Library Ties

http://collegehighschoollibrarians.pbworks.com/ From the wiki home page: The objective of the College Readiness Dialogue is to provide an open, relaxed, and informal dialogue between high school and academic librarians on students’ college readiness (information skills).  How prepared are our high school seniors for college research?  What strengths do they take with them during this transition?  And, [...]

This is a great one day conference!  If you are in or near Indy at the end of January, I highly recommend you sign up! Indianapolis Youth Literature Conference Saturday, January 29th, 2011 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Indianapolis Marion County Public Library – Central Branch It is time once again for the Indianapolis Youth [...]

Today I spent the day working on one of my other jobs.  Each month during the school year, I write a short E-Tools newsletter for C.L.A.S.S. (Connected Learning Assures Successful Students).  I’ve had the honor to work with this group for the past several years (both presenting and writing) and have learned so much that [...]

If the start of school this last week wasn’t exciting enough, I also had the chance this weekend to travel to Henderson, NV (just outside of Las Vegas) for the Nevada Library Association Conference.  The Nevada School and Children Librarians’ Section of the NLA is an affiliate of American Association of School Librarians (AASL).  My [...]

We’re working on a lot of fun things this year at my school.  I’m most excited about our professional development plan.  Our staff book study is Will Richardson’s Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms.  We’re not necessarily going in order, but using it as the outline for our professional development his [...]

This week I’ve been out of my library for a variety of difference reasons.  I attended Peggy Sharp‘s BER workshop.  This is a perennial favorite event on my calendar and a great time to share and talk about new books.  It also provides an opportunity to catch-up with some of my library media friends — [...]

Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend a professional development training with several of my teachers.  The workshop focused on a model for instruction and that our district has adopted.  The topic really doesn’t matter, but one thing I noticed was the absence of other library media specialists in the room.  Why is that?  Is [...]