Website - Competency 9

The website I chose is named Resources for School Librarians. Its name says it all. It contains links to library websites pertaining to just about anything a school librarian would need to know. It has links to state programs and certification standards, curriculum and instruction, units and lessons about library skills, copyright, professional development and much more. I have already added it to my favorites and will add it to my bookmarks on del.icio.us. I used Vivisimo (Clusty) to find this website. www.sldirectory.com/index.html#top

Multimedia - Competency 8

I found this graph on the U. S. Department of Education website in a September 15, 2004 article about school libraries in The Achiever newsletter.


Library Use
Percentage of public school library
media centers with scheduled times when
students can use the library independently,
by school level: 1999-2000

NOTE: School library may offer more than one scheduled period or set time.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey, Public School Library Media Center Questionnaire, 1999–2000.The URL for this issue of the newsletter is http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/achiever/2004/091504.html

Library Lit Database - Successive Fractions search: Competency 6

For this search, my beginning search term was "school librar*" which yielded 30,857 hits. The next term was "elementary and (students or children)" which yielded 1614 hits. Finally, the third term was "teach* library skills" which yielded 563 hits. When I combined them into one search, I ended up with a manageable 104 hits.

Dialog Database - Specific Facet First search: Competency 6

I started my search with Library Skills and Children. This only resulted in 95 hits, which I thought was quite manageable.





I did another search for school librar? which resulted in too many hits.

Academic Search Complete - Citation Pearl Growing search: Competency 6

I chose to begin the citation pearl search by using the author of the book I tagged for Competency 5. I searched for Violet Harada in Academic Search Complete and received the following results:




Then I found the article, School Librarians Help Students Acheive: Here's the Evidence, that I liked from these results. Then used the subject term "Libraries and Students" to further my search.



These are the final results.

WorldCat Database - Building Block search: Competency 6

My inquiry is for information about teaching media skills to elementary school students. My original search did not include a date range and resulted in information from the 1970s and 1980s. I decided to add the date range so the results would be more current.





These are the results.

Tagging: Competency 5

education(1) inquiry(1) learning(1) library(1) location-harvey(1) non-fiction(1) partnership(1) professional resource(1) school library media(1)

http://www.librarything.com/work/1049037

I found this book, Inquiry Learning Through Librarian-Teacher Partnerships by Violet Harada while searching for resources for school librarianship. My interest in librarianship was sparked by the untapped resource of school librarians in the schools where I have taught. This book gives a detailed plan of how to create a teamwork approach to inquiry learning. There is a brief summary of each chapter included under the Book Descriptions tab. Just from reading the description, I think this is a book I would like to have.