The innovative school librarian : thinking outside the box / Sharon Markless, editor ; Elizabeth Bentley ... [et al.].
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TextPublication details: London : Facet, 2009.Description: xii, 202 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + 1 erratum slipISBN: - 1856046532 (hbk.)
- 9781856046534 (hbk.)
- 027.8 MAR
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book takes a strategic look at some of the issues currently of concern to school librarians. It is not a "how to run a school library" guide. Instead it raises important questions about the functions of the school librarian and sets out to encourage the reader to think outside the box. It takes a strategic approach to the leadership of school libraries examining notions of professionalism, their effect on identity and models of library practice. This book aims to inspire and enable school librarians to think creatively about their work and the community in which they operate.
Written by leaders in the field, it addresses the practical issues through the use of vignettes, and appendices offer examples of sample documents. The book is divided into three main areas: Who is the Librarian?; Your Community: from perceptions to practice; and Moving Forward.
Key topics covered include: the librarian's vision and values how others see us bridging the gap between different visions for the school library identifying and understanding your community making a positive response keeping inspired and inspiring others integrating the library innovating. Readership : This is an essential, thought-provoking book for all school librarians, practitioners in schools library services, and students of librarianship. It has plenty to interest school leadership, headteachers, educational thinkers, public library managers and local government officers and also has an international audience.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. ix)
- How to read this book (p. xi)
- Acknowledgements (p. xii)
- Part 1 Who is the librarian? (p. 1)
- 1 Professionalism and the school librarian (p. 1)
- What are the discourses of professionalism? (p. 4)
- Discourse of managerialism (p. 4)
- Discourse of technical-rationalism (p. 9)
- Discourse of social democracy (p. 11)
- Where does this leave school librarianship in the 21st century? (p. 15)
- What influences the school librarian's professional identity? (p. 18)
- Our professional identity (p. 22)
- 2 How others see us (p. 25)
- Who are the significant others? (p. 27)
- Within the school community (p. 27)
- Outside the school (p. 34)
- What influences the perceptions of these significant stakeholders? (p. 36)
- How do school librarians think the stakeholders see them? (p. 41)
- What are the implications of the perceptions of the librarian? (p. 44)
- Conclusion (p. 45)
- 3 Bridging the gap (p. 47)
- Is there always a dichotomy? (p. 47)
- In what circumstances might a dichotomy arise? (p. 49)
- How can we resolve the dichotomy? (p. 55)
- Part 2 Your community: from perceptions to practice (p. 61)
- 4 Identifying and understanding your community (p. 61)
- How do we define our community? (p. 62)
- What informs the ways we explore our community? (p. 64)
- Ways of thinking about your learning community (p. 66)
- What does learning look like in our own institutions? (p. 69)
- What does learning look like for the individuals in our own communities? (p. 73)
- 5 Making a positive response (p. 77)
- Getting into position (p. 77)
- What is possible in the real world of school libraries? (p. 78)
- Staying positive (p. 80)
- Using evidence to support your case (p. 83)
- Benchmarking between school libraries (p. 83)
- Learning from the world (p. 86)
- Making a difference (p. 88)
- Tapping in to school and user priorities (p. 89)
- How do we make line-management systems work for us? (p. 92)
- How do we use other relationships to help us? (p. 95)
- Learning from the students (p. 97)
- What if our personal vision does not match the library reality? (p. 99)
- How do we know if we are meeting the needs of our community? (p. 100)
- How well are we doing? (p. 101)
- Part 3 Moving forward (p. 103)
- 6 Inspiration (p. 103)
- What is inspiration? (p. 103)
- Where does inspiration fit into school librarianship? (p. 103)
- At what levels can inspiration operate? (p. 107)
- How do we keep ourselves inspired? (p. 111)
- Inspiration from inside ourselves (p. 113)
- Inspiration from inside the school (p. 114)
- Inspiration from outside the school (p. 115)
- What has inspired us? (p. 119)
- Reality check (p. 121)
- Inspiring others (p. 122)
- 7 Becoming integral to teaching and learning (p. 127)
- But what does integration mean? (p. 127)
- Becoming an integral part of the teaching team (p. 128)
- Beyond information skills (p. 131)
- Possible starting points (p. 132)
- Sustaining integration into teaching and learning (p. 134)
- Becoming integral to the structure of the school (p. 135)
- Pathways to integration at school level (p. 139)
- 8 Innovation (p. 143)
- Connect (p. 144)
- Act (p. 146)
- Evidence (p. 149)
- Managing change (p. 151)
- Process and principles of managing change (p. 153)
- Using whole-school processes and the key change agents (p. 154)
- References (p. 157)
- Websites cited (p. 166)
- Appendix 1 Levels of education (p. 167)
- Appendix 2 School library self-evaluation questions (p. 168)
- Appendix 3 Sample survey of teachers' perceptions of the role of the school librarian (p. 170)
- Appendix 4 SWOT analysis (p. 171)
- Appendix 5 Choosing priorities in development planning - sample grid (p. 173)
- Appendix 6 An example of a completed self-evaluation (p. 174)
- Appendix 7 Some possibilities for gaining inspiration in the UK (p. 176)
- Appendix 8 Tools for managing change (p. 180)
- Appendix 9 Managing change: process and principles (p. 181)
- Index (p. 187)