digital age libraries and youth: learning labs, literacy leaders, radical resources

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Digital Age Libraries and Youth: Learning Labs, Literacy Leaders,

Radical Resources

Dr. Eliza T. Dresang, Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services

J. Elizabeth Mills, MLIS Candidate and Cleary Graduate Assistant

Introduction

Young Readers’ Library & Reading Habits

Young Readers’ Library & Reading Habits

Digital Age Assumptions about Youth

Youth are capable and seeking connections.

The digital environment nurtures youth’s capabilities.

Handheld books offer digital-age connections.

Adults and youth are partners in the digital world.

21st Century Change #1: Libraries as Labs for Learning

• Labs for Learning • Labs for Learning about

Learning

Digital teens

• Past: good was good

• Now: Libraries as partners and laboratories for research

Hanging out, messing around, geeking out (Ito 2010)

YouMedia: First MacArthurIMLS library learning lab

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21st century libraries as learning labs

Most important finding of first year of You Media

• Importance of library staff

• Youth as teachers and staff as partners

Other library as learning lab projects

YA Spaces (Bernier)

Other library as learning lab projects

Independent versus group information seeking (Meyers 2011)

Other library as learning lab projects

Scratch in Libraries

21st Century Change #2:Libraries Are Literacy Leaders

21st Century Change #2:Libraries Are Literacy Leaders

Libraries as literacy promoters

Changing role of librarian

Libraries & achievement

ECRR & ECRR2

• Outcomes and impact

• ELSA• VIEWS2• Schools & Early

Literacy

• OUTCOMES & IMPACT:

• ELSA (Early Literacy Skills Assessment)

• VIEWS2 (valuable Initiatives in early literacy that work successfully)

• Schools & Early Literacy (State Literacy Council)

21st Century Change #3:Radicalizing Resources

21st Century Change #3:Radicalizing Resources

Do libraries need books?

How ‘radical’ are handheld books?

What is a book?

A digital library for the world’s children

What is a book?

New frontiers to defend access for youth

Conclusion