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Promoting Your School Library’S Services With An E-Mail Newsletter, Roxanne M. Spencer
Promoting Your School Library’S Services With An E-Mail Newsletter, Roxanne M. Spencer
The Southeastern Librarian
In this age of competing services and resources, school libraries constantly look for ways to promote their services and engender excitement among students. From book fairs to literature circles to guest lecturers, the evolving school library media center must continually showcase its services. Librarians have often been hesitant to promote their services, but necessity has forced us all to become more marketing oriented. The library newsletter offers one inexpensive, non-aggressive, but effective way to reach out to fellow teachers, administrators, and students and parents.
The Role Of Technology In The Interactions Between Secondary School Library Media Specialists And Teachers, Shirley Benson Mcdonald
The Role Of Technology In The Interactions Between Secondary School Library Media Specialists And Teachers, Shirley Benson Mcdonald
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Statewide studies of school library media centers in at least sixteen states (other than Louisiana) indicate that effective school library media center programs have a positive impact on student achievement. According to these studies, effective school library media centers have: (a) a qualified library media specialist, (b) adequate support staff, (c) current and large collections, (d) access to information technology that is integrated into the curriculum, and (e) time for collaboration with the faculty. This study was developed to explore the role of technology in the collaborations between school library media specialists and teachers. Data revealed that interactions between school …