[CALIBK12] TAR: School Library of the Future

[Catania, Amy]

Personally, I think that a school library will be used for a lot of
technology.  I see students doing PPT presentations, creating websites
instead of writing essays, and doing homework via programs like Google
docs.  Since so many students have cell phones, these will probably be
used for lessons.  Web 2.0 applications will become standardized.  Also,
I think funding will be almost non-existent and that school libraries
will have to rely completely on outside funding.  Librarians will become
even more technologically oriented in their practices.  With programs
like Kindle, we might see our print collections becoming more and more
obsolete.  With the bibliophobia exhibited by many students, books may,
in fact become oddities, and those that love them equally as odd (shades
of Fahrenheit 451).  Information literacy will, hopefully, become a top
priority, as well as the acquisition of basic word-processing skills.
Maybe even students will have their own mini-laptops on which they do
their work and beam it to the teacher's computer; that would be awesome.
Basically, I see technology as central to the future of libraries.

 

 

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Any links, reports, or your own opinion about what the school library of
the future will look like?  Please send my way.  Our district wants to
know "our plan."  

Marie Slim 

Teacher-Librarian

Troy High School 

2200 Dorothy Lane 

Fullerton, CA 92831 

Library hours: M - Th 6:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Fridays 6:30am to 3:30
p.m. 

phone: 714-626-4482 

fax: 714-626-4485 

http://www.ilovelibraries.com <http://www.ilovelibraries.com/>  

http://slimlibrary.blogspot.com/ 

SraSlim at sbcglobal.net

 

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and 'corroborated' now mean whatever the majority says they mean.
Personally, I'm voting for 'research' to mean 'speculation' and
'corroborated' to mean 'a zesty sour cream-based dip.'"  

 

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