Blanche Woolls - The School Library Manager: Surviving and Thrivin

The School Library Manager

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The School Library
Manager

Surviving and Thriving

Blanche Woolls and Sharon Coatney

Library and Information Science Text Series

Copyright 2018 by Blanche Woolls and Sharon Coatney

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Woolls, Blanche, author. | Coatney, Sharon, author.

Title: The school library manager : surviving and thriving / Blanche Woolls and Sharon Coatney.

Other titles: School library media manager

Description: Sixth edition. | Santa Barbara, California : Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018] | Series: Library and information science text series | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017024832 (print) | LCCN 2017047351 (ebook) | ISBN 9781440852572 (ebook) | ISBN 9781440852565 (paperback : acid-free paper)

Subjects: LCSH: School librariesUnited StatesAdministration.

Classification: LCC Z675.S3 (ebook) | LCC Z675.S3 W8735 2018 (print) | DDC 025.1/978dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017024832

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Contents

Preface

This new edition emphasizes two threads throughout: leadership is a necessary attribute for all school librarians and school librarians must recognize the responsibility for ensuring equal access for all students. These two are the critical elements facing our profession today. The first chapter in details how to get that important license to practice and offers suggestions for finding, applying for, and accepting a position.

presents the role of the librarian in the schools education program, beginning with the traditional role in improving students reading. It moves to analyzing teaching methods allowing the librarian to become a leader helping improve teacher assignments, understanding the learner, the curriculum, and inquiry learning. The school librarian in the role of teacher teaches all kinds of literacies, moves out of the library and into the classroom, and organizes and leads in the use of makerspaces and other new technologies and trends.

Evaluation and assessment is covered in this volume brings attention to the business side of management, a model that many school districts are employing when they turn the management over to a businessperson rather than an educator. Information concerning creating the policy statements needed for a school library is followed by a discussion of budget and how to acquire materials and a section on cost accountability.

, on the management of information resources, covers creating a collection development policy if none exists, intellectual freedom and the right to privacy for all school library users. The need for expertise in copyright law is explained and policies for the ethical use of information. Building and maintaining the resource collection also covers de-selection or weeding.

Managing personnel, in , includes analyzing your leadership style to help you become a better leader. Managing also includes relationships with administrators and teachers as well as students and anyone who may be working in the library as a paid staff or volunteer. One aspect of management personnel that is often overlooked is the role in the community and other types of librarians and their libraries.

combines leadership with technology and begins with infrastructure and access. The role of the librarian with technology includes the need to be willing to accept change, the need to engage students in helping with a Tech Squad, and building a technology plan. The challenges of social networking include helping teachers begin to make use of this communication method to meet their students on an even playing field. Suggestions are offered to help a librarian keep up with technology. Thinking about the level of impact of technology on education is briefly discussed.

covers the leadership of the school librarian in professional development beginning with personal learning networks and helping the librarian and teachers move these into the schools professional learning communities. The librarians role is described in helping coordinate the schools professional development. Ways for the school librarian to keep up include MOOCs, webinars, workshops, institutes, and professional associations.

The title of is Advocacy, but this chapter covers a businesslike marketing approach to presenting the library to the school and community. Advocacy includes descriptions of activism with the school librarian becoming a participator in the political process, something that is essential if for no other reason than to provide a good model to other teachers and students. A short discussion features the potential of the school librarian as politician and closes with the role of the school librarian advocating in the global community.

discusses the future of school libraries and librarians. It analyzes the future school library as a place, its content, its role in encouraging students to become lifelong learners as well as active, knowledgeable citizens in a democratic society.

Each chapter presents exercises for use in the classroom and in a workshop setting. Those designed especially for the library and information science classroom presume that students have ready access to at least one school librarian serving in an active school library with an integrated program. Beginning school librarians as well as veterans need to see good examples of teaching teams that are collaborating to develop and teach well-planned units of instruction that will prepare students for lifelong learning.