Posted on behalf of Laura Summers laura.summers@ucdenver.edu drsummers_elibrarian
The UC Denver School Library & Instructional Leadership Program is pleased to announce the 21st Century Culturally Responsive School Librarian Program that will launch as a pilot in January 2009.
Certified Teacher-Librarians will be eligible to apply to take an IMLS grant-funded, 3-credit course, Race, Class, and Culture in School Libraries with in-library mentoring about culturally responsive instructional practices. This CRL program will prepare school librarians to meet the needs of diverse learners within school libraries.
The course is offered in a hybrid format that includes 2 four-hour, face-to-face Saturday sessions (location: TBD in north metro-Denver) and 24 on-line hours within a 12-session online structure. The course will focus on understanding culture and diversity, recognizing the role of power and privilege in both individual and institutional interactions, and developing culturally responsive library curricula. The mentoring will occur over the course of the semester and next autumn with the added benefit of
substitute compensation for planning time this spring. Only 15 secondary Teacher-Librarians will be selected for this pilot program, but the success of this program launch will need to future opportunities for other Teacher-Librarians.
To apply for this 21st Century Culturally Responsive Librarian Program, please contact Dr. Laura L. Summers at laura.summers@ucdenver.edu with the following information stated in your email: your name, school location, contact phone number, contact email and a paragraph stating why you are interested in the course and mentoring. Please respond by December 19, 2008.
More information is available at the CASL Community Yahoo Group page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/caslcommunity/message/880
A teacher from the European Principality of Liechtenstein visited Colorado and the Four Corners last summer, and wondered how Colorado became a nearly perfect rectangle, as well as how and when the borders of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah were decided creating the Four Corners.
The State Librarian, Gene Hainer passed the question onto Kris Johnson and our amazing AskColorado librarians. Several librarians jumped at the challenge and passed along information, websites, and citations to help unravel the mystery of Colorado’s borders and the formation of the Four Corners.
The patron was so thrilled with the information and bibliographic sources, that he wrote a letter of thanks to Gene Hainer, and extended an invitation if ever Gene is in Austria, Switzerland or Liechtenstein.
It just goes to show that you never know how your interactions with users can touch someone, even from halfway around the world!
On Thursday I posted the link below on libnet:
“On Wednesday night, NBC had some great coverage for libraries during these times of increased use and decreased funding. You may have to copy and paste the url.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28165432#28165432
After posting this a few folks at the State Library made these comments in response to seeing the news story.
” The one killer thing this [news story] does once again is promote the misconception that the library is “free.” The Fire Department doesn’t advertise themselves that way and their funding doesn’t get cut! I guess I was hoping that LRS and their ROI studies would have provoked more discussion about how we present ourselves, and the outdated idea that “free” from Benjamin Franklin ever meant “without cost”.
What do you think?
A week-long celebration of events took place during the first week of December to honor the opening of the new Durango Public Library. The photos were taken at the ribbon-cutting ceremony on December 1, and you can see the wonderful artwork, beautiful views, crowds of people, and notably, the leader of the project, Sherry Taber, the Director of the Library. Her team of volunteers worked years to attain their goal, and they should be proud of the results. Later in the week at the Gala, Gene Hainer from the Colorado State Library and Ross Callender from CLiC were there to join in the celebration.
Don’t miss a remarkable exhibition of rare maps devoted to mountains and mountain regions of the world, will open at the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum on January 23, 2009. The show is scheduled to run through May 31, 2009.
The exhibition will explore the ways in which topography has been viewed and mapped throughout history. Though not a comprehensive history of mountain cartography, On High offers a fascinating glimpse at the ways in which cartographers from different periods and places have chosen to depict places of terrain.
Continue reading ‘On High: Cartography of Topography’
In my new role here at the State Library, I’ll be working with audio and video, online learning, intranet development, content management and more. I spent a great afternoon Friday with several staff in the Web Information Services Department at Denver Public Library, learning about their approach to similar projects.
I got to see their setup with iMovie that they use to create videos posted to their YouTube and Vimeo accounts. Continue reading ‘A visit to Denver Public Library’
UC Denver Health Sciences Library is very honored to be hosting an exhibit from the Mizel Museum entitled “Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World”. Excerpt from the Health Sciences Library Newsletter as follows -Tikkun Olam is a Hebrew phrase that means “to heal the world” and it embodies the concepts of social justice, compassion, freedom, equality and peace.
In this exhibit, artist Christy Honigman composes the personal articulations of 54 participants from 27 different countries on the topic of repairing the world into a series of columns. Many of the participants are survivors of torture and exile.
The participants offer pictures, poems, songs and personal prose to represent their interpretations of Tikkun Olam. The exhibit consists of 14 columns arranged in the library entrance. The columns can be viewed in any order and brochures identifying each column and are available. The exhibit will be on display until mid-January, although it will be relocated to the Library’s Gallery in mid-December.
A docent from the Mizel Museum will lead a tour and give a program on the exhibit on Wednesday, Dec. 10, from Noon – 1 pm. The group will meet in the library’s lobby, tour the columns, and then go to one of the library’s classrooms for the rest of the program. RSVPs are not required but would be appreciated.
This is just one of the many events the UC Denver Health Science Library is hosting. Check out their newsletter, or better yet why not just subscribe.
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Sharon on
December 3, 2008 in
Children's Services.
Tags: babies, books, CLEL, Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy, early literacy, gifts, grandparents, parents, presents, reader's advisory, young children.
Looking for a gift for a young child? Check out Hennipin County Public Library’s “Birth Through Age Six” newsletter for “Choosing Books for Gifts.” http://www.hclib.org/BirthTo6/Newsletter/Newsletter.cfm#choosing
Even better, read through and offer advice to parents and grandparents on selecting books for young children. The greatest gifts we can give to young children is the joy of stories, reading and learning. For more on the importance of books, reading and early literacy, see the Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy website at http://clel.org
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