[CALIBK12] TAR: School Library of the Future

Thu Apr 30 08:49:12 PDT 2009

At the Festival of Books this year in each session the attendees were
told to SILENCE their phones, but that they could Twitter during the
session.  There were chuckles each time I announced this but it was
happening.  Even the panel members were twittering!

Barbara Duffy

Barbara J. Duffy, Ed. D.
Library Teacher
Jordan High School, Main Campus
6500 Atlantic Ave.
Long Beach, CA 90805
562-423-1471   x 2131
Fax 562-422-8918

"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels
about education." - Harold Howe, former Secretary of Education

"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to
that of an ignorant nation." - Walter Cronkite, Newscaster 

 "I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness
about the underpinnings of our culture and our concren for the future
can all be tested by how well we support our libraries." 

>>> Headley Vicki <headley_vicki at cupertino.k12.ca.us> 4/27/2009 2:30 PM
>>>

Our church had a youth conference (this weekend), and one of the
speakers had kids text responses to his cell phone and then he read them
off.  Great participation, great responses, pretty smart idea, I
thought.
Vicki

On 4/27/09 2:06 PM, "Catania, Amy" <ACatania at wccusd.net> wrote:

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.

From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu
[mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Marie Slim
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 1:34 PM
To: Calib
Subject: [CALIBK12] TAR: School Library of the Future

  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 

  "This is the age of the open-source encyclopedia.  Words like
'research' 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.'"   

  - Steven Colbert, I Am America (And So Can You!) 

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