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Moderation/Notes: Gwen Kaplan

Queries: When library space is unavailable (for short or long periods of time) what types of library things can librarians do that are space independent? Even when the library space is available, what do librarians currently do that is not dependent on their space (ex: in the classroom, online)? What are strategies to help cope with shifting a collection or being displaced?

Ideas/Reflections:

Ebook collection building - choosing titles - promoting them (promotion is critical) How to set up and manage an ebook collection? -soliciting recommendations from other faculty -couple with a summer reading program -observe book fair big sellers -Dalton: collection from various vendors/sources, such as JSTOR, Project Muse, EBSCO, etc... various libraries present had experience with Overdrive as well. Discussion of the various fee structures of ebooks (based on usage, etc), and putting these into the catalogue.

Embedded Librarian / involvement in other areas of the school Building relationships and supporting school programs by immersion in extracurriculars, committees, etc.

Book trailers at Emma Willard -created as part of a course -creating an online repository of digital book talks -9th through 12th graders propose summer reading selections, promote them to peers, then lead discussion groups in fall

Going into the classroom -incredibly valuable to observe other teachers teaching units -get a solid understanding of units -develop same language as classroom teachers -co-teaching in the classroom (particularly in research)

Print collection: logistics of moving -helped a great deal to have materials boxed by unit/project (Ethical Culture Fieldston)

Building a tiny library -for example, during dorm cleanouts, with books left behind -could this be done with a small, frequently switched collection of pleasure reading with a self checkout system?

Organizing a book swap, or used book sale -and similar events, building community engagement and excitement around books

Book Clubs -coalescing a faculty book club - (Collegiate) Parent book discussion group (evening meeting) coupled with a faculty discussion of the same book (over lunch) brings community together over same title(s). Working toward an annual fall & spring model, in which a selection includes both an "adult" title and a "young adult" title and participants have some ability to choose to read one, the other, or both.

Workshops - (Dalton) workshops for parents showing overview of what the library offers, how to use it, etc.

Recording or livestreaming lessons/workshops/similar -Snag it, Camptasia, snowball mike, etc = useful tools -these could be on topics such as using various library resources, "how to" technology, or they could be recordings of a teacher's introduction to a research project (Horace Mann: used Camptasia to record certain background-info lessons before a project, including the questions students asked, then bookmarked key parts/questions and was able to refer students back to the video when they had similar questions, stored on a private YouTube channel)

Distributed Collections -Collection gets distributed into various areas of the school (Avenues?) -Question: if books are placed with one grade level, how does that impact other grades' access and desire to use? -Collegiate: planning to use a distributed model, but distributed collections are distinct from library's main collection. Different purpose, not necessarily inventoried, etc. The ideal scenario would be to have a bit of both.

Periodicals -Emma Willard: began distributing periodicals collection around the school -A couple of schools discussed online periodicals collections. Set-up could be somewhat complicated. Some vendors/products may be a solution. Zinio, EBSCO market online collections.

Print Books -What about certain areas of the collection that students do not want to access online? Ex: the health/sexuality/etc topics that students often prefer to consult anonymously.

Libguides -Collegiate, and others - Libguides have been a very effective way to support students' online research