The World of a Librarian: SCASL Keynote
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The document discusses the roles and realities of librarianship. It explores how librarians promote literacy through information, digital, media, financial, and health literacy. They also help patrons access, evaluate, apply, and use information ethically. The document notes challenges like how questioning media could be weaponized, and suggests seeking multiple viewpoints and cognitive glitches. It also examines how librarians integrate and are impacted by technology, and the importance of advocacy, public relations, marketing, and leadership in their work. Librarians are positioned as experts who deliver information to students and the community.
The World of a Librarian: SCASL Keynote
- 2. The World of a Librarian
- 5. Other Titles Considered for this Keynote The Librarian, The Traveler How is a Librarian Like Dr. Who The Librarian, The Time Lord The World Through the Eyes of a Librarian Librarians, Delivering the World to Every Student Through Books The Librarians!!!! (oops, That one is taken) They just went on and on
- 6. Our Image
- 13. Our Reality
- 15. Literacy
- 16. Multiple Literacies Literacy Information Literacy Digital Literacy Media Literacy Financial Literacy Health Literacy
- 18. Librarians are the real (and first) experts in information literacy that children meet. John Green SLJSummit17
- 23. Media Literacy May Backfire danah boyd (@zephoria) Encouraging young people to question fact and authority What is fact Who has the right to claim fact People are learning new tricks everyday on how to weaponize facts The very act of questioning media can be weaponized.
- 24. What might be the answer? Do you trust what is real? Almost like gaslighting. How do you trust what is real? Think about multiple views, seek variety in viewpoint Appreciate and seek epistemological differences Seek gaps in stories Find cognitive glitches (Seek, find, and fill them in) Read the text of speeches/news. Keep an emotional distance
- 25. Technology
- 26. Technology Typically Goes Two Ways
- 27. Technology We Have Chosen to Integrate
- 28. Technology Chosen For Us
- 29. Ideas for Introducing Technology Integration into curricula Professional development Fly by/Elevator speech Weekly or monthly emails/newsletters Maker activities Learning commons Go digital with video or audio
- 33. Advocacy
- 34. What is it? On-going process of building partnerships so that others will act for and with you, turning passive support into educated action for the library program. It begins with a vision and a plan for the library program that is then matched to the agenda and priorities of stakeholders. AASL, 2018
- 35. Public Relations One-way communication of getting the message across: who we are what we do when and where and for whom
- 36. Marketing A planned and sustained process to assess the customer's needs and then to select materials and services to meet those needs. know the customer's needs who are they? what do they need? when and where can we best deliver it? what are you willing to pay? ($)
- 38. Budget
- 39. Advocacy links Updated advocacy toolkit Presentations, templates and more for new standards
- 40. Leadership A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. The library is the university Shelby Foote, North Carolina Libraries
- 42. Qualified school librarians lead effective school libraries. National AASL School Library Standards (2017)
- 47. Contact Information Heather Moorefield-Lang University of South Carolina moorefield-lang@sc.edu @actinginthelib www.techfifteen.com