Thanks to Peter Bromberg, Assistant Director at the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative (SJRLC), for this information.

We all know that Web 2.0 tools are essential for communicating and creating in today’s fast-paced world. If there are tools that you or your staff want to learn more about, or if you just need to brush up on the basics, please visit the Colorado Libraries 2.0 website.

Colorado Libraries 2.0 is a FREE learning program to help library staff become familiar with Web 2.0 tools. The program is designed in modules associated with categories of tools:

1. Communication
2. Collaboration
3. Visual Communications
4. Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
5. Productivity Tools
6. A capstone project – Your PLE

Additional modules will be available in 2010.

Join with others from your library to get the most from the program !

Colorado Libraries 2.0 was created by Reach – Leading Learning in Libraries – a group of library staff members committed to sharing continuing education opportunities with others.

• * Share with you the latest services and resources we can offer Colorado libraries
• * Hear how libraries have transformed your lives

CSL at CAL 2009 – Schedule (PDF)

Library Consortium Summit planning committee seeks proposals for presentation and poster sessions for the fourth CALC Summit. The Summit will be held at the Sheraton Denver West Hotel (6th Ave & Union) on May 20-21, 2010.

Collaborate Like You Mean It!
We’ve all heard that collaboration is important, but how can academic libraries forge lasting, effective partnerships both within and outside their institutions? What makes some partnerships succeed, and others fail?

Come share your successes, failures, research, and innovative ideas related to academic library collaboration. We’re particularly interested in proposals that address:
• Collaboration to expand library services or improve student success
• Collaboration to develop Web 2.0 applications
• Strategies for building and maintaining partnerships
• Inter-institutional collaboration
• Institutional barriers to collaborative efforts, and how to overcome them
• Assessing the success of collaborative efforts
• Collaboration with non-library partners
Presentation Options:
1. Concurrent Presentations:
A speaker or team of speakers presents for 45 or 75 minutes, with a 15-minute Q&A session after the presentation. Presentations that involve discussion, audience participation, or activities are strongly encouraged.
2. Poster Sessions:
A graphical presentation (paper or digital) of research results, case studies, projects, or ideas. Poster presenters will discuss their work with attendees during the poster session time slot (likely to be 1 hour long.)
Details:
Presentation and poster proposals will be reviewed and competitively selected by a committee of academic librarians.
Proposal Requirements:
• Names and full contact information of presenter(s)
• Title of presentation or digital poster session
• Abstract and brief outline (200 words max)
• Desired presentation length (45 or 75 minutes) or poster session
Submit proposals using this online form:
Proposals are due by February 12, 2010. You’ll be notified about the status of your proposal by March 12, 2010.
For more information visit www.calcweb.org or email jay.devaughn@ccaurora.edu
Sponsored by:
CALC – Colorado Academic Library Consortium
CLiC – Colorado Library Consortium
CoALA – Association of Colorado Libraries – Academic Division

In the morning, Kathy Barco from the Albuquerque Public Library presented ideas for 2010 summer reading, including decorations, crafts, celebrations, activities, refreshments, programs, and more. The themes are “Make a Splash @ Your Library” (children) and “Make Waves @ Your Library” (teens).

The afternoon included discussion of after-school programming, a report on the LSTA Early Literacy (CLEL) Storytime grants, an update on State Library youth services initiatives, and of course distribution of the 2010 statewide summer reading program manuals.

Here are some of the photos I took during the day. Enjoy!

Kathy Barco presenting an activity (making fish headbands out of balloons), and some of the participants enjoying their new looks.

The fabulous staff at the College Hill Library in Westminster.

Attendees working on and proudly presenting their completed summer reading craft activities:

“The TechAtlas tools guides your library through building a technology plan, starting with defining your mission and vision, creating goals and objectives, and leading through the budgeting of your expenses. We’ll share important tips for those of you who are applying for E-rate funds and creating a technology plan as a requirement for that program. You will also see a live demonstration of TechAtlas and hear best practices about technology planning and how to help lead your library into the future through effective planning.”

The webinar is free, but registration is required.

The meeting began with lunch and a meet and greet with librarians from around the state.  Attendees were treated to a tour of Penrose Library; the tour highlighted the rare book collection and the Research Center. The August Brown Bag was another great opportunity for instruction librarians to come together and share best practices!

During the “cool tools show & tell” Carrie Forbes demonstrated the use of the SMART Board for library instruction, which she says is a great way to keep students interested during the sessions.  Lynne Fox (UC Denver Anschutz Medical Campus) presented on Pan-Opto which is being used at Anschutz to record classes.  Lyda Ellis (UNC) presented on the use of Jing and Screenjelly, two screen capture tools that are freely available on the web; she also showed Embedr, a free tool that allows a user to create video playlists from video sites on the web.  Lorrie Evans (UC Denver) showed how UC Denver librarians are using Google Docs to create and embed surveys.

If you are a CAL member interested in joining COLIG please visit our Web page http://www.cal-webs.org/interestg9.html.  The next meeting will be on Friday at the CAL Conference from 11:30-12:15.  COLIG hosts two Brown Bags each year, one in May and one in August.

Recently, I was asked to do a presentation on the instructional role of the school librarian and the impact this has on public librarians. The audience included MLIS students and the program faculty at a state university. It was a great experience and I really enjoyed it. My first question to the group was, “What is the instructional role of the public librarian?” There was complete silence in the room and I could tell that the students were thinking, “Don’t call on me—don’t call on me!” Finally, a few hands went up and I received comments like: Providing books to our patrons; working with children and YA’s to get the right person matched with the right book, helping school age kids find what they need when it isn’t at their school library. Finally, one person said that she thought it was really important to make certain the people using databases and other library resources, or accessing library materials were able to find those materials again even if the librarian wasn’t present. BINGO! That’s what we all need to do—we need to make certain that as information professionals, we provide “instruction” or help and assistance so that our clients can function independently as learners.

The school librarian’s role is similar but the new AASL Guidelines developed by school library information professionals include a different focus. The goal, as public librarians, of helping patrons become independent learners, is the same, but for the school librarian, the factors of the standards and the teacher come into play. The school librarians must work closely with the teachers to develop inquiry lessons that address the content standards and the standards for the 21st Century learner. Together they must create lessons with higher level questioning that will provide an opportunity for the students to share what they know, ask intriguing questions about what they don’t know, investigate the answers to those questions, construct new meanings, create new knowledge, and communicate this new knowledge and their new understanding to others.

This is not easy but as instructional leaders in the school, librarians will be able to accomplish this daunting task. The trick is convincing the teachers and other members of the learning community that this is what needs to be accomplished in order to help the students achieve their academic potential.

As this discussion was taking place, I noticed that one MLIS student was sitting there and mumbling something under his breath. I asked him what he was saying and he replied, “Well it would be nice if the school librarians would let us know what the teachers’ assignments are.”

KABOOM! That was like an elephant in the middle of the room and brings up a good point. We must work together in helping our students and our patrons become independent learners—School librarians need to talk to their public librarians and public librarians need to talk with their school librarians—Maybe they could even meet with each other for coffee, lunch, or dinner, and discuss the school curriculum, the order of school assignments that the students have, and how the two organizations can work together. This will lay the ground work for continued collaboration throughout the year.

As discussions go when there are different types of librarians in the room, we shared information about our two state associations. This state had an organization for the school people and one for the public librarians. They didn’t mention the special or academic librarians, which was interesting. Their model was similar to what we had in Colorado with CLA and CEMA. The audience was extremely interested in our model having all types of librarians, and asked me how it worked.

I was proud to share with them the great organization we have in Colorado and how we all collaborate and work together. One of their concerns was that they have two different conferences and basically have a hard time knowing what each organization is doing. I told them about our upcoming conference, the keynote speakers including Camila Alire, ALA President, and Ann Martin, outgoing president from AASL. I explained Governor Ritter would be coming to receive a legislative award and would be speaking to all of us as a group at our business meeting. Although they were quite excited for us, I’m sure they won’t be able to hop on a plane and join us, although I did invite them. They are sending us positive thoughts for a dynamic conference, with excellent keynote sessions, and numerous opportunities to network. They wistfully expressed that it would be wonderful to have all of the information professionals in their state at one conference so that they could actually communicate with each other.

So take advantage of what we are truly fortunate to have….a professional opportunity to join the other information professionals in Colorado by attending our annual conference. I encourage you to take advantage of this great time we have of to talk, share, communicate, and network with each other at our upcoming conference. If you haven’t registered yet, please do and join us as we explore how we continue to “Power On” into the 21st Century. Registration is available at: http://cal-webs.org/conference.html

]]> http://www.coloradolibraries.org/2009/10/12/the-instructional-role-of-librarians/feed/ 0 http://www.coloradolibraries.org/2009/09/30/youth-services-workshops-registration-deadlines-this-week-next/ http://www.coloradolibraries.org/2009/09/30/youth-services-workshops-registration-deadlines-this-week-next/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:58:47 +0000 Michelle http://www.coloradolibraries.org/?p=510 The deadlines to register for the Youth Services workshops in the Western Slope area are this Wed-Fri:
–Durango workshop on 10/7 – REGISTER TODAY, 9/30/09
–Delta workshop on 10/8 – REGISTER THURSDAY, 10/1/09
–Vail workshop on 10/9 – REGISTER FRIDAY, 10/2/09

The Front Range-area workshop deadlines are next Wed-Fri:
–Greeley workshop on 10/14 – REGISTER WEDNESDAY, 10/7
–Pueblo workshop on 10/15 – REGISTER THURSDAY, 10/8
–Westminster workshop on 10/16 – REGISTER FRIDAY, 10/9

Visit http://tinyurl.com/YSWorkshops for more information and to register.

Please contact Michelle Gebhart, 303-866-6894, if you have questions.

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