Much wisdom, Gail!
Here's another study to add crediblity to your fight,
Lindy: "School library media programs critical to high
school reform" is the lead story on the AASL page:
<http://www,ala.org/aasl> It's sn AASL press release
about the new Partnership for 21st Century Skills
report “Results That Matter: 21st Century Skills and
High School Reform” > and the needed student skills
enumerated in it correlate directly with a strong
school library program.
Good luck, Sara
--- Gail K Dickinson <GDickins@ODU.EDU> wrote:
> I think I would hold up the open school concept as
> an example. That's
> clearly another case in which schools were built
> because architects and
> administrators were convinced that schools without
> walls between classrooms
> were the wave of the future, and that their district
> would be the surfboard
> riding the top of that wave. Ten years later (or
> less) districts were
> spending millions to erect walls and trying to make
> an unworkable concept
> make sense.
>
> As an old person, I also remember instructional
> television sages who swore
> it would replace teachers (1 teacher with 500
> students, yes, it's happening
> now...Look, Look) and CAI drill and practice....also
> replacing teachers.
> It didn't happen then, and it won't happen now. My
> answer to the
> architects is "Show me one". Parents are skeptical
> because they hear this
> argument all the time. "MOM!!! I am the ONLY one
> without these shoes".
>
> Build a school without a library now, and in 2 years
> there will be a bond
> issue to add a library. I also am concerned about
> those students without
> computers at home. Is the district willing to leave
> behind all students
> without the funds to buy technology?
>
> Strongest indication of SAT or ACT verbal score is
> the amount of voluntary
> reading. Taking away the source of books won't
> help. Last bit of advice:
> Take the job description for a school librarian, and
> cross off the things
> that won't happen without a library. Ask if the
> parents are willing to
> fund a school that eliminates most of the life
> skills needed for success in
> college and life.
>
> Gail K. Dickinson, PhD
> 249-6 Dept of Educational Curriculum and Instruction
> Darden College of Education
> Old Dominion University
> Norfolk, VA 23529
> gdickins@odu.edu
> 757-683-6683
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> Subject: Another Copyright question
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> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:28:50 EST
> From: "Tony L. Pope" <Pope1966@AOL.COM>
> Subject: Anyone used U-TAG-IT before?
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> Have any of you used the U-TAG-IT company out of
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> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:49:34 -0600
> From: Barbara Paciotti <barupa@SWBELL.NET>
> Subject: Re: Building school w/ no library
>
> I feel impelled to contribute my 2 cents on this
> issue, and anyone is
> free to rake me over the coals if you think you can
> change my mind. I
> welcome a sane answer to my exasperation. :-\
>
> I'm not quite ready to say that a school doesn't
> need any library at
> all, but I honestly don't think a high-tech high
> school needs to build
> the kind of library that has been the norm for the
> past 50 years.
>
> This is my 6th year in a middle school that is in
> its 8th year, and we
> have about 220 student computers for just under 650
> kids--and I do as
> much research teaching in the classroom computer
> spines as I do the
> library. Yet, I am prevented from purchasing online
> database services
> beyond those provided by the district because I
> haven't quite reached
> the state-required books/student ratio for my
> relatively new library.
>
> My district does provide valuable online resources
> for each grade level
> (elem, ms, hs) but each of our 6 middle schools has
> huge differences in
> facilities and populations. For example, my school
> has more computers
> than at least two schools that have twice as many
> kids. Their libraries
> use lots of print reference sources. I haven't had
> most of my 7 print
> encyclopedia sets off the shelves in 3 or 4 years,
> but my students are
> limited to the single online encyclopedia provided
> by the district (even
> though my staff and students overwhelmingly
> preferred the additional
> ones I provided before they decided I couldn't
> purchase them anymore).
>
> I've heard the "what will they do when they get to
> HS/college?"
> argument, but somehow that doesn't wash for me
> either--our new feeder HS
> has as high a computer/student ratio as we do. Our
> local colleges and
> universities are all online-resource rich, so
> students will really need
> to be more proficient at choosing and using a larger
> variety of online
> database services than print resources. And the
> academic world is
> increasingly moving toward power-search tools that
> search both print and
> online databases at the same time, to provide
> students with exactly what
> is needed, regardless of format. Yes there will be
> a need to use some
> print resources, but the huge number of online
> database services make
> most undergraduate research easily completed with
> those alone. In fact,
> I was able to do much of my graduate work with them.
>
> One complaint I hear from our high schools is that
> students do little
> leisure reading because they are so overwhelmed with
> work. It seems
> probable that the fiction section of a high-tech HS
> library can be very
> small compared to the resources needed for research.
> It might even be
> preferable to consider mostly paperbacks for the
> fiction section to keep
> it as current and inviting as possible (maybe even
> set up some kind of
> arrangement with one of the large bookstore
> chains!). As for the format
> that those research sources need to be, curriculum
> needs and facility
> technology and student demographics are the best
> determinant, not an
> arbitrary ratio that extends from old-school
> thinking.
>
> I realize not everything is available online, but
> more and more
> research-type resources are going online or to
> e-books (which, thank
> goodness, I am allowed to purchase). Why? Simply
> because it's faster,
> easier, and CHEAPER to update and provide online
> stuff. (Isn't an
> encyclopedia publisher ceasing its print version for
> online-only for
> this reason?) I'm all for faster, easier, and
> cheaper...and for moving
> forward to embrace the future. (You know, I don't
> remember ever seeing
> a print reference resource on Star Trek.)
>
> Barbara Paciotti, SLMIS
> Barbara Bush MS, Irving TX
> barupa@swbell.net
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> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:40:56 -0600
> From: Lindy Hutchison
> <lhutchison@MAIL.SWEENY.ISD.ESC4.NET>
> Subject: SEC: Building the new high school without a
> library
>
> Dear LM_NET,
>
> Our district is in the process of planning a new
> high school. The =
> architects are here and are saying that "many new
> schools are being =
> built without libraries," and that "students will
> each have their own =
> individual gizmo and be able to access everything
> they need on-line." =
> (sigh) I've already turned over to them the results
> of the Colorado =
> Study, et. al., but they seem unconvinced that, in
> planning for "the =
> school of the future," the library will not be
> obsolete. They postulate =
> that the students of today and of the future are so
> used to being wired =
> (& wireless) that they think and learn differently
> from those of us who =
> are older. Arguments about snuggling up with a book
> and quilt in front =
> of the fire, they say, hold true for older
> generations, but our students =
> are coming of age in a new ethos. =20
>
> I've been to the meetings; teachers, parents, and
> many students seem =
> stunned at the thought of doing away with the
> library. The architects =
> seem to have convinced the superintendent and the
> assistant =
> superintendent of finance, though, that they are
> right. =20
>
> I've looked through the LM_NET archives & could not
> find a similar =
> situation. I've been researching & did not find
> evidence of other =
> school districts thinking that this was a good idea.
> If any of you have =
> experience with or know of such a situation,
> especially research showing =
> that the library is not totally on the way out, I
> would really =
> appreciate hearing from you.=20
>
> Ever thankful for LM_NET,
> Lindy
> =20
>
> Lindy Hutchison, Librarian
> Sweeny HS Library
> Sweeny, TX
> lhutchison@mail.sweeny.isd.esc4.net
>
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