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LIBRARY WEEK DATES
• Future National Library Week dates:2009 - April 12-182010 - April 4 -102011 - April 10-16
WAYS TO PROMOTE LIBRARIES
• Use Billboards• Posters• Postcards• Bookmarks• Poetry Competition• Authors Invitation• T Shirts• Open House
• Student/Member of the month
• Promote new trends• Allow meetings to be
held in library• Book Shower• Book Club• Banners
PROMOTIONS
• September is Library Card Sign-up Month - a time to remind parents and kids that a library card is the most important school supply of all.
• Teen Read Week 2008, Oct. 12-18.
Other Library Events
• School Library Media Month April 2008
American Library Association
• The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 65,000 members. Its mission is to promote the highest quality library and information services and public access to information. ALA offers professional services and publications to members and nonmembers, including online news stories from American Libraries and analysis of crucial issues from the Washington Office. Be a part of it—library worker or advocate—join today!
The Importance of the environment
• Task Force on the Environment
Social Responsibilities Round Table
American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/ala/srrt/tfoe/taskforceenvironment.cfm
• The Task Force on the Environment (TFOE) was created in 1989 in the spirit of the 20th Anniversary of Earth Day (1990). TFOE is one of the issues-oriented task forces that comprise the Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) of the American Library Association (ALA). TFOE includes librarians, publishers, vendors, and other interested parties from a wide variety of settings, from public libraries, school libraries, and college and university libraries, to government agencies, public interest groups, publishers, vendors and other information providers.
Why Should You Be Advocate for Libraries?• Because you care about free
access to information: No one should be denied information because he or she cannot afford the cost of a book, a periodical, a Web site or access to information in any of its various formats. You care about libraries because they are great democratic institutions that serve people of every age, income level, location, ethnicity, or physical ability, and provide the full range of information resources needed to live, learn, govern, and work. Because libraries bring free access to all, they also bring opportunity to all.
LIBRARIES ARE TRENDSETTERSIN USING TECHNOLOGY!
Library Tools
LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY
• The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.Steve Ballmer
• DIGITAL LIBRARIES
• AUTOMATED CIRCULATION
• DATABASES• EJOURNALS• ASK A LIBRARIAN• TELEVISION• CABLE• AUDIO/VIDEO
RESOURCES
LIBRARY RESEARCHLIBRARIES – A WISE INVESTMENT
A Colorado Public Library • Two-thirds of Cortez Public Library patrons
said they would have spent $20 or more getting their information from another source if the library did not exist.
• 54% - Over half of Cortez Public Library patrons come to the library over 25 times per year.
• 67% Two-thirds of Cortez Public Library patrons have used a library computer.
• 150,000 Patrons came to Cortez Public Library specifically to check out books over
• 150,000 times in the previous 12 months.• 33% One-third of Cortez Public Library
patrons connected to a Colorado public library from a home computer in the previous 12 months.
• Data was compiled from surveys of the individual libraries, the 2006 Colorado Public Library Report
• Bahamas Library Service was established in 1999. Its main role is to unite the public libraries in New Providence and the Family Islands into one modern, automated system offering quality, standardized services in all islands.
• www.bahlib.org
BAHAMAS LIBRARY SERVICES
MISSION STATEMENTTo provide ready access to quality resources and services for all persons throughout the Commonwealth of The Bahamas in order to meet their intellectual, information and cultural needs; and to promote a spirit of sharing, cooperation and commitment to quality services among all stakeholders.
BLS SERVICES• SERVICES• Users have access to the
following:• Book loans and other library
materials • Inter-library loans • Children's programmes • Research tools • Newspapers and periodicals • Bahamian and West Indian
materials • Internet services • Photocopying • Audio-visual equipment • Laminating services • Government documents, for
example PSC 7 form.
LIBRARY QUOTES
• The only true equalizers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.- J. A. Langford
WISE MEN STILL SEEK US!
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. - Lady Bird Johnson
SCHOOL LIBRARIES A VALUABLE TOOL
• We believe that every pupil is entitled to effective school library provision.
• School Library Services is committed to supporting everyone involved with school libraries, promoting high quality reading and learning opportunities for all.
SCHOOL LIBRARY PROGRAMS
• INFORMATION LITERACY PROGRAM• BOOK CLUB• RESEARCH HELP• LIBRARYWEEK ACTIVITIES• JOINT VENTURES WITH SCHOOL PROGRAMS PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
A PART OF THE JOB
RESEARCH SKILLS
Information Problem Solving"The Big Six"
• Define the Problem • Identify the Information
Requirements of the Problem
• Determine the Range of Possible Sources
• Evaluating the Different Possible Sources to Determine Priorities
• Locate the Sources
• Finding Information Within
the Sources • http://www.jlhs.nhusd.
The most effective researchers:
• take time to plan• find a question that is both challenging and possible, both
open and focused • check their research doesn't beg a question* • explore many kinds of sources, not just textbooks • learn how to speed-read • get quickly to relevant information • think analytically and imaginatively about what they find • store their notes in efficient and interesting ways • collaborate with others and take on other people's views • present their final ideas in inspiring and effective ways • use what they find to solve a problem or make a difference
THE ROLE OF LIBRARIANSIN RESEARCH
• Librarians play an important role in the transfer of knowledge and ideas by providing people with information. Jobs requiring similar analytical, organizational, and communication skills include archivists, curators, and museum technicians and computer and information scientists, research.
• School librarians have many duties similar to those of school teachers. Librarians increasingly store, catalogue, and access information with computers.
INFORMATION LITERACYAROUND THE WORLD
• the big blue project is surveying present practice in Information Skills Training for students in Higher and Post- 16 Education.
• The project will establish a blueprint for the future, ensuring a coherent approach to the development of
an information literate student population in the UK.
• http://www.leeds.ac.uk/bigblue
WHY RESEARCH?
http://oasis.sfsu.edu/
TOOLS TO ASSIST IN RESEARCH SKILLS
• OASIS is a set of online lessons designed to help improve your skills at finding, using, and evaluating information of all kinds. The tutorial consists of eight chapters. At the end of each chapter you will take a quiz, which can be retaken, if necessary, up to six times
DO I NEED TO DO RESEARCH?
• understand the importance of media literacy
• identify different types of media
• understand genres and target audiences and how they are used in the media
• evaluate information from the media for credibility
• A media literate person can: • assess the credibility of
information as well as the credibility of the source of the information
• recognize metaphor and other types of symbolism used in entertainment, advertising, and political commentary
• distinguish logical arguments from emotional appeals
• be sensitive to both verbal and visual arguments
• use critical thinking to assess truth of information from various sources
