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 * NEIT 2015 Open Space 1E - Mountain View - Library and Tech Department Overlap**


 * Sacred Heart has merged the library and tech departments
 * Feels a little disconnected right now - more so than before they merged
 * Don't plan lessons together but rather divide the lesson topics to be taught
 * Less time for coding skills etc. because time is spent supporting ed tech
 * Dwight-Englewood - partially merged
 * One person oversees both departments
 * Library staff turnover allowed new hires that are facile in library and tech
 * Examined the role of research in creating a student centered learning process
 * Birch Walthen - merged, Student Library Services
 * Tech is providing more Chrome books - librarian is also integrating Chrome books
 * Google Drive was helpful in getting everyone on the same page
 * Sacred Heart - Greenwich
 * Thematic approach, scheduling classes back to back really helps
 * Personalities of the department members are the driving force
 * Spence has a strong culture of collaboration which helps
 * Teachers do a lot of projects that use both technology and research
 * Even when you do projects together, how do librarians and technologists dream big together and push that out to the school?
 * Pine Glen school, MA has a merged curriculum on their website - pineglen.info
 * Look at models that exist and agree on what to use
 * What is put in place in advance and what is expected plays a role - do technologists and librarians have time to meet?
 * Where is the overlap? What is still important in libraries that is not overlapping in tech?
 * We seem to just add to our workload rather than shedding anything
 * We should be identifying the key competencies our students need
 * Are teachers able to take over the research piece? Do they want to learn it? Do they have the confidence? Do they do it well?
 * Novices now have the ability to do things that librarians used to be in charge of, albeit not so well. The good enough generation.
 * Helpful to have the teacher witness what you are teaching rather than try to rope the teachers into co-teaching
 * Attending grade level planning meetings also really helps
 * Librarians may not be redundant yet when it comes to research but at some point teachers may start to teach research really well so we have to be fluid and adaptable, figuring out the next things/ways students need to learn
 * We need to frame deep questions so students have a need to learn good research skills
 * Students need to know themselves as readers and learners so they can teach themselves. How do we teach this?
 * Brearley - Developing a media server. How do libraries handle adding new types of media?
 * We have to be really vocal and push our new services
 * We need to get on the same page about what we are telling the students