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We All Care!: Partnering with Schools for a Win/Win. Heather McNeil, Deschutes Public Library, heatherm@deschuteslibrary.org Jackie Partch, Multnomah County Library, jacquelp@multcolib.org. Connecting with Schools. Who to contact: Library staff Principal Interested teachers or other staff
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We All Care!: Partnering with Schools for a Win/Win Heather McNeil, Deschutes Public Library, heatherm@deschuteslibrary.org Jackie Partch, Multnomah County Library, jacquelp@multcolib.org
Connecting with Schools • Who to contact: • Library staff • Principal • Interested teachers or other staff • District library media coordinator • Friends/relatives/ coworkers
Making the Connection • Letters? • Email? • Phone? • Social media? • In-person meetings?
Successful Collaboration • How can you collaborate to promote student success? • Successful collaborations are a benefit to both parties.
Win-Win Collaborations • Promote library databases: www.multcolib.org/homework/db.html • Promote summer reading • Booktalks with book tubs: www.multcolib.org/los/books2u/ • Author visits
More Win-Win Collaborations • Teacher inservice: www.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/gotta.htmlwww.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/novelties.html • After-school programming: www.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/sun.html • Parent programs • Schools as a location for library performers
Help! I Can’t Leave the Library • Or, how to collaborate with schools when you have limited time for outreach
Basic Collaborative Efforts • Educator library cards: www.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/edcard.html • Library card campaigns: www.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/glca.html • Newsletter: www.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/scq/
Create a kit: or, the next best thing to cloning yourself • Curriculum support tubs: www.multcolib.org/schoolcorps/bucket.html • Book group support • Booktalking tubs • Program-in-a-box
Summer Reading Collaboration • Sign up kids while still at school • www.multcolib.org/summer/ • Questions? suzanneh@multcolib.org