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Library Advisory
Library Advisory
Who?
Who?
The TL, Department Heads, at least one student, at least one parent
The TL, Department Heads, at least one student, at least one parent
What's the Plan?
What's the Plan?
1) Create and administer student, staff, and parent surveys
1) Create and administer student, staff, and parent surveys
2) Assess the print and digital collection, educational technology, digital and traditional literacy, and programming using the rubrics
2) Assess the print and digital collection, educational technology, digital and traditional literacy, and programming using the rubrics
3) Determine a protocol for advising TL on a three year cycle.
3) Determine a protocol for advising TL on a three year cycle.
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It’s going to take support from the community: administration, staff, students, and parents. YOU are our stakeholders. As Liz Deskins points out in “Parents, reading partners, library advocates” parents are “powerful partners” in “inspiring life-long readers”. (Deskins, 2011) Keeping parents interested and involved and soliciting their feedback will not only increase student readership but also serves as advocacy for the library program.
In “Library advisory councils”, Natalie Teske suggests involving members of each content department on a library advisory council (Teske,2010). If done well, the library advisory council could become not only help “increase buy-in from stakeholders” it could also be a powerful advocacy tool (Teske,2010).
Before we start to build the new middle school we need to create a Library Advisory Council to create a mechanism for ongoing stakeholder input. Inviting a student, a PTO member, an administrator and a board member and/or person from the public library in addition to the CRMS department heads, would be a way to achieve that. Beginning with one in person meeting per trimester, perhaps as a library breakfast, the council could continue their work in a collaborative website like a Virtual Learning Commons. Camden Rockport Middle School Virtual Learning Commons has discussion rooms for teachers, students, administrators, and could easily accommodate a working library advisory council.
Resources
Deskins, Liz. (2011)“Parents, reading partners, library advocates”. LMC 30(3), 34-35
Teske, Natalie. (2010). Library advisory councils. LMC,28(4), 40-41
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