{"id":92,"date":"2013-07-11T21:31:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T04:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shigenokaren\/?p=92"},"modified":"2013-07-11T21:31:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T04:31:50","slug":"module-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shigenokaren\/2013\/07\/11\/module-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Module #8"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Libraries<\/strong><\/p>\n

The idea of World Libraries-never even thought about it, I was so busy maintaining my library that I couldn’t think beyond the physical walls and my own mental wall.\u00a0 This is something to explore and to include on my library website. I’ve used the Internet Public library for myself, but never thought to make it accessible for students.\u00a0 Opened my eyes.\u00a0 I will definitely look at this and find some sites for students to visit.<\/p>\n

I asked my group if they ever thought about something on a smaller scale, at the district level to be exact.\u00a0 As we turn to more digital materials, access to\u00a0 digital books would be a great way to start to move towards digital media.\u00a0 It was the vision of our previous district library person to move to this end and house the ebooks in Elibrary.\u00a0 The only problem was the accessibility and the records not being included at the school level.\u00a0 Students don’t want to do too many tasks to retrieve information or they will simply turn to Wikipedia. Access had to be simple. I asked for the collection to be distributed to all the libraries with the resources to be cataloged.\u00a0 It took many months to get it up and running.\u00a0 Our district was not doing the updates necessary to house ebooks in the various school collections.\u00a0 The IT department found out that the last update was not enough to get the ebooks into our collections.\u00a0 All updates were interrelated and were needed.<\/p>\n

A couople of years ago I sat on a\u00a0 committee with TLs and librarians from public libraries in Richmond.\u00a0 The public libraries wanted to meet to discuss how they could provide programs for students.\u00a0 Most school librarians saw this as a plot to have the public librarians replace school libraries or teacher librarians.\u00a0 I didn’t feel this way, our collections are different, the mandate of the public libraries has a much broader focus and school libraries support the curriculum being taught.\u00a0 We are specialized and they are not.\u00a0 It has been a while, but the committee slowly faded because we as a group were not willing to find a collaborative model to share resources.\u00a0 I wonder what it would be like if we called on the public libraries to incorporate some of their author visits to our schools?<\/p>\n

What I wanted to see was something more local and obtainable than having a “World library”.\u00a0 I didn’t think it was a wise choice for school libraries and public libraries to pay for the same databases and licenses.\u00a0 Nothing came about, but as budgets get tighter, it might be something to re-examine.\u00a0 We should be sharing resources, however we were told, and I can’t recall that our electronic link to our public library website was not to be used as an extension to our library. This is the exact opposite of the idea of World libraries!!\u00a0 By the same token it is funny that we use our computer labs (mine is attached to the library and students use the lab and or library to do their projects).<\/p>\n

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