Some suggestions, thoughts, and ideas for school libraries and MEDIA
SPECIALISTS to help take the essential central high ground in their own
schools as well as becoming key players in school community relations.
1) I would start to float the idea of going to the Frankfurt Book
Fair with your administration now. Warm them up and get them excited
about it. Even offer to do a presentation to your Board of Education
upon your return. A short flight, train and subway ride will get you
there! No more hassle than something domestic! Just think of how your
school / school library can benefit!
2) I will be attending the National Association of Broadcasters
Convention in a couple of weeks. I believe MEDIA SPECIALISTS would
greatly benefit from this event also. Look for a video report on this
in the near future.
Redefining the Library Media Center:
High School Library Media Centers
can Strive to be a Microcosm of the Frankfurt Book Fair
In 2003 and 2006 I had the good fortune of attending the Frankfurt
Book Fair http://www.book-fair.com/en/portal.php in Germany, the world's
largest annual book event. With about 7,000 exhibitors from 113
countries, this event celebrates print and other media from all around
the globe. At the center of the fair, held in the world's second
largest convention facility in Frankfurt, Germany, you will find
electronic media to include major television and radio stations all
broadcasting programs featuring authors and their books, essentially
turning Germany into one large learning community. The presence of
authors, poets, scholars and intellectuals from all over the world
distinguishes this exciting annual event from all others I have
attended. It is a wondrous mix! School library media centers can use
this event as a kind of model because they share similar elements; print
media, non print media, displays, and in some cases television
broadcasting.
I was able to become more acquainted with a wide variety of
publishers, meet, speak and interview authors, and attend very unique
book events. The power and excitement surrounding this special
combination of media and personalities as they all work with each other
was tremendous. Also, the international nature of this event is
especially important for U.S. educators to experience. Equally as
important, I believe, this event illustrates the practicality and
benefits of combining traditional print and non-print media with
broadcast media in all its forms to include local access television,
videoconferencing, and broadcast Internet in high school library media
centers, with the potential of creating learning communities within our
own school districts and beyond.
The power of broadcast can enable individual library media centers
to share their unique resources
<http://www.librarymedia.net/BROADCAST%20&%20STREAMING.htm> with
community and one another, encourage more interest in books and reading,
and this can bring us all to a truer, deeper, and more respectful
understanding of the world and reality. As the circumference widens,
through today's broadcast technology, the center can become more
defined. Our library media centers can become more unique unto
themselves and even more useful than they already are. Having the mix
of media found at the Frankfurt Book Fair, only on a smaller scale, a
microcosm of the Frankfurt Book Fair, in high school media centers, I
feel, is tremendously practical, cost effective, and beneficial to
students.
David Di Gregorio
Supervisor Library Media Services
Tenafly High School
201-816-6617
www.librarymedia.net
19 Columbus Drive
Tenafly, NJ 07670
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