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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2006
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ755125 |
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- School Library 2.0: Say Good-Bye to Your Mother's School Library. The Web Is All about New Possibilities Harris, Christopher Internet School Libraries Library Services Information Technology Librarians Futures (of Society) Books Discussion Computer Mediated Communication Scheduling Blogs and the whole gamut of interactive, Web-based tools are redefining how we connect with people and content on the Internet. This is the widely discussed next step known as Web 2.0, a truly revolutionary concept in which pervasive interactivity, where multitudes of users online actively exchange or contribute content, will transform the very nature of knowledge and information. In this article, the author asserts that Library 2.0 represents a reconsideration of what library services will be in the future. It represents an opportunity for library professionals to engage in some exciting activities that will enable our institutions to remain effective in the midst of fast-moving technological change. Library professionals have continually sought to establish the media center as the central foundation of a school. They must persist in this effort. But in its 2.0 incarnation, the digitally re-shifted school library, as the author calls it, must transcend the physical space to bring services and programming to every student and teacher throughout the school wherever learning is taking place. Consequently, librarians, while still based in the media center, will interact more directly with students as well as their teacher peers in new spaces. To assist media specialists and librarians in beginning the process of digitally reshifting their school libraries, the author provides suggestions including: (1) ramping up book discussions by encouraging students and teachers to assume authorship of projects involving blogs and podcasts to facilitate book discussions and booktalks; (2) positioning school libraries as the next "Intel" by not shying away from the essential task of self-marketing in an era of increasing demands and decreasing resources; (3) discarding the flex vs. fixed scheduling model and shifting to a new model such as flexible access scheduling; and (4) pushing library services out to the world by extending their services beyond the four walls of the media center and moving into nontraditional educational spaces. A brief list of related web sites concludes the article.