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What is the Future of Libraries in Chinook’s Edge?

What is the Future of Libraries in Chinook’s Edge?. Re-envisioning Libraries for the 21 st Century. What Are the Issues?. Some of our libraries exist as islands, not connected strongly to learning. What Are the Issues.

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What is the Future of Libraries in Chinook’s Edge?

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  1. What is the Future of Libraries in Chinook’s Edge? Re-envisioning Libraries for the 21st Century

  2. What Are the Issues? • Some of our libraries exist as islands, not connected strongly to learning.

  3. What Are the Issues • The majority of our library staff were hired with no training for their role.

  4. What Are the Issues? • The digital age provides instant access to current information.

  5. What Are the Issues? • Libraries are easy targets when budgets are tight.

  6. When We Think About a Library… • What do we think of… • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufu5sqJh24Q

  7. So Why Bother? • Research indicates that strong library programs: • support student literacy and school-wide literacy initiatives • positively impact student learning and achievement • encourage and support self-initiated inquiry.

  8. Transforming Libraries • Globally, progressive libraries are moving toward the learning commons concept of flexibility, so activities and spaces in the library and on the library’s web site are flexible in design to accommodate a variety of learning activities; e.g., collaborative community space, a coffee house concept.

  9. How is This Good for Kids? • A school library learning commons supports ongoing critical thinking, inquiry, action research, interdisciplinary learning and brain-based learning. • A learning commons becomes a place of active learning in real-time or online with project, problem-based, experiential, and cooperative learning that is ideally coordinated by a teacher-librarian.

  10. What Does it Look Like • Elizabeth Rummel School video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EpwhQYafNp4

  11. How Will We Get There? By engaging in a visioning process. • What Does a Quality Learning Environment Look Like in a Contemporary Library and How Does This Support Tomorrow’s Learner?

  12. Visioning, To What End? • A vision statement that guides our division… • That provides in-depth research • That helps to inform decision making • That helps to inform other procedures as well (budgeting, hiring, training) • That helps to align with Alberta Education (SLSI) • That helps in transforming libraries to foster a quality learning environment • That supports tomorrow’s learner

  13. March 5th – Innisfail

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