Required Readings

• Bishop 1, 2
• EL Section III (pp. 29-44)
  

Standards

• 1.1B Identifies and addresses student interests and motivations
  
• 1.4C Plans and organizes LMCs according to their use by the learning community
• 3.3A Articulates the relationship of the LMP with current educational trends and important issues

Supplemental Readings

• Study the Bishop table of contents.  It provides another way to visualize this huge topic.
  

Discussion Points

Review SLMP Mission from EL (p. 8)

Review once more: roles of the media specialist

• teacher
• instructional partner
• information specialist
• program administrator
• leader
  

Information specialist role:

• providing information to patrons
• teaching patrons to use information efficiently and at a high level of understanding: your content is Information Literacy
  
• providing materials to support the curriculum and to accomplish the 1st two items

This semester, the two major projects are


Cycle within a cycle:

• Annual planning cycle from the Program Development & Evaluation process:
• 1. evaluation and situation appraisal (revisit last year's plan, philosophies, policies)
• 2. identify problems
• 3. set Goals (long-term)
• 4. identify sub-goals or objectives with measurable outcomes
• 5. identify strategies
• 6. work the plan
• 7. evaluate and start over

• Some of the problems, Goals, objectives may relate to Collection Development - highly likely
• So the Selection Cycle nests within the bigger Annual Planning Cycle

• Can you think of an example from one of your PDEPs?
  

Selection Cycle is an important organizer to keep in mind:

• Bishop, p. 16
• Sequential outline built on this
  

References

• American Association of School Librarians (2003). Program standards: School library media specialist preparation. Available: http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aasleducation/schoollibrarymed/ala-aasl_slms2003.pdf.
• American Association of School Librarians and Association for Educational Communications and Technology. (1998). Information power: Building partnerships for learning. Chicago: American Library Association.
• Bishop, K. (2007). The collection program in schools: Concepts, practices, and information scources (4th ed.). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited
• Logo by CoolText
• Riedling, Ann. (2005). Reference skills for the school library media specialist: Tips & Tools, 2nd edition. Columbus, OH: Linworth. ISBN: 1-58683-190-9.
• Wasman, A.M. (1998). New steps to service: Common-sense advice for the school library media specialist. Chicago: American Library Association.
• Additional references