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\"An African-American middle schooler who has recently lost both his parents sees a ghost wearing old-fashioned clothing in the basement of the New York Public Library\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Liven up your library : design engaging and inclusive programs for tweens and teens
Learn how librarians can positively effect change in areas like digital equity and inclusiveness, while creating powerful programming for middle and high school students.Developing programs for learners can be an ongoing challenge for librarians - especially first-year librarians.
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Mary Niles Maack: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor, and Friend
The life and career of University of California, Los Angeles professor and scholar Mary Niles Maack are examined through her writings and the firsthand memories of family, friends, colleagues, and former students. Maack was a renowned expert on international librarianship and women's studies but also an influential role model and mentor. Her legacy lives on in her publications as well as in the accomplishments of her students.
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LEARNER ASSESSMENT
Burns enjoys the excitement of the K-12 learners when they enter the school library, eager to participate in the day's activities. She also looks forward to observing the practices the new school librarians include while engaging the students in learning and discovery. Lessons are well developed and learner engagement is a key factor in most of the lessons she observes. Inevitably, she asks about the assessment for a given lesson. This is the place where many school librarians lack conviction in their plans. More often than she would like she had been told that assessment is not something they do. As she spends time in the space, he easily identifies several planned assessment strategies. Most school librarians readily incorporate formative assessment practices into their daily lessons, even if they do not explicitly identify these as assessment. Assessment applied in the school library continues to be misunderstood.
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DuMont, 35 Years Later
This article revisits Rosemary DuMont’s 1986 articles on Black librarianship and racial attitudes in LIS. The first part addresses missing or limited coverage on the library schools at five historically Black colleges and universities: Alabama A&M University, Clark Atlanta University, University of the District of Columbia, Hampton University, and North Carolina Central University. The second part provides examples of biases in accreditation as it relates to HBCU-based LIS programs. The article closes with a discussion on the erasure of HBCUs in LIS education, despite their important contributions to racial and ethnic representation and inclusion in the library professions.
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Documenting a profession: an exploration of the published history of school libraries and teacher librarians in Australia
Purpose This paper reviews the corpus contained in the Knowledge Bank of Australian and New Zealand School Libraries (KBANZSL) to explore the under-researched history of Australian school libraries and teacher librarianship. Through the analysis of publications in the knowledge bank, new insights into the history of school libraries and teacher librarians in Australia are gained and the intersecting relationship between school libraries and wider library and educational agendas are explored. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a critical, and historical, bibliometric approach to provide new insights into the history of Australian school libraries. It examines the records of the Knowledge Bank of Australian and New Zealand School Libraries (KBANZSL) for trends and insights these records may provide. Findings The publications and collective memory captured within the Knowledge Bank of Australian and New Zealand School Libraries (KBANZSL) provide new insights into the rich history of the evolution of school libraries and teacher librarianship and, more particularly, the close links between formal and informal education, schools and libraries in Australia. Research limitations/implications The research was limited to Australia and did not include New Zealand. Social implications This research highlights the social value invested by the community in free access to knowledge through libraries over time and how this has impacted the provision of such access to children. Originality/value This paper takes an original approach to the exploration of school libraries in Australia through the use of historical bibliometrics. It uses this approach to analyse the published record and reflects on what this record can tell us about the inter-relationship between formal and informal education and library development in Australia. The findings provide new and valuable insights into the place of libraries in wider educational agendas and how political and community engagement with libraries influences the provision of library services to Australian children.
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Continuity and Change in West African Librarianship: Revisiting Mary Niles Maack's Research in Senegal and the Region
Mary Niles Maack's 1978 dissertation on the history of libraries in Senegal constitutes a landmark contribution to the historiography of librarianship in Africa and to international librarianship. In this article Maack's dissertation, her 1981 book-length adaptation of it, and her subsequent writings about West African library development are first situated in the political-economic, professional, and scholarly context of the late 1970s, before the dissertation is evaluated in terms of her sources and methodology. Her key theme of continuity and change, her analysis of the French colonial heritage and postcolonial French efforts to preserve influence in West Africa, and the wider relevance of the study are discussed. Maack's book was well received. Her work provided raw material for various other authors as well as for five subsequent journal articles by Maack herself. An attempt is made to answer the question, What might a dissertation on library and information science development in a francophone African country such as Senegal cover today? It is suggested that the precolonial heritage, political-economic factors, information technology, development aid, and renewal of the library profession in Africa would require more attention. However, it would not be easy for a PhD student today to match Maack's scholarship.
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MIND THE GAPS: EXPLORING DIVERSITY IN SCHOOL LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
The books learners in American schools have available to them is largely a product of what the publishing industry makes available. Using the Diverse BookFinder (DBF) and the Collection Analysis Tool (CAT), school librarians can find books with both diverse characters and diverse storylines within each racial and cultural category to help build a truly balanced collection. The first step in creating such a balanced collection is assessing existing library collections. The DBF's CAT can help provide that information and can reveal gaps in representation. Once the gaps are identified there are resources that can help with building a more balanced and representative collection. The DBF's book database is a good place to start but additional resources include the Cooperative Children's Book Center, We Need Diverse Books, the Hijabi Librarians blog, and the American Indians in Children's Literature blog.
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HOW CAN SCHOOL LIBRARIES SUPPORT STUDENT WELLBEING? EVIDENCE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
Concern about student wellbeing and related mental health is a global issue, and schools are increasingly expected to support student wellbeing. While the focus on libraries and wellbeing in research is more commonly on public libraries, school libraries can also play an important supportive role in this regard. Robust research evidence is needed from school library contexts to support targeted advocacy in order to enhance student wellbeing. This paper explores how school libraries may support student wellbeing by operating as safe spaces for young people, promoting and resourcing mental health and wellbeing initiatives, and supporting and promoting bibliotherapeutic practices and reading for pleasure. It then highlights implications for future research to support the development of a sound, research-supported evidence base for advocacy moving forward.
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Building new twenty-first century medical school libraries from the ground up: challenges, experiences, and lessons learned
The twenty-first century library at a newly opened medical school often differs from those at traditional medical schools. One obvious difference is that the new medical school library tends to be a born-digital library, meaning that the library collection is almost exclusively digital. However, the unique issues related to building a library at a new medical school are not limited to online collections. A unique start-up culture is prevalent, of which newly appointed directors and other library and medical school leaders need to be aware. This special paper provides an overview of best practices experienced in building new medical school libraries from the ground up. The focus is on the key areas faced in a start-up environment, such as budgeting for online collections, space planning, staffing, medical informatics instruction, and library-specific accreditation issues for both allopathic and osteopathic institutions.
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