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 * How have school libraries changed?**

[|Information graphics] about libraries

We have our own [|Action Figure] [|Deluxe] ver. [|Nancy] Pearl Smug [|coffee mugs].

Our books have [|changed.] and they aren't [|always] what we think of as books. How many of you got one of these to [|curl up] with this holiday?

Our [|students] have changed.

Our [|job] has changed

We have [|changed].

=**We are teaching the 21st-century learner**=

[|Impact - NC state guidelines] Media Coordinator [|Job Description]

American Association of School Librarians //Standards for the// [|21st-Century Learner] - national guidelines

"Learners use skills, resources and tools to


 * 1) **Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge.**
 * 2) **Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge.**
 * 3) **Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democractic society.**
 * 4) **Pursue personal and aesthetic growth."**

How are we changing to teach //this// learner?

 * Using more technology. It's their world.**
 * [|Google calendar]for transparency in planning, collaborating with teachers.
 * Use new [|tools]in the classroom. We teach the teachers and students.
 * 21st century classrooms, maintained by the media specialists.
 * Librarian [|Blogs], pathfinder wikis and web [|pages]to promote literacy are maintained by the media specialists.
 * Photostory for book trailersand digital storytelling projects
 * [|Online databases through NCWiseOwl] and [|NCLive at the Greensboro Public Library]for research.
 * Our senior projects were **paperless**. Students used Powerpoint, scanned images, online storage and even embedded video. No tri-folds.
 * [|Online video through Discovery] Education and [|PBS]
 * Evaluating online information for accuracy and awareness of copyright and online safety.
 * Whole range of Web 2.0 tools


 * Be the Bookstore (and more) by marketing**
 * Book club
 * Book store arrangement by genre SCI FIC, ROM FIC, URB FIC, MUL FIC, HIS FIC, MYS FIC, (etc.) instead of FIC
 * Circulation statistics - Totals **5,020** to date this year...//and this is high school//
 * Reading promotion with current displays, movie tie-ins, music, faced out books, [|READ posters]of our own kids
 * Selection and purchase of materials to meet curricular needs and popular recreational reading - anyone have 5 copies of //Alice in Wonderland// I could borrow? or //Dear John//?
 * Games, puzzles (board games and chess available) to promote community.
 * Poetry OutLoud contest, Shakespeare recitation contest, [|Poet Laureate contest]
 * Extended hours 8-5 M & W, 8-4:30 T,TH,Fr, open for lunch
 * Reserved spaces for quiet study
 * Service, service, service


 * Don't forget to** **have fun** **when you work with [|kids.]**