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Audrey P. Church - Tapping into the Skills of 21st-Century School Librarians

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Tapping into the Skills of 21st-Century School Librarians

2015

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1 Librarian as Teacher S. 3-20

„… learning, school librariansaddress the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. School li-brarians in …” „… 1LIBRARIAN AS TEACHER“The school librarian facilitates active learning. Librarians …” „… librarians are teachers. That is a plain and simple fact. In per-ceptions, in discussions, and in staff …”

4 Librarian as Instructional Leader S. 53-64

„… 4LIBRARIAN AS INSTRUCTIONAL LEADER“Librarians/media specialists are instrumental in enhancing …” „… traditionally think of their school librarians as lead-ers within the school. Certainly if we think of the …” „… student learning, leader is not the image or term thatcomes to mind. However, today’s school librarian …”

2 Librarian as Instructional Partner S. 21-36

„… teachers, and for school librarians.Moreillon, Judi, and Susan D. Ballard. 2012. “Coteaching: A Pathway …” „… 2LIBRARIAN AS INSTRUCTIONALPARTNER“There is a strong correlation between high-performing schoolsand …” „… schools who have strong librarians and reading programs. Li-brarians are a vital part of our campuses …”

5 Librarian as Program Administrator S. 65-76

„… program, theschool librarian embraces evidence-based practice. “Evidence-basedschool librarianship uses …” „… LibrarianStaffing Levels and Student Achievement as Represented in 2006–2009 Kansas AnnualYearly Progress Data …” „… 5LIBRARIAN AS PROGRAMADMINISTRATOR“The library is the hub of the building. A dead library = a …”

3 Librarian as Information Specialist S. 37-52

„… articles about the topic.KidsClick.org is “a web search site designed for kids by librarians—with …” „… 3LIBRARIAN AS INFORMATIONSPECIALIST“Our media specialists are more than librarians. They are a …” „… associated with the school librarian, thatrole would be information specialist. You have a question; your …”

Appendix B: Sample Job Description, Title: School Librarian S. 101-106

„… Appendix BSAMPLE JOB DESCRIPTION, TITLE:SCHOOL LIBRARIAN101102 APPENDIX BSAMPLE JOB DESCRIPTION …”

6 Challenges and Benefits S. 77-88

„… librarians?CHALLENGESPrevious PerceptionsHow do principals know what to expect of their school librarians?Through readings in …” „… school students who have full-time certified librarians.In schools with full-time librarians, ‘Below …” „… school librarians, amongthem AASL’s 2010 “Sample Job Description, Title: School Librarian”(see appendix B …”

Preface

„… more than naive. Librarian-ship is no more formulaic than administration. You need the right per-son in …” „… AmericaCONTENTSForeword to Principals ixPreface xiiiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction 11 Librarian as Teacher 3AASL Standards …” „… Impact of the Librarian as Teacher 16In Summary: Librarian as Teacher 17Additional Readings 18References …”

7 Final Thoughts: You Have the Power! S. 89-96

„… interactionsbetween principals and librarians, principals’ perceptions of librarians,and principals’ understanding of …” „… ) found that principals rate the librarian’stop three tasks as “Help students to access information and …” „… the work a school librarian does. In thereview of literature for her study of South Carolina …”

Index S. 109-110

„… Study-digital citizenship, 8, 46–47, 82–83 2009: How Idaho Librarians,digital curation, 43–44 Teachers, and …” „… INDEX20th-century librarians, 78–79 Haves, Halves, and Have-Nots: SchoolLibraries and Student …” „… State Standards, 22–23, PA School Library Project, 16, 72, 8125–26 How School Librarians Help Kids …”

About the Author S. 111

„… ABOUT THE AUTHORAudrey P. Church is professor and coordinator of the school librarian-ship graduate …” „… a K-12 building-level librarian in Lunenburg County (Virginia) Public Schools for twen-ty years. She …” „… Association and president-elect of the American Associ-ation of School Librarians.111 …”

Introduction S. 1-2

„… st-century school librarian and to illustrate how, within the con-text of each role, the school librarian …” „… explore that role further.Chapter 1 addresses the librarian as teacher, exploring the AASLStandards for …” „… the 21st-Century Learner, various literacies, the inquiryprocess, the librarian’s role in reading …”

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James W. Cortada - Birth of Modern Facts

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Birth of Modern Facts

2023

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3 How Librarians Organized Information S. 57-88

„… [that] librarian-ship is basically much the same as it was in the days of Dewey, Cutter, Bowker, and …” „… II phenomenon that also involved others outside the world of the librarians.Before moving to that …” „… Analogued, Digitized, Anaesthetized. . . . And still the patient languished.An anonymous librarian, 19621 …”

Endnotes S. 309-394

„… and Fall of American Growth, 1.3. HOW LIBRARIANS ORGANIZED INFORMATION 1. “The Information Problem …” „… Librarians of Harvard College, 1667–1877 (Cambridge, MA: Library of Harvard University, 1897): 40–41. 3 …” „… 24–29, 1950 (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1951): 3–23. 71. George E. Bennett, Librarians in …”

4 Early Encounters by Computer Builders S. 89-128

„… essence of who I look at here—soon outnumbered librarians by an order of magnitude. By the end of the …” „… were alive in the nine-teenth century, when librarians went about defining the scope of information and …” „… field of science. Their links to librarians and, more importantly, to nineteenth-century fact-managing …”

1 Defining Information in Modern Times S. 1-26

„… operate, and characterizations of their features (i.e., numeric, textual), and earlier by librarians …” „… of what librarians were thinking about data sets in the 1920s, or U.S. government statisticians about …” „… insightful historian and Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) in 1980 made a distinction …”

10 How Information Evolved S. 277-308

„… , so we began by studying their activities. Librarians on both sides of the Atlantic worked, émigré …” „… mountains of facts. That is how the librarians entered our narrative, working to organize this content, then …” „… a continuing process. Lest any-one think the librarians were slackers, a literature review of such …”

Preface

„… Librarians Organized Information 57 4 Early Encounters by Computer Builders 89 5 Mathematicians and …” „… lesser extent earlier, librarians, who may have started this new round of discussion. The priests of two …” „… scientists, librarians) largely applying the methods of an historian. A central question I pose, is …”

9 Contributions of Political Scientists and Historians to Modern Information S. 249-276

„… pre-1960s librarians, they would be right. As noted in our discussion of librarians, many were trained …” „… librarians faced throughout the twentieth century.4 Any shared assumptions about common practices …” „… what information a discipline develops, as the nineteenth-century librarians taught us to do …”

For Further Reading S. 395-426

„… ).LIBRARIANS AND INFORMATIONThe literature on library history is extensive, but several surveys are useful for …” „… explaining events, organizations, and roles of librarians. For an international review, consult Pamela Spence …” „… are essential. Begin with George E. Bennett, Librarians in Search of Science and Identity: The Elusive …”

7 New Business and Government Information Ecosystems S. 183-212

„… different than that of the scientist, even though like them and librarians, or computer scientists, managers …” „… anything imagined by previous generations of librarians, scientists, academics, business managers, or …” „… filing clerk and their file cabinets doing, in effect, what librarians a century earlier had strived for …”

8 What Information Economists Created S. 213-248

„… , gaining and embracing a disciplinary identity (as physicists did and librarians tried to do), formed …” „… Price Index (PPI). Almost echoing the concerns of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century librarians and …” „… ., librarians and publishers), and in products (e.g., books, newspapers, radios). As with so many of his …”

6 Scientists and Medical Experts Shape Information S. 153-182

„… growing bodies of facts in all of science by the mid-1800s. While the librarians discussed in chapter 3 …” „… doctors and nurses, clinical practices, information sciences (including the work of STEM librarians), and …” „… information, we now meet two cohorts that massively outnumbered all the librarians, computer scientists, and …”

Index S. 427-444

„… labor, 27 – 28, 184, 208 – 11; of librarians, 60 – 61, 83 – 87; of mathematics, 135 – 36; modernity and …” „… ; knowledge in, 22; LCC, 59 – 60, 63, 65 – 69, 328n68, 328n70; librarians, 55 – 56, 59 – 62, 83 – 87; library …”

2 Second Industrial Revolution Encounters Information S. 27-56

„… “library card” by 1950 and routinely used these, while librarians groused that too many people were reading …” „… , to do so as office and sales clerks, house keepers, nan-nies, secretaries, teachers, librarians, and …” „… the work done by communities within society often working inde-pendently of each other. Librarians are …”

5 Mathematicians and Statisticians Create New Tools S. 129-152

„… through the use of analytics.63Like the librarians at the same time, developers of statistical tools had …”

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Shauntee Burns-Simpson, Nichelle M. Hayes, Ana Ndumu, Shaundra Walker - The Black Librarian in America

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The Black Librarian in America

2022

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PartIII. BLACK LIBRARIANS ACROSS SETTINGS S. 139-208

„… @BlackLibrarians is a previously unfilled niche in librarianship—a space where librarians of color can begin to …” „… by Black LibrariansEquity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) efforts impact every aspect of library …” „… , and provide professional development to librarians.Call to ActionMany of the problems that exist today …”

PartI. A RICH HERITAGE: BLACK LIBRARIAN HISTORY S. 7-64

„… . And that was a broader movement that the emergence of Black librarian-ship benefited from because …” „… source for libraries, and African American librarians—indeed, librarians of color—have benefited from the …” „… . https://www.bcala.org/about-bcala#:~:text=BCALA%20Mission, development%20of%20African%20American%20librarians.Council on Library and Information …”

PartII. CELEBRATING COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY S. 65-138

„… librarianship. C H A P T E R S I XAssumed IdentityRealities of Afro-Caribbean LibrariansTwanna Hodge, Kelsa …” „… others in the library take on Black librarians.Extra time spent with Black faculty and students might …” „… librarians.Authors’ Experiences and PositionalityIn the subsequent sections, each author will introduce the island …”

About the Editors and Contributors S. 275-288

„… . Librarianship as a career was realized for Taliah when she met a Black librarian for the first time. Since that …” „… for libraries and youth librarians, President Burns-Simpson enjoys connecting people to the public …” „… specialist at an elementary school in Indianapolis. Later, she worked as an adult reference librarian …”

Introduction S. 1-6

„… the American Library Association (BCALA) along with the first publication of The Black Librarian in …” „… America. As if to remind us of both how far Black/African American li-brarians have come yet how little US …” „… . Many of the chapters in the first iteration of The Black Librarian in America addressed racial …”

Preface

„… Chapter 4 A Hidden Figure: Adella Hunt Logan, Tuskegee Institute’s First Librarian—Shaundra Walker 53 …” „… Librarians—Twanna Hodge, Kelsa Bartley, and Kenya Flash 73Chapter 7 The Western Librarian: Community and …” „… librarians.As far back as the 1930s, a small number of Black librarians would gather in hotel rooms at ALA …”

PartIv. MOVING FORWARD: ANTIRACISM, ACTIVISM, AND ALLYSHIP S. 209-262

„… the TorchThe Tradition of Mentorship among Black LibrariansSatia M. Orange and Tracie D. Hall212 …” „… Black librarians?Orange: Now, as a retiree, I learn so much from my exchanges with younger Black …” „… librarianship. Also, that despite there not being hordes of Black librarians, I feel our community is com-forted …”

Afterword S. 263-266

„… American Librarian in America, we are taking the temperature of Black librarianship as we begin the third …” „… since the last narrative of African American librarians was documented in the 21st Century African …” „… disinformation campaign that led to a AfterwordState of Black LibrarianshipJulius C. Jefferson Jr.264 …”

Index S. 267-274

„… library, 241–247, 187–196African American male librarian, 91–102, 123–139 African American Medical …” „… Librarians Association (AAMLA), 80, 174, 182, 184 African Diaspora Affinity Collective, 239 African …” „… censorship/bias, 255 Allen, Minta B., 12 Alston, Jason, 129 American Association of School Librarians (AASL), 264 …”

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Wallace Koehler - Ethics and Values in Librarianship

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Ethics and Values in Librarianship

2015

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Chapter Eight: Qualifications of the Librarian S. 171-198

„… qualifications of librar-ians was left to educators who developed the curricula to train librarians.That …” „… librarians,the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP),specifies the professional …” „… Angeles, continue to graduate librarians.The University of Southern California is seeking ALA …”

Chapter One: Libraries and Ethics S. 1-30

„… nineteenth century that women could be librarians(see Hildenbrand 1996). It would be several decades later …” „… dimension to the ethics of librarianship. Librar-ians must at times make decisions and apply their ethics at …” „… quality of the art and science of librarian-ship.CHANGING IDEAS, CHANGING VALUESA second purpose of this …”

Chapter Two: Stewardship and Service S. 31-42

„… limited we as librarians)come to rely too extensively on digitized collections, the underlying …” „… controlled, and as print collections are marginalized, thefirst responsibilities of librarians—stewardship …” „… librarian. Service is the mantra.Both service and stewardship are embraced as essential …”

Chapter Ten: New Conditions and New Principles S. 213-226

„… itsimple” but effective (Green and Blair 2011).Women as Patrons and LibrariansFor much of the history of …” „… .” It is notinconsequential that librarians and other information professionals havebegun to address …” „… libraries in the 1850s, theacceptance of women as patrons and librarians in the late nineteenthcentury, the …”

Preface

„… Ethics and Values in LibrarianshipEthics and Values in LibrarianshipA HistoryWallace KoehlerROWMAN …” „… science—Moral and ethical aspects—History. 2. Librarians—Professional ethics—Histo-ry. 3. Libraries and …” „… development over thehistory of libraries and librarians.Specific ethical precepts and concepts that have …”

Chapter Eleven: Concluding Chapter S. 227-244

„… , these have not historically been matters of much concern to librarians.Librarians and library …” „… patron but was to reopen in part because of the prodigious efforts ofGabriel Naudé, its librarian.If the …” „… organ-izations for librarians came into existence in the last fifth of the nine-teenth century (in the United …”

Bibliography S. 245-268

„… . “Fear of Women in Suits: Dealing with Gender Roles in Librarian-ship.” Canadian Journal of Information …” „… . 2003. Dismantling the Public Sphere: Situating and Sustaining Librarian-ship in the Age of the New …” „… : Wadsworth.Samek, Toni. 2001. Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility in American Librarian-ship, 1967–1974 …”

Chapter Five: On the Freedom of Expression, Intellectual Freedom, and Their Control S. 103-132

„… librar-ians, through their professional associations and individually, have ac-tively promoted these …” „… . Librarians and other library staff shall not disclose the iden-tity of users or the materials they use to a …” „… principles of intellectual freedom.Librarians and other employees in such libraries have a duty touphold …”

Chapter Four: On Public Libraries S. 79-102

„… the needfor skilled librarians.Dana was one of the first major proponents of libraries as …” „… playedout. One of the chief canons of librarianship is the belief that librariansand, through them …” „… borrowfrom the medical profession’s Hippocratic Oath, a librarian is first to dono harm, does the expansion …”

Index S. 269-274

„… edition 214accreditation, 178–179, 179, 180, 181, Asian Pacific American Librarians182 Association, 3ALA …” „… , 183 Bill of Rights, United States, 23American Indian Librarian Blades, William, 204, 211Association, 3 …” „… Republic of, 8, 142, 162, Resources, 182163 Convention for the Protection ofChinese American Librarians …”

Chapter Three: Classification S. 43-78

„… relationships.Librarians strive to make classification as “noiseless” as possible so asto provide not only an accurate …” „… the fifteenth century librarians began to realize that catalogs couldbe used as a primary …” „… historicalcriteria.The Abbé Jean-Baptiste Cotton des Houssayes, librarian of the Sor-bonne, held that the librarian …”

Chapter Six: Libraries and Democracy S. 133-144

„… com-munist librarians to support Marxism-Leninism. No doubt Krupskayawould have defined Marxist-Leninist …” „… . 2001).Libraries as Catalysts for DemocracyMany librarians want to believe that libraries are engines of …” „… monarchist. Mao Zedong, architect of Chinese commu-nism, was employed briefly as an assistant librarian …”

Chapter Nine: Love of Libraries and Advice on Library Formation S. 199-212

„… Pepys would do ninety years later(see below). In Germany the librarians of the University of …” „… ). Bodley’s statutes are discussed in detail in chapter 8 on the librar-ian qualifications.Gabriel …” „… the premises. The keepers (librarians) were to accountfor all books on an annual basis.De Bury’s books …”

Chapter Seven: Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Fair Use S. 145-170

„… other exceptions to copyright are probably of greater day-to-dayinterest to librarians, but patents …” „… . Many librarians to-day also recognize that a fair and reasonable approach to the intellectualproperty …” „… works describingcontemporary European librarians were preceded by but one work—Louis Jacob’s Traicté des …”

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Beth Thomsett-Scott - The Librarian's Introduction to Programming Languages

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Preface

„… The Librarian’s Introduction to Programming LanguagesLibrary Information Technology Association …” „… after by librarians wishing to learn a new skill or to become current in today’s best practices.Each …” „… & Littlefield are:Digitizing Flat Media: Principles and PracticesThe Librarian’s Introduction to Programming …”

About the Editor and Contributors S. 181-184

„… science librarian and currently serves as the engineering librarian at the University of North Texas (UNT …” „… librarian for the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center and head of …” „… file conformance checker project, MediaConch.Amanda Cowell is the emerging technologies librarian at …”

Chapter One. Introduction S. 1-10

„… the work of librarians, and because many computer programs allow users to customize and run short …” „… program seg-ments, called scripts, librarians could be missing out on a huge slice of the library world if …” „… and allows for quick modification as parameters change.So how does a librarian with no programming …”

Additional Resources S. 171-176

„… librarians, however, we all know to evaluate the quality of our sources.GENERAL RESOURCESCodecademy …” „… security, and artificial intelligence.Yelton, Andromeda. 2015. Coding for Librarians: Learning by Example …” „… . Chicago: American Library Association. Compiles interviews with librarians to gather ex-amples of …”

Chapter Four. JavaScript S. 41-60

„… did not report the statistics that librarians were interested in, thus the need to resort to …” „… not provide finely grained controls for all of their functions. Librarians may be able to insert …” „… Hospital Librarianship 12 (3):191–98.———. 2012b. “Scaling into the Future with Smartlinks.” Journal of …”

Chapter Two. Python S. 11-26

„… librarians, the PyMARC module is especially useful for batch processing sets of MARC records and automating …” „… '], subfields = ['a', 'Programming for librarians /', 'c', 'edited by Beth Thomsett-Scott.'])Here we …” „… $aProgramming for librarians / $cedited by Beth Thomsett-Scott.We can do this for any number of fields. For …”

Chapter Seven. SQL S. 99-114

„… enable librarians to better understand the way library data is stored, retrieved, analyzed, and …”

Chapter Nine. C# S. 135-154

„… joined at the hip to .NET and is very rarely employed in isolation without it. As a librarian, you will …”

Chapter Six. PHP S. 79-98

„… ; likewise, any feature a librarian might write to help patrons can help any number of other libraries …”

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