Library2011 LIT Programs

Library Information & Technology Programs: 

L ibrary I nformation & T echnology Programs Make it LIT! Mike Eisenberg Sarah Applegate Lisa Layera Susan McBurney

Mike Eisenberg: 

Mike Eisenberg LIT: The Big Picture

Vision: 

Vision The mission of the library information & technology program is to ensure that students are effective users and producers of ideas and information . Revised from Information Power AASL and AECT, 1988, 1998.

LIT Program 3 Functions: 

LIT Program 3 Functions Information & Technology Skills Instruction Reading Advocacy Information Management & Services

Be Strategic: 

Be Strategic It’s not my library or library information and technology program. It’s the total school community’s library information and technology program. Form your building LIT Advisory Board – Monday – and use it! Launch a community initiative (Community Partnership Advisory) Engage students, faculty, administrators in pie-chart planning .

Pie-Chart Planning: 

Pie-Chart Planning Emphasis % Time and Effort Info & Tech Skills Instruction Reading Advocacy Info Management & Services

Teacher-Librarian Roles in LIT: 

Teacher-Librarian Roles in LIT

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Function Delivery-Centered Management-Centered Info & Tech Skills Instruction Teach integrated lessons/mini-lessons to students. Plan, manage, and coach the information & technology skills instructional program. Reading Advocacy Provide direct reading guidance and promotion activities. Plan, manage, and coach the reading guidance and promotion program. Information Management Deliver information & technology services, systems, resources—virtual and physical, 24/7. Plan & manage information & technology services, systems, resources—virtual and physical, 24/7. Alternative TL Roles/Approaches

LIT Programs Comprehensive & Accountable: 

LIT Programs Comprehensive & Accountable Defined Predictable Measured Reported

Super Strategic: 

Super Strategic Target directly to school-wide goals and teacher/classroom-centered curriculum and assessments. Deliver essential, consistent, and comprehensive instruction and services. Embrace and champion the virtual , the online , the digital – first! Document the targeted instruction and services as well as the resulting student achievement. Be positive, upbeat—recognized as a problem-solver and essential player .

Communicate: 

Communicate Students Other Teachers Administrators Parents Public Grades on assignments Monthly/quarterly reports about student performance Monthly/quarterly reports on the program Report card grades Displays of student work _________________ _________________ Audience Options

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LIT Program Checklist _ embrace the brand _ own LIT mission (& functions) _ launch community initiative _ teach vs. manage? _ determine LIT priorities pie-chart planning _ leverage technology & space _ be accountable _ make it fun!

Sarah Applegate: 

Sarah Applegate On the Ground Rethinking, Reframing, Recommitting

LIT: Why bother?: 

LIT: Why bother? We have to deal with this misperception, as a start…

LIT: Why bother?: 

LIT: Why bother? And this reality regarding student research skills.

LIT: Why it matters: 

LIT: Why it matters Reframing the perceptions and recommitting to the potential of a powerful LIT program in every one of our schools

LIT: Job roles: 

Library Information and Technology Agenda LIT: Job roles .

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“In sport, a utility player is one who can play several positions competently, a sort of jack of all trades .” ( wikipedia 10/09/2011)

LIT agenda + flexibility = : 

LIT UTILITY PLAYER! LIT agenda + flexibility = www.aoltv.com 10/09/2011

C’s, C’s everywhere: 

C’s, C’s everywhere http://www.k12library.info/toolkit/Templates/Levels%20of%20Collaboration%202.PDF 10/11/10

Relationships: 

Relationships www.mychinaconnection.com 10/10/11

A picture is worth….: 

A picture is worth…. The search environment has evolved…

A bunch of data: 

A bunch of data

Recommit to LIT : 

LIT Program Checklist _ embrace the brand _ own LIT mission (& functions) _ launch community initiative _ teach vs. manage? _ determine LIT priorities pie-chart planning _ leverage technology & space _ be accountable _ make it fun! Recommit to LIT

So…: 

So… Redefine yourself and recommit to LIT. Don’t let others define you. Define yourself. We are about library information and technology. We are about LIT.

Lisa Layera and Susan McBurney: 

Lisa Layera and Susan McBurney Community Perspectives

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Inspiring, Earning & Delivering by Making it LIT Activists

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value What will LIT give to you? visibility vestedness

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You might be at a breaking point. The programs are too.

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Moving from saving your library …

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transforming your library. … to

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LIT gives people something they can recognize .

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LIT gives people something they cannot, and will not, receive anywhere else in the schoolhouse.

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LIT gives the community a voice and a stake .

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School library programs’ biggest liability has been that administrators, legislators and the community don't understand their function in today's world .

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LIT Program Checklist _ embrace the brand _ own LIT mission (& functions) _ launch community initiative _ teach vs. manage? _ determine LIT priorities pie-chart planning _ leverage technology & space _ be accountable _ make it fun!

Broadcast the mission.: 

Broadcast the mission.

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To ensure that students are effective users and producers of ideas and information . LIT framework Your mission:

Broadcasting the LIT Mission: 

Broadcasting the LIT Mission provides a necessary benchmark for effective lobbying when fulfilled, provides powerful marketing value when unfulfilled, provides grounds for parent engagement

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Administrators, legislators and the community understand what you're doing and they conclude it's not relevant . The bigger problem:

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Are you relevant?

Leverage Technology Leverage the Space: 

Leverage Technology Leverage the Space

Parents don’t feel equipped to guide their kids in the ways of a participatory media culture.: 

Parents don’t feel equipped to guide their kids in the ways of a participatory media culture.

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A LIT program can put the world in students’ hands.

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A LIT program can uncover latent passions fuel the imagination allow for creativity and choice

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Leveraging Technology Leveraging Space + =

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A THIRD SPACE BETWEEN CLASSROOM AND HOME

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Buffy J. Hamilton, The Unquiet Librarian

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Leverage your space

LIT Advisory Board (LAB): 

LIT Advisory Board (LAB) inoculates against a vision gap supports innovation, despite shrinking resources integrates LIT mission with broader district goals and priorities

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Customization - LIT’s competitive advantage

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community-driven innovation opens up new possibilities for funding

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Form a school-based Community Partnership Advisory (CPA)

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Form a district LIT Advisory Board (LAB)

LIT program: 

LIT program Students will desire it. Administrators will require it. Parents will applaud it. Legislators will demand it.

CALL TO ACTION: 

CALL TO ACTION Own LIT Start pie chart planning Create the third space Launch a community initiative

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Our dream … A thriving LIT program in every Washington school by 2018.