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Page 1: The School Librarian in California Secondary Schools: One Head, Four Hats

The School Librarianin California Secondary

Schools:One Head, Four Hats

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Information Specialist Library Program Administrator

Instructional

Partner

Co-teaches to increase information literacy

collaborates with

core teachers to improve reading comprehension

shares in curricular, instructional, professional development schoolwide

helps develop plans to integrate ICT into

curriculum & instruction Plans, evaluates, executes library media

programs/services Creates library collection supporting

school curriculum/state standards Manages library information resources Creates inviting, accessible, efficient

library environment

Teacher Provides instruction in:

organization of print and digital resources;

relevant characteristics of print materials;

critical evaluation of print and media content;

productive, effi cient use of: catalogue software;

print materials; digital resources

Provides information-

seeking services for

learning community

California Professional

Standards for School

Librarians

The Middle School

Librarian’s 4 Hats

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Why so many hats?

•Strong school libraries raise test scores

dramatically, in more ways than one…

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It is crucial that California schools have complete library staffing.

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Unfortunately,

• Less than a quarter of California school libraries have library media specialists at

all, part or full time, compared to three-quarters of school libraries nationwide.

• The U.S. average librarian/student ratio is 1 librarian for every 870 students.

California’s ratio is 1 librarian for every 4,531 students.

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Your school librarian makes

teachers more productive and

raises test scores.

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These results are regardless of race or family income.

When you use your librarian’s information specialist and educator skills to support

your own work, scores go up.

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Other library conditions that directly affect student scores:

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Library Collections and Student Scores

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Scores and technological access

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Yes, but what does the school librarian actually do?

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As a Teacher,the librarian

Delivers instruction in:

organization of print and digital resources;

critical evaluation of print and media content;

productive, efficient use of:

the library materials catalog;

print materials; digital resources.

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As an

instructional partner,

the librarian

• Collaborates with teachers to increase information

literacy (the skills needed to find, critically

analyze, and effectively use print and media content);

• Works with teachers to improve reading comprehension and fluency.

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As a library administrat

or and

information specialist,

the librarian

•Creates an inviting, accessible, efficient library environment;

•shares in curricular, instructional, professional development school-wide;

•helps develop plans to integrate ICT into curriculum & instruction;

•Plans, evaluates, executes library media programs/services;

•Creates library collections supporting school

curriculum/state standards;

•Provides information-seeking services to school and

community;

•Manages library information resources.

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Things have

Changed.

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Perceptions of School Librarians

Because so many schools lack appropriate library materials and staff, our idea of the library may be 40 years old:

a book warehouse run by a quiet woman who may be well-read in juvenile literature, who gives book-talks, read-alouds, and can match students with books.

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From Hair buns to HeadsetsIn California schools we have a literacy crisis magnified by meteoric expansion of resource formats and sheer quantities of information (not to mention high-stakes testing).

Library staff does much more than check out books.

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Today’s school library staff…

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Read, analyze,

& acquire from a booming,

multi-lingual, cross-cultural

market of juvenile

materials;

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Teach students, teachers, and parents

how to use complicated, changing

digital resources efficiently and

accurately

(often in communities with few home

computers or media savvy);

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Find digital resources that in effect remove the library’s walls by creating access to international sources;

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Push the library into the classroom by providing carts with custom-picked collections for classroom projects;

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Teach side-by-side with teachers to smoothly integrate media literacy into academic work;

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& increase literacy levels while fostering love of reading through skillful matching of students with books, interesting displays, inviting atmosphere, and engaging book talks in person and digitally.

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Your librarian also:• Makes replacement I.D.

cards;• Handles LCD, VCR

checkout;• Distributes, orders

overhead bulbs;• Orders equipment repair

for classroom overheads and VCRs and all other library equipment.

• Creates and updates• the library’s website.

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School librarians are

teachers, information

professionals, and

administrators.

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References:

Illinois School Library Media Association. (2005). Powerful Libraries Make Powerful Learners: The Illinois Study. Retrieved December 1, 2005 from http://www.alliancelibrarysystem.com/illinoisstudy/TheStudy.pdf

California School Library Association. (2004). Standards and Guidelines for Strong School Libraries. Sacramento; CSLA.