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AASL Alignment, Project Link, Summary, and Evaluation

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AASL Alignments

Standard One: Use of Information and Ideas

School library media candidates encourage reading and lifelong learning by stimulating interests and fostering competencies in the effective use of ideas and information. They apply a variety of strategies to ensure access to resources and information in a variety of formats to all members of the learning community. Candidates promote efficient and ethical information seeking behavior as part of the school library media program and its services.

Standard Four:Administration and Collection Development

School library media candidates administer the library media program in order to support the mission of the school, and according to the principles of best practice in library science and program administration.

Order

Summary of Assignment:

The order required students to choose an objective that would support the mission of the school, create an order of materials that support the objective, prepare a presentation to justify selection choices, and create a checklist of each step of the ordering process.

Evaluation:

This was probably one of my favorite assignments completed in the the SLM program. While it was complex and lengthy, it felt completely authentic. I thoroughly enjoyed working with my group members to accomplish the assignment and I loved the search for appropriate materials that would support our objective: the development of the fiction collection to better reflect the diversity of the student population. It would be hard to improve upon this experience or do anything differently, but if pressed, I would say that perhaps we could have made more effort to involve the community in our search for materials. We could have sent home a request for suggested materials for the order; thereby, giving the community more ownership of the collection and the media center as well as stimulating interest in using the collection. I can't wait to duplicate this task as a media specialist!