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Nearly 30% of all public school children attend school in large or mid-size cities. For schools serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations and large numbers of children living in poverty, a significant achievement gap persists. Proponents of multicultural education often advocate for instruction with culturally relevant texts to promote inclusion, compassion, and understanding of our increasingly diverse society. Less discussion has focused on the significant body of research that suggests that culturally relevant texts have important effects on language and literacy development. By \"connecting the dots\" of existing research, More Mirrors in the Classroom raises awareness about the critical role that urban children's literature can play in helping children learn to read and write. In addition, it provides practical step-by-step advice for increasing the cultural relevance of school curricula in order to accelerate literacy learning.Increasing cultural relevance with children's literature -- The power of the mirror : identity, academic self-concept, and motivation to learn -- Enhancing reading and writing instruction with urban children's literature -- Supporting the literacy development of dual language learners -- Urban children's literature as a critical subgenre -- Guidelines for text selection : literature -- Guidelines for text selection : informational texts -- Cultural and linguistic authenticity in urban children's literature -- Transforming you curriculum with urban children's literature -- Getting started : adding more mirrors in the classroom.cloth More Mirrors in the Classroom: Using Urban Children's Literature to Increase Literacy is the first book in the Kids Like Us series. It includes research summaries, guidelines for text selection, and a step-by-step guide to increasing the cultural relevance of literacy instruction with urban children's literature.

Socrates in the Boardroom argues that world-class scholars, not administrators, make the best leaders of research universities. Amanda Goodall cuts through the rhetoric and misinformation swirling around this contentious issue--such as the assertion that academics simply don't have the managerial expertise needed to head the world's leading schools--using hard evidence and careful, dispassionate analysis. She shows precisely why experts need leaders who are experts like themselves. Goodall draws from the latest data on the world's premier research universities along with in-depth interviews with top university leaders both past and present, including University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann; Derek Bok and Lawrence Summers, former presidents of Harvard University; John Hood, former vice chancellor of the University of Oxford; Cornell University President David Skorton; and many others. Goodall explains why the most effective leaders are those who have deep expertise in what their organizations actually do. Her findings carry broad implications for the management of higher education, and she demonstrates that the same fundamental principle holds true for other important business sectors as well.

The digital world has unhooked information from authority and created a post-truth ethos, yet it also allows for access to the building blocks of deliberative democratic discussions: sources, evidence, and databases. This article describes an approach to teaching the American history survey utilizing primary source databases as the students' main reading material. This approach, including Open Educational Resources, online teaching strategies, and a shift from \"coverage\" to understanding, created a culture of engagement, motivation, and deliberative discussion. The experience of this online course has turned some students from history haters to history lovers, and from detached civic participants to thoughtful first-time voters. The author will demonstrate how direct access to primary source databases resulted in a class culture of active learning, or \"doing history\"; of critical evaluation not just of historical, but also contemporary sources; and of deliberative discussion among people from diverse perspectives, class positions, and ethnic backgrounds.

Purpose - A recent for-credit, library research class at the University of Florida experimented with the use of the social networking site Facebook as an online course management software solution for their research methodology class. This paper seeks to examine this issue.Design methodology approach - Using Facebook Groups to set up a class page, instructors made a case study of the flexibility, functionality and utility of using Facebook as an academic communication channel with students.Findings - The resulting paper reviews the literature of Facebook's academic uses to date.Originality value - This lies in the innovation of pushing forward with incorporating portions of social networking sites into the classroom and the University of Florida librarians' experiences during the semester.

When you think of marketing and outreach activities in a university library, you often think of the target market as students. However, there is another group on campus who also need to be aware of and supportive of the efforts in the library -- the faculty and instructors. Often, they are as ignorant as the students of the riches the library holds, and they could benefit from knowing more about the services and resources they have at the library -- both to inform their students and to add to their own research. One obvious target for communication to faculty is information literacy training. Most academic librarians endeavor to get into -- or better, become fully integrated with -- as many classes as possible. Yet in some institutions, the uptake of this service is less than ideal. Librarians working at the reference desk know there is a need -- yet faculty don't seem to realize to what extent this need really exists.

A survey was conducted of health sciences libraries to obtain information about newer buildings, additions, remodeling, and renovations. An online survey was developed, and announcements of survey availability posted to three major email discussion lists: Medical Library Association (MLA), Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL), and MEDLIB-L. Previous discussions of library building projects on email discussion lists, a literature review, personal communications, and the author's consulting experiences identified additional projects. Seventy-eight health sciences library building projects at seventy-three institutions are reported. Twenty-two are newer facilities built within the last ten years; two are space expansions; forty-five are renovation projects; and nine are combinations of new and renovated space. Six institutions report multiple or ongoing renovation projects during the last ten years. The survey results confirm a continuing migration from print-based to digitally based collections and reveal trends in library space design. Some health sciences libraries report loss of space as they move toward creating space for \"community\" building. Libraries are becoming more proactive in using or retooling space for concentration, collaboration, contemplation, communication, and socialization. All are moving toward a clearer operational vision of the library as the institution's information nexus and not merely as a physical location with print collections.

When people ancestors first tried to understand the world around them, they told stories. Lightning struck when an angry Zeus hurled thunderbolts, forged in the heart of a volcano, down from the clouds. Children in Africa learned morals from stories of the wily and cunning spider Anansi who used his tricks for his own gain. Today, they also use story to try to understand why things happen. Their era has seen teens learn of the dangerous impact of a bully in 13 Reasons Why. Charles de Lint wrote in The Blue Girl, No one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell\" (2006). This recognition that individuals are the best tellers of their own stories is especially true of our students. They each see the world uniquely, and their perspectives on social events, concepts, and social interaction are just as important as ours are as their teachers.

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to provide an initial assessment of an Audience Response System (clicker technology) for library instruction as experienced at Texas A&M University Libraries.Design methodology approach - Clickers were tested in three different types of instructional sessions with unique class objectives and different student populations. The study provides an overview of the technology, followed by a report on some of the benefits and challenges the authors encountered in the classroom.Findings - Clickers are fairly easy to use, and provide a fun way to quickly turn traditional classroom lectures into interactive learning experiences.Practical implications - This paper provides concrete applications for how to access student knowledge and implement active learning techniques in the classroom.Originality value - This paper demonstrates an innovative way librarians can improve library instruction in order to meet information literacy standards and other educational challenges.

In this Digital Literacies column, online book clubs are offered as one example of how to effectively bridge old and new literacy practices. These Internet‐based book clubs capitalize on children's interest in new literacy practices while complementing, and hopefully encouraging, traditional reading practices. Examples from online book clubs offered through a public library system are used to illustrate the possibilities these clubs. في عمود معرفة القراءة والكتابة الرقمي هذا تم تقديم نوادي الكتاب على الشبكة العالمية مثالاً لبناء جسر بين معارف القراءة والكتابة القديمة والحديثة بشكل فعال. وتستغل نوادي الكتاب هذه اهتمام الأطفال بمعارف القراءة والكتابة الجديدة حين تتكمل ومتأملاً تشجع ممارسات القراءة التقليدية. إذ الأمثلة من نوادي الكتاب على الشبكة العالمية المقدمة من نظام المكاتب العامة مستخدمة لتبيين الاحتمالات التي توفر هذه النوادي للصفوف من الروضة للصف الثاني عشر. 本期的《数位素质》专栏提出网上书会是一个有效连接新的与传统的读写文化实践的例子。这些驻扎于互联网的书会，利用儿童对于新的读写文化的兴趣，同时与传统的阅读文化实践产生互补作用，甚至有可能因而促进传统的读写文化实践。本文以公立图书馆系统提供给读者的一些网上书会为例子，说明这些书会把幼儿园到十二年级课堂及学校教育加以延展的各种可能性。 Dans cette rubrique des Littératies numériques, on présente des clubs du livre en ligne comme exemple de la façon dont on peut bâtir avec efficacité un pont entre les anciennes et les nouvelles littératies. Ces clubs du livre sur Internet reposent sur l'intérêt des enfants pour les nouvelles pratiques de littératie tout en rendant hommage et, nous l'espérons, en encourageant les pratiques de lecture traditionnelles. On présente des exemples de clubs du livre en ligne au moyen d'un système de bibliothèque publique pour montrer quelles possibilités offrent ces clubs pour les classes et les établissements du jardin d'enfants à la fin des études secondaires. В этой колонке, посвященной цифровой грамотности, речь идет о книжных онлайн‐клубах как о способе эффективно сочетать старые и новые методы грамотности. Пользуясь интересом детей к новейшим информационным технологиям, эти книжные клубы объединяют их в Интернете и одновременно приобщают их к традиционному чтению. На примере деятельности книжных онлайн‐клубов, в которых можно общаться и дома и в общедоступной библиотеке, видно, каким подспорьем они могут служить для любых возрастных групп школьников. En esta columna de Competencias Digitales, se ofrecen clubes de lectura en el internet como un ejemplo de cómo efectivamente tender un puente entre las prácticas de aprendizaje antiguas y nuevas. Estos clubes en el internet toman ventaja del interés de los niños en prácticas de aprendizaje nuevas al mismo tiempo que complementan y, se espera, incentivan prácticas de lectura tradicionales. Se usaron ejemplos de clubes de lectura en el internet ofrecidos por un sistema de bibliotecas públicas para ilustrar las posibilidades que estos clubes les ofrecen a todos los grados (K‐12) y las escuelas.