Re: [LM_NET] LM_NET Digest - 4 Apr 2007 to 5 Apr 2007 (#2007-568)

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There are 4 messages totalling 324 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. Invitation to share/target:  Carol Simpson's Challenge
  2. Invitation to share/target: Carol Simpson's Challenge
  3. Hit:I Need Rational Behind My Keeping My Assistant Next Year
  4. Certification or Library Endorsement

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Date:    Wed, 4 Apr 2007 23:09:26 -0400
From:    Deb Logan <jd3logan@BRIGHT.NET>
Subject: Invitation to share/target:  Carol Simpson's Challenge

Greetings, colleagues!

    Carol Simpson has challenged us to "Speak out to your
administrators, teachers, boards, and communities..." 
<http://www.carolsimpson.com/LMC_AprilMay07_EdsNotes.pdf>
Let's share how we are informing our stakeholders about the ETS ICT
information and ultimately staking our claim on information literacy. 

    I will start by sharing the three ways I have shared information
relating the ETS ICT to practice and instruction in our high school
library with three different stakeholder groups.

1.  When the information about the test and the results were reported
last November.  I visited the ETS Web site and found a report on the
Preliminary Findings on the ICT test. 
<http://www.ets.org/Media/Products/ICT_Literacy/pdf/2006_Preliminary_Fin
dings.pdf> 
 
I also read an e-school news article on the test results and findings. 
<http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=6725>

    From these readings, I identified and made a list of nine areas that
the test is designed to assess.  I aligned and then listed lessons with
collaborating teachers and projects for each of the identified skills.  
There were introductory, reinforcement and advanced lessons for nearly
all of the skills.  I also wrote a brief overview of the ICT test and
the preliminary findings and and took all of this information to my
principal to celebrate that our collaborative and integrated
instructional information literacy program is on target to help our
students succeed both now and in the future.

2.  In December, at the meeting of our Principal Advisory Committee,
when committee members were asked for compliments, I complimented the
high school staff for working with me to help meet our students' 21st
century learning needs and handed out copies of my "report" to all of 
the committee members.   

3.  Most recently, I wrote a simplified version of my findings for the
March/April edition of the school district's community newsletter
(required by the state).  This letter is mailed to every household in
the school district. 

    The article title is "Ready & Set to Work, Learn and Live in the
21st Century!"  I tried to make the article short and layman friendly.  
While writing I did my best to eliminate most of the jargon.  An elderly
neighbor helped by proofreading for readability.  A copy of the article
can be downloaded from:  <http://www.deblogan.com/ICTarticle.doc>.  
While this article was written with parents and community members in
mind,  I am happy to report that it also caught the attention of a
teacher who thanked me for mentioning him in the article.  :-)


    Mike, thank you for starting this discussion.  I am looking forward
to hearing ideas from other people.

--
Sincerely,
Deb Logan
Librarian/Media Specialist
Mount Gilead High School
Mount Gilead, OH
MAILTO:jd3logan@bright.net
http://www.deblogan.com


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Date:    Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:56:27 -0800
From:    Thomas Kaun <tomkaun@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Invitation to share/target: Carol Simpson's Challenge

Following Deb Logan's lead I will report that I, also, published an
article
about the preliminary results of the ETS ICT exam in our local parent
newsletter and reprinted the article in my library
newsletter<http://rhslibrary.org/Library_Leaves.htm>(February
article).
It states many of the same concerns Deb's article did but is not quite
as
sanguine about the overall program of ICT skills. In my district we have
a
computer proficiency graduation requirement which can be met by taking a
class or taking a series of computer proficiency
tests<http://tamdistrict.org/instr/assessment/computers/index.htm>.
There is a small component (10 multiple choice questions) about
information
literacy which the LMTs in the district got the administrators to add to
the
test.
Although we certainly have an active program of teaching and learning
ICT
skills which we are constantly developing and our district's
technology plan<http://tamdistrict.org/forstaff/tech/plan.pdf>,
like all California districts' has a major section on information
literacy,
there is still, to my mind, a disconnect with the whole community about
the
way to ensure these skills are taught and learned in the district.
I applaud Deb and encourage all of us to share not only lessons for
teaching
and assessing such skills but also strategies for getting our schools
and
districts to make these skills an integral part of every child's
education.
Tom Kaun

On 4/4/07, Deb Logan <jd3logan@bright.net> wrote:
>
> Greetings, colleagues!
>
>     Carol Simpson has challenged us to "Speak out to your
> administrators, teachers, boards, and communities..."
> <http://www.carolsimpson.com/LMC_AprilMay07_EdsNotes.pdf>
> Let's share how we are informing our stakeholders about the ETS ICT
> information and ultimately staking our claim on information
literacy....


-- 
Thomas T. Kaun
Library Media Teacher
Bessie Chin Library @ Redwood High School
395 Doherty Drive, Larkspur, CA 94939
tomkaun@gmail.com | http://rhslibrary.org

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Date:    Wed, 4 Apr 2007 23:06:57 -0600
From:    veronica morris <veronicamorris2004@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Hit:I Need Rational Behind My Keeping My Assistant Next Year

Thanks for all the responses
I was sent two attachments if someone would like them let me know.

Sounds like you've got all the reasons you need right there, Veronica.
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your
Supt value libraries? Do you have the results of the Colorado study et
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 to
share? Fire away with both barrels. If he's already made up his mind,
it=20
won't
matter, so let him have the facts and figures.


Been there and lived through that!  Thank goodness I had a baby in
January--otherwise I don't think I could have made it.  Anyway, you need
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be
availabe to help students check out books-npt trapped behind the circ
desk--think of how many teachable moments will be missed.  Without
assistants--who will keep the collection in good repair?  Who will print
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and
hand out overdues?  Keeping the library closed deprives students and=20
teachers of
valuable resources.  Certainly it is cheaper to pay support staff
than=20
replace
books that are lost and damaged because no one has time to properly
maint=
ain=20
the
collection.  What price for a child who finds a locked door when
they're=20
just
dying for the next book in the series?



Veronica,
I am a library student in my last semester of classes.  One of my=20
assignments is to do an executive summary.  The topic I choose is the
nee=
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for assistants in the media center.  I have not completed this
assignment=
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but I do have my annotated list of sources.  I will attach it to this
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  I hope it helps.

I think everything you've listed for us to consider is a great basis
to=20
start. Tell him that your students' quality of learning will suffer,
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scores might dip (you never know..and testing is one they look at
after=20
all), this is the most restrictive environment for students vs. least=20
restrictive environment. I know that's invoking special ed language,
but=20
it's true. Your service to all staff and all students will suffer, books
=
can=20
walk out easily when a library is unsupervised, etc.

These reasons are why I'm so glad that Oklahoma has a school law in
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regarding LMS and schools. Depending upon student population there is
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a combo of a part-time LMS and aide all the way up to the largest
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the state (6A) which is what we are. There are 2 full time LMS and 1
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time library secretary in addition to student library aides every hour.
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2 of us offer full time instruction. The aides are responsible for circ,
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the secretary mends books, checks out equipment, etc.

He's trying to spread you too thin, and in so doing, he's shortchanging
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library.

Write up a detailed description of what a typical week is like. For each
day, list where you are and where each assistant is, thereby creating a
chart of the times each school library is open and available for the
students. Then, create a separate list/chart showing the minimal hours
each school library would be open without the help of your assistants.


This boggles my mind! If they do not understand the
difference between 2, 1, or 0, they sound hopeless.
Just list the things you will be able to do with 2, 1,
and 0, and the amount of access children will have to
the library with each.
And make sure they understand the things you do
BESIDES do classes and check out books. A lot of
people are under the impression that books fall out of
the sky, onto the shelf, ready to check out....

Hi Veronica,
Use the strategic planning document to outline exactly what you and your
personnel do. Can be quite confronting! Include everything. Please
recognise the copyright.

You probably have already accessed these, but if not, they could provide
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you=20
some ammunition: =20
http://www.nmla.org/NM_Task_Force_for_School_Library_Standards_RevMar04.
p=
df =20
and http://www.stlib.state.nm.us/files/NMStudyforDistribution.pdf .These
=
two=20
are just NM.  For more studies from other states, go to=20
http://www.lrs.org/impact.asp .



Veronica Morris -Elementary Librarian
West Las Vegas Schools, Las Vegas, New Mexico
veronicamorris2004@hotmail.com

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Date:    Thu, 5 Apr 2007 01:46:05 EDT
From:    Linda Cox <LCox1124@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Certification or Library Endorsement

You guys are great.  I guess I left off on my address that I am from  
Illinois near Chicago.  I have learned more from all of you then I will
ever learn 
by taking classes.  Thanks for all your help and support I am  looking
into 
several options that were recommended both online and on  campus.  What
a 
wonderful support group.
 
Linda Cox
Perry Elementary
Belvidere, IL
LCox1124@aol.com



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