Strategic Planning For School Library Media Centers

Author : Mary Frances Zilonis,Carolyn Markuson,Mary Beth Fincke
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781461731610

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Strategic Planning for School Library Media Centers by Mary Frances Zilonis,Carolyn Markuson,Mary Beth Fincke Pdf

A strategic plan is a useful tool for communicating the purpose of the library media center (LMC) to the administrators, teachers, and parents of the school community. An initial benefit is an assessment of the library program's strengths, weaknesses, and impact on the teaching and learning process. The library media specialist should use the planning process to garner greater support, identify priorities for future direction, provide the basis for effective budget development, and articulate the LMC's integral role in the school's instructional program. Based on Information Power, as well as input from focus groups of librarians, computer educators, teachers, administrators, and parents, the authors identified a core of the essential elements found in quality library media programs. Rubrics developed for this core provide a foundation for developing and prioritizing goals and objectives, as well as tools for ongoing evaluation. School library media centers, often short of time and staff, will welcome this easy-to-follow blueprint, packed with forms, questions to consider, templates, rubrics, and charts. From forming a committee and constructing surveys, to good PR and a consistent evaluation process, this essential handbook provides the tools to create a visionary mission statement, the strategic plan that embodies it, and the steps to implement it.

Author : John D. Crowley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781591588924

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Developing a Vision by John D. Crowley Pdf

This text shows teacher librarians how to become leaders in their schools and apply their unique skills and insight to develop a timely and meaningful vision for the school's library. It can be very difficult to break the habit of addressing time-consuming tasks that are no longer mission critical. Having a vision and plan is the best way to establish a new, more effective pattern. As the education system, technology, and the world continues to evolve, it is paramount for teacher librarians to have a strategic plan to overcome today's challenges... and to be ready for the changes that are sure to come. This book describes two types of strategic planning for teacher librarians. Each methodology is presented via a sequential approach to the planning process. The first section of the text addresses those who are pressed for time and are lacking some necessary resources. The second section explains the classical approach to strategic planning for teacher librarians.

Author : Lesley S. J. Farmer
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838915165

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Managing the Successful School Library by Lesley S. J. Farmer Pdf

More than just a compendium of management theories, this book provides much food for thought that will help readers gain important insights into their own roles as school library managers and leaders.

Author : Lesley S. J. Farmer
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838914946

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Managing the Successful School Library: Strategic Planning and Reflective Practice by Lesley S. J. Farmer Pdf

Author : John Dennis Crowley
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313288356

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Developing a Vision by John Dennis Crowley Pdf

Provides guidelines for using strategic planning techniques in creating a clear vision of the role of the library media center in increasing student performance.

Author : American Association of School Librarians
Publisher : American Association of School Librarians
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Media programs (Education)
ISBN : UCAL:B4201825

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A Planning Guide for Information Power by American Association of School Librarians Pdf

This guide provides practical, step-by-step directions for implementing the planning process described in Information Power.

Author : Steven M. Baule
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781586833749

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Facilities Planning for School Library Media and Technology Centers by Steven M. Baule Pdf

Plan, design, and build the library of your dreams! Use this step-by-step guide to remodel or build your new library. Includes case studies from practitioners on common facilities issues. Also includes ready-to-use sample tools and floor plans! This step-by-step guide offers all the technological and practical information needed to make a functional, enduring, and accommodating library for the future. Includes checklists, forms, and timelines to guide you in your library planning journey.

Author : Rolf Erikson,Carolyn Markuson
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838909454

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Designing a School Library Media Center for the Future by Rolf Erikson,Carolyn Markuson Pdf

A guide to designing school library media centers that provides information on addressing the unique ergonomic and technology needs of children, controling costs using proven bidding and evaluation methods, understanding the technical drawings and language used in architecture, and other related topics.

Author : Marie Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313363412

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Block Scheduling and Its Impact on the School Library Media Center by Marie Shaw Pdf

Across the country educators are facing the challenge of restructuring the secondary school to meet the needs of students in the twenty-first century. Block scheduling provides sustained time and fosters an environment for active and experiential learning, a key to student success in life. The author, who has spearheaded the adoption of block scheduling in her school's library media center, has prepared a complete guide for library media specialists contemplating or moving to block scheduling. In preparing this guide she has incorporated the experiences of twelve secondary school libraries across the country that have also moved to block scheduling. Step by step, this guide walks the library media specialist through planning, networking, curriculum and instruction, professional development, technology, and assessment. Practical suggestions, forms, lesson plans, and case studies of other media centers that have successfully adopted block scheduling will help the library media specialist to make the transition to the block. Block scheduling places a high demand on staff, materials, and information technologies. Shaw stresses that networking of people and resources is essential to successful adoption of block scheduling. She takes the reader through the planning and transitional phases of a high school adopting block scheduling and addresses concerns about instructional change, ongoing curriculum, and the role of the library media specialist as a teacher of information technology. She provides ideas on where to find professional development and how to network with other library media specialists with expertise in the block and offers practical suggestions on resource sharing, study hall, flexible scheduling, budget, collection development, substitute teachers, and assessment techniques.

Author : Betty J. Morris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781598848946

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Administering the School Library Media Center by Betty J. Morris Pdf

This is the most comprehensive textbook on school library administration available, now updated to include the latest standards and address new technologies. This reference text provides a complete instructional overview of the workings of the library media center—from the basics of administration, budgeting, facilities management, organization, selection of materials, and staffing to explanations on how to promote information literacy and the value of digital tools like blogs, wikis, and podcasting. Since the publication of the fourth edition of Administering the School Library Media Center in 2004, many changes have altered the landscape of school library administration: the implementation of NCLB legislation and the revision of AASL standards, just to mention two. The book is divided into 14 chapters, each devoted to a major topic in school library media management. This latest edition gives media specialists a roadmap for designing a school library that is functional and intellectually stimulating, while leading sources provide guidance for further research.

Author : Katy B. Mathuews,Ryan A. Spellman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216171164

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Creating a Staff-Led Strategic Plan by Katy B. Mathuews,Ryan A. Spellman Pdf

Taking a staff-led approach, this book helps libraries of all types create their own meaningful and authentic strategic plans while demystifying a process that can bring many benefits to the organization. With dwindling budgets to pay for consultants and a growing interest in collaboration across the organization, libraries are increasingly taking a do-it-yourself approach to strategic planning. This book takes a step-by-step approach to grassroots strategic planning for libraries of all types. The authors, who led a successful strategic planning process at their own library, provide practical advice and detailed information to guide library personnel through their own process. Topics include aligning with institutional and community values, creating vision and mission statements, researching stakeholder needs, conducting environmental scans, collaborative drafting of the plan, communication strategies, and implementation and assessment of the plan. Each chapter helps librarians create a strategic plan for a broad spectrum of libraries, including K–12, post-secondary, public, and special libraries. A unique feature of the book is its emphasis on the ways in which different library types can collaborate to meet shared goals. This book is a one-stop-shop, providing everything library staff will need to create a strategic plan without searching for additional sources.

Author : Ken Haycock
Publisher : Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015042988272

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Foundations for Effective School Library Media Programs by Ken Haycock Pdf

Contains thirty-nine articles that discuss critical elements in the development and implementation of school library media programs, grouped in the areas of the foundations; the school context; role clarification; information literacy; collaborative program planning and teaching; program development; and accountability.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : CUB:U183034913780

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nancy M. Bolt,Sandra S. Stephan
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022162445

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Strategic Planning for Multitype Library Cooperatives by Nancy M. Bolt,Sandra S. Stephan Pdf

Strategic Planning for Multitype Library Cooperatives: A Planning Process is a companion volume and handbook to the Strategic Planning for Library Multitype Cooperatives: Samples and Examples. This manual can be used by organizations as they structure their planning process and bring together methods that combine conventional long range planning and focused strategic planning. The planning process includes analyzing the environmental scan, conducting a needs assessment, drafting the vision, mission, and values, setting the direction and measuring the success, implementing and evaluating the plan. Strategic Planning for Multitype Library Cooperatives: A Planning Process gives direction for assessment and evaluation and serves as a guide for how-to-do long range planning.

Author : Kieth C. Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015028938515

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The Challenge of Technology by Kieth C. Wright Pdf