The School Library Media Specialist as

This collection of case studies emphasizes practical management techniques designed to be used by library media specialists in elementary, middle and high school settings.

Series Editor's Foreword

ix

(1)

Preface

x

(1)

Acknowledgments

xi

I. Elementary School Library Media Centers

3

(54)

1. Leadership, Planning, and Management

3

(10)

1.1. Fixed, Flexible, Research Time: It's All in the Terminology

3

(2)

1.2. Library Research for Kindergarten Students

5

(2)

1.3. Identifying and Responding to Teachers' Needs

7

(3)

1.4. Reaching Out from the Shelves: Marketing the Library Media Center and Its Services

10

(3)

2. Personnel

13

(12)

2.1. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions. What To Do About a Job?

13

(2)

2.2. Whose Library Media Center Is It? Who's in Charge?

15

(3)

2.3. Getting Out -- Transfer Solves a Difficult Situation

18

(3)

2.4. The Take-Charge Clerk and the Timid Library Media Specialist

21

(4)

3. Resources and Equipment

25

(10)

3.1. Alternative Professional Collection

25

(2)

3.2. Whole Language versus Phonics Resources

27

(2)

3.3. How Many CD Workstations Are Enough?

29

(3)

3.4. Resources at Annex Facilities

32

(3)

4. Facilities

35

(10)

4.1. Forty Days and Forty Nights--Damage Beyond Belief

35

(2)

4.2. Purposeful Furniture Purchases or Just a Shopping Spree?

37

(3)

4.3. The Sky Is Falling: Asbestos Pervades

40

(2)

4.4. Czar of the Copier Machine

42

(3)

5. District, Regional, and State Leadership

45

(12)

5.1. Inventory -- The Dreaded "I" Word

45

(2)

5.2. The Library Checking Account: Who Uses It, Why, and for What?

47

(2)

5.3. "I Just Needed These Titles for a Unit I'm Doing; No One Else Was Using Them"

49

(2)

5.4. The Volunteer with the Pipeline

51

(6)

II. Middle or Junior High School Library Media Centers

57

(54)

6. Leadership, Planning, and Management

57

(12)

6.1. Let's Get Organized -- Time Management on the Job

57

(2)

6.2. Professional Responsibility or Just Keeping Up?

59

(3)

6.3. You Can't Go Home Again: Ethics of Peer Intervention

62

(3)

6.4. Statistics -- Friend or Foe?

65

(4)

7. Personnel

69

(10)

7.1. Quantum Leap -- The Transfer from Elementary to Middle School

69

(2)

7.2. Student Teacher Blues

71

(3)

7.3. Fair and Equitable or Just a Work Ethic Rewarded?

74

(2)

7.4. The Revolving Clerk

76

(3)

8. Resources and Equipment

79

(10)

8.1. Budgeting for School Reform

79

(2)

8.2. Circulation of Computers

81

(2)

8.3. Time to Move -- What Do We Keep? How Do We Pay for Replacements?

83

(3)

8.4. Encyclopedia Acquisitions -- Paper or CD? Both Types or One?

86

(3)

9. Facilities

89

(10)

9.1. Computer Equipment That Keeps on Ticking

89

(2)

9.2. Partnership with Strings

91

(2)

9.3. The Overage Room, Formerly the Library Media Center

93

(3)

9.4. The Library Media Center As a Coffee House

96

(3)

10. District, Regional, and State Leadership

99

(12)

10.1. Who's in Charge Here?

99

(2)

10.2. I'm a BRIGHT Teacher, Are You?

101

(2)

10.3. Enough Time or Not Enough Time?

103

(2)

10.4. Do We Need a Library Media Center in the School?

105

(6)

III. High School or Secondary School Library Media Centers

111

(74)

11. Leadership, Planning, and Management

111

(8)

11.1. New Services

111

(1)

11.2. Crumbs and Cockroaches

112

(2)

11.3. Budgets: Coping with a Changing School Population

114

(1)

11.4. The Hours in the Day: Flexible Scheduling

115

(4)

12. Personnel

119

(6)

12.1. Parent Aide Responsibilities: How Far to Go?

119

(1)

12.2. Student Volunteers: Scheduling, Duties, and Fun

120

(2)

12.3. Resources, Media Specialists, and Teachers: A Perfect Match, or Is It?

122

(1)

12.4. Favoritism and the District Supervisor

123

(2)

13. Resources and Equipment

125

(8)

13.1. Books, Materials, and Such: Budgeting Print and Nonprint Resources

125

(1)

13.2. Equipment versus Resources: How to Go Forward?

126

(2)

13.3. Cooperative Purchasing--or We Shall Lose!

128

(2)

13.4. Bilingual or Multilingual Resources: Which Way to Go?

130

(3)

14. Facilities

133

(6)

14.1. Whence the Computers: Library or Laboratory?

133

(2)

14.2. To Decorate or Not?

135

(1)

14.3. Control of the Phone and Fax

136

(1)

14.4. The Virtual Library

137

(2)

15. District, Regional, and State Leadership

139

(6)

15.1. Regional Networks: To Join or Not to Join?

139

(2)

15.2. State Conference Presenter: Is It Possible?

141

(1)

15.3. Districtwide Cooperation: Is There a Leader?

142

(1)

15.4. Serving on a Statewide Task Force: Is It Possible?

143

(2)

Appendixes

145

(40)

A. AASL Position Statement on Access to Resources and Services in the School Library Media Program

145

(4)

B. AASL Position Statement on Information Literacy

149

(10)

C. AASL Position Statement on Appropriate Staffing for School Library Media Centers

159

(2)

D. AASL Position Statement on Flexible Scheduling

161

(2)

E. AASL Position Statement on Preparation of School Library Media Specialists

163

(2)

F. AASL Position Statement on Resource-Based Instruction

165

(2)

G. AASL Position Statement on the Role of the Library Media Specialist in Outcomes-Based Education

167

(4)

H. AASL Position Statement on the Role of the School Library Media Program

171

(2)

I. AASL Position Statement on the Value of Library Media Programs in Education

173

(2)

J. Sample Library Media Selection Policy

175

(4)

K. Sample Library Media Policy for Reevaluation of Selected Materials

179

(6)

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