The Role of the Librarian/Media Specialist at BC
The library used to be a prime focus and selling point of a good school. What to do with this space now? Who will guide us in the digital age in which books seem to be unread, but the flow of information is infinite?
The Changing Role of the School Library’s Physical Space by Tom Corbett
Are School Librarians Expendable? Read the NY Times debate by six experts
Media Specialists as Instructional Consultants
The Education and Competencies of School Library Media Specialists: A Review of the Literature by Donna Shannon, Assistant Professor and Coordinator, School Media Program, College of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Media Specialist Role in Creating Literacy In High School , last edited by Donna Martin-Leutgens
The Role of the Library in the Future of Reading by Peter Murray
Older Students Struggling with Reading by Sebastian Wren
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wouldn’t advocate getting rid of the library seeing as how it is an important place for many students to study and concentrate on school work. However, it is the books in the library that have fallen out of use because they can not offer information as quickly as the internet can nor can it provide as in depth information. Some of the books within our library are outdated too, making the information contained within them irrelevant. If the books within the library were organized in a fashion where information could be accessed as quickly as the internet, it would find some use. The last time I checked, our school library had there books out of order, making it very difficult to check something out.
i think that the school library should be converted into a legitimate study hall. there should be a Mac section, a section with the printers, but then also various workstations, some designed for group work (tables and such) and some designed for quiet individual work (mini-cubicles with outlets to charge laptops, etc.). i think this is a much more sensible way to use the library space. i also think that we could get rid of the books (not including encyclopedias and reference books) to make space for this and donate the books to schools overseas or in our country that needs them.