[CALIBK12] REQUEST FOR RESOURCES: School Libraries of the Future

[Jane Brooks]

Re. remodel. We have a flat screen TV, great for CNN/Space
Flights/Inauguations, etc.  However, even though we can hook up a laptop
to it for teaching, it's generally too sm.  We have a nice large screen
to use with a projector, but it was an after though.  You need a really
lg. one mounted on a wall or in the ceiling so that demo. the internet
or databases can be seen by an entire class.  As for the next 50 yrs., I
have nothing to suggest except that unless they want to buy Kindles for
everyone, books are still irreplaceable.  Even if the text is on the
Internet, books are needed for a student who is reading something that
needs to be put down while they ruminate and then returned to after
they've thought things through.  Also, flipping back and forth in a book
when gathering facts or looking for pictures or quotes or whatever, is
much more time consuming on devices.  Good luck.
 
Jane Brooks
Library Media Teacher
Cabrillo High School
2001 Santa Fe Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90810
 
562/951-7736


>>> "Steve Montgomery" <smontgom at guhsd.net> 01/15/09 1:19 PM >>>

Greetings all. I am part of a high school only district in San Diego's
east county region. In March, our District Library Council will be
meeting with our (relatively new) superintendent, and he has asked us to
present him with our vision of what high school libraries will look like
50 years from now. 

I'm not asking you to get out your crystal balls--I would just
appreciate any resources you can recommend that attempt to answer this
question. Don't worry about the 50 years part--I would just be
interested in articles/studies/organizations that are making educated
guesses about what school libraries will look like over the next couple
of decades (and beyond). 

Fortunately, our district residents recently passed a large school bond
measure that will allow for some remodeling of our school libraries. One
of our superintendent's goals is to do what we can now to configure our
school libraries "in the direction" of what lies ahead. Resources you
may know about on any and all aspects of this big question would be
appreciated--future technologies, personnel, physical space allocations
for printed books vs. technological access to electronic books, all
aspects of high school library design, etc.

What a wonderful resource we have in each other. Thanks for any
information you can provide.



Steve Montgomery
Librarian,
El Cajon Valley High School
1035 E. Madison Avenue
El Cajon, CA  92021

(619) 401-4761
smontgom at guhsd.net
http://ecvhs.guhsd.net/library

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