries? Time, Energy, and Imagination
Heather Hersey and Marci Zane: Putting the Teacher in Teacher-Librarian
CHAPTER 3: EMERGING AND MULTIPLE LITERACIES
Laura Fleming: Transmedia Storytelling
Elizabeth Friese: School Libraries and Run-On Sentences
Howard Rheingold: New Literacies and Librarians
Evan St. Lifer: Lighting the Fuse of Inquisitiveness
Adrienne Matteson: New
CHAPTER 4: GAMING
Neil Krasnoff: Chess in the Library: Gateway to Research, the Social Web, and a Life of the Mind
David Meyer: A Place for Electronic Gaming in Libraries
Dan Bowen: Games-Based Learning, Literacy, Engagement, and Motivation
Kimberly Hirsh: Gaming for the 21st-Century Learner
CHAPTER 5: READING
Alida Hanson: Reading 2.0: Deep, Dark Secrets
Kelly Ahfeld: The Future of Reading is Power — Just Like the Present
Erin Drankwalter Wyatt: Fostering a Culture of Reading: As the Tools Change, the Text Remains
Jesse Karp: How We Learn to Care
Jennifer Colby: The Future of Storytimes: “On With the Show, This Is It!”: The School Media Specialist as Performer
Teri S. Lesesne: Elroy Jetson Meets Captain Kirk at the School Library
Kate MacMillan: Athletes as Readers and Leaders
Pamela Jackson: Reading Interrupted: In Pursuit of Passion
Rachel Goldberg: Book Fairs 2.0
CHAPTER 6: PHYSICAL LIBRARIES
Len Bryan: The Physical Library — Still Relevant
Margaret Sullivan: Planning School Libraries, Overcoming Decision Fatigue
Karen Villegas: The Library’s Last Stand
Wendy Steadman Stephens: School Libraries as a Last Hope for Preserving American Democracy
Angela Washington-Blair: Inspiring Physical Library Spaces for High School Students
Margaret Sullivan: Tinkering Around the Library
CHAPTER 7: VIRTUAL LIBRARIES
Linda Straube: Together We Light the Way
Valerie Hill: Virtual World Libraries: A Global Community of Learners
Holly Weimar: Living in the Material World? Well, Virtually I Am
Joyce Kasman Valenza: I Want to Be an App
CHAPTER 8: COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT
Holli Buchter: Opening Day Collection for a Non-Dewey Library: The Red Hawk Elementary Library Story
Andrea Dolloff: Deleting Dewey: Elementary Style
Ben Mondloch: The Power of eBooks
Cathy Jo Nelson: Ten Reasons a School Library and Certified Librarian are Vital to Schools
Kathleen Atkin: Best of Times, Worst of Times: Responsible Collection Development in Changing Times
CHAPTER 9: COLLABORATION
Lorna Flynn: Outside and Inside Teamwork
Neil Krasnoff: Cultivating the Next Bill Gates in Your Library: Collaborating with Computer Programming Teachers and Students to Develop Software for Reading Incentive Programs
Diane Cordell: Bridging Space and Time: Collaborating for Learning
Kate MacMillan: Napa Valley School and Public Library Collaboration
Margaret Lincoln: A 21st-Century Collaborative Success Story
Beverley Rannow: Library 101 Sierra Leone Style
Jeanna Walker: They Said Yes!
Leslie L. Morgan: Collaboration with Academic and Public Librarians is the Future of School Librarians
Heather Hersey, Marci Zane, Cathy Stutzman, and Meg Donhauser: Capturing the Voices of All Stakeholders: Teachers, Librarians, Students, and a Supervisor Plan and Assess an Inquiry Unit
Emilia Askari: School Librarians and Journalists – Unite for Digital Literacy!
Senga White: Collaboration: The Key Link Between Librarians and Teachers
Jeff Stanzler and Kristin Fontichiaro: Show, Don’t Tell
Amanda Yaklin: The Blink of an Eye
Caitlin Stansell: Jeanna the Queena
Diane Erica Aretz-Kernahan: Librarians are the World’s Coolest People
CHAPTER 10: PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Melissa P. Johnston: Preparing 21st-Century School Librarian Leaders
Nikki D. Robertson: The Unapologetic Twitvangelist
Senga White: Networking and Why We Need to Flock Together
Susan D. Ballard: We’re Working on That
Carolyn Jo Starkey: Empowering School Librarians Through Professional Learning Communities
William Cross and Kimberly Hirsh: Legal Education for School Librarians
Violet H. Harada: Conducting First-Year Seminars
Daniella Smith: Champions of Equal Learning Opportunities
Joanne de Groot and Jennifer Branch: A Sandbox for Teacher-Librarians: Learning to Play 2.0
Michael Stephens: Filled with Heart: Characteristics of 21st-Century School Librarians
Alice Yucht: Professional Development is a Professional Responsibility
Dorcas Hand: Reimagineers for K-12 Libraries
Great job!
Stephen
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Thanks, Stephen! With the helps of folks like you, we came very close to 2400 downloads in the first 48 hours of launch!
Kristin: You, Buffy and the rest did an awesome job.
Stephen
We’re grateful to everyone who contributed to this project. Thank you for sharing!