School Library Media Programs - What are they?

Can you list at least three of the purposes of school library programs?

An old image of the hushing librarian is fading away. Librarians don't circumscribe themselves with printed formats and brick walls any longer. They plow the cyberspace and dig with the web tools. Training students to use the Internet effectively and participate in social network communication safely is their priority. Avatars represent them online; wikis and Second Life are the islands designated for their professional gatherings. Librarians collaborate with teachers, educate kids to research, they recommend materials for projects and classes, attract teachers to available and appropriate web tools and provide training for their use... We change our hats according to your needs and requests!

This school year we started introducing ourselves and our programs to the Board. Now we would like to finish the year with presenting the results of our work and describing important activities to our loyal audience.

Do you think it's unnecessary? Everyone sees us daily in various places interacting with teachers, students, parents, and the administration; hears us talking about information, values of reading, and ways to retrieve information; observes us looking for books and rearranging book shelves; recognizes when we support the curriculum. We advise, advertise, and invite to experiment with technology; entertain, take pictures and videos, smile, and just howdy. Programs and activities run during the year reflect the diverse roles of the School Library Media Specialists.

Read about other activities in our annual report and take a quiz (this multiple choice is the way to summarize what school library media programs are about).

Looking forward to seeing you in August, to collaborating on new units, integrating Looking forward to seeing you in August, to collaborating on new units, integrating technology into education, and educating our students to become 21st century learners.