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What is a
What is a
21st Century School Library?
21st Century School Library?
Ways of Thinking About Your School Library That Maximize Positive Impact
Ways of Thinking About Your School Library That Maximize Positive Impact
- Focuses on Learning and Inquiry
-Is a future-oriented hub of innovation and knowledge creation
- Explores the educational potential of emerging technologies
- Has open, collaborative learning spaces
- Supports the design of blended learning
- Provides 24-7 access via digital resources; and that supports a participatory culture
-Why have both print and digital books? Read this 2019 Pew Research Center Study on America's reading habits
The INK Spot
The INK Spot
A Place for
A Place for
Inquiry, Nuance, and Knowledge
Inquiry, Nuance, and Knowledge
-Check out a book from our print collection
-Check out a book from our print collection
-Work independently in a quiet environment
-Work independently in a quiet environment
-Print an assignment
-Print an assignment
-Produce and edit video in the Production Studio
-Produce and edit video in the Production Studio
-Attend a school or community event
-Attend a school or community event
-Located in the 300s hallway
-Located in the 300s hallway
The Cloud
The Cloud
Digital and Innovative Learning
Digital and Innovative Learning
-Collaborate on projects and assignments
-Collaborate on projects and assignments
-Engage in personal and directed inquiry
-Engage in personal and directed inquiry
-Interdisciplinary learning
-Interdisciplinary learning
-Community Space
-Community Space
-Located in Room 565
-Located in Room 565
What Will Your Students LearnCloud 2.0.pdf
Student-driven lessons
Student-driven lessons
Personal Inquiry with the MYP Personal Project
Personal Inquiry with the MYP Personal Project
Ways of Thinking About Your Library Facility That Limit Positive Impact:
Ways of Thinking About Your Library Facility That Limit Positive Impact:
Example 1
Example 1
Outdated Thinking:
Outdated Thinking:
The Library is a space focused on building a collection of resources and helping users access it.
“To think about school libraries only as repository of books is to think of churches as storage units for stained glass.” - Author, Jeff Norton
Future Ready Thinking:
Future Ready Thinking:
The School Library facility maximizes student and teacher learning when it is seen as more than a collection of objects (i.e. books); when it is understood and used as a future-oriented hub of learning, innovation, and knowledge creation; when it explores and models the educational potential of emerging technologies; and when it has open, collaborative learning spaces that support the design of blended learning.
Example 2
Example 2
Outdated Thinking:
Outdated Thinking:
The Library has to have a book on EVERY subject so that it's "covered."
Future Ready Thinking:
Future Ready Thinking:
In addition to providing digital or print access to fiction books, graphic novels, audiobooks, magazines, and other resources, a Future Ready Library provides 24-7 access via digital non-fiction resources that point students to up-to-date and engaging information and that invite thinking, learning and creating from multiple perspectives. The Library may also have non-fiction print resources still available, but only to the extent that they enhance what is already available online.
"When we rely upon a single source for all of a course's content, we are teaching kids to accept one view, one authority; we are saying that it is right to depend upon a single voice, even on complicated, value-driven questions. This is not the way smart and free people read. Instead, they recognize that most of life's biggest questions have not yet been settled, and that science, technology, and even culture proceed on the "best theory to date," not some Final Truth. That's why mature readers use multiple sources to get a balanced view, to hear the alternate theories, to make up their own minds." -- Daniels & Zemelman
Example 3
Example 3
Outdated Thinking, Part 1:
Outdated Thinking, Part 1:
Reflecting on misinterpretations of the library, librarians across the IB community said,
“the library could become a default place to gather without inquiry, action or reflection." (Ideal Libraries 5)
Outdated Thinking, Part 2:
Outdated Thinking, Part 2:
The Library should be used for state testing and, as a result, should be shut down for part of the school year. That the Library should be used as a repository for students who are opting out of state testing.
Future Ready Thinking:
Future Ready Thinking:
The School Library is neither a collection of things, nor a repository of any kind. The Library facility maximizes student and teacher learning when school administrators as well as the surrounding school community establish and model the expectation that the school library facility is intended be used for activities related to learning (whole class, small group, and/or individual) and building community in meaningful ways — not for storage of students or objects and not for testing.
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