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AINDA OS ECOS DA ECIS LIBRARIANS CONFERENCE

Thanks For Visiting Us At ECIS

Dear Librarian,

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SCHOOLS LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION LITERACY - REPORT BY PEOPLE FOR EDUCATION (2)

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There is a widespread movement – in politics, business and education – to shift the emphasis in education from the industrial/manufacturing skills needed in the 20th century, to the so-called “knowledge” skills or competencies needed for success in the 21st century.3 There are varying definitions of these so-called “21st century skills.” Some suggest adding the 4C’s of communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity to the 3Rs;4 others focus more on technological skills. But the common core element of this new movement is a focus on developing students’ capacity to find, evaluate, organize and transform all the information now available in the staggeringly large, unfiltered

and collaborative digital universe. These skills fall under the term “information literacy.”

In 2005, People for Education and Queen’s University conducted a joint study on school libraries and their relationship to student achievement. Data from Grade 3 and 6 EQAO Literacy tests were correlated on a school-by-school basis to examine whether a link existed between higher student achievement and school library conditions.

Results from the data analysis showed that:

 • the presence of trained library staff is associated with a higher proportion of grade 6 students attaining level 3 (the provincial standard) on reading tests;

 • schools without professional library staffing tend to have lower achievement on the grade 3 reading tests (both in terms of average achievement and attaining level 3);

and

 • the presence of teacher-librarians is associated with more positive attitudes towards reading in both grade 3 and grade 6 students.

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In 2009, the Ministry of Education funded the OSLA (Ontario School Library Association) to write Together for Learning, which provides a blueprint for the development of a “learning commons” in every school. These hubs would be based in school libraries and provide centres for information literacy,technology and collaborative learning. Although the Ministry funded the document, it has not released it as a curriculum support.

Vale a pena estarmos informados e conscientes da situação das bibliotecas escolares em alguns países, conhecermos o seu inquestionável papel na promoção do sucesso escolar e nas competências leitoras para estarmos preparados para os 'ataques' e sabermos como devemos reforçar as redes que advogam a qualidade do ensino indissociado da existência de boas bibliotecas escolares com professores bibliotecários qualificados e competentes.

People for Education

SCHOOLS LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION LITERACY - REPORT BY PEOPLE FOR EDUCATION (1)

School libraries are a doorway for children and youth to learn about the world. By design, they are sites for students to explore and develop their own interests, and to foster a love of reading,1 along with their inquiry and research skills. And as the digital world puts more and more information at students’ finger tips, the library can open the door to learning beyond the walls of the school.

In Ontario, there appears to be declining support for the distinct role of school libraries. This year, only 56% of elementary schools have a teacher-librarian (eighty percent of them work part-time), a number that has fallen steadily from 80% in 1997/98. In high schools, where students do more independent work, the number is higher – 66% – but is down from the 78% of ten years ago.

Students in smaller communities and in smaller schools are much less likely to attend schools that have teacher-librarians. Only 19% of elementary schools in Eastern Ontario and 10% of elementary schools in Northern Ontario have teacher-librarians, compared to 92% of elementary schools in the GTA. Some principals from these regions say that their schools don’t have a library at all. The loss of teacher-librarians also affects the number of hours school libraries are open each week. Libraries in schools with teacher-librarians are more likely to have longer hours, which ensures that students have access to them before, during and afterthe school day.

People for Education

LIBRARIES SHOUL BE HUB OF THE SCHOOLS - AS BIBLIOTECAS DEVIAM SER O EIXO CENTRAL DAS ESCOLAS

No Canada, Ontario, os tempos são de cortes e reduções no que toca às bibliotecas em geral, incluindo as escolares. Daí que casos como este, da John G. Althouse Middle School, sejam dignos de divulgação no sentido de se, eventualmente, reverter a tendência que já leva a que a maioria das escolas só tenham um professor bibliotecário em tempo parcial e outras nem isso...

It’s home to a reading club and students come in all day — even before school starts, at lunch and after school — to sign out books. During the school day, with the help of teacher-librarian Jill Kelsall, they learn to navigate the web and discern which websites are reliable sources. They also look up information in actual — not virtual — encyclopedias, which is, as Kelsall has shown them, actually sometimes faster than using the computer.

[...] “A contemporary library that is running well should be the learning hub, the go-to place that kids flock to when they need to find something out,” said Kelsall of John G. Althouse Middle School in Etobicoke.

“In my library, kids come here to play chess, it’s the place they go to knit, run the Eco-Team — it’s the home base for student government. It’s where they can get really good reading materials, books they can’t get in the public libraries because the waiting lists are too long.” Her library has computers, a reading area, a Smartboard (like an electronic chalkboard), and it’s a wireless hub so kids can bring in their laptops. Kelsall is a rare breed these days as a full-time teacher librarian. A report by People for Education, released Monday, shows 59 per cent of Ontario schools have one, and most of them are part-time. That’s down from 80 per cent just over a decade ago.

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ECIS LIBRARIAN'S CONFERENCE DAY 3

Angel Browne - Introduction to library teaching story books

Alan Gibbons -   Campaigning for the book

Kate Shepherd - Books Illustrating Perspective or Different Points of View

Şebnem Gürsoy - My Library : My Creativity Factory (All Animals In the Library They Learn The information literacy)

Ingrid Skirrow, Dawn Rutland - Towards a continuum of learning in IB libraries (2): Creating an active librarian’s association for the IB AEM region

Sharon Metzger-Galloway, Gail Petri - Maps Past and Present

Larry Gilbert - Destinity users - group meeting

Tara Russell Ethridge - Creating Digital Book Trailers—It’s as Fun as it Looks! 

Theresa Breslin - Magical Mayhem in the Magic Factory

Debbie Abilock - Cultural Competence and New Authority 

Tour of the Enka Schools’ Libraries

E acabou mais um fantástico encontro dos professores bibliotecários da ECIS. Daqui a 3 anos há mais numa outra cidade, num outro país!!

AS BIBLIOTECAS ESCOLARES PRECISAM DE LIVROS? DO SCHOOL LIBRARIES NEED TO HAVE BOOKS?

Annie Kidder, Paul Kay e Diane Maliszewski discutem a evolução da biblioteca escolar a se os computadores não estão, lentamente, a substituir os livros.

ECIS LIBRARIAN'S CONFERENCE

Aqui estarei, na próxima semana, com a uma apresentação: "School libraries: they are a-changing".

FORMAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA - DESIGNING THE FUTURE

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