NEIT16+Open+Space+2E+-+Mountain+View

**Session Attendees Name/School/Email/Libguide or links you want to share:**
Paula Zamora, The Churchill School Elementary Librarian, pzamora@churchillschool.com

Katie Archambault, Emma Willard School, karchambault@emmawillard.org,judy.murphy@mastersny.org http://emmawillard.libguides.com/

Briar Sauro, Berkeley Carroll School - Information and Integration Coordinator and Librarian Gr 2-4 Here's a link to my research project planning spectra, my latest scope and sequence diagram (made w teachers) and some other stuff

Suzanne Crow, scrow@spenceschool.org, 646-943-6857 - Thanks for coming to the session, everyone! [|Spence School LibGuides] (note: our usage stats re-set at the beginning of January, so they look dramatically lower than they did in December!)

Talia Neffson, The School at Columbia University, Gr K–4. tneffson@theschool.columbia.edu Thanks, everyone, for the great discussion! I reached out to an academic librarian friend of mine who's at William and Mary who says she uses Libguides a lot. She said their general subject area Libguides don't get much use, but the class specific guides get embedded in the class Blackboard page and get used more. Here's one she's currently working on: @http://guides.swem.wm.edu/encounter She's also open to talking to anyone who wants to ask questions of a real live academic librarian. Her name is Martha Higgins: mehiggins@wm.edu

What's going on in our libraries? Libguides--how it's become a useful tool in own library, pervasive in many ways. What that means? How it's being received? Databases, online presence, eBooks. We know what to do for print collection & facilities. Landscape for digital spaces is always changing. How are we putting services out there? Promoting them? Spending money on them? How are we managing them? Online organization of all that.

Libguide Updates. Old guides aren't functioning as well. Migrating took some planning. Spent time with Springshare to make sure you don't lose things in the upgrade. Had to reconstruct. Phone call was helpful in addition to the tutorials, FAQs. Their customer service is excellent. Suzanne uses Libguides for almost every lesson that she does. A teacher expressed concern that it was spoon feeding. Thoughts? How you use it & how you present it. Working on spectrum. When thinking about making project. Breaking elements of research. Easy to hard. In lower school too hard to hand them nothing but the question. No graphic organizer, no nothing. Notetaking Sources How loose are you going to turn them? Where were they with their next project? What skill are you building and isolating within a project? Collaborating before they assign the project. We end up with whatever they create. We need to talk before it's formed. Uses NYState fluency continuum. Validates that teacher's concern.

By the time they get to 11th/12th grade research projects, no longer use Libguides. Universities are creating them. Are they being used? How? Curated collection.

Upper grades: Widget for searching certain news publications. Embed Google search with reminders about advanced search. If we're doing due diligence, the answer is that we curate all resources for students. Why shouldn't we curate our largest collection (digital)?

One librarian uses blog for parents Layer on Destiny Quest page as Libguide Assignment idea: create your own Libguide

We're using it as a teaching tool. Upper school librarian learned PHP this summer, coded a sidebar to connect learning to sources. (Check out Spence's Libguides :))

Single search brings up catalog + everything. Most universities are using them. Works with single signon. Can access from home. Has seen tremendous increase in database usage. Another school agrees that it's good. She suggests that when she does bibliographic instruction, take them through traditional EBSCO interface, then Discovery. Otherwise come up with a bazillion outcomes. Research page that comes up gives them good instruction to reinforce. Their tech people were very helpful. Not cheap. Whole thing History, Science, eBooks and Discovery=$7,000 -Refinement instruction is an absolute necessity. "Google for your databases". Really great.
 * EBSCO's Discovery service**

Overdrive records imported in Destiny. Need to look into this.

Flipster Online magazine aggregator. Multiple copies. Zinio used for teachers at the School at Columbia Also print for the students. Not used at all. New Yorker, Atlantic, Mtnal Floss, Make, Wired, Game Informer, MAD magazine (boys?), Seventeen. "Periodical guilt". Upper school flex schedule.

Who's responsible for managing digital spaces? Promoting? One school has Library tech coordinator, head librarian, head of circ, etc. She manages databases, promotes, etc. Melissa Kazan, Horace Mann School melissa_kazan@horacemann.org

Should IT take on some of the management? Giving it up means giving up control. Weigh it.

Libguide as landing page. This could streamline access to guides. Shelfari widget of new books. All guides also linked there. Static page on school homepage. http://libresources.lrei.org/newhome Another school that is doing this that I like (Katie A.) is The Overlake School: http://library.overlake.org/content.php?pid=161466

Library page created within Finalsite (like teacher pages). Every student is enrolled. Has worked well. What she would say to them, but they can access it 24/7. Library portal page (quicklinks) Link to catalog Databases

1st grade: keyword searching End of 2nd grade, how to login to get deeper level of access. Has created an internal digital citizenship space using Destiny Quest (behind the password) This is a fixed schedule, library curriculum. Connecting with friends (online community). Commenting, liking,she moderates everything. Aligns literature with digital citizenship. "Feathers", once your words are out there, hard to get back.

Bookopolis Book social media. Rate books (star, one piee that we like, one piece would change). Can recommend books to each other. Book sharing platform for class. Stop relying so much on librarian for new book recommendations. Con: commercial piece, ads. Can't carry over year to year, move students from year to year to other classes and take account with them. Reinforces digital citizenship skills. Get badges for number of books that they read. Track reading, see how much they read at end of year.

Blblionazium sounds sort of like this. Goodreads used in part of 9th grade. Recommendations within class, school, community, world. Lots continue to use it. Do it as partnership with English class. Getting English teachers to agree to 5 books outside of curriculum was big win. "Read, Write, Recommend" program

New library built. Beautiful! Was embedded at classroom, lessens year by year. Kids love lessons she is able to give. Teachers need time. School well endowed, crazy projects that they want to do. Everything is about tech, about new. Frown on traditional research methods. Spent half her time convincing teachers to use her. Hard to do that job and run library. Which thing feels the most urgent? Can't do it on our own. Join committees. Digital citizenship committee, for example. Good to see where traditional library can fit in. We have to insert ourselves into conversation. Department chair meetings. Insist that you're included. There when conversations start and decisions are made before it's too far down the road.

NY fluency continuum Scope & Sequence very detailed. Gives you ideas for curriculum & tools. Don't recreate the wheel.

Went to each teacher and asked how you teach research. They are going to teach it, how do you do it? Make charts. Share grade level trends and gaps. Then bring in standards and show where match up. Has been successful. It's not about me! Relationship building is huge.

Visiting classes, just observe. Good PR. Grade level meetings.

Don't know how to use indexes. How information is organized. Teachers want a concerted 6 week program. 2 ways of puling information. We have to recalibrate the way we teach. Information is organized, important concept to teach.