Hi Laura,
I know this is coming too late; we had off yesterday. My heart sank when I
read this. We are just a few blocks from you, so please let us know how we
can help, especially since some of our former students go to Drew.
We are K - 8 with about 13,000 books for 400 students, and 100 ebooks that
don't get used.
I also wanted to offer some resources for advocacy (mostly from Toolkit for
Promoting School Library Programs
<http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslissues/toolkits/AASLToolkitforPromotingSLP_082715.pdf>),
which again, may be too late:
- School Library Crisis Toolkit
<http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/tools/toolkits/crisis>
- ALA Position Statement on the Role of the School Librarian in Reading
Development
<http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/resources/statements/reading-dev>
- ALA Position Statement on the Role of the School Library Program
<http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/resources/statements/program-role>
- ALA Position Statement on the School Librarian's Role in Reading
<http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/resources/statements/reading-role>
- Talking Points for Libraries Making A Difference
<http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/advocacyuniversity/additup/13to18/anntk_school>
(evidence
about books throughout)
- Examples of successfully communicating data to support programing
<http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/tools/toolkits/promoting/data>
- Younger Americans’ Reading Habits and Technology Use
<http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/09/10/younger-americans-reading-habits-and-technology-use/>
(Pew)
Thanks,
Kim Stuart
Director of Library Services
http://library.townschool.com/
Town School for Boys
*"Today’s school library media specialist should function as a
collaborative instructional partner by planning, teaching, and evaluating
with fellow educators. The library media specialist should also function as
a teacher of information literacy skills, teaching students to access,
evaluate, and use information in the context of their content area
curriculum (AASL 1998). When library media specialists fulfill these roles,
taking an active part in instruction in their schools, student achievement
increases (Lance 2005)." from The Instructional Role of the Library Media
Specialist as Perceived by Elementary School Principals
<http://www.ala.org/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/volume11/church>*
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Kerry Fender <kfender@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Laura,
Good luck in making your case to the administration. At Sacred Heart
Preparatory, we have 21,000 print volumes and 137,000 eBooks. The eBooks
help fill gaps in the collection. There are so many terrific sources that
are not currently and never will be available digitally due to copyright
loveliness. I hope you can convince your architects to consider the needs
of your students, their users, over their need to follow the current trend
in aesthetics.
-Kerry
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Debra Cardone <cardone@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dear Laura,
I wish you luck! We have lost thousands of books in the past several
years due to creating a student lounge, new offices for Learning Specialist
and MS Counseling office all centered in the library space. Having to box
up historical and many collectible books is a very sad feeling, and there
is no joy in weeding great books, so I understand the anguish of book
lovers and librarians getting rid of
books.
This year our Middle School Library Space has been transformed into a
Maker Space, called the Riveter Lab. The maker space is designated for
creative designing, using 3D printers, laser cutters, Green Screen,
Arduinos, programing robots, and many other activities for budding
engineers, tinkerers, artists, etc., MS students have self-check out, a
large flat screen TV takes up space, and the circulation desk was removed
from the room.
Libraries are no longer simply a place to hold books, they are community
hubs and creation spaces. STEM education and technology has changed the
image of school libraries.Personally, I just "go with the flow" .On a
positive note ,the library is still seen as a learning space to gather
information, share knowledge, be inspired by literature, use multiple
literacy that include digital, media, and print.
I feel 21st Century Administrators and Heads of Schools in private
education follow trends, and they are always changing and evolving. Some
day iPads, smartphones, interactive white boards will become as obsolete as
computer rooms, folding maps, public pay phones, typewriters, pagers, VCR,
8 track tapes, Cathode Ray Tube Televisions, record players and unhealthy
fast food. Soon Twitter, Facebook, internet, etc. will be obsolete too in
the future.
Although libraries have digitalized books, I still believe beautiful
leather hardbound paper books will not be extinct but last forever.
Children will always treasure reading stories like Chronicles of Nardia,
Half Magic, The Wizard of Oz, Harry Potter, and many well loved classic
books will always be kept on a lovely book shelf.
Debra Cardone, Librarian
Hamlin School
San Francisco, CA
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Laura Mauler <lauramauler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
Will anyone please share the total number of books in their collection,
and if possible their total number of enrolled students?
I am facing an administration-instigated overhaul of the library into a
learning commons/makerspace, and the initial renderings have us going
bookless. I need to make the case for keeping a robust and healthy print
collection, not just a few token books for themed displays (the designers'
actual suggestion); I'm hoping to use the size of your collections to
support my case.
We are meeting on this tomorrow morning, so your data is needed ASAP!
Thank you in advance for helping me fight for our print collection!
*Laura Mauler, MLIS*
*Librarian*
Drew School
2901 California Street
San Francisco CA 94115
415.430.3718 (direct)
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