The school library is a high profile program, and the rest of the school community assumes that the library media specialists know how to use the technology within the library. Since the major barrier for technology integration remains lack of training, the library media specialist can serve as the ideal model of technology learning and teaching. By closely examining how instruction and learning interact with technology, library media specialists have the ability to facilitate and optimize technology's impact on a formidable audience.This guide opens by detailing learning and instruction, with a focus on adult learners. Farmer then outlines how learning changes with the incorporation of technology, discusses the planning and management aspects of professional development, and offers a series of professional development workshops and instruction that incorporate technology. Each chapter focuses on a unique audience or a unique technology. Targeted audiences include K-12 school faculty, volunteer library staff, parents, administrators, board members, and community members. The volume closes with a convenient glossary and bibliography.

Technology Infused Instruction for the Educational Community: A Guide for School Library Specialists

Politics & Social Sciences

Lesley S. J. Farmer

Social Sciences

Scarecrow Press

Show me your data! More than ever, funding agencies are looking for cost effectiveness. Sound data analytics is the foundation for making an evidence-based case for library programs, in addition to guiding myriad organizational decisions, from optimizing operations for efficiency to responding to community needs for customer satisfaction. Designed to be useful for novices as well as those with a background in data, this book introduces the basics of the Six Sigma framework as a model that can be applied to a variety of library settings. Helping readers make sense of data, this guide for system based, data-driven management covers such key topics as <ul>
<li>the basics of statistical concepts;</li>
<li>recommended data sources for various library functions and processes, and guidance for using census, university, or chamber of commerce data in analysis;</li>
<li>techniques for cleaning data;</li>
<li>matching data to appropriate data analysis methods;</li>
<li>how to make descriptive statistics more powerful by spotlighting relationships;</li>
<li>14 case studies which address such areas as digitization, e-book collection development, and reference; and</li>
<li>staffing, facilities, and instruction.</li>
</ul>This book's clear, concise coverage will enable readers of every experience level to gain a better understanding of statistics in order to facilitate library improvement.

Library Improvement Through Data Analytics

Alan M. Safer

ALA Neal-Schuman

You stand at the hub of today s learning community, working with students and teachers across all curricula, at all grade and ability levels, and across all subjects. This unique new resource gives you proven, practical techniques and strategies for reaching out to faculty and students...and then goes further to give successful collaboration ideas for working with educational service providers, such as reading specialists, special education teachers, counselors, technology staff, and principals and other administrators. Farmer outlines the fundamentals of collaboration, tips for working with multiple levels of administrators, and techniques for assessing the effects of collaboration on student success. Become a collaborative leader with this must-have resource.

Collaborating with Administrators and Educational Support Staff (Best Practices for School Library Media Professionals) (Best Practices for School Library ... for School Library Media Professionals)

Arts & Photography

Neal-Schuman Publishers

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