What is a School Library What is a School Library Media Program?Media Program?

And How Did the And How Did the Idea Get Started?Idea Get Started?

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School Library Media Program?School Library Media Program?

• Why such a mouthful?Why such a mouthful?– School?

– Library?

– Media?

– Program?

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School?School?

• Yeah, School?Yeah, School?– “We are students of words: we are shut up in schools,

and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

– “I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”

• Yogi Berra    

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School?School?

• Main Entry: Main Entry: 11schoolschool – Pronunciation: 'skül

Function: nounEtymology: Middle English scole, from Old English scOl, from Latin schola, from Greek scholE leisure, discussion, lecture, school; perhaps akin to Greek echein to hold -- more at SCHEME1 : an organization that provides instruction: as a : an institution for the teaching of children b : COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY c (1) : a group of scholars and teachers pursuing knowledge together that with similar groups constituted a medieval university (2) : one of the four faculties of a medieval university (3) : an institution for specialized higher education often associated with a university <the school of engineering> d : an establishment offering specialized instruction <a secretarial school> <driving schools>

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Library?Library?

• OK, Library?OK, Library?– “A truly great library contains something in it

to offend everyone.” • Jo Godwin

– “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”  • Frank Zappa

– Online Dictionary of Quotations

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Library?Library?

– “You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.”

• Monty Python skit Monty Python skit

Gorilla Librarian

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Dictionary definition of Dictionary definition of Library?Library?

• Main Entry: Main Entry: li·braryli·brary– Pronunciation: 'lI-"brer-E; British usually and US sometimes -br&r-E; US sometimes -brE, ÷-"ber-EFunction: nounInflected Form(s): plural -brar·iesEtymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin librarium, from Latin, neuter of librarius of books, from libr-, liber inner bark, rind, book1 a : a place in which literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials (as books, manuscripts, recordings, or films) are kept for use but not for sale b : a collection of such materials2 a : a collection resembling or suggesting a library <a library of computer programs> <wine library> b : MORGUE 2

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Media?Media?

• What do you mean, media?What do you mean, media?– Not mediums (that’s spiritualism)!– Nor:

• “When the media ask him [George W. Bush] a question, he answers, ‘Can I use a lifeline?’” ~ Robin Williams

– 2media 1 : a medium of cultivation, conveyance, or expression; especially : MEDIUM 2b1me·di·um 2 : a means of effecting or conveying something: b plural usually media (1) : a channel or system of communication, information, or entertainment

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Program?Program?

• Program for What?Program for What?– Generally defined as an organized set of activities directed

toward a common purpose or goal, undertaken or proposed by an agency in order to carry out its responsibilities. In practice, however, the term program has many uses and is used to describe an agency's mission, programs, functions, activities, services, projects, and processes.

• http://home.nps.gov/applications/budget2/glossary.htm

• Found on a Google search define:program

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Program in a dictionary?Program in a dictionary?

•   Main Entry: Main Entry: 11pro·grampro·gram Pronunciation: 'prO-"gram, -gr&mPronunciation: 'prO-"gram, -gr&mFunction: Function: nounnounEtymology: French Etymology: French programme programme agenda, public notice, agenda, public notice, from Greek from Greek programma, programma, from from prographein prographein to write to write

before, from before, from pro- pro- before + before + graphein graphein to writeto write • 3 : a plan or system under which action may be 3 : a plan or system under which action may be

taken toward a goaltaken toward a goal

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Important caveat about Important caveat about programsprograms

• From the father of hypertextFrom the father of hypertext– “I am a design chauvinist. I believe that

good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming-- or buying software-- on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.”

• Ted Nelson—From Software Engineering Proverbs

Ted Nelson

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Put ‘em together, and what Put ‘em together, and what have you got?have you got?

• School Library Media ProgramSchool Library Media Program– The New School Librarianversion 2001

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History of School LibrariesHistory of School Libraries

• Not vet well known!Not vet well known!– Although the American public school library is one

of this nation’s most ubiquitous educational institutions, we know very little about its history.

• First sentence of:

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A Pioneer of School A Pioneer of School LibrarianshipLibrarianship

• Hannah Logasa (1879-1967) (1879-1967) – General objectives of the library study-room:

1. To serve as the laboratory and workroom of the school

2. To make available library material for the use of teachers and pupils

3. To coöperate with all departments of the school in the carrying out of their objectives

4. To serve as the centralizing agency in the plan of school organization– The High School Library: Its Function in Education (1928)

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The Three Revolutions 1The Three Revolutions 1

• The First Revolution:The First Revolution:– Just after World War II, “revolutionaries challenged the idea that

a school library should be a repository for books designed to supplement a child’s reading. In the place of a warehouse, these leaders dreamed of a center in each school, staffed by a trained professional educator, which would contain not only printed materials, but a wide range of audiovisual materials and equipment as well.”

• David V. Loertscher, Taxonomies of the School Library Media Program (1988)

– Result? ALA Standards for School Library Programs (1945, 1960) then Standards for School Library Media Programs (1969)

• NATIONAL SCHOOL LIBRARY STANDARDS: A CHRONOLOGY

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The Three The Three Revolutions 2Revolutions 2

• The Second RevolutionThe Second Revolution– “In the last ten years [i.e. 1970s and 80s],

a new concept, instructional development or resource-based teaching, has emerged from the fields of educational psychology and instructional technology. Teachers and library media specialists work together to systematically created sound instructional modules or units for learners using the full resources of the library media center.”

• Loertscher, Taxonomies of the School Library Media Program (2nd ed., 2000).

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The Three The Three Revolutions Revolutions

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• The Third RevolutionThe Third Revolution– “Revolutionaries of the third kind include

administrators, library media specialists, and teachers who are too impatient to wait while the library media center evolves gradually from a passive warehouse facility into an active participant in instruction.

• Loertscher (1988).

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Information Information Power (1988)Power (1988)

• Building Partnerships Building Partnerships for Learningfor Learning

……Because Student Because Student Achievement Achievement

ISISTHE BOTTOM LINETHE BOTTOM LINE

Information Power PowerPoint 2000 version

Successors to Successors to Information PowerInformation Power

• Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs– Empowering Learners advances school

library media programs to meet the needs of the changing school library environment and is guided by the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action.

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Official Kentucky Policy on Official Kentucky Policy on Library Media ProgramsLibrary Media Programs

• Integral to the school’s educational program:Integral to the school’s educational program:– “The school Library Media Program is an integral part of the

school’s total educational program. In today’s information age, an individual’s success in problem solving, becoming an informed citizen, even in pursuing personal interests largely depends upon the ability to access, use and evaluate information from a variety of resources thus ensuring that students become information literate.”

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Another state’s viewAnother state’s view

• The School Library Media Program The School Library Media Program – Today's school library media program is a complex

organism comprised of many parts which coalesce to form a dynamic whole. When the essential elements of such a program are present and supported in an environment that assures the growth and development of each, an exemplary school library media program results.

• Created March 2000 by Patricia Webster and Frances Roscello  New York State Education Department

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Remember Remember the quote the quote from Ted from Ted Nelson?Nelson?

• A Program is an integral A Program is an integral whole!whole!– “I believe that good design is magical and not to be

lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don’t, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried.”

• “meshing of the details”• “the passionate intellect that has tied them together”