Cooperation Between Secondary Schools and Public Libraries

[CALLISON@UCS.INDIANA.EDU]

I am requesting your recommendation on strong cooperative programs
between _Secondary_ School library media specialists and Public
Libraries.  I am interested in description of programs which do
much more that "promote summer reading".  I am looking for programs
where there is clearly joint planning, joint responsibilities (between
school librarian and public librarian), joint funding, and shared
celebration of results.

Examples of joint programming would include, but not be limited to,
collection development; issues forums and debates; information
literacy awareness and bibliographic instruction; development
of local resource people as sources for interviews, school
presentations, or human sources to support student research
projects; cooperative development of online catalog; extended
hours and services at school or public library or both for the
purpose of homework assistance; shared staff, either paid or
volunteer, in order for school librarian to be available to
students on Saturday and evenings or for public librarian to
be available to students during the day.....and more.

If you know of any leads, I need name, address, and number.
We'r looking for the exception, the innovative, and those willing
to take a risk with staff, dollars, time, and resources to make
cooperation between school libraries and public libraries work.

Daniel Callison
SLIS 005
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN   47405
(812) 855-5113.